can we please stop lying? theyâre litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it đ
ânot reading all thatâ while confidently throwing around words like queerbaiting and homophobic is exactly the problem đ
you can dislike the drama all you want, but calling a confirmed queer love story âqueerbaitâ just because it didnât fit your personal expectations of romance/intimacy is still something selectively homophobic.
can we please stop lying? theyâre litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it đ
thatâs not true at all điâve been waiting for this drama for so long, so i looked to it very closely since then. the director has consistently described it as a âlove story,â âqueer drama,â and within LGBTQ+ framing from the very beginning, not as a BL drama specifically. the BL label is something audiences applied based on expectations and marketing spaces, not something the creators explicitly defined it as.
and this is important because a lot of confusion comes from people assuming every queer-coded or male-male love story automatically falls under BL, when in reality that isnât always how the creators themselves position it.
in multiple interviews (including the japanese ones), the language used stayed very consistent: âlove story,â âqueer love story,â and broader LGBTQ+ terminology. there was never an official claim like âthis is a BL dramaâ from the director or script team.
so if people interpreted it differently, thatâs understandable, but itâs not accurate to say the creators or script âmade it something elseâ on purpose. the framing was already there, it just wasnât labeled in the specific category some viewers expected.
can we please stop lying? theyâre litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it đ
and thatâs completely fair đ you have every right to dislike the way the relationship was portrayed or to feel uncomfortable with how subtle it was shown on screen.i think where we disagree is on the word âqueerbaiting.â because to me, queerbaiting is when creators tease queer romance while refusing to actually confirm it. but here, the story was openly confirmed by the director, the actors, and Netflix as a queer love story from the beginning.so i fully understand criticizing the execution or wanting more visible romantic development. i just personally donât see it as âbromanceâ or queerbaiting when the romance itself was never hidden or denied by the story/team.
and what feels inconsistent to me is how quickly people jump to âitâs not queer / itâs bromanceâ specifically when the romance isnât portrayed in a very explicit way. you can dislike the delivery, but erasing the queer framing altogether because it doesnât match a certain expectation of intimacy is where it stops being just criticism and starts becoming a double standard.
can we please stop lying? theyâre litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it đ
i never said i was âbetterâ than you đ and as a queer person myself, iâm not talking about you as a person, iâm talking about your behavior of denying a confirmed queer love story because it doesnât match certain expectations of intimacy or romance.
you absolutely have the right to feel hurt or disappointed by the show. my point is simply that criticizing the portrayal is different from completely erasing the fact that it was still written and confirmed as a queer romance.
can we please stop lying? theyâre litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it đ
except queerbaiting does not apply to a story that has been openly confirmed as a queer romance by the director, the actors, and Netflix themselves đ
yâall can criticize the execution, the intimacy, or the writing all you want, but throwing around âqueerbaitingâ at every queer story that doesnât fit your personal expectations is exactly why the term is losing meaning.
can we please stop lying? theyâre litteraly in love with each other, they even confessed it đ
"stop promoting queerbaiting show?" can you even read interviews & synopsis/tags ? itâs confirmed to be a queer romance. can you please stop throwing "queerbaiting" itâs literally homophobic at his point and it hurts us, lgbtq+ people, thanks.
bromance but they confessed theyâre in love with each other at the end đ be for real đđ
as a fluent in japanese, itâs not a normal "i love you" he said đ he used the sentence "æăăŠă" which stands for "i love you" but is only used for intense romantic feelings when confessing to your crush or youâre romantic partner. itâs really but really weird to use that for friends or family as this sentence implies "iâm in love with you". a normal i love you that go to friends or family would be "ć€§ć„œă" or "ć„œă"
yes, theyâre in love with each other, they confessed to each other.
those people are saying that because they donât kiss or anything but itâs very clear from episode 2-3 that this is a gay romance and at the end of everything, it gets confirmed :)
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you can dislike the drama all you want, but calling a confirmed queer love story âqueerbaitâ just because it didnât fit your personal expectations of romance/intimacy is still something selectively homophobic.
and this is important because a lot of confusion comes from people assuming every queer-coded or male-male love story automatically falls under BL, when in reality that isnât always how the creators themselves position it.
in multiple interviews (including the japanese ones), the language used stayed very consistent: âlove story,â âqueer love story,â and broader LGBTQ+ terminology. there was never an official claim like âthis is a BL dramaâ from the director or script team.
so if people interpreted it differently, thatâs understandable, but itâs not accurate to say the creators or script âmade it something elseâ on purpose. the framing was already there, it just wasnât labeled in the specific category some viewers expected.
and what feels inconsistent to me is how quickly people jump to âitâs not queer / itâs bromanceâ specifically when the romance isnât portrayed in a very explicit way. you can dislike the delivery, but erasing the queer framing altogether because it doesnât match a certain expectation of intimacy is where it stops being just criticism and starts becoming a double standard.
you absolutely have the right to feel hurt or disappointed by the show. my point is simply that criticizing the portrayal is different from completely erasing the fact that it was still written and confirmed as a queer romance.
yâall can criticize the execution, the intimacy, or the writing all you want, but throwing around âqueerbaitingâ at every queer story that doesnât fit your personal expectations is exactly why the term is losing meaning.
this is just being selectively homophobic atp.