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And now that I think about it, considering today marks the anniversary of Japanese surrender, I think whoever leaked this probably timed it on purpose.

I hope he maintains himself and makes some sort of recovery that will be accepted by the domestic audience. There are a lot of difficult things I've seen a Chinese celebrity to come back from (financial scandal, romance scandal, or character-slandering etc.), but I've never known anyone to come back from perceived anti-China sentiments. People have had their careers thrown out for lesser offenses to the nation than this.

This was filmed beautifully and I love the relationship-building Mitsuomi does with his father, but I wish we could have seen more between Mitsuomi and Yamato. Like 15 minutes more would have been enough, I think.

I have the same feeling.

I'm very distracted by the visuals of this series so far. There's a story here, I'm sure of it, but right now, I'm not concerned about it at all.

EDIT: MarcoBas Supremacy

For me, this was more humorous than anything else. I can't say I liked it a lot, but I can't say it was bad either.

I wasn't twisting your words. Let's just maybe not minimalize the history and culture of a country you don't belong to. And the resentment held against this place isn't even something the Chinese exclusively hold. Other former victim countries of Japanese imperialism do too. Also, there's no need to call someone's love of their country into question just because they live elsewhere. Of course, in the end, everyone wants peace.

As a Chinese ***American*** were this a Jewish celebrity at a holocaust site or a Black American at a slave plantation what would your reaction be?
If you don't like "China" (government or people), just say that, but don't use that to detract from or minimalize the reason people are upset. Avenue X didn't claim to be "patriotic" in the same way people who speak against Nazis and the Confederate States don't need to plainly say they're "patriotic". And to answer your ridiculous question: NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS. Her mother could be dying of a terminal illness and so she decided to move to Canada for her to receive better treatment. Or she could have fallen in love with a Canadian. None of that changes that this is as much an international human rights issue as it is a national one. One that didn't only affect affect China.
I state again: I don't support the cancellation of Zhang Zhe Han (comercially), but I'm extremely uncomortable with the ready willingness of people to underplay Japanese imperialism while simultaneously admonishing Chinese sensationalism. It's not as easy of an "it's in the past" thing. The effects of this sh*t is in the LIVING memory of millions of people in multiple countries. People have a right to feel how they will about that and Americans, of all people, should definitely be thinking twice about when and how to tell other nations to let bygones be bygones...

I also agree that Chinese netizens are over the top 9/10 times, but this is different. I’ve been to this place myself and what’s written in the museum there is the objective polar opposite to the reality of history. And again, ALL Chinese know this history and know this place due to the fact that Japanese prime ministers regularly go there to pay respects in spite of the war criminals enshrined there. It’s just a bad look. It’s literally the same as a Jew going to a wedding at “Auschwitz Park” (if Germany were as insensitive to that issue as Japan is to this one) and nonchalantly posted pictures

I’m glad she said something about it because non-Chinese/non-Asian people have been really writing this off as if it’s nothing. Don’t cancel him, fine, but let’s not diminish a history that’s already diminished as it is.

Nah. Kris Wu was cancelled on Chinese media long before he was detained. It’s important to remember that because Kris Wu has Canadian (not Chinese( citizenship, people were much more quick to criticize him. Even if the brands didn’t, the public had already judged Kris Wu a long time ago.

You don’t, but this shrine garners public attention every year because of the controversy. It’s literally the only jinja that any Chinese person would know because of the fact that it deifies war criminals. No, he shouldn’t be cut from ads and shouldn’t have his tv shows removed, but what he did (posting the picture, not attending the wedding) was very stupid. On the original post, people had also pointed that out, even back then. And this place isn’t just offensive to Chinese, but Koreans and Filipinos as well. :/

"he did say that Shin Woo made his heart flutter"
Not to be a stickler, but he didn't say that. He said, he knows how to make one's heart flutter, which is an implication of that, but could also imply that Shinwoo is just charming in general.
Based on what we've seen so far, I genuinely feel like SW actually holds TK's fun side back and that TK is the one to be burdened with showing SW what fun even is. The date at the mall was the most basic opportunity for SW to express himself and it was just an awkward mess until the end when SW ever so slightly managed to be direct and momentarily catch TK's attention. I'm sorry, but watching someone as inept at verbally expressing themselves as SW trying to verbally express themselves to someone as blunt as TK is only cute for a bit. After a while it gets weird and annoying and I don' think it's brought the best out of TK in any way at all imo. TK, in spite of having no friends at the beginning, was literally friendly with EVERYone. SW stifled that. Sohee did too. Sohee has since apologized outright in some way and SW is still mumbling his way through everything (albeit in the most caring way) and fumbling with his own feelings. I pity him. in a way, more than I pity Daon.
If SW and TK end up together, fine, but it's SW who will have learned much more from TK, not vice versa and there's nothing wrong with that, I guess.

Well, it said he 'completed' it, so...haha I guess we'll see.

To be honest, by the end of the date, I got the feeling that Tae sees him as "cute" and romantic in a way that you would think of someone who has a crush on you, but you're not all that interested in them outside of being friends, but you're still appreciating their attempts. For as many "aww" moments as we got between SW and TK over the course of this series, I still feel like if you're looking at things through TK's lens, it's been amicable sometimes, funny sometimes, sweet sometimes and awkward the overwhelming majority of the time. I thought we were going to see TK coming to the realization of all the amazing things SW had been doing for him and how he felt for him at the end of ep 13, but that didn't happen and in ep 14, it's business as usual. TK's like, "You're really weird, but stick around." to SW. I don't not want them to be endgame (and I don't doubt they will), but all the indications that TK feels anything for SW have been more or less subtle or could be easily attributed to something else (I'm referring to your list btw haha). I just wish we'd see more of an actual interest from TK's side. There's 40 minutes left of the series and that's enough time, but it's going to take something really substantial for me to believe that TK falls for SW.

I do love a pouty bottom lip and that he does have when he's sad.

A verbally-expressed interest in girls is not a verbally-expressed disinterest in guys. Bisexual and pansexual people exist.

I mean, Daon is definitely privileged enough to study abroad. I wouldn’t be surprised.

Yeah, for me this is more like a psychological case study on three individuals...in K-Drama form. haha Literally ANY decision any of them makes is intriguing me because I'm just having fun getting to know them all. ^_^