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paralleling byler to a canon couple but specifically a scene that ends in that canon couple making out is crazy work by shawn levy

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He sure can't lie...

SO, HE CHOOSE TO RUN AWAY

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The amnesia doesn’t even make sense. Shin knew Minato as a child. He’s been in love with Minato for practically his whole life. So either he has forgotten at least a decade of memories and is essentially a child now OR he has only forgotten Minato. Literally just removed one person from his memory which is not how amnesia works. And for a show that’s as realistic as this is, it doesn’t work as a plot.

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Minato’s Laundromat… it feels like a fever dream… why did they decide on this plot point?? i was honestly so shocked bc it felt like a joke

I don’t know why they decided to do this but I gotta be honest, anon, I hate it. 😭

For real though, if I may be overly earnest for a moment. I’m unhappy about this turn in the story for a few reasons:

Minato’s Laundromat has always been firmly grounded in mundane reality. The sudden amnesia trope feels absurdly out of place here and immediately broke the rules of its storytelling universe as I have come to understand them across two seasons.

The reason I was excited about this season is because it is going beyond the season 1 question of whether they would get together, and instead interrogating how these two would stay together. We have spent nine weeks in this second season watching them slowly come to understand each other better and find a way to meet each other’s needs, resulting in Minato finally making the small but meaningful gestures Shin has been begging for. That this trope is being deployed as a device to immediately reset that hard earned relationship development we’ve spent weeks building to is especially grating.

Hand in hand with that, Minato has been on a long, frustrating, often hard to watch journey to overcome his internalized homophobia and become a decent partner for Shin who can communicate his emotions and reciprocate his affections. He was getting there, and in this episode he finally seems to have had some kind of breakthrough, and now it feels like the narrative is punishing him for that. It sends a very strange message, and even as I recognize they may use the amnesia to push him even further into confidently declaring his devotion to Shin, I don’t want an artificial drama event used as a cheap device to accelerate his growth. I want to finish the painstaking journey we’ve been on with him this entire time.

The decision to immediately undercut any catharsis or satisfaction the audience might have gotten from Minato finally expressing his feelings properly is just plain mean, both to the characters and the audience. As @bengiyo has said, this season has been all tension and no release, and the moment they finally gave us a small bit of release, they immediately yanked it back and ratcheted up the tension tenfold. It doesn’t feel fun or satisfying as a viewer.

So yeah, I did not like it! I will be tuning in next week to see where they take this twist in the story and whether it feels worthwhile in the end, but for now? I’m one unhappy blogger.

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peak shin moment

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asuka: i know i have problems right now but wtf is up with you two

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Shu: Shintaro, I’m dying!

Shintaro: It’s just a crush

Shu: My heart’s being crushed?!

Shintaro: It’s love, you idiot

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Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (Season 2, Episode 6)

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“Both your appearance and personality, everything about you is cute. It’s too dangerous for the average person.”

Shin’s delusions about Minato’s broad appeal continues to be one of my favorite things about this show. Child, ain’t nobody fighting you for that disaster of a man.

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you and me on my mind. everywhere, baby, say you're mine. it feels cool with you.

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Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (Season 2, Episode 4)

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normally i hatehatehate! a jealousy/misunderstandings plotline but if it give shuu an epiphany re: his feelings for asuka/how important asuka is to him then i'll gladly accept this one tbh... man was clearly hurt from the look on his face even if he doesn't know why and seeing as in the next episode preview that man is going through a crisis i think he's going to have some oh moments and i need to see them. (there could be potential here for good shuu & shin interactions too 👀)

also asuka and that girl are 0% dating watch this space cause i just know next week it's gonna be a "thanks for pretending to date me so my parents would get off my back" situation or whatever

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Classmates: I can’t wait to be out of the house and start that dorm life. Shintaro: I can’t wait to be out of the house and start that domestic life.

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Sintaro: I’m going to live with you.

Minato: But…Your family! What would your parents think?

Sintaro: Don’t worry. I got a permission slip.

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Minato Shouji Coin Laundry 2 🧺 Episode One

Minato "Hearteyes" Akira

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shuu and asuka are all types of complicated in that preview. i did notice though that asuka keeps having to reaffirm to himself that him and shuu are dating, he says it for a second time in the preview. which makes my heart hurt for him, especially since in response to shin asking that question shuu said “something like that”. i wasn’t expecting that little interaction between them though and i ended up really liking it, i really hope we see more of those two as i can see shin’s outspoken approach to love being a real help to shuu. don’t even wanna get into that girl though i don’t even have a GUESS as what could be going on lmfao

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the gentleman doth protest too much, methinks...

MINATO'S LAUNDROMAT 2 | EP. 2

bonus: boy, you are five kinds of gone