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I could be your dad if you had been conceived at a drunken middle-school party.

I know the "exit scene" you reference, but I felt it was rushed. His being "sent packing" is a big reason this show, which I liked a lot at first, has become such a snooze fest.

Oh, I am OLDER than dirt. If you're just as old AS dirt, then you're my junior. :)

Wow, good for you on the 24 years. Longest I've made it with another guy was 7. I was married to a woman for 10 though! lol That's a whole OTHER story.

We shall see.

"right to be wrong" was intended as a joke on its face.

As for the rest, lol, I'm older than dirt, divorced, and have seen it all. I AM gorgeous though, as are all the people I've dated or boffed.

I simply find Soga and Sakae, the actors and the characters, entirely unconvincing as a romantic couple. As many others in this thread have said, chemistry is a real thing between people and actors, and these two don't have it. All that cooing and oohing, especially the revolting pre-sex scenes, feel so forced I could feel my ancient dental fillings warping in my teeth. When they kissed, eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

It's not for nothing that most commenters here were rooting for Mizuki, even though we were clearly meant to dislike him. Also, it's odd the way he just disappeared from the story.

You really think Hikaro will go gay for Ryo?

There has been no indication whatsoever that he has the capacity to love a man, and we're halfway through the show. That would be a...stretch. :)

Nah...I think my statement above is clear enough. :)

But I totally respect your right to be wrong!

look mate, I already know I'm entitled to my opinion.
Don't really care if you interpret my comments as "harassment." Though if you do, you're awfully delicate.
Don't really think I've been replying to "everyone."
Don't really buy your odd assertion that commenters need to be "prompted" to comment, especially since no one "prompted" you to leave your OP above, yet you left it anyway.
Who's "we?" Is there a club here of unprompted commenters such as yourself? Are you the prez?
Don't really think I left "100" comments here, but if I did, I don't really care if that chaps your ass.
Don't really think I'll be "backing off" anytime soon.
If you find me a "pain," I don't really care.
If you don't want to see my comments, which cause you such pain and distress, you could, you know mate, block me.

It's entertaining when people like you use language such as "everyone," "we," etc. in an attempt to generalize their own, personal butt-hurt as applying to "everyone" else on a thread. Try speaking only for yourself.

There are exactly TWO one-sided crushes, not "many." If there were "many," that would maybe help.

People ask where the BL/GL is because there is NO BL/GL at all, nor will there be. The MLs are J-idols and thus there will be no gay romance. One of the FLs is straight-crushing-on-gay and the other one is a ghost or psycho, thus there will be no Lesbo romance either.

" there's something almost whimsical about the show that keeps you curious." lol No, no there's not anything "whimsical" going on here, unless you choose the "random/meaningless/for no reason" definition of a "whim," in which case "whimsical" equals incoherent. "Whimsical" also connotes playfulness and amusing. This show is the opposite of that.

You're last paragraph is delusional. It is not a black/white, either/or question, and NO ONE is asking for passionate kisses "every 5 minutes." The problem is we have two J-idols as the MLs, thus we all know that "BL" angle is going nowhere, thus we know nothing is going to happen, plus there IS nothing happening on the screen.

It's great that you are so advanced in your film appreciation skills that a four-hour epic movie showing paint dry in real time would be the bomb for you, but even slightly less advanced film buffs would like SOMETHING to be going on.

And don't give me the "you don't understand Japan" bs. I have watched hundreds of J films and series, and many of them are excellent. This one isn't.

SLOW X WEIRD X BORING = LAME

I can appreciate the slow unfolding of an intriguing story if it's building toward something, but this is grinding its gears and going nowhere.

A ghost cannot disappear into thin air while acting sinister, and also sit out in the sunshine, eating lunch with friends and acting like a sorority girl. I don't think she's a ghost at all; the writers/director are just throwing weirdness in so it will seem like something, anything is happening. I was hoping Ryo HAD jumped off the roof, just so there would be an interesting event taking place.

And what's up with the unlocked roof door again, and no fencing up there? How many Japanese and Korean kids have to jump off their high school roofs for this particular school to get the message?

Why is that dumb girl, who saw Ryo mooning over Hikaro as he slept, deluding herself she has a chance? Why do Japanese high school kids make the "hmmm..." sound so often? It's subbed as "yeah," "yes," "OK," whatever, but it's really just "hmmm..."

The base problem, of course, is that the MLs are Jpop idols in the same boy band, and there's not a chance in hell their characters' fictional relationship is going to go gay and they'll be exploring each others' esophagus with their tongues. Which is, of course, why there is no dramatic tension here at all. We know the guys won't go gay cause they're idols, thus their characters won't go all-out gay either.

I have two hate-watches going right now, which is rare for me. I usually drop shows this annoying. So I guess the angst of disliking what I'm seeing somehow works for me. :)

I could even see Kaname/Sakae before Soga/Sakae. Kaname is a hoot, and a unique characterization.

To me, it's a casting problem. Chemistry cannot be "written" to exist between actors. It is either there or it isn't, and in this show it very much isn't, but the director went psycho and cast the Soga guy anyway. That, or he's his nephew or sleeping with him or something, am I right? :D

Because it's awful.

Thank god. Though I've no doubt there will be some miracle next week that saves their fake relationship.

If my browser allowed access to emojis, I would place several vomit-faces here in response to your comment.

Episode 9: Absurd.

All this for some f**king kitchen utensils? lol
That they would split over that is at least realistic in that their relationship isn't worth a fork or a knife anyway.
Soga is supposedly valued by his company, which already has a large branch office in Osaka where he is working. There is no reason in the world such a company would not arrange to keep a valuable employee and allow them to work from Osaka.
I mean, I'm glad this is happening, because they have no chemistry and every scene of supposed romantic ecstasy is painfully forced, but the story is insulting.
Funny how it's just gotten progressively worse, ep by ep.
Time for Mizuki to show back up, and bring some passion to this finale! Sakae will snap out of his masochistic desire to force a relationship with Soga, and all will end well
It was stupid that the ex-wife came from Tokyo to tell Soga what could easily have been conveyed on the phone. Writers wanted a face-to-face, dramatic situation but, due to bad dialogue and boring acting, there was none.
The entire, forced, cutesie, "making a long-distance work" montage was embarrassing.
When they kissed, I vomited a little in my throat.

Oh well, just one more episode of this to go, then I can say sayanara to this thing. I'm enjoying the hate-watch though.

lol An example of the terrible writing from which this series suffers.

Senior project? C-

and in 12 years the Senpai has made no serious attempt to contact the person he is all of a sudden trying to seduce while claiming to still love. Give me a break.

The assistant IS still pining for him, which IS his personal problem, but it's indicative of Senpai's sadistic nature that he keeps him around constantly wanting him, even though he knows it has to be causing the guy pain, because having him around slobbering over him feeds Senpais ego.

I don't really disagree with the rest of what you wrote. There ARE two sides to every story, or even three or four sides, but as we've seen, anyone hearing that Senpai is a player has reason to believe that's true, because he IS a player.

I like that he's an asshole because that makes for a deliciously transgressive story, but he is still an asshole. just look at how he manipulated Miyata into ending up at his place, drunk.

Oh good, then you'll be dropping the drama and I won't have to read your inane babblings, which include you writing about how you're above responding to people like me but then you respond to people like me in depth anyway. lol

I am so wounded and destroyed by your desperate, misdirection insults that I have no idea how I will go on living without your recognition and feedback. However, since you're dropping the series, I won't see any more comments from you here anyway, so that's good.

So you actually believe there aren't lots of films in which murderers get away with murder? I guess you've not seen many Korean crime thrillers. lol Normal people don't look to BLs and other dramas for their moral guidance. You might consider being like them.