#Minato Shoji Koinrandori

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some lovely 2022 BL domesticity 

domestic BLiss 

Papa & Daddy 2, Minato’s Laundromat, First Love Again, Choco Milk Shake, Vice Versa, Check Out, Coffee Melody, Ai Long Nhai, 2 Moons 3. 

Bonus from Forgotten Plumbing: 

AKA Unforgotten Night 

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From: Minato Shoji Koinrandori

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tea love why do i feel like you've read all the bl manga/manhwa out there akgssjksks every time an adaptation is announced you've already read the original

i would also feel v iffy about coin laundry if i only read the summary but one actor is 27 and the other is 23 and they're playing a middle-aged man and a highschooler so i'm more confused than anything else. what were their ages in the manga? do you think they're changing the plot a bit to make it less questionable?

btw do you maybe have some bl/gl manhwa recs?👀 i feel like i've read quite a few but you probably know a lot more. for reference some of my favs are soulmate, their story, pond snail robber. and i'm currently reading straight girl trap and honyak/two souls and both have pleasantly surprised me like the first one has a v questionable premise and i was expecting a fucked up power dynamic in the second but no both are really nice and enjoyable and almost unproblematic (esp comparing to some other stuff i've read😬) oh! but i don't read b&w mangas bc for some reason it's hard for me to process it :(

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sofia, my love! sorry it took me so long to respond, i had a busy day yesterday, but i'm back! this is gonna be longggg, so i put it under a cut!!

absjsjk, i do read a lot of queer comics, but lemme let you in on my secret. when i first started to get into manga/manhwa/manhua, i just started reading what sounded interesting or was well reviewed, but i kept coming across really bad ones that just grossed me out. then i think it was when cherry blossoms after winter premiered that i was wayyyy too impatient to wait for the next ep, so when i saw on mdl that ppl really liked the manhwa, i decided to read it and ended up binging the whole thing that night. i ended up noticing that unlike thai shows that are based on sometimes v shitty novels, j-bls and k-bls are usually adaptations of pretty good manga/manhwa. so from then on, i kept my ear to the ground and the moment an adaptation of a manga/manhwa got announced, i'd read it. and lemme tell you, this has worked much better than looking for things to read on my own. much less icky stuff.

so yeah, blupdate2020 announced back in, like, may that minato shoji koinrandori was gonna get a live action adaptation and i immediately read the manga. it is b&w, still ongoing, and honestly i don't recommend it unless you have nothing else to read, it's probably the worst one of the adapted mangas i've read, but it's also not bad. shin is 17 at the start of the manga and they never specify akira's exact age as far as i can remember, but if i do the math he's 27-28, so the ages are def super iffy. luckily akira's not predatory, in fact it could be argued that shin's the predatory one with the way he pursues him. but if you put the weird teenage thoughts of sex aside, their friendship is quite cute and sweet. all of the manga adaptations that i've seen so far have been very faithful to the original source, with just a few changes here and there (usually elimination of sexual language/scenes), so i doubt minato's laundromat will be too different from the manga, but would probably be much more wholesome, which def helps with the iffiness. i watched the first ep and they aged up shin to be a senior rather than a junior, so that helps? a bit? but minus points bc akira objectifies shin upon meeting him more than he did in the manga. ngl, it was weird. besides that, it's exactly the same but more wholesome. shin is much smilier and just less..... weird, absjsj. so yeah, i think it'll be a cute watch with an iffy premise that i trust them to handle well.

as for recs, i def have plenty, most of which are shows you've probably seen. i've only ever read b&w manga, so all these recs are manhwa/manhua.

it's no secret that i'm a huuuuge fan of who can define popularity?, the source material of blueming. i hiiiiighly recommend it, especially if you enjoyed blueming. it's actually quite different from the adaptation, but both have their pros and cons that make it impossible for me to say which is better. da un's whole deal is expanded upon much more, the sapphics get more development, and do ba woo gets a whole storyline and love interest. i also highly recommend cherry blossoms after winter. i'd say the drama is better, but the manhwa is more in depth and practically the same, so it's a good read! it is explicit though and like always the sex scenes are heteronormative and sometimes kinda uncomfy, but if you skip them like i do, it doesn't ruin it. the same goes for love tractor, which is getting an adaptation supposedly later this year. also a little iffy with ages, but v sweet and has a fun dynamic of v buff and manly country boy with a heart of gold and a damaged city boy musician. outside of adapted source material, there's a manhua i enjoyed called 30 sui nanzi wuyu or the secret tales of a 30 year old gay bachelor. honestly, i don't remember much about this one besides the main character and his brother being rich ceo kinda guys, but i know i enjoyed it. and i'm currently reading the ongoing translation of yeouleul guhaejwo or fall for me!, which is so far v unproblematic and is fun bc it's fantasy! the main character is possessed by a gumiho and gets close to the only guy not attracted to him in an effort to get rid of it.

for gl stuff, i do have to look on my own, but so far i haven't found any bad ones, so that's good! my absolute favorite is a manhua called jintian de ta yeshi ruci keai or my darling is the cutest. it breaks down a bunch of stereotypes and tropes, tackles some hard issues like child abuse, has a fantastic ensemble of queer characters, and is just v v sweet. it's ongoing at 122 chapters. the rest of the gl comics i’ve read so far are actually just webcomics and not manga/manhwa/manhua, but they’re still v good! kiss it goodbye is a very cute slice of life set in japan (but actually in english and made by an italian artist) that is complete and ends very well. i’m only five chapters in, but i’m really enjoying the girlfriend project, which is a fake dating story! and the ongoing mermaid x witch comic the sweetness of salt is beautiful and very sweet. i keep making the mistake of reading comics that end up being ongoing and then forgetting about them while i wait for updates, so idk much about these, but i’m also reading rainbow!, she’s a keeper, and waiting for the release of zhui lan or falling blue.

hope this helps and that you enjoy reading!! thank you for the ask 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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Shin, why you gotta call me out like that? 

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A rainbow of pretty distance shots from 2022 BL 

Not Me, La Cuisine, Minato’s Laundromat, My Ride, Cutie Pie, Love Area 2, Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai, Meow Ears Up.

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That lens flare moment in BL.

Pictured: The Promise, Minato’s Laundromat, Cutie Pie, Oh My Boarding House, Blueming, My Love Mix Up, Given, Old Fashion Cupcake, My Ride, Semantic Error. 

Big Dragon 

Not Me

He’s Coming to Me

Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai

Plus & Minus 

About Youth

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Hey there! I get most of my bl recs from this blog, and I was reading through your Minato's Laundromat watch along post. I was going to watch it but the age gap really messes me up? In Old Fashion Cupcake they have a large age gap but they're still both adults. I suppose it's because of my own past, but a 17 year old with a 27 year old makes me uncomfortable. Would you be okay with the same age gap if it was irl, or only in fiction? Please take no offence to this question, btw, I'm trying to figure out if I should watch it or not.

Age Gap & BL - Taboo, Morality, Teenagers & Laundromats 

Ooo, age gap. Well this might just be another JBL whips ABL into a verbal frenzy situation. You ready? 

Age gap is one of those tropes that edges into taboo, so like the stepbrothers trope, you may have internalized trauma or cultural conditioning around it. 

You may never be able to watch these kinds of BLs no matter what I say or what Japan does about it. And that’s fine! Please know your own limits. 

Some of us have baggage around childhood, and allowing children to be children, and adults interfacing with children, and age of consent, and sexual awakening and maturity. 

But it means to talk about the romantic and erotic nature of an age gap romance, we gotta talk about culture for a moment.

When does a child become an adult? 

Certain cultures have a more fixed age of consent than others. Japan’s, as I talk about in my Coin watch along post, is more flexible than the USA, for example. 

Anthropologically speaking, this is something to examine about yourself. What constitutes “growing up” to you? 

Is it a fixed line you cross (like a birthday) - what we would call ascribed status, or is is a thing you earn = achieved status? Is it wisdom or education? 

In some places, it’s the moment a biological woman gets her period or after a biological man’s voice breaks. 

In others, it’s the moment she puts on a head scarf or lengthens her skirt. 

It’s the moment he kills his first big game or weaves feathers into his hair. 

In some places, it centers around controlling procreation and the feminine. 

In others, it is about protection and the fear of youth being exploited. 

In others, it’s about a transition from one role in the group to another new role in society. 

Everywhere it is about crossing a threshold. 

How big is that threshold, how wide that line? How much time does it occupy in our cultural consciousness? This is what teen’s grapple with. That liminal space between childhood and adulthood. How frustrating to have to exist there. How necessary to form cohesive identity. How do they know, how do we know, when they have crossed through and come out the other side? 

Who decides this for you? Who decides this ABOUT you? The government? The legal system? The family unit? Yourself? Your religion? A big fuck-off party? 

Why 18? Why 21? Why can 18 not fuck 17 but can fuck 21? Did you feel ready to date, to have sex, when you were 18? Or were you ready before that, after, never? Is sexuality even really an indication of adultness to you? 

Would I be okay with the same age gap if it was irl, or only in fiction?

My personal perspective:

I’ve talked about this before but I came into sexual identity and desire very early, but I didn’t really date or have sex until comparatively late, and it took me longer than that to unearth my own kinks and queerness. 

My parents were very permissive and I knew how to be safe and so I could have done anything I wanted to, probubly from 14 on, which is one of the reasons I didn’t. 

I’ve dated up to 10 years older, and over 10 years younger, but always individuals who were qualified as legal adults by any standards. 

I do think there are plenty of people too young for sex, by any definition. Certainly plenty of 18 year olds too young for it. 

I am personally squicked out by the idea of engaging in any level of intimacy with much younger lovers at this point in my life. It seems like too much work and boring and also a little gross. 

But I also believe in giving children responsibility, discipline, autonomy, freedom, and high functioning tasks. I do not agree with helicopter parenting or infantilization. I had my first job when I was 10. Outside the home. I liked it. I learned a lot. I traveled internationally alone for the first time when I was 8. This skews my perspective on what it means to be mature. 

Would I be okay with 17 + 27 IRL? 

Probubly not but it would depend on the power dynamic. If class, culture, finances, and/or gender made it clear the older person was calling all the shots while being in the position of power, I would be highly uncomfortable. I might even interfere. (If there’s a sugar daddy relationship going on I would probubly make inquiries as to the nature of the contract, and that the younger sub understood their dynamic properly. In the D/s world I do think Dominants have a responsibility to oversee other Dominants for abuse patterns.) 

In fiction, I am thinking of Alexis Hall’s For Real which is an excellent gay romance about a large age, wealth, life, experience, EVERYTHING gap where the Dom is a young college age kid and the sub is an established doctor. It’s brilliant and it tackles many of these things. I highly recommend it. 

Fiction allows for a certain amount of suspension of disbelief. Also it allows us to see into intimacy in a way we ordinarily can’t outside of our own lives.

Shin is younger but he is also VERY MUCH the aggressor. He makes all the first moves. They have not kissed, at these ages, and I do not think they will. 

I’m going to ask you a question.

How would this age dynamic make you feel if it were say: man 18 & woman 28, and he’s a freshman in college and she’s in a comfortingly genderized service job, say waitress? How about if he is a young CEO and she’s his secretary? 

Is part of the discomfort coming from the gayness? (Because in the west there is a long history of cultural association between gay & pedophile which is very insidious and his impacted the queer community quite severely, it may be acting on your subconscious.)  

Is part of the discomfort coming from the life state? High School. Is leaving high school actually a conference of maturity, or just a societal excuse we westerners use to sluff off our filial responsibility to our youth? 

Is it all about the fixed age? Is there really that a big a jump between 17 and 18 or does it just make us feel better because certain laws say 18 = adult? 

It’s worth making yourself uncomfortable with thought experiments around this dynamic to try to understand why you feel this way. After all, you gave me a thought experiment, I’m just returning the favor. 

But honestly this is part of Coin’s point. To make you think about what it means to be adult and mature. To make you uncomfortable as a watcher. 

Cupcake versus Coin

Okay the interesting thing about comparing Old Fashion Cupcake (AKA Cupcake) to Minato’s Laundromat (AKA Coin) is that they are actually quite similar. 

Younger seme by 10 years is the one doing the pursuing. 

Older uke behaves in a childish and flirtatious manner as part of his personality. 

Both semes are clearly sexually frustrated. 

Both have pined for a decade. 

Both narratives are from Japan. 

But in Cupcake the age gap almost amusing. Especially to some of us. That the characters are even worried about this kind of age gap, at their age? It’s silly. Why? 

Well, the age gap is there, but really these two are at the same life stage, so it’s not the driver of the story. Emotional maturity is. Learning how to love and appreciate yourself (and what time has beaten you into) so you can be open to affection and sensation and life. Togawa is defined by his willingness to participate in all the world has to offer - those HAMSTER cheeks, are a way of showing his unconsciousness indulgence in sensation. While Nozue is defined by his careful withdrawal, his unwillingness to participate, to take risks, and his own self-hatred and sadness because he KNOWS, he is mature enough to realize, that he did this to himself.

Neither Minato nor Shin are mature in this regard. Both characters are not self aware. Both characters lack emotional IQ. Shin is incapable of teaching Minato how to open himself back up to affection, because Shin does not have enough life experience to empathize with why Minato ran away and shut down in the first place. 

Shin is too young. He thinks he would never run. He thinks love is the answer. He thinks love is enough. 

It’s never is. 

Minato’s Laundromat is a high school student paired with a grown (if immature) man. Same character dynamics as Cupcake. Same age gap as Cupcake. But this narrative must face its age gap head on. And that’s why it’s making people uncomfortable. 

Japan is using to Coin tackle notions of maturity but not just sexual awakening and desire, but how maturity translates to emotional intelligence and ownership of self. 

Both characters are mature in certain ways. 

Shin is the eldest of a large family, he’s basically raised his siblings, he’s taught himself to cook, he’s driven in his studies, he wants to become a doctor. He knows how to be a boyfriend, or he thinks he does. He knows what he desires. He knows how to ask and he knows how to flirt. Shin knows who he is and what he wants and that is mature, but also he is performing the role of a seme as he thinks it’s supposed to be undertaken. He is acting the role of the boyfriend that he has read about in his comic books, it’s not (yet) natural to him, the way it is to Togawa. But he doens’t realize this because he’s too young. 

Minato has two failed relationships behind him and a failed career. He knows what it is to hurt. He knows things don’t work out. He knows wanting a thing is not the same as having it and holding on. He has found his way to a kind of peace, and kind of inertia. Unlike Nozue, he is genuinely happy, he’s not at all lost, but he is hiding, and he is scared. But this he knows about himself. Minato is hiding that he is gay, he is acting in a way to fit back into his home, but at heart he is an open and honest person, naturally kind and gregarious, so he too is acting, performing a role, it’s just he knows it. 

Both Cupcake and Coin are about bravery, but in the one case we have a clear model example of how to be brave, an end goal, and it is Togawa. In the other we have conflict over bravery, because it means something different when you are at different life stages. 

Shin can be as brave as humanly possible, and he is constantly putting himself out there, constantly asking and begging and pushing Minato to give in to their desires. But while that may be a model of courage, it is not safe for Minato. Minato’s bravery is in resisting. Is in not giving in. And it will eventually be in hurting Shin to drive him away. Even lying to Shin about his feelings. 

Shin cannot be trusted because he is too young. For no other reason. The age gap is the problem because of life experience. This story isn’t really about whether it’s “okay” for them to sleep together because that is just not going to happen, no matter what Shin thinks. And any perceptive watcher with know this. (Also this is not dark JBL, dark JBL would have gone there.) 

Minato may be immature but he has a fixed moral compass. This story isn’t about that or sacrificing self for desire, those kinds of discourses are left to the older BLs and noona romances, Japan has already tackled it. They’re moving on. 

Shin can only be brave, it’s all he knows to try. He cannot be patient. He cannot give up. Minato can only be a coward, it’s all he’s ever been. His only experience is in taking a risk and hurting himself, or taking a risk by betraying his own identity and hurting others. 

Minato sees only one outcome: hurt, either his pain or Shin’s. His maturity will be in realizing that the right thing to do will hurt both of them. But for now he remains in limbo, unable to lie and say “I don’t want Shin,” because he is an honest person and he does want Shin. 

But also unable to say yes because everything in him is screaming that even if it were right, this is the wrong time. Shin is, by any measure, too young. Minato’s instinct is to run, but he has already run to his hometown and laundromat for safety. And now Shin is challenging him in that space too. 

This is what makes this show so tense. We know Minato will not crumble, but the challenge is constant and it is real. And it makes us all, including Minato and Shin, feel unsafe. 

Shin is making Minato’s place of refuge unsafe. Minato has nowhere else to go. That’s why this show it titled the way it is. 

The laundromat is being used as a metaphor for Minato’s life state.

That’s why each ep always opens and closes on the laundromat. That’s why Shin in ALWAYS depicted in doorways. Between inside and out, one room and another. 

Shin is shown coming inside Minato’s spaces. 

Shin is desperate to be invited into Minato’s home. 

Minato goes outside the building to confront Shin. 

Shin waits on the threshold, fainting from heatstroke. Because... he cannot wait. 

Because Shin is a teenager, his is in that liminal time of life. He is neither child nor adult. He is himself the spirit of transition. This series is using him occupying thresholds as a metaphor for his life state. He is both AT a threshold and IS a threshold. 

Shin is in motion, trying to fit, trying to occupy Minato’s space. In and out of the doorways of Minato’s safe little life, his laundromat. Minato who is ahead of him, settled, hiding under blankets, tending to his machines, embraced by his community, home.  

Shin thinks Minato is his home. Is his destination. 

And the horror of this show is that there is a distinct possibility that Shin is right. 

Minato knows this. 

And so do we.

It’s just this is not the right time. Shin hasn’t had a journey yet. You can’t come home, if you never leave it. And you can’t appreciate it, if you never go. That’s the nature of growing up. 

Shin may have found his nest. But is it his, if he never learned to fly? 

So it is Minato we must trust not to make a mistake. Because Shin is absolutely going to. Shin has put Minato in the position of having to push him out of the nest and watch him fall. Watch him get hurt. Watch him fly away. Minato who actually wants to be the safety net, who saves children from drowning, who wants so desperately to be loved. Minato is going to have to act in a way that is not only disingenuous to his own character, but that he knows Shin will see as a betrayal. Minato is going to have to hope that Shin will go away and grow up and realize that such a betrayal was actually an act of love. 

Wether you like this show will depend on whether you trust Minato to do that. Or trust the narrative. 

So I can’t answer whether you should watch it yet, because i don’t know. I do trust it. But this is Japan, they always surprise me. 

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Getting to know your BL mutuals - 2022 Edition

tagged by @jenos-sociopath thanks hon! 

Simple, answer the questions. @ some people. Include the tag: g2ky BL Mutuals 2022

What has been the BL that took you by surprise this year?

Old Fashion Cupcake, it came out of nowhere so I had no expectations, but it still managed to be way better than I was expecting. Absolutely brilliant and one of my favorites of this year. (Full review here.) As a BL it’s not perfect (that award goes to Semantic Error) but as a show for ME it was almost exactly what I love best in the world from acting to filming. A marvelous piece of cinema. 

My Ride, a charming little pulp with a fantastic cast and script. Slow burn and really beautiful, this one defied all expectations (I don’t expect much from the Thai pulps) and remains really dear to my heart. Full Review here. 

Cherry Blossoms After Winter, Korea went very classic Japanese yaoi with this one and added super atmospheric touches and a nod to equal rights and soem very old fashioned tropes. That’s what was unexpected. Korea usually sticks to a very specific kind of BL, this was not that kind, it made it a particularly nostalgic viewing experience for me. Full review here.

I’m not mentioning some of my other favorites of this year like Minato’s Laundromat, Takara, Bad Buddy, Blueming, DNA Says Love You etc... because they didn’t surprise me, they were what I expected from those industries and talents.  

What has been the BL that you felt a disappointed with this year?

Blue of Winter AKA Judo Boys - Korea should stay away from pulps 

Love Area: Part 2 - I didn’t expect much, it still disappointed 

Love in Spring AKA Spring of Crush - I expected BL, it wasn’t 

The Tuxedo - yeah, what the ACTUAL fuck? 

Check Out - such a killer intro episode last year, such a terrible series this year

Our Days - what a shit show, why did I watch the whole thing? I’m disappointed in myself. 

Coffee Melody - my much anticipated Pavel’s next BL and it was so lackluster  

Even Sun - how to blow good chemistry on a bad script 101 

Love Mechanics - how to blow good chemistry on a bad script 201

Sky in Your Heart - OMG no, what happened? worst chemistry ever 

Senpai, This Can’t be Love! - turns out, it can’t be love

Kabe Koji - I was robbed 

Enchanté - grumble 

KinnPorsche - yeah, BITE ME 

Kissable Lips - he fucking DIED? 

A few of these I still rated well, because they were decent BLs by BL standards, it’s just I gotta reset my expectations. 

What has been your favorite BL this year?

Favorite BL couple of 2022

Aside from the leads of the 4 favorites already mentioned? 

Michan & Koichi 

Minato & Shin 

Takara & Amagi

Pat & Pran

Pluem & Kewin 

Vegas & Pete

Daisy & Intouch

San & Aei 

Rain & Payu

If you had to suggest a BL for someone what would it be?

Top 10 BLs to SUCK in new fans. 

What's your non-BL favorite for this year?

Hum, good question. 

A Business Proposal 

Love and Leashes

So who wants to go next? 

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Minato, honeychild, he is actually EVERYONE’S type. 

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Shin is the most aggressive flirt ever. Ask ask ask TAKE, ASK, temp, take some  more. Poor Minato. 

I’ve never seen a loom + offer of food all at once. 

Ah the aggression of youth. 

And I thought Togawa was thirsty. 

Sheesh. 

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Neutral tone BL moments 

Pictured above: So Much in Love, Until We Meet Again, HIStory 4, Love By Chance, 2gether, SOTUS, Dark Blue Kiss, Theory of Love, Oxygen. 

Mintao’s Laundromat 

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I just watched Cherry Blossoms After Winter and was struck by how the only high heat kiss they showed was in Haebom’s dream/fantasy.  Clearly the actors were capable and willing, but the few kisses shown after that were chaste pecks. (Unless I somehow missed an episode, I was a little confused by the time skips.)  I swear I’ve seen this same thing in at least one other BL, but I can’t for the life of me remember which one(s). Possibly Cherry Magic? Unless I’m thinking of some hetero shows?

My theory is that this happens when a blushing maiden uke can’t be shown to want sex or pursue sex, but the writers/directors still want to give the audience some high heat.  So the compromise is to show it in a dream or fantasy, but never in the characters’ real lives.

Is this a thing in BL? Are there other shows that do this? Or am I extrapolating from a data point of one?

(Blueming had its fantasy kiss, but that was doing something different, narratively.  Plus it was the seme’s fantasy, and the show had already shown an even higher heat sex scene.)

Thanks for any insights you want to offer!

I think that’s about right. 

Sexualized dream sequences are used to show the innocent uke/maiden isn’t entirely unwilling without damaging their pure wholesome character. 

Something similar is happening right now in Takara & Amagi and they are kind of also addressing it through the vehicle of sexual awakening. Amagi is the type to freak out over having an erotic dream and then takes it out on poor Takara which is... amusing in many ways. Since he is punishing Takara for his own desires and for what Takara could do (and probubly wants to do) but hasn’t actually done ANYTHING about yet. 

Minato has used a sexy dream too. Since it’s a way to show subconscious desire for a minor without pissing off the audience. 

I would argue that the pratfall kiss operates similarly. In het Cdrama’s we get the “flinch kiss.” Which I HATE SO MUCH. So show “she doesn’t really like it because OH NOES she’s so pure” but also she kinda wants it, nudge nude kiss kiss.  

I think Japan is most into the dream sequence kiss, I see it a lot in their het stuff too. Also they like a make actual sex scenes sort of dreamy and odd. See Sweat & Soap which went VERY strangely into the slapstick sphere for its sex scenes. I want to say Korea used a dream sequence in Love a & Leashes? 

I can’t think of any from Thailand off the top of my head (GMMTV sort of did dreamy stuff in Gifted but not around eroticism). It seems to be mainly Japan and Korea who do this one. Maybe Taiwan? Taiwan probubly uses it for bisexual awakening. 

Whether seme/uke dreams = an excuse to show a characters inner most desires and therefor add conflict to their growth because then they gotta cope with it in some way. In fiction it’s usually considered pretty lazy writing, since it’s a tell not show technique. I wonder if (like voice over) it has a bad rap in film for the same reason? 

Honestly, I always think of the cross dressing sexy dream from Hackers. 

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Minato's Laundromat Ep 2 is great and all, but anyone else spend the scallop scene upset about that one that was left on the grill turning rubbery? 

I mean, flirting is all well and good but don’t fucking overcook seafood people! 

ARE WE NOT GAY?

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I’ve started watching LBC and went to go check out some scenes of why r u just for comparison since I know Saint plays a way different character on there and like, wow, is it really the same actor?

Plus recently I also found out that Shin in Minato’s laundromat is apparently the student council guy in my love mix up….

I’m personally pretty bad with faces and names but tl;dr: were there any actors that you had a LOT of trouble recognizing in a different role/show? I feel like this prob would happen more often in j BLs than other countries for various reasons

Isn't he amazing? I can't even with Saint. I'm so sad we lost him (from BL leading roles).

I think I knew that but didn’t really register about Nishigaki Sho (Shin). Maybe I’ll go rewatch MLMU to see if I can spot him. If it’s a side character or a walk on, I’m not too shocked I missed it.

I am actually pretty good with faces, in the “oh I have seen that actor before” kinda way. It’s names I struggle with. (When IMDB came along, it was a godsend.) 

Were there any actors that you had a LOT of trouble recognizing in a different role/show?

Oh yeah, this fucker: 

That’s Suzuki Jin. 

And when watching My Love Mix-Up I did not register AT ALL that he was the same actor as Uenoyama Ritsuka (the lead!) in Given. It’s really rare for that to happen to me. 

MDL told me who he was because I looked him up during MLMU because I liked him so much as Aida Hayato and I was like... 

No? NO! 

NOOO!

Seriously, how can that be the same person? 

He is bonkers good. Like Saint he changes his physicality, but he ALSO changes the nuances of his facial expressions AND resting face (that’s SO HARD to do). It takes a hell of a lot to fool me like that, especially in two shows that released relatively close together in two major roles. 

If it’s just a walk on or a bit part, I forgive myself. But Suzuki Jin was the lead and then the main side bestie! Yet to this day, I’m still occasionally like... that’s THE SAME actor? He even looks taller in Given. It’s crazy making. Mad props to the boy.   

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