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Agree 1000% about the mother in Something in the Rain, but not about Start Up :-)

Healer was brilliant, so we definitely disagree here.

Unpopular opinion and proud of it: the shower kiss in My Shy Boss was one of the best ever.

Same - I got so impatient I just started watching it raw but gave up after a few minutes. :-) It's not hard to get the emotions but I'd like to know what they're saying. I am SO GRATEFUL for subbers and they can take the time they need to get things subbed because I can't speak Japanese! (very very grateful for those who provide this service for us)

Is it open for anyone? And if so, how would someone join your group?

This might have the most visually stunning opening sequence I've seen in a long time.

(And the young actor who plays little Eiichi is a star in the making...)

I needed episode 10 to finally let out the breath I've been holding since finishing Todome no Kiss.

I would definitely call that a happy ending - Otaro let her in his house and told her to help him make beef stroganoff (their dish.) You can see how he was starting to let down his guard a bit, and it helped that Saiko asked him for more memories for the current her, not just the past her. Plus they're soulmates and they would end up together no matter what.
However, I see your point that they didn't SHOW us how they got together but the ending of #10 was so much better than the ending of episode 10 of Kiss. But, like you, I always want more too. :-)

I loved this last episode so much I've watched it twice already. :-)
(And I keep thinking that Nakamura Anne, the actor who plays Hase, looks like she could be Kiriyama Renn's little sister, and how fun it would be if he turned up as a cameo...) LOL.

Ryusei and Jungkook are good friends and Ryusei is teaching him how to box. :-)

I feel the complete opposite - each episode goes by way too quickly and then we have to wait for the next one.

I knew there was another reason I've liked your comments so much - psychology was also one of my degrees. :-)

That's interesting! What are they saying? (I also agree with Mash-mallow that I will never watch another HIStory series with this writer again.)

Yes to every word of this.

Excuse me?! Thanks for apologizing to you? I'm done with you. Bye.

As soon as I read "TimeSlip" all I could hear in my head was Suda Masaki yelling "Time leap!" in Todome no Kiss...

I'm a little confused by your definition, so I'll just list a few here and see if you think they fall into the category you're looking for?
Yamada kun to 7 nin no Majo
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
Orange (probably not this one if you're not wanting time travel...or is it??)
Not Quite Dead Yet
Boku wa Mari no Naka (Does body switching count?)
Alice in Borderland

(And are you looking for a parallel universe story?)

It’s been nice having this conversation so far. I don’t actually feel like we have “opposing views” but I haven’t been able to express that well enough on here yet. You know a lot more about this particular subject than I do, but I don’t feel like I’m opposing your ideas or opinions (maybe you do though.) I’ve definitely gained specific knowledge that I didn’t have before through this exchange so far and that’s a good thing, of course.

Edit: now that I've taken my own Adderall for the day (we're twins that way!) I wanted to add a few things here.

My original statement was this: "LGBTQ+ media is being produced in great quantities all over the world, (and have been for years) but they don't usually have the tropes and fetishizing fanservice for straight women that many (too many!) BL's from Asia have. It's media produced for the queer community, not straight women, which is very different."

I've watched a great deal of LGBTQIA+ media over the years, from all over the world, and I can see the difference in the use of specific tropes and plot devices from BL's (which originated in Japan, I know that) and other places throughout Asia and media produced elsewhere. Obviously there are sexual assault themes that come up elsewhere, because it's a universal issue that humans face, but it seems ubiquitous in Asian BL's (and at least one of the articles linked bears that out.) Also, the tropes found in K-dramas and others (wrist grabs, catching while falling, etc, etc) are found often in BL's, which I usually find mildly humorous, if unnecessary (which is just my opinion). And I don't want to sanitize or censor what the queer "community" produces, or watches, or reads - reiterating what you've said and posted about the wide and diverse range of things that get watched and produced.
I really appreciated this quote from your last comment: "The sterilization of what is deemed a "bad image" for queer folks (in the case of our discussion, enjoying taboo content in a queer series) is an ongoing problem that has reached all corners of modern queer existence. Both articles highlight how making content/existing as a being that is deemed offensive by "normal standards" (and shedding light on who the people are setting those standards because it ain't The Gays!) is for heterosexual consumption more than queer liberation because policing queer creativity--be that the making of or the enjoyment of--does not help our community as a whole."
But I'll be very honest and say that I'm still wrestling with this truth you just named and the ubiquity of the rape and assault tropes in the BL that we're both watching right now.

It seems that this part of the sentence was the one you took most issue with, "fetishizing fanservice for straight women that many (too many!) BL's from Asia have" (?) and I understand why now, I think. While I still read lots of comments about the risk of fetishizing queer men by straight women, (including from friends of mine!) I'm grateful for this conversation with you because I've learned a lot since I wrote this comment. I would obviously edit this statement quite a bit now. Now I understand more about the importance that BL has had (and continues to have) to many within the queer community and that women, queer and straight and otherwise, have contributed to the BL fandom in ways that are groundbreaking. (And that lots of queer women enjoy BL too.)

I would still say that there needs to be media produced by the queer community, for the queer community, and acted, produced, directed and marketed by and for the queer community. One day I hope that the majority of BL characters could be played by queer actors who are openly queer and that they would feel safe being out. (I guess people could disagree with me about that, but that's an issue in the US for sure. Representation is important, especially for the transgender community and having actors be able to play themselves is incredibly important. I'm not saying that as if you don't already know this, of course, but for anyone else who might be reading this.)

Another edit: (I keep wanting to edit and add here..) :-)
Thanks for the link about BL's and Taiwan - I look forward to reading it.

@solipisism5, I’m hoping that this comment is for @LoveSong instead of me because I know full well what the term means and its pejorative nature.

As a full-grown adult, I don’t need a show for kids. I think rape is used as a plot device in far too many dramas and comments like yours will never convince me otherwise.