Hikari no Naka

It just says late night, but doesn't specify any time. Official account says it will be after the finale.

I'm online, yes I can see it fine. A bit of lagging bit overall OK!

Lol, me too! Especially if it is a black turtleneck, and I noticed Machida seems to wear black turtleneck a lot ^^

It's not even 30 mins, it's 24 mins minus the OP and ED. I blame myself for falling in love with such short late-night drama, if only it's like Chinese drama with 40+ eps... (ok, maybe not).

I voted already! I voted for Sato Ryo (Fujisaki's actress) for the Best Supporting Actress :)

What is turtleneck alert? ;p

I can't make any assumption here, but at least from the news and stats that I came across, they have done extremely well beyond the initial expectation. Remember that this is initially a small late-night drama that is only broadcast around Tokyo areas (TV Tokyo is a regional network) so the audience is very limited. But they made it trending nation and world-wide, started distributing it worldwide, sold out their merchandise, the actors IG followers increased exponentially, their photobooks became bestseller, etc. All the numbers are favorable. So we can only pray and finger crossed, they will grant us a sequel or a movie.

Yup, it's 2019. I thought I misread it but no, it's from 2019. They have their own calculation method for sure, but it has broken the previous record. They even commemorate it by giving out posters signed by the actors, which sadly only available to the subscribers T_T

- CM has recorded the highest no of viewers in Tsutaya Premium/Tsutaya TV among all works distributed after Jan 1, 2019.
- CM is ranked no 1 for 4 consecutive weeks in the Drama Satisfaction ranking by Oricon
- Akaso's IG followers reached 400K today! It's almost doubled in number in just 2 months, thanks to CM.

Woahh, Signal The Movie!! Looking forward to it!

It looks like it...

We will get through this together my friend..

Me neither.. ;_;

Yes, he looks so handsome but sad too. It must be the final scene with Adachi.. aahhh, why they have to torture us like this??

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJITrymBgCh/?igshid=1as23euu14ebf
Machida just posted an IG pic!! Is that Kurosawa in the final scene?? Oh my!!

Yeah. Sometimes I feel maybe it's better if I found out about this drama later, so I won't feel so melancholy. But then I'd have missed all the fun, joys and pains all these times together with you guys.

https://twitter.com/tx_cherimaho/status/1341581446771658753?s=19
Tsuge and Minato's finishing scene pics (Ep 8 and Ep 6). Now only our two boys left.. I feel that the official account is slowly saying goodbye.. *sob*

Why the rating here is very low? I love the manga, even shipped the paperback from Japan and hopeful for this live-action drama.
Btw, the Blu-ray/DVD has been announced to be released 03/03 next year. Not sure if it will be worth buying?
https://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/16592354/

For a guy, he is very delicate and takes good care of himself. So when Kurosawa said Adachi smells good, he really meant it ;p

I totally agree with you, I don't find her interview content offensive or homophobic at all. In fact, she even clearly expresses that she wishes a time will come where no one bothers to label a drama as "BL drama" since same-sex relationships would already be accepted as normal as hetero ones. If that offends LGBT people, I honestly don't know what will satisfy them.
As a person living in Asia, I totally understand her point of view. Furthermore, Japan is a very traditional conservative country and their view of LGBT may not be as open as in Western. Thus, I find her careful efforts to make the story more readily acceptable to wider audience is very respectful.

Edit: Anyway, I'll stop here. People may have different ideas, so it's totally fine. But I'm very annoyed with some commenters in Twitter, even calling the screenwriter "cocky and arrogant" and calling this work "shit". Can people be more polite to someone they don't even know??