Kidd
Male Actor Playing a Transgender Woman
This movie was so cute and sweet, but as a queer person I can't help but hate the fact that a cisgender male is playing a physically transitioned transgender woman.I understand that it's sometimes difficult to cast trans actors, but in that case, they should have hired a cisgender woman to play Rinko. Despite the hidden transphobia in the casting of Rinko, Ikuta Toma did do an amazing job portraying her.
As often LGBTQ+ films do, this movie is no fail to the trope of trying to show queer people they can't have happy endings.
All it's faults aside, this movie is an incredible, understated, gem. I'd recommend anyone to watch it, and look further into the lives of trans people, and the everyday struggles of passive aggressive discrimination we face.
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It was.. not good
It wasn't funny, it wasn't dramatic, it wasn't romantic, even as far as 10 min, 8 ep, Korean BL dramas go, it was... bleh.The story had good potential, but was obviously misguided.
The main two actors completely lacked (romantic) chemistry. Whenever their romance scenes were on screen, I would cringe instead of swoon. The editors attempts to make their stolen gazes seem romantic was a fail. They would have had better chemistry if it was purely platonic.
Like a play you have to go to because it's a school trip, I had to push myself to finish watching it.
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Takumi-kun Series 1: And The Spring Breeze Whispers
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If "The Room" Was a Japanese BL
This movie is so bad, that it's good.Parts that were meant to be sad were so hindered by terrible dialog and acting, that I thought I found myself in a comedy. The whole thing was extremely confusing, almost as if it was skipping time, people drastically changing emotions and feelings within one day to the next, and filled with rushed and unexplained plot lines.
The whole thing made absolutely no sense, and I love it, but if I hadn't looked at it in such a comedic way, I wouldn't have been able to finish it.
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Cringey in a cute way
It was super cringey, but also kind of sweet. I think a big miss for me was that the main actors were cast into the wrong roles. I think their dynamic would work better if they had cast them in opposite main roles. Naito Shuichiro seems to suit a younger sweeter character better and Seto Toshiki better suits a more mature and mentor-like character. I'm no better or worse for watching this. Don't go out of your way to watch it, but if you're bored and feel like watching something cute and stupid, it's a decent watch.Was this review helpful to you?
If you've watched part 1 skip this one
Part1 was okay, but this one was practically unwatchable.The story kept jumping too many characters.
They introduced a *t4t potential pair-up halfway through which I was shocked and a little excited for - but it came out of nowhere, made absolutely no sense in the plot, and was just a huge disappointing mess.
So many scenes in this were completely out of place, whatever little charm the last one had was completely lost here.
I fast forwarded through the last couple of episodes because I just wanted to finish them and see if it gets better (it doesn't).
Anyone is better off watching something else.
* t4t = trans for trans - which refers to trans people dating other trans people.
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