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I don't know if you already got your answer, but... kind of? I don't know if I'd call an unrequited all-girls school crush a "romance" though.

If we believe the Amazon subtitles then he's the most unprofessional doctor around. Where would anyone get the idea that a doctor just addresses their nurse and patients by first name? And it's not just the doctor. Everyone just addresses everyone by first name, even though they met once or it's their first meeting. I wish these translators would take their job more serious. Americanizing everything is bad enough and often comes from the streaming services, but do they need to make idiots out of the audience and characters as well?

It was a nice drama, but felt kind of like an ad sometimes. "Psychiatrists are doctors, you don't need to think you're crazy if you go to one" kind of.

Kinda sounds a bit like Affair tbh. Just a bit more messed up, even if I didn't think that was possible (haven't seen it yet, so just an assumption based on your comment)

Sounds fun, especially because at least 90% of high schools (most probably more) have a policy that girls who are pregnant have to drop out of school. And the vast majority of high schools don't even have sex-ed. So I hope there aren't too many Japanese female high school students watching that drama.

Thanks for the reply! I'll give it a shot then.

Is this one of those "I have a great career going, but I have to get married, otherwise I'll lose my worth as a woman when I'm 30" dramas? It kind of sounds like that for Kawaguchi Haruna's character and I'm definitely not watching another one of those if it's the case.

It's actually "pretty common" in Japan. When one parent leaves the household they basically give up their rights to see the children if the other parent wants to have full custody. The one that leaves has to proof they're fit to raise the kids and have enough resources to pull it off and the parent with custody can forbid the other to see the children if they don't fight for it. That's a big reason why a lot of women stay in a loveless or even abusive marriage if they have kids.

It was definitely dropped. The person who translated it even deleted their account, so there's no chance they'll continue and, seeing how the Japanese subber scene works, it'll take quite a while before someone else picks it up... if someone else picks it up.

Ep 1 & 4 only have Spanish subs. Just to let you know.

No English sub, so I more or less skipped through it because it was just a lesbian soft porn without any sex. Don't know where the nudity tag comes from, but the most nudity we see is a back with a bra on. Don't know about the Extreme sexual content either. They're just kissing the whole time and there's nothing that seems to be non-consensual or "extreme" about it. Maybe it's the "on edge music". For people who are nonetheless interested to see 2 couples kissing without anything happening, it's on the Shakeshoulder Filmmaker YT channel

Seeing the cast and after watching the first two "seasons", which I really liked, I was a bit disappointed. It was basically an 11x rinse and repeat with 5 different problematic partners and 11 murders. I usually like case of the week dramas, but those tend to have completely different settings every week and different methods of delivery. Here it was the same over and over again, a crime, Kazama knows instantly who the killer is, maximum 10 - 15 minutes later his partner knows it aswell, they try to prove it and on the way they solve the partners issues. That's the drama in a nutshell basically. Three reasons why I didn't drop and gave it a 7 in the end: I found two of the partners interesting, the acting was top notch and, like I said, I liked the sequels and wanted to know how it plays into them.

After watching the pilot I suddenly crave a purely parodic GL that makes fun of all the cliches and stereotypes in Yuri stories. Kind of seems to be half parody/comedy (or 75%) and half (or 25%) stereotypical GL drama. I'm curious what the neat Fuji-san and Sakura imagery in the poster and the Japanese song/OST is all about and how it's represented in the drama.

Never start an Asadora that's not fully subbed. Except when HPriest, subie06 or Wabi-Sabi are subbing, they always complete their projects. I got 8 or so (not sure how many really) on my list that got started and then dropped or went on hiatus for 2 years+.

Thanks for the answer! Wouldn't have even thought of that but it's actually a pretty reasonable explanation and makes sense. You probably wouldn't know what happened if you're back in a 3 or 4 year old's body with the intelligence to match.

I don't know if I misunderstood you or you misunderstood me (xD), but I basically totally agree with you. I just meant their "public image" shouldn't influence how they play a character, regardless of the region or intended audience. If a writer for an Asian drama intended for Asian audiences would write scenes that aren't appropriate for those then I think the fault's with the writer, but I still think the actress/actor should do their best in portraying that character without regarding their own public image. The best example of what I meant was basically Ayaka x Hiroko, where they casted an Idol to act out romantic and kiss scenes, even though she's probably not even allowed to show she knows how to kiss because Idol's are the purest beings on this planet (sorry, I hate how Idols are marketed, especially in Japan).

As long as it's not a "we only show our feelings in the last minute of the last episode" drama and everything before that is them dancing around each others feelings, I'm ok with it. I even made it a habit to almost always fast forward "sex scenes" in The Loyal Pin as soon as I saw a hand on a thigh or one of them started to kiss the others' neck for example. All this over the clothes touching on their faces and arms only pretty much ruined the whole immersion for me, especially when they supposedly started to have sex in such a scenario. Affair did a pretty good job with those scenes in my opinion. It looked realistic, which is all that matters to me, because they actually touch each other and they did a good job of making it seem like they're naked.

I'm rather new to Thai drama, so I was pretty surprised to see the main characters basically portrayed as a couple outside of a drama. As long as they're comfortable with what they do, ok, but the whole fan-service shtick is a bit too much for me when I read some of the comments or titles of videos/clips. The vast majority of "couples" even shy away from cheek kisses, so how would it be possible to perceive them as "real" and be mad at them when they look at other people or talk with them. It seems almost as toxic as the Japanese idol culture.

I'll forever hope for a live-action adaption of Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Bloom Into You). It's my all-time favorite Yuri story, but I don't think it'll ever happen, sadly.

Sorry, I think I made my post a bit too easy to misunderstand, so let me clarify it a little. I don't think there's a problem with involving men if it's either without romantic context, like in Pluto or Apple as a brother (figure) for example, or if the main characters are confident and believe in themselves and each other, like TSOU for example, in which I didn't really mind the guy even if he was an idiot who couldn't read the room if they'd have literally wrote on every wall.

My problem with involving a male character would start either if the writers display one of the main characters as this super vulnerable, totally unsure of herself and/or demure/obedient person who gets easily influenced by other people (I accidentally wrote "him" on my first post, sorry), like Dream or GAP and which is probably the most used trope in Japanese Yuri manga, or if the guy is so pushy or that big an a**hole that it's impossible to ignore him, like in Affair. Then I would definitely 100% agree with you that men shouldn't be involved in a GL, even in small roles.

Unfortunately that's the reason(s) the overwhelming majority watches something for. Production, aesthetics, looks. I don't want to step on any toes, but that's also why all the best rated dramas on MDL are Korean, because they care the most about these three things and the drama gets a high rating even though some of them are mediocre at best if you only count the story. I'm not a big fan of TSOU and even less of The Loyal Pin, which was more like an over the clothes softporn for me, but they're the GLs with the biggest budget and most appealing visuals, so they get the best rating.

You definitely got a point. But there are less or at least the same amount of different honorifics in the (modern) German language than in English. And they have the same meaning, so I think there _shouldn't_ be a problem with that, but I guess people make it more problematic than necessary, be it translators or "audience".
How you address someone in Asia is much more important because it is way more about respect and manners than simply to show that you don't know someone (like it is in German or, at least as far as I know, in English), so I think there shouldn't be any compromises. There could be an easy solution to all of that, just include the cultural aspects in the subtitles and show the meaning of it in brackets or at the top of the screen as an explanation the first time they come up in an episode (like some fansubbers do). But then they'd need to assume people aren't actually idiots and have an attention span of more than 5 seconds to understand and remember what everything means 😉.

I also made a mistake in my comment. I should've written/wanted to say "[...] they'll start spending a little more money on translation [...]" instead of translators. I meant research of language and culture and respecting it, not firing or hiring translators. Sorry for causing a misunderstanding.

I never took what Netflix does as standardizing, more as "taking their customers for idiots". I find completely ignoring and dumbing down Asian culture (be it Japanese, Korean, Thai or Chinese), in their subs pretty offensive to be honest. And then converting every metric measurement into feet and pounds makes me really think if they don't want 95% of the worlds population as their customers.
A lot of Japanese people and studios are already complaining to the big streaming services about their subs, so maybe (probably not) they'll start spending a little more money on translators that can respect Asian language and it's cultural meaning.

I don't know Pink Love, but Dream is basically the worst I've seen so far in that regard. Just because her mother, who doesn't force her to do anything, says, more off-handedly than anything, "it would be cool if you'd marry that guy" she is 100% instantly onboard and completely disregards her own feelings because of it. But that show is a complete mess anyways and I wouldn't recommend it even to GL addicts. GAP is probably a close second, but I at least like the humor and Sam's character until ep9 or so.