it's not :) it's just awkward especially for western culture...
nope :) everyone on any talkshows hugs... sorry, that's silly, especially if you don't know the person. That's what I mean. It has nothing to do with you personally.
Because they have grown up that way. Why do you believe in a god or allah or budda or someone else? Because you were parented that way. The more extrem it gets, the more brain washed children get. To overcome your parenting is very hard to do. And very few people encourage you to think for yourself. To question WHAT your parents, family and the education system told you. Japan was always very strict and conservative and changes do take much longer, but they are changing. So the question is not what they are defending from, the question is when they can brake the parenting of things like "never show your true feelings and open up to other humans". So I can't answer your question, because it's nothing which can be explained. If you can't think for yourself, you will never have a chance to change yourself.
There were some good thai BLs made last year and the year before. But very good series are rare of thousands of series published every year. We should be lucky not to watch a bad one :)
it's not :) it's just awkward especially for western culture...
I understand you, but also I understand the culture more ... Hugging is only for special occassions, that's not like the US where hugging means nothing. But meanwhile even that is changing there slowly but surely...
So I understand why it's frustrating... but that's the charm for me. You can watch thai BLs where there is log of hugging, kissing and sex but with bland stories and lot's of commercial :)
Protecting yourself means to build up a wall around you. It's a defensive posture not a submissive one.
At least I agree with most title on your list :)
PS.: "Love is like a Xat" IS disappointing for me. So I hope this show will get better the farther they are which is prefered to beginning strong and ending weak like "Last Twilight"
I would argue there are SOME good JBLs, but this is not one of them. Dropping during episode 2. Yuck.I put together…
1. the thai version is superficial commercial trash, not catching the charm of the japanese version. if you mean better by production quality and eye-candy, yes, otherwise nope. Jinta be over-acted was really hard to watch. 2. all three installments together made sense. 3. totally disagree. Both shows are very unusual and very well done.
it's not :) it's just awkward especially for western culture...
They are emotional, but there culture tries always to hide it. But even there culture does change. It may be frustrating for you, but it's not for me. If you have grown up in such a culture it's hard to change. I don't agree with "submissive" it's more "protecting themselves". So, we agree to disagree and I like weired stories :)
It is stupid, because it's not reality... Any short BL should concentrate on one couple, with a light story max.…
I did mean exactly what your first sentence says. stupid in the sense that the changed the original material because it was not needed. it's not an all gay story is stupid, but to change the story to be all gay couples is. not a fan of many series where there are many gay couples without focus on the story because of fan-service. language barrier is a bitch :)
"I don't like that every couple in a BL has to be BL couple... How stupid is that?"it's not stupid. most "straight"…
It is stupid, because it's not reality... Any short BL should concentrate on one couple, with a light story max. two. But to change the story, so we get a third to explain the suicide is indeed cheap. The also made the father a "bad" character, because it's easier done.
This BL did not much in reveiling of an emotional connections, especially not the connection between a pianist and jazz. It was very superficial. The chemistry between the leads was also not believable. Why I can understand why Tae falls in love, there is nothing on the opposing side. Why does he love him too, how did the connection form? There was nothing.
So, you should take my review in the context of the series. You may have another opinion, but I review as I see it.
Maybe I did not write it in a way, so you could understand, but my point stands. Better a good story
It's a fact that in Japan people are worked 60-80hrs a week easily. Look at youtube, you will find lots of vlogs. To write you don't like it, is understandable but that's a fact. Also your third point is "strange" because it's part of the story,. If you remove those points the story would be boring and have less impact. The stressful enviroment makes Hiro act like Hiro who can't deceide for himself and lives like a machine day in and day out.
The manga ended where the series endet. So there is no original material where they could show their lives together.
For me it's Japan, Taiwan, Korea in that order. Every country has good shows and medicore ones, but Thailand leads…
I find the japanese guys hotter (weatherman (cute and hot), beautiful man (cute and hot), you know what I mean 😃 Who does need fan service if the story sucks? Both shows were great with fan service btw 🤣 And they do it with style.
They should place product placements in the setting and that's it. Maybe they do overpay the actors, so they need the commercials in the series... no clue.
I do not drop series, watch them all except "Crazy Handsome Rich" which was aweful and "Middleman" I skipped through. Yes, they have often problems to provide a convincing story. There are gems like "180 Degree Longitude Passes Through U", "Not Me" and from an acting standpoint "Absolute Zero", but the problem are the people consuming the shows. If they like what they see, they won''t get better stuff in the future because it works.
In general Japan and South Korea provide the best dramas overall (also not BL) and there is hope for Taiwan as well :)
Let's chit-chat. Pick only ONE. Who makes the best BLs; Thailand, Japan, China, Taiwan, or S. Korea? ....Why?
For me it's Japan, Taiwan, Korea in that order. Every country has good shows and medicore ones, but Thailand leads with crappy shows as well :) I find more mature stories more interesting, be it "Tokyo in April is", "Personal Weatherman", "My Beautiful Man", "If it's with you", "Kiseki: Dear to Me", "Eight Sense", or the HiStory series much better than most of Thailands productions. Thailand had "180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us" which is clearly underrated and was expectional and no highschool BS. If I compare for example "Cherry Magic" 2020 (Japan) vs 2023 (Thailand), the original story is less convoluted, there is no over acting, there are no filler because each epsiode from the remake has double the timeslot and they didn't need an additional hetero couple. The innocence of the "magic" characters is better portrayed in the original story too. Compare especially Jinta vs Tsuge which are day and night and could not be further apart. Is "Cherry Magic (2023)" a bad show? No, it's medicore and imho overrated (8,.1 last I looked, Cherry Magic JP has 8.2). And another big negative for Thailand Shows: Many are commercials of drinks, snacks and cosmetics, Inbetween you will get a bit of a story which ruins the experience for me a lot.
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Because they have grown up that way. Why do you believe in a god or allah or budda or someone else? Because you were parented that way. The more extrem it gets, the more brain washed children get. To overcome your parenting is very hard to do. And very few people encourage you to think for yourself. To question WHAT your parents, family and the education system told you. Japan was always very strict and conservative and changes do take much longer, but they are changing. So the question is not what they are defending from, the question is when they can brake the parenting of things like "never show your true feelings and open up to other humans". So I can't answer your question, because it's nothing which can be explained. If you can't think for yourself, you will never have a chance to change yourself.
There were some good thai BLs made last year and the year before. But very good series are rare of thousands of series published every year. We should be lucky not to watch a bad one :)
Hugging is only for special occassions, that's not like the US where hugging means nothing. But meanwhile even that is changing there slowly but surely...
So I understand why it's frustrating... but that's the charm for me. You can watch thai BLs where there is log of hugging, kissing and sex but with bland stories and lot's of commercial :)
Protecting yourself means to build up a wall around you. It's a defensive posture not a submissive one.
At least I agree with most title on your list :)
PS.: "Love is like a Xat" IS disappointing for me. So I hope this show will get better the farther they are which is prefered to beginning strong and ending weak like "Last Twilight"
2. all three installments together made sense.
3. totally disagree. Both shows are very unusual and very well done.
So, we agree to disagree and I like weired stories :)
But to change the story, so we get a third to explain the suicide is indeed cheap. The also made the father a "bad" character, because it's easier done.
This BL did not much in reveiling of an emotional connections, especially not the connection between a pianist and jazz. It was very superficial. The chemistry between the leads was also not believable. Why I can understand why Tae falls in love, there is nothing on the opposing side. Why does he love him too, how did the connection form? There was nothing.
So, you should take my review in the context of the series. You may have another opinion, but I review as I see it.
Maybe I did not write it in a way, so you could understand, but my point stands. Better a good story
Look at youtube, you will find lots of vlogs. To write you don't like it, is understandable but that's a fact. Also your third point is "strange" because it's part of the story,. If you remove those points the story would be boring and have less impact. The stressful enviroment makes Hiro act like Hiro who can't deceide for himself and lives like a machine day in and day out.
The manga ended where the series endet. So there is no original material where they could show their lives together.
They should place product placements in the setting and that's it. Maybe they do overpay the actors, so they need the commercials in the series... no clue.
I do not drop series, watch them all except "Crazy Handsome Rich" which was aweful and "Middleman" I skipped through.
Yes, they have often problems to provide a convincing story. There are gems like "180 Degree Longitude Passes Through U", "Not Me" and from an acting standpoint "Absolute Zero", but the problem are the people consuming the shows. If they like what they see, they won''t get better stuff in the future because it works.
In general Japan and South Korea provide the best dramas overall (also not BL) and there is hope for Taiwan as well :)
If I compare for example "Cherry Magic" 2020 (Japan) vs 2023 (Thailand), the original story is less convoluted, there is no over acting, there are no filler because each epsiode from the remake has double the timeslot and they didn't need an additional hetero couple. The innocence of the "magic" characters is better portrayed in the original story too. Compare especially Jinta vs Tsuge which are day and night and could not be further apart. Is "Cherry Magic (2023)" a bad show? No, it's medicore and imho overrated (8,.1 last I looked, Cherry Magic JP has 8.2).
And another big negative for Thailand Shows: Many are commercials of drinks, snacks and cosmetics, Inbetween you will get a bit of a story which ruins the experience for me a lot.