#japanese drama

[bellepark]

25 JI, AKASAKA DE (2024) | 1.01

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Call each other by our first names.

[enterthedisneyverse]

There are a lot of people who are watching Shōgun who describe it as unlike anything they’ve seen. To me, the beauty of the series can be summed up by these two thoughts.

Despite the fact that Yabushige was a selfish backstabber who only thought of himself and absolutely deserved his ending… I was still sad because he was such a relatable character.

Despite the fact that Toranaga achieved everything he did and avoided as much bloodshed as possible, and brought about the Edo period, one of the longest periods of peace and stability in Japan… at the end I still was like “Is he really the good guy? Or just the winner and the lesser of two evils?”

One of my favourite things in Japanese dramas (and culture overall) is the power in the absence or something. I didn’t need to see the battle of Sekigahara to know its importance. I didn’t need to see over the top tears to feel their grief. I didn’t need to see dramatics to get the point. I mean, the best part of ep 10 was Toronaga asking Blackthorne “Are you done? We have work to do” after Blackthorne nearly kills himself. I laughed so hard at that line.

I think the idea of the power of something’s absence is another thing that many western viewers won’t be used to, which is what is sticking with them.

[heretherebedork]

We love a boy who can communicate and does because his mom reminded him that lying, especially to himself, is bad. And so he talks. And he explains. And he is kind and he is gentle and he is scared but he is honest.

This boy is about to experience a very big mindshift. And entire flip of his mindset.

Kazuhito's world is so much warmer and brighter than Ryo's, so yellow and orange to his cold blues. I love them deeply and this boy is in love.

I love this angel and this consent king who literally won't even kiss him when he isn't sure he means it. Absolutely perfect. We love a man who wants his kisses to be real and thought out and not just a momentary thing to be regretted. Love it here, @absolutebl, Japan jumping into the consent game again with both feet.

I love him so much. I love them so much. Because Ryo's world is much brighter when we're closer in on the two of them, though not as bright as Kazuhito's world. What a perfect confession between them two of them.

I adore a confession like this and I love them both, they're so tiny and so soft and so sweet. Beloved boys!

The cold walls and the warm windows, the wartmth they find inside and together versus the cold of their uncertainties that mostly come from outside but also from deep-seated insecurities that they can't so easily escape.

(Ryo still looks at Kazuhito and sees perfection and looks at himself and sees nothing of the sort, looks at him and doesn't know what to do because how can he help the perfect person who likes him even though he isn't worthy of being liked.)

[gabrielokun]

[jdramasource]

Ishihara Satomi as Misumi Mikoto UNNATURAL アンナチュラル (2018)

[25shadesoffebruary]

[rayandgay]

I'm a better person because of you.

[bellepark]

KOI WO SURU NIDOME GA JOTO (2024) | 1.04

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

You don't have to be perfect in front of me.

[liyazaki]

don't just go out on your own.

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN | EP. 7

[heretherebedork]

You don't have to be perfect. Was Ryo the first person to ever just say that to Kazuhito? Was that the moment he fell in love? Was that the moment he realized that it truly was okay not to be perfect or has he never fully accepted that because everyone expected perfection from him? How much comfort did he take from that familiar heartbreat a decade later, from that reminder that perfection isn't the only way he has to be?

[gabrielokun]

[jdramasource]

HAMABE MINAMI as JABAMI YUMEKO KAKEGURUI (2018) dir. Hanabusa Tsutomu

[25shadesoffebruary]

Do you always come here to drink?