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Great film! Funny, character piece. Terrific actors, well directed. Definitely a gay film, but I wouldn't consider it BL.

It's still a good film tho, worth a watch. The same director did http://mydramalist.com/22248-cut-sleeve-boys , which is definitely a gay film, but not BL.

It does. "Tradition" wins out over love. Which kind of surprised me because I'd liked the director's other films, which were just as 'realistic,' but weren't as much of a let down.

"I Am Your King The Series" does that imply that there's a novel or a movie somewhere?

Wow, a BL series where the actors can actually act, and the main couple actually have a chemistry together. I'm going to have to go back and re-rate all my ratings of the other BL series I've watched.

Some Thai seem to have weird nicknames. In other movies too, I've seen "Beer" and "Arm".

I didn't take it as so foreboding. Frame had come a long way toward self-improvement since connecting with Book, and he'd set rather big goals for himself (getting into a good university, getting a good job) so that Book's parents would likely allow Frame to marry Book. He was simply providing his future self some motivation to stay on that path. Quite romantic, really.

Search Youtube for the "Graystag" channel

I could have sworn I saw a live IG broadcast where the director insisted that there would NOT be a season 3. I hope I'm wrong.

In Ep 13, I do love how Ohm, as Frame, gets into his part. In the scene near the pool, watch his eyes lustfully check out Book as Book walks away from him.

+2!
Seeing Ep 13 after all of this 'dark shit,' I'm like, "Gee, that's all nice and fluffy, but, so what? Where's the plot?" :P

It's just the internet, don't let it faze you. As long as you know that you're being respectful.

I was always under the impression that everyone was of legal age. Young, but not that young.

Ugh, I know they wanted 'masculine' actors for this series, but watching this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jd58AUrKec
a bunch of straight guys behaving... well... straight, lol, kind of ruined the characters for me. I had to stop watching. I guess it means that these guys are actually decent actors after all. :P :D

Wait... in the beginning of ep 10, was Frame wearing "One Piece" underwear? :D

Thanks, KainGuru! As you can tell, I'm new to Manga in general. I'll put One Piece on my to do list, but I've many other things to catch up on! :D

I totally agree. Yaoi would be a fantastic platform to spread information about LGBTQ issues, if it were not for the traditional market of the genre. Some BLs have done some of that, some purposefully, some not.

I hope the genre continues to evolve. The daily religious, political and societal discrimination we LGBTQ face is a very rich source of _real_ drama, so much more so than the three-ways, or the the girlfriend trying to break up the couple, or the parental rejection I've seen way too much of in my limited BL watching experience. For now, I've just lowered my expectation, and consume BL for what it is-cute boys falling in love with each other. It's escapism for me. Besides, there ARE some good movies that deal with the LGBTQ experience, they're just not BL.

Thanks!

The manga that Wayo reads, "One Piece," is that a real manga?

Hehe, then maybe it's because I'm NOT a fujoshi that I'm enjoying it... :D