omg. This is so naive and disgusting. Your comment illustrates the insanity that drove LSK to take his life. Rather…
Either you have me mixed up with someone else or you're nuts or, more likely, both. Your comment is full of psycho accusations about things I never said. It may just be that your English sucks on top of your crazy.
I hear you and agree on all your points. However, don't you find yourself slightly intrigued as to how it is now…
No, I don't find myself intrigued. At all. :)
Boring, predictable tropes and cliches are...boring.
I'm just here to look at Sakae. I'd be here to look at the ex-BF, who is beautiful, also but the actor is playing him so well, and I loathe that type of person, that I don't actually find him sexually attractive.
I don't buy Sakae being in love with the nerd at all. It feels very artificial; as if he's acting out the script but there's no believable passion, lust, or yearning. Just an actor saying lines written to indicate those emotions, but the emotions are missing.
Damn, I adore Fukaya Ka's character. I've always been seriously turned on by a man who is direct, speaks his mind…
I was mostly bored, but totally agree with you about the way the restaurant owner is acting regarding Kai. Why the hell couldn't Kai have kept the restaurant running while the owner is in the hospital? Why doesn't the owner care that his asshole son is preventing Kai from visiting him in the hospital? Why doesn't the owner care that his asshole son kicked Kai out of the house? Makes me wonder if Kai is just playing Hiro for a place to stay...actually, that would be a provocative and interesting plot development in what otherwise has been a dull story since the first episode hand job.
As far as whatever the writer/director is/are trying to say, I'm getting something about Kai expecting nothing out of life, so that's what he gets. That's why he seems so blase' about everything, and events that one would expect to be upsetting, don't bother him. He doesn't expect them to go well in the first place. Which is why he wasn't angry about Hiro standing him up for the festival.
The only area in which he seems to care about a specific outcome he desires is in his pursuit of Hiro. However, if that's the case, why did he make no effort over a period of years to contact him until he had nowhere else to live?
I don't know...I'm just kind of blah about this one. It's not bad enough to drop, but it's not very engaging either.
Too bad to see this new-ish BL circle down the drain like other recent Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese BLs. Totally cliche plot, writing, dialogue, everything. Evil ex turns up, you know he's a snake, so you say "sure, come and work here and move in with me!" Yeah, that's believable.
No denying the guy is hot, and has one of the best platinum dye jobs I've seen in a BL (usually they don't leave the bleach on long enough and it comes out orange), but he's playing his part well and it's clear, even to someone who didn't know him, that he's a user and manipulator, no matter how hot.
But good heavens, the two of them look beautiful together, and the chemistry, lacking between the chef and the nerd, is off the charts with blondie.
Then, of course we have the nerd walking in at JUST the exact, precise moment he needed to to fulfill the writers' wish to use yet another lame BL trope, blah blah blah. Should have had him walk in on them doing the deed on the countertop. Now THAT would be some original writing.
oooh, and now the exciting dilemma of a possible move back to Tokyo in a YEAR, as if that's not enough time to figure things out together. I'm not putting this under a spoiler because it's just so lame and predictable; it's not like some huge, tidal wave of a plot twist, lol.
hmmm...pondering whether to drop or stick with it. Sakae is like cool water to the desert of my eyeballs, and I like his character too, so maybe one more episode. But this is one of those BLs I'll forget within two weeks of its finale.
It's not a bad show, Its way better than alot of bl shows I have seen
Please quote me where I said "everyone should have the same opinion." I'll wait while you try to find that statement in my comment. You make up shit and then respond to it.
As for the rest of your extremely bitchy, nasty comment, bite me. If I feel a show is shit, I'll shit on it and I don't have to worry about your overly sensitive fee-fees while I'm doing it.
I love how you blather about propriety and blah blah blah, while calling me a bitch once and an asshole twice. How very "proper" of you. lol
It's not a bad show, Its way better than alot of bl shows I have seen
"Also, from my point of view, I think he can't accept a bl series that shows how the world really works. By that I mean something like relationships aren't always nice and cute."
Good god, how stupid. Is having an AI robot as a lover "how the world really works?"
"By that I mean something like relationships aren't always nice and cute."
Is there anything about the relationship in this show that is NOT nice and cute?" Do you even know what you're writing?
Curious: Why does an "age gap" of no more than five years bother you so much? Why do you think the girl is "ace?" Why do you think that just because a young gay man claims to "love" a straight woman in a straight way, that he is telling the truth, when it is made clear, even by a couple of things you mentioned, that he is in love with the dude? Why is it not that he's simply lying, as do a lot of gay men trapped in his situation? It seems to me from what you wrote, that you get the "message" of this drama, but you don't realize it.
Me, who has seen my mister, really disagreeing with lousy actress..
Hi Moonlight!
JUST KILL YOURSELF PLEASE?
Seriously?
You just set up an account for the sole purpose of telling a rando on the Internet, who you claim to recognize as "sad and depressed," to kill themselves. And I'M the asshole?
You are deeply fucked up, and this is one of the most hilarious instances of classic projection I have ever seen.
I'll see if I can convince the mods that YOU are the brand-new "sockmaballs." They can probably nail you with your IP address.
It's not a bad show, Its way better than alot of bl shows I have seen
Free sites to watch: myasiantv kissasian dramacool myreadingmanga ok.ru and others...
Have you watched any older BLs, or just the new stuff that's airing now? Here's a messy, but complete site of old, upcoming, and current bls by country: https://world-of-bl.com/
This site can be fun and useful too. Lists BLs by year, country, etc. with reviews and other commentary. Looks like they just recently redesigned the site too: https://blwatcher.com/
It's not a bad show, Its way better than alot of bl shows I have seen
Oh wow, so you're brand-new to the BL universe. Yay! I stumbled across this genre three years ago, and it rocked my world. Ironically, all of the shows I first watched were Thai. They are older series that had already aired, so I was able to binge-watch entire shows. Here's a link to my Top 30 Best BLs list. There are eight Thai shows on it, but they're all at least two years old.
It's not a bad show, Its way better than alot of bl shows I have seen
A "lot of bl shows" are absolutely terrible, thus your qualification means nothing. Being better than other really bad shows doesn't make your show "good," just less bad. I wish people here would raise their standards and quit making excuses for BLs to be poorly made just because they are BLs.
Every good BL on MDL is underrated, and the shitty ones are highly OVER-rated. That said, to me an 8.2/10 rating…
Actually, I rated it a 1/10 to pull it down a bit, but normally I wouldn't give it more than a 6 (a D or the ABCDF scale) because I think it's terrible in multiple ways.
Juvenile plotting and dialogue Horribly amateur aspects like fight scene choreo so bad it was embarrassing, and that stupid bus stop cover that fell down as if made of cardboard, which I'm sure it was. Nanon has no sex appeal. I felt nothing between him and Ohm, and I felt Ohm did all the work to make whatever sliver of chemistry appeared from time to time. The idea of Nanon topping anything, including a pillow or a teddy bear, is absurd. He was good as that nerd in those two related BLs back when. Whoever decided he was a romantic leading man was on drugs. Lots of lame scenes such as when the curtain fell to expose the Nanon/Ohm backstage smooch. So predictable and again, juvenile. The supposed feud between the parents was acted by middle school-level actors, and the feud itself was never made clear as to what it was all about. They hated each other, and far out of proportion to whatever vague reasons they had for doing so. I could go on indefinitely. Overall, the show feels like a cheap, community theatre production featuring middle school actors delivering plot/dialogue written by their peers. It was made for the fluff-lovers of MDL, who are terrified of and offended by the existence of SEX (guys that age would be doing it two/three times a day), and prefer rainbows, unicorns and cotton candy clouds to anything approaching the reality of what a gay relationship between guys their age would be like. To me, the entire thing is insulting to my intelligence, both mental and emotional. I'm not a person who thinks BLs have some built-in excuse to be amateurish and childish because they're a BL. I see a lot of that in comments on MDL: "What do you expect? It's a BL." What I expect is a production as well-made in every way as possible.
BLs that far exceed Bad Buddy but are rated far lower:
Blueming IPYTM ITSAY History 2: Crossing the Line History 3: MODC Utsukushii Kare His: What Is Love? Like Love Old Fashion Cupcake We Best Love: #1 for You (the sequel was horrible) Love Sick Semantic Error Etc.
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And I'm tired of trying to communicate ESL MDLers whose grasp of the language is as weak as yours.
I'm done with your BS.
Boring, predictable tropes and cliches are...boring.
I'm just here to look at Sakae. I'd be here to look at the ex-BF, who is beautiful, also but the actor is playing him so well, and I loathe that type of person, that I don't actually find him sexually attractive.
I don't buy Sakae being in love with the nerd at all. It feels very artificial; as if he's acting out the script but there's no believable passion, lust, or yearning. Just an actor saying lines written to indicate those emotions, but the emotions are missing.
Looks like that first-episode hand job might have been the high point of this series.
Why the hell couldn't Kai have kept the restaurant running while the owner is in the hospital?
Why doesn't the owner care that his asshole son is preventing Kai from visiting him in the hospital?
Why doesn't the owner care that his asshole son kicked Kai out of the house?
Makes me wonder if Kai is just playing Hiro for a place to stay...actually, that would be a provocative and interesting plot development in what otherwise has been a dull story since the first episode hand job.
As far as whatever the writer/director is/are trying to say, I'm getting something about Kai expecting nothing out of life, so that's what he gets. That's why he seems so blase' about everything, and events that one would expect to be upsetting, don't bother him. He doesn't expect them to go well in the first place. Which is why he wasn't angry about Hiro standing him up for the festival.
The only area in which he seems to care about a specific outcome he desires is in his pursuit of Hiro. However, if that's the case, why did he make no effort over a period of years to contact him until he had nowhere else to live?
I don't know...I'm just kind of blah about this one. It's not bad enough to drop, but it's not very engaging either.
No denying the guy is hot, and has one of the best platinum dye jobs I've seen in a BL (usually they don't leave the bleach on long enough and it comes out orange), but he's playing his part well and it's clear, even to someone who didn't know him, that he's a user and manipulator, no matter how hot.
But good heavens, the two of them look beautiful together, and the chemistry, lacking between the chef and the nerd, is off the charts with blondie.
Then, of course we have the nerd walking in at JUST the exact, precise moment he needed to to fulfill the writers' wish to use yet another lame BL trope, blah blah blah. Should have had him walk in on them doing the deed on the countertop. Now THAT would be some original writing.
oooh, and now the exciting dilemma of a possible move back to Tokyo in a YEAR, as if that's not enough time to figure things out together. I'm not putting this under a spoiler because it's just so lame and predictable; it's not like some huge, tidal wave of a plot twist, lol.
hmmm...pondering whether to drop or stick with it. Sakae is like cool water to the desert of my eyeballs, and I like his character too, so maybe one more episode. But this is one of those BLs I'll forget within two weeks of its finale.
Not one, single original thing about it.
As for the rest of your extremely bitchy, nasty comment, bite me. If I feel a show is shit, I'll shit on it and I don't have to worry about your overly sensitive fee-fees while I'm doing it.
I love how you blather about propriety and blah blah blah, while calling me a bitch once and an asshole twice. How very "proper" of you. lol
God...MDL...
Good god, how stupid. Is having an AI robot as a lover "how the world really works?"
"By that I mean something like relationships aren't always nice and cute."
Is there anything about the relationship in this show that is NOT nice and cute?" Do you even know what you're writing?
Why do you think the girl is "ace?"
Why do you think that just because a young gay man claims to "love" a straight woman in a straight way, that he is telling the truth, when it is made clear, even by a couple of things you mentioned, that he is in love with the dude?
Why is it not that he's simply lying, as do a lot of gay men trapped in his situation?
It seems to me from what you wrote, that you get the "message" of this drama, but you don't realize it.
JUST KILL YOURSELF PLEASE?
Seriously?
You just set up an account for the sole purpose of telling a rando on the Internet, who you claim to recognize as "sad and depressed," to kill themselves. And I'M the asshole?
You are deeply fucked up, and this is one of the most hilarious instances of classic projection I have ever seen.
I'll see if I can convince the mods that YOU are the brand-new "sockmaballs." They can probably nail you with your IP address.
myasiantv
kissasian
dramacool
myreadingmanga
ok.ru
and others...
Have you watched any older BLs, or just the new stuff that's airing now?
Here's a messy, but complete site of old, upcoming, and current bls by country: https://world-of-bl.com/
This site can be fun and useful too. Lists BLs by year, country, etc. with reviews and other commentary. Looks like they just recently redesigned the site too: https://blwatcher.com/
https://mydramalist.com/list/3rWQjk74
To watch, just google the name of the show plus "eng sub" if you need them like I do. Nearly all of these are available on several free sites.
Your and my BL standards differ greatly.
Juvenile plotting and dialogue
Horribly amateur aspects like fight scene choreo so bad it was embarrassing, and that stupid bus stop cover that fell down as if made of cardboard, which I'm sure it was.
Nanon has no sex appeal. I felt nothing between him and Ohm, and I felt Ohm did all the work to make whatever sliver of chemistry appeared from time to time.
The idea of Nanon topping anything, including a pillow or a teddy bear, is absurd. He was good as that nerd in those two related BLs back when. Whoever decided he was a romantic leading man was on drugs.
Lots of lame scenes such as when the curtain fell to expose the Nanon/Ohm backstage smooch. So predictable and again, juvenile.
The supposed feud between the parents was acted by middle school-level actors, and the feud itself was never made clear as to what it was all about. They hated each other, and far out of proportion to whatever vague reasons they had for doing so.
I could go on indefinitely.
Overall, the show feels like a cheap, community theatre production featuring middle school actors delivering plot/dialogue written by their peers. It was made for the fluff-lovers of MDL, who are terrified of and offended by the existence of SEX (guys that age would be doing it two/three times a day), and prefer rainbows, unicorns and cotton candy clouds to anything approaching the reality of what a gay relationship between guys their age would be like.
To me, the entire thing is insulting to my intelligence, both mental and emotional. I'm not a person who thinks BLs have some built-in excuse to be amateurish and childish because they're a BL. I see a lot of that in comments on MDL: "What do you expect? It's a BL." What I expect is a production as well-made in every way as possible.
BLs that far exceed Bad Buddy but are rated far lower:
Blueming
IPYTM
ITSAY
History 2: Crossing the Line
History 3: MODC
Utsukushii Kare
His: What Is Love?
Like Love
Old Fashion Cupcake
We Best Love: #1 for You (the sequel was horrible)
Love Sick
Semantic Error
Etc.
If you're interested, here's my Top 30 BLs list: https://mydramalist.com/list/3rWQjk74