Raul has a documentary on Prime this 13th and in the interview:https://baila.hpplus.jp/lifestyle/entertainment/73368/1Raul…
A very cool little piece of insight into how he drew inspiration for the role, and also what a shock that this gorgeous beautiful person was treated like trash by the fashion industry.
But now it's like that scene from Pretty Woman: "You work on commission right? Big mistake. Huge."
I’ll translate few parts of this Mezamashi-terebi interview for Raul fans🤍:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01uLkWIeuRs⭐️The…
I've been reading and watching more stuff about Raul, and I was thinking that as I was watching him, like "the director of L2L must have been really patient with him and shown him how to act and given him time to develop" because he has lots of screen and camera practice under his belt, but no real acting to speak of except that one movie Honey Lemon Soda and a few other minor productions, which are all nickelodeon-tier.
Part of the brilliance of what we are watching with L2L is the director. He knows how to bring out the best in the actors. Raul has incredible natural talent, and I'm so glad he found a good mentor to help him learn... this director just gave Raul a career. You can't do j-pop forever. But now Raul can continue on as an actor for a very long time to come. Yay!
So far I am still loving this, but I do wish there was some more skinship. I am not referring to explicit scenes,…
I think they deliberately shied away from that because of the reputations and rl backstories of the two actors playing the parts...
Raul has literally grown up in front of the camera, and it wasn't *that* long ago in the collective memory that he was a babyfaced teen. He has a clean image as a jpop idol. Lately he's been slowly breaking out of that innocent cleancut teen look, but it just really isn't that long ago that he started darkening and sexifying his image. Too soon kinda for that.
Fumino is a well established actress, who was married for a while, then divorced, then remarried just a few years ago, and recently had their first child. I don't even think her kid is 2 years old yet.
I don't think they want to give these two too much skinship lol.... might be good for the drama, or for international audiences who aren't aware of who these two are, but its just honestly good that they didn't make these two actors go through some rl traumatizing experience just to film the drama with more spice.
I generally would rather watch a spicy show, but it's a testament to this drama that it straight up doesn't need it to still be kickass.
Dude, the DAD.Usually the parent characters are just afterthoughts or plot drivers, or 2D characters, but not…
If I was her parent in that situation where I'd pulled strings to get her a job, and I knew she'd been in trouble for stalking before and she was 30 and still snuggling plushies and never had a real prospect for a boyfriend/husband.... and I found her a good man (and he really kind of is) who was willing to accept her faults and had a good job, and that was my *last chance* to set her up with someone like that because I was about to get the axe at work.... and all I knew about the situation is she was becoming infatuated with an extremely young host and was on the verge of being fired as a teacher for it.... I'd be beside myself with worry.
I've seen those japanese host culture documentaries.
Dude, the DAD.Usually the parent characters are just afterthoughts or plot drivers, or 2D characters, but not…
This has many layers of people learning how to cope with changing times. Her father is in trouble at work for being overbearing and abusive, something that given his age probably didn't used to be an issue when he was young. The wife calls him "old fashioned". FL is coping with changing times, she's not young anymore, her clock is ticking down. ML is coping with new Leisure Laws, the landscape of his profession is changing, this affects every character that comes from the Joker.
Don't read unless you've already seen up thru ep 9:
Dude, the DAD.
Usually the parent characters are just afterthoughts or plot drivers, or 2D characters, but not in this one.
That scene where he is sitting there sharpening sticks.... The camera rests on his face for a long time, and there is so much going on there... You can see that he once was very handsome, and he sort of looks like an older version of the fiancee.
I study bodylanguage as a hobby sometimes, and this guy is just a flawless actor. He looks on the verge of tears in a very realistic sense. But then they have him sharpening sticks with an exact-o knife.... it looks volatile and ominous a little bit. After that last episode where he suddenly barred FL in her room, it's like you already know he's capable of sudden explosive action. And now he's in a state of grief, under pressure at work in a MAJOR way, and this is JAPAN.
Its like, I don't know what he's doin with them sticks and that exacto knife. What he's doing with his hands reflects his inner state. That was just such a cool scene, conveying so so much. People are baggin on FL's dad, but I feel for him so much. His position on things is valid, and I totally understand why he tried to lock his daughter in her room out of an overwhelming sense of affection and love combined with shame and desparation, trying to retain control as head of the house and keep his family safe and protected. That's where all his pride is supposed to come from, his job, his wife, his daughter's future.
I like that she came back home and was so nice and loving towards him without backing down on her decisions. That's a really hard thing to do with your parents, to just be patient but not to compromise yourself either.
I'm really worried about the dad's mental state at this point. I hope he can find a way to cope with his situation. If I were his wife, I'd hide all the knives and take that exacto knife out of his hand and replace it with a stiff drink and make him a snack that had some protein in it.
"We don't fall in love just to be happy."Damn, that's profound.
Well we don't fall in love just to be happy, we fall in love A) because it's something we can't always control and B) to have a deep and complete relationship with someone, with all it's ups and downs and it's about being selfless, and learning to trust eachother and rely on eachother, and to be eachother's champion in life. It's about being happy to a big extent, but it's also about a lot more than just that. Two people who love eachother are supposed to lift eachother up.
They managed to create a love story that has exactly the right amt of angst and tension, where I can feel every emotion every character is going through, and I'm like crying here or there or talking to the TV and just rooting for them all the way and so gaga about them....
...and they did all this with virtually NO spice content. That has got to take some serious skills. No spice, but the kilig level is through the roof. The emotional content is what shines through in this story.
....hey you know how this show is like the best thing on the face of the planet and you've watched it too many times and you just want to watch it like it was the first time all over but you can't because you burned your brain staring at the blazing sun of hotness which is Xie Wei for too long?
And you know how you get to this point where you just wish something as good as this would come along so you could FORGET SOKP for long enough that you can go back to it again someday and rewatch it LIKE ITS THE FIRST TIME FOR REAL BECAUSE YOU FORGOT THIS SHOW.
But no show is good enough to do that? No matter what you watch it's just not enough to make you get over Xie Wei for even five seconds?
Well guess what. For some of you, that show has arrived. A show so good that out of the 400+ shows I've watched, this one I'm watching now is easily in my top 5 of all time, probably in my top 3.
I finished ep 8 maybe an hour ago. I've just been thinking about it.My thoughts at this point can be summed up…
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!
THIS
IS
SO
FREAKING
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Dude!
The dad omg!
Why do they keep going back to the bunny in the hat. What was it three times they linger on the bunny or something. First time it's jumbled in her closet right? And last time it's like a shrine practically.
When he was like "hey if ur movin out can I like... yknow.... .... like come visit sometimes or like hang out and stay over or like LEMME COOK FOR YOU EVERY DAY LET ME LIVE WITH YOU PLS **BEGGING**CRYING**
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH IM LIKE WAHHHHHHHHHHH
Cannot get over show!!!! Never happening!!!!! This shit needs to be famous for being so incredibly KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The wait is KILLIING me! It's DELICIOUS. So much waaahhhh godddd just purposely watching Bon Appetit in SHELLSHOCK just so I don't obsess and wear out the deliciousness of L2L!!!
Which is PERFECT because two years on, and i'm STILL not over SOKP! If I want to ever come back to SOKP and watch it like it's the first time, I have to actually FORGET it first, and nothing has worked to get me over it.... TILL NOW!!!! This is tied with like 2 or maybe 3 other dramas as THE BEST THING IVE EVER SEEN mkay. I've seen over 400 things! I'm jaded af. Nothing impresses me at all.
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But now it's like that scene from Pretty Woman: "You work on commission right? Big mistake. Huge."
Part of the brilliance of what we are watching with L2L is the director. He knows how to bring out the best in the actors. Raul has incredible natural talent, and I'm so glad he found a good mentor to help him learn... this director just gave Raul a career. You can't do j-pop forever. But now Raul can continue on as an actor for a very long time to come. Yay!
Raul has literally grown up in front of the camera, and it wasn't *that* long ago in the collective memory that he was a babyfaced teen. He has a clean image as a jpop idol. Lately he's been slowly breaking out of that innocent cleancut teen look, but it just really isn't that long ago that he started darkening and sexifying his image. Too soon kinda for that.
Fumino is a well established actress, who was married for a while, then divorced, then remarried just a few years ago, and recently had their first child. I don't even think her kid is 2 years old yet.
I don't think they want to give these two too much skinship lol.... might be good for the drama, or for international audiences who aren't aware of who these two are, but its just honestly good that they didn't make these two actors go through some rl traumatizing experience just to film the drama with more spice.
I generally would rather watch a spicy show, but it's a testament to this drama that it straight up doesn't need it to still be kickass.
Hot = ✅
Amazing actor = ✅
Kisses like fire = ✅
I've seen those japanese host culture documentaries.
Usually the parent characters are just afterthoughts or plot drivers, or 2D characters, but not in this one.
That scene where he is sitting there sharpening sticks.... The camera rests on his face for a long time, and there is so much going on there... You can see that he once was very handsome, and he sort of looks like an older version of the fiancee.
I study bodylanguage as a hobby sometimes, and this guy is just a flawless actor. He looks on the verge of tears in a very realistic sense. But then they have him sharpening sticks with an exact-o knife.... it looks volatile and ominous a little bit. After that last episode where he suddenly barred FL in her room, it's like you already know he's capable of sudden explosive action. And now he's in a state of grief, under pressure at work in a MAJOR way, and this is JAPAN.
Its like, I don't know what he's doin with them sticks and that exacto knife. What he's doing with his hands reflects his inner state. That was just such a cool scene, conveying so so much. People are baggin on FL's dad, but I feel for him so much. His position on things is valid, and I totally understand why he tried to lock his daughter in her room out of an overwhelming sense of affection and love combined with shame and desparation, trying to retain control as head of the house and keep his family safe and protected. That's where all his pride is supposed to come from, his job, his wife, his daughter's future.
I like that she came back home and was so nice and loving towards him without backing down on her decisions. That's a really hard thing to do with your parents, to just be patient but not to compromise yourself either.
I'm really worried about the dad's mental state at this point. I hope he can find a way to cope with his situation. If I were his wife, I'd hide all the knives and take that exacto knife out of his hand and replace it with a stiff drink and make him a snack that had some protein in it.
Great scene.
...and they did all this with virtually NO spice content. That has got to take some serious skills. No spice, but the kilig level is through the roof. The emotional content is what shines through in this story.
Damn, that's profound.
I will be staring at the screen while Bon Appetit is finishing, but it will feel like I am staring at a wall.
....hey you know how this show is like the best thing on the face of the planet and you've watched it too many times and you just want to watch it like it was the first time all over but you can't because you burned your brain staring at the blazing sun of hotness which is Xie Wei for too long?
And you know how you get to this point where you just wish something as good as this would come along so you could FORGET SOKP for long enough that you can go back to it again someday and rewatch it LIKE ITS THE FIRST TIME FOR REAL BECAUSE YOU FORGOT THIS SHOW.
But no show is good enough to do that? No matter what you watch it's just not enough to make you get over Xie Wei for even five seconds?
Well guess what. For some of you, that show has arrived. A show so good that out of the 400+ shows I've watched, this one I'm watching now is easily in my top 5 of all time, probably in my top 3.
https://kisskh.at/793096-ai-no-gakko
Bless you my children. May this work for you as good as its working for me.
THIS
IS
SO
FREAKING
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Dude!
The dad omg!
Why do they keep going back to the bunny in the hat. What was it three times they linger on the bunny or something. First time it's jumbled in her closet right? And last time it's like a shrine practically.
When he was like "hey if ur movin out can I like... yknow.... .... like come visit sometimes or like hang out and stay over or like LEMME COOK FOR YOU EVERY DAY LET ME LIVE WITH YOU PLS **BEGGING**CRYING**
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH IM LIKE WAHHHHHHHHHHH
Cannot get over show!!!! Never happening!!!!! This shit needs to be famous for being so incredibly KICK ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The wait is KILLIING me! It's DELICIOUS. So much waaahhhh godddd just purposely watching Bon Appetit in SHELLSHOCK just so I don't obsess and wear out the deliciousness of L2L!!!
Which is PERFECT because two years on, and i'm STILL not over SOKP! If I want to ever come back to SOKP and watch it like it's the first time, I have to actually FORGET it first, and nothing has worked to get me over it.... TILL NOW!!!! This is tied with like 2 or maybe 3 other dramas as THE BEST THING IVE EVER SEEN mkay. I've seen over 400 things! I'm jaded af. Nothing impresses me at all.
God I love this show so much.
My thoughts at this point can be summed up thusly: