Jiang Junior

ugh the actresses are so cute for once,, I don't mind the quirky sound effects and editing, but why is the plot so boring 😭😭😭 they're not even really flirting or showing heart-fluttering interactions smh

You realise these people aren't real right? The writer chose to randomly make her "brainless"

if the ladies don't lez out on the side istg

It's so interesting to me that Jiwon and Yeeun (the more chatty, bright and cheerful participants) are the ones that aren't pursued. Why is it that the women who humanise themselves and put their interlocutors at ease the least attractive? Why do these men experience writhing in awkward silence as romantic over friendly and loving connection?
It takes maturity to be calm and collected, it takes maturity to be unapologetically yourself... However it also takes maturity to take on the spotlight to resolve awkward and tense silence, it takes maturity to put on a cheerful face, not to please, but create a more comfortable atmosphere for yourself.

Mujin and Bonhee was the strongest ship so the catfish had to come in and disrupt it, probably that he wasn't even especially interested in her over others, it's just scripted to stir the pot.

This is all just so predictable. All the guys are into Bonhee meaning she's probably the oldest (in her early 40s) to cause the most drama later on. Why is it always like this on korean dating shows, that there's somehow a 'right answer'? One popular member everyone chases after and that member for some reason is never invested enough to enthusiatically walk out of there with anyone anyways.

Now that Bonhee knows Mujin is a late 1990s baby, she'll feel all lost and confused wasting her short amount of time because even though the entire basis of this show is to have noona/dongsaeng age gap, the producers purposely cast people with age gaps that are slightly too extreme, because you can't just have a gimmick be cute, it needs to breed conflict. Even though all these people very explicitly and willingly signed up for age gaps, it seems like none of them are actually up for it.

These men claim to wish for an older woman, but then take issue with them being further along in their careers and even have the audacity to fear these women make more money than them and dethrone them from their desired "family patriarch" position (while south korea gender pay gap keeps rising, at a now staggering 30%).

I'm tired!! 4 episodes and I have not heard a single "noona" uttered by these people!

yes!

how do you have a tom host but no tom contestants 😭😭😭

blejie?

what's the shipname for the lovepair? MablePangjie?

Among most youth culture, margnalised groups or other circumstances that might have people living on the outskirts of society become reliant on solidarity. Any group with limited means, learn to live on limited consumption. That is how humans, as social animals, survive. In the world of sub-culture, a new wave of punk has emerged, now concerned with for example the climate crisis and economic instability as the wealth gap widens in many countries. What you consider punk is punk, as it is one of its derivatives, one of the derivatives that was able to intergrate modern activism. However more than one branch grew from punk, and none of them grew perfectly straight. Visual kei as it grew from taking inspiration from Glam Rock to Emo did not retain those same political values. However it is a branch nonetheless.

I think I understand what you mean and I admire your spirit, I felt the same way as a teen. However I do feel like I should mention that what you cite as punk views are quite revisionist. Gatekeep what we call punk today if you like, but the history of punk is not as ideologically pure as tiktok punks like to make it out to be. Yes anti-establishment is a long standing punk tradition and much of punk culture thrived amongst economically disadvantaged classes, thus the way many high fashion brands made their affiliations to punk was quite inauthentic. However punk, as most sub-cultures at the time, were relatively superficial, a cultural phenomenon people engaged with rather than wrote and memorised manifestos for. Some people who were a part of the punk scene in the 1970s were also just aimlessly violent and macho, as any group of boys in the 1970s might've been. Certains bands made it big, certain styles influenced others, some artists made a lot of money through what is canonically referred to as punk and went on to collaborate with huge brands. The j-punk styles we see here do derive from that original subculture, it has its place under the broader umbrella of an academic analysis of punk fashion, therefore it is not unreasonable for it to be labelled as such by fashion students. Your assessment is correct in that there is more to punk than metal studs and dark clothing, however for you to say metal studs and dark clothing exist in a vacuum if they are not accompanied by a set of hyper specific values that were only reiterated as such 40 years after the fact... well you have much left to see

what is it about their styles that seem out of place to you?

Look into j-punk/goth-punk(ゴスパンク)/visual kei, what they refer to with the term punk may not be what you're used to but as far as j-punk/what japanese people refer to as punk goes, it's not too far off for a cheap imitation (think brands like SiXH, h.NAOTO, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons Black, Putumayo, old Westwood and McQueen). This is 'what is left' of punk today, it's not exactly about the culture, Mods and Rockers are no longer beating each other to a pulp in the streets over what bands they should or shouldn't listen to, to a fashion student like Sumiura it's about the designers that were worshipped during the noughties.

Bad acting/chemistry but personally, I don't dislike the student shortfilm project/script written in one sitting format.

I find it very crude the way Armin keeps mentioning the future like a fortuneteller without so much of an explanation. He does so completely without tact or planning, and it doesn't serve him, or anyone for that matter. He's lucky it doesn't completely put people off, in reality he'd be labelled as delusional. It also hides his personality, he may already know the people he's meeting but they don't know him, how can they get to know him when he acts like this?

Ngl Shoma the ML is kind of mid, and irl I would say Ogata Kotori deserves better, but the story is very sweet and pleasant to watch nonetheless. I am completely captured by Yanai Yumena's beauty, I hope she gets more main romance roles in the future, I will be watching Yuru Camp for sure!

lovely, very japanese in cadence and not particuliarly deep, but the chemistry and aesthetics are there

The prolonged nudity/nudity tags are kinda unnecessary on this. You just see a guy step out of the shower and sleep shirtless once.

They should have titled this The Bodhisattva and his Dog, the tale made for a beautiful parallel and I kind like that it ended the way it did. Just the right amount of fucked up where nothing is technically violent but it still hurts good. People who don't have siblings can have a strange perceptions of how sibling relationships work, so when it comes to China I have to admit, I'm a bit forgiving. The danger of adaptations like these is that it can excuse the responsibility of the caregiver: the younger brother is the one forcing himself onto his caregiver, but they try to avoid this by asking why did the bodhisattva pretend to be unconscious, why was he so indulgent, why did he kiss him back?

thank youu!