I'm curious to know what you disliked the most about this series.
Mostly just the standard Thai BL problems: spotty acting, stilted dialogue, an overall artificial look and feel to settings, costuming, set dressing, lighting, etc. I ended up with that same old Thai BL feeling: That I was watching a play about adults put on by junior high kids. That's an exaggeration, but you get my drift.
The sex scenes were amazing, but for instance the first one just happened immediately out of nowhere, all of a sudden people were boinking without much or any foreplay or pre-sexual tension, which is a lot of the hotness for me. But the hot sex is not nearly powerful enough to outweigh all the negatives of this show. Put these scenes in a well-written and produced show though, and you'd really have something.
I do like Bible as an actor, but from what I've read here in comments, he becomes a side character as the MC loses focus as the series progresses. I watched two episodes and then realized a few days later I had felt no urge to watch more, but forced myself to give #3 a shot, then dropped it.
I do not want to be crucified, but I also want to be honest in my opinion. I thought this show was just okay and…
You are one hundred percent correct. Please, going forward, do not be intimidated by the sex-phobic, straight American girls who dominate MDL coming at you in comments. That is their primary mode of operation: to shut down commenters who call them on their homophobic, cotton-candy fantasies of male/male sexuality.
Say what you want, then say it again if one of them comes at you, spittle spewing and fire flinging. Who cares what they say? They can't hurt you. :)
The BL fan community is so weird. There are so many shows focused on hetero couples where the couple does not…
I don't watch straight Asian romance dramas, and it sounds like that's a good choice. Just because, as you CLAIM, hugs/kisses are rare in straight dramas, does not mean that choice is any less ridiculous when it's made in a BL. What is your problem with hugs/kisses?
And actually, yes, in my opinion an absence of the very NATURAL and human, physical expressions of love between lovers absolutely compromises their claim to be "romances." Try watching fewer sex-phobic dramas.
"secretly wanted" lol me too. But I realized it's not that kind of show. It's a slice-of-life, slow-paced, and…
Serious question: Do you believe that an authentic hug/kiss physical expression of love between two men makes a show less than "wholesome?" That's a fairly homophobic perspective.
Episode 12: That distant cousins-style hug near the end was a fitting cap to this ultimately disappointing series.
That said, it's true that from the time the "Sign" boss explained to Taichi right up to the hug, I had tears streaming down my face. The middle portion of this episode was extremely moving, made all the more so because it felt as though we were moving TOWARD something profound. For the first time since the early-episode scene under the footbridge, I felt something.
But then, once again, the story got cold feet and what should have been an emotional fireworks of a climax ended in that lame hug. And to you sex-phobics, no, that does not mean I think they should have ripped off their Yukatas and done the nasty right there on those stone steps. But no actual humans in love build up to a mutual confession that powerful and then hug like sisters. It's absurd and so compromising to what should have been a deeply poignant moment.
So...we got about three promising episodes, including the powerful scene in the rain under the bridge, followed by eight increasingly lame episodes in which the love story faded into a puzzling side story, then half of a final episode brimming with emotion and promise, but ultimately collapsing on itself into a bromance ending on the rooftop. This drama is one step above a Chinese censored BL.
And true to form, the Midget Maya showed up to spew vague, sarcastic innuendo and then leave. It's true to her nasty character that she refused to say out loud what she knew but Taichi did not yet understand.
A sad and seemingly deliberate waste of potential. The leads are appealing and talented actors. They constructed a marvelous chemistry between them, then the script and director trashed that promise. As actors, this must have been a deeply frustrating experience for Nakazawa and Toranosuke.
But it is a BL along the dark gritty lines of what BL originally meant.
Oh, I already did try MSI, just recently. Dropped in the first episode. Thai body-swapping is a solid "no" for me.
Have you seen the gay-themed comedy film "Marry My Dead Body" on Netflix? One of the few supernatural/body swapping/seeing the dead-type films I enjoyed. laughed my ass off.
Just say you don't have taste ,if you don't understand how good this is, It's rare we get such a well made adaptation…
Sadly, most of the world is jealous of America, just as you revealed yourself to be just now. You're also a sexist, but mostly lame.
This country has lots of problems of which I am ashamed, but millions of foreigners immigrate here, far more than to any other country, every single year...because generally speaking, we rock.
It's sad you hate where you live but not my problem.
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The sex scenes were amazing, but for instance the first one just happened immediately out of nowhere, all of a sudden people were boinking without much or any foreplay or pre-sexual tension, which is a lot of the hotness for me. But the hot sex is not nearly powerful enough to outweigh all the negatives of this show. Put these scenes in a well-written and produced show though, and you'd really have something.
I do like Bible as an actor, but from what I've read here in comments, he becomes a side character as the MC loses focus as the series progresses. I watched two episodes and then realized a few days later I had felt no urge to watch more, but forced myself to give #3 a shot, then dropped it.
Dropped 1/10
Say what you want, then say it again if one of them comes at you, spittle spewing and fire flinging. Who cares what they say? They can't hurt you. :)
And actually, yes, in my opinion an absence of the very NATURAL and human, physical expressions of love between lovers absolutely compromises their claim to be "romances." Try watching fewer sex-phobic dramas.
That distant cousins-style hug near the end was a fitting cap to this ultimately disappointing series.
That said, it's true that from the time the "Sign" boss explained to Taichi right up to the hug, I had tears streaming down my face. The middle portion of this episode was extremely moving, made all the more so because it felt as though we were moving TOWARD something profound. For the first time since the early-episode scene under the footbridge, I felt something.
But then, once again, the story got cold feet and what should have been an emotional fireworks of a climax ended in that lame hug. And to you sex-phobics, no, that does not mean I think they should have ripped off their Yukatas and done the nasty right there on those stone steps. But no actual humans in love build up to a mutual confession that powerful and then hug like sisters. It's absurd and so compromising to what should have been a deeply poignant moment.
So...we got about three promising episodes, including the powerful scene in the rain under the bridge, followed by eight increasingly lame episodes in which the love story faded into a puzzling side story, then half of a final episode brimming with emotion and promise, but ultimately collapsing on itself into a bromance ending on the rooftop. This drama is one step above a Chinese censored BL.
And true to form, the Midget Maya showed up to spew vague, sarcastic innuendo and then leave. It's true to her nasty character that she refused to say out loud what she knew but Taichi did not yet understand.
A sad and seemingly deliberate waste of potential. The leads are appealing and talented actors. They constructed a marvelous chemistry between them, then the script and director trashed that promise. As actors, this must have been a deeply frustrating experience for Nakazawa and Toranosuke.
5/10
Have you seen the gay-themed comedy film "Marry My Dead Body" on Netflix? One of the few supernatural/body swapping/seeing the dead-type films I enjoyed. laughed my ass off.
This country has lots of problems of which I am ashamed, but millions of foreigners immigrate here, far more than to any other country, every single year...because generally speaking, we rock.
It's sad you hate where you live but not my problem.