#why didn't I tell you a million times

[idleminds]

[moonlightsdream]

Love is an illusion. Some people might say. We may have thought so once too… But we were different.

HYAKUMAN KAI IEBA YOKATTA 100万回 言えばよかった (2023) ep.01 | dir. yamamuro daisuke, kaneko fuminori

[twaddlingtwaddler]

he sure is😏

[loopingpyre]

Oh that's a really good translation for kids arguing over the correct mnemonic they're trying to learn. The translator switched out the original math question (involving multiplication tables for the number 6), and subbed them out for a different one to make it easier to keep the pun, given that another character informs them 'it doesn't matter which it is, as long as it's easy for you to remember'

[bookwatching]

Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times? S01E01

The cat that lived million times, Yoko Sano

[tintakaca]

I love you. I love you more than anything in this world. It's not logical. I don't know what it is, but I love you the most.

You're kind, and you're passionate about your work. You're also fun to talk to. There's a lot I've come to love about you. But those things, how do I say it. It's like hiding behind an excuse.

I don't love you because of those reasons. It's not logical. I just love you.

When you're here, I can't keep my eyes off of you. When you laugh, it makes me so happy that I laugh too. When you said, my heart breaks as well.

I'll say it again and again. I love you. I don't want anyone else. A world without you, wouldn't have any meaning.

I'm telling you because I can. I don't need an answer. I'm in love with you. I don't need a reason.

(You Soma)

[jasonbehrs]

‘why didn’t i say it a million times’ impressions

writing this after finishing the whole series, so i refer to things out of order. spoilers under the cut.

these are not all of my thoughts, just the most overarching ones. if you’re watching and want to dump your play by play reactions on someone who will get it, definitely hit me up! i have plenty of both criticism and appreciation for the show :)

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i started watching for sato takeru (sttkr) and sttkr only. i am so glad netflix doesn’t allow screenshots anymore or else my phone’s memory would be in huge trouble lol he portrayed naoki so CUTELY!

matsuyama kenichi (matsunichi) is another huge fave of mine, and i was wondering why he accepted a non-lead role for this drama. between the two of them (sttkr and matsunichi), he is definitely the better choice for the role considering the possession power. i love sttkr and think he’s talented, but i don’t think he’s better than matsunichi for pulling that off.

that being said, the show runners completely /wasted/ him. he wasn’t possessed nearly often enough to show off his acting acumen, and the detective stuff was very rote and not quite action heavy either. i appreciate what he brought, but i feel bad for him.

that being said (x2), i loved every scene where he and sttkr were partnered. matsunichi moves his face so much, and sttkr seems to forget he has a face to move. the visual dichotomy is so deeply pleasing to me. i need them to act together again, and in something better! (also, i cannot BELIEVE naoki did not hug uozumi in the last episode! where is the gratitude he spoke so much about? lol)

this is my first time watching inoue mao act, and i was not impressed. she is suuuper cute, but i don’t think she had a lot of screen presence. is it the character, or is it her?

speaking of her character, no one can convince me yui is the main character. she may be the female lead and inoue mao may be at the top of the call sheet, but this is a story /about/ naoki. we meet his family, we understand his regrets, we watch the lengths he’s willing to go to and not go to where it concerns the one he loves. yui’s idealism is still storytelling, but the realism in naoki doesn’t just reveal more about his personality, it drives 50% of the emotional plot. (it is worth saying that the other 50% comes from uozumi’s reactions to naoki’s decisions. doesn’t leave a whole lot for yui!!!)

i’ve seen some reviews so far that say the script wasn’t good enough for the superstar leads, and i hard agree. no one said it yet, but i hope no one blames the ensemble cast for it. i loooved all of the secondary characters. song hayoung is my ultimate favourite, the elder uozumi is my second. 🤍🤍🤍 (i love when there’s korean language in my jdramas lol)

i get that the murder mystery plot is necessary with a premise like ‘main character is a ghost but doesn’t know how he died’, but wow i was not invested at all. i could tell eisuke was involved from that very first shot of the grape jellies. i also think his motivation for murder seemed weak? most people break friendships over a misunderstanding like that, they don’t /kill/ the other party omg. the romantic aspect of the show and everyone’s interpersonal relationships were far more compelling. i WOULD watch 50 minutes of unwitting polyamorous negotiations between the dead naoki, the smitten uozumi, and the oblivious yui.

i can’t enjoy episode 10 for what it is. i understand it’s an epilogue/SP of sorts, but the fact that they saved The Reason The Show Is Named What It Is for the final conversation instead of the climax conversation in episode 9 really devalues the watching experience. i disliked 9 while watching, and i disliked it even more once i understood the function of episode 10. honestly, most of 10  could have been a montage, and i’d have derived the same level of satisfaction

the last 40 seconds though, excellent.  when you know he's gone and you're making peace with it at the same time yui is.............................. and then the whistle hits? i gasped. i wished there were no dialogue after that, but it was a good enough feeling that i rated it a 9/10 on mydramalist instead of the 8 i was gonna give it originally lol. ENDINGS MATTER!

speaking of which, i’ve noticed that jdramas lately are trending towards less bitter, more sweet endings. more definitive endings too. a lot of what drew me to jdramas was emotional heaviness, bittersweet quality, and open endings which kdramas and cdramas just weren’t providing me. i suspect that this is an appeal to global audiences, but i hope this is just temporary. i love payoff as much as the next person, but i also love thinking about the story long after it’s over. i’m getting less of that now, and i miss it

if you read to the end, thank you for your time! i hope you have a lovely day :)

[lilithgypsy]

Hi there,

Even though this week was filled with strange moments worth commenting here, I ended up not making any post until now. I guess I’m mostly using this old spot for my drawings, anyway 😊

Also, since I’m watching ごめんね青春 on Netflix (Saving my Stupid Youth in English), episodes are the usual 40-45 mins, which added to two episodes of 幽遊白書 (Netflix uses the English title Ghost Files, but I’ve always referred to it as Yu Yu Hakusho, so…) over dinner and the weird laughable moments I went through, I barely even had time to draw this week.

But fear not, I still have stuff to share, so here they are. I personally enjoy these, so…

Even though I myself admit there’s something off about Takeru’s forehead on the second, I love he whole eye-lips set. I honestly love how the red eyeshadow and lipstick bring out his sharp features, so I admit I kinda exaggerated those two when coloring…

And now, to my personal favorite for this week (which is again no longer my favorite 😄)

Eeeermmm… Sorry, no words are coming out… Gomen ne 😅

Well, most probably, this is see you next week 😊

またねー

[flicksnfilms]

Why Didn't I Tell You A Million Times?: Limited Season (2023)

Plot premise:  Hyakuman Kai Ieba Yokatta Soma Yui and Torino Naoki were childhood friends, but they met again as adults. Just as he decides to propose to Yui, Naoki suddenly disappears from Yui's sight after being embroiled in a mysterious incident. Naoki continues to wander in this world as a spirit without knowing that he has died. Naoki asks Uozumi Yuzuru, a detective who is the only one able to see Naoki, to convey his feelings to Yui, but Naoki ends up breaking up without properly saying "thank you, goodbye, and I love you" to the person he loves the most.

Network: TBS Episodes (and episode length): 10 (45 mins) Creator: Adachi Naoko Cast: Inoue Mao, Satoh Takeru, Matsuyama Kenichi, Shim Eun Kyung, Itakura Toshiyuki, Karina, Arakawa Yoshiyoshi IMDB | RottenTomatoes

± This is a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Romance, love, murder myster, crime suspense. It got recommended to my on Netflix (probably because of Takeru Satoh) and very easily within the first episode had me hooked. What an interesting story and such captivating characters and relationships. I love it.

[deanpinterester]

i was going to make a post telling yall to stop calling godzilla minus one a low-budget film (because it isn't) but then i remembered disney regularly drops 12 million for ONE EPISODE of their shows without nearly the same cultural impact so. yeah godzilla is low-budget as far as i'm concerned idc

[idleminds]

[moonlightsdream]

HYAKUMAN KAI IEBA YOKATTA 100万回 言えばよかった (2023) ep.02 | dir. yamamuro daisuke, kaneko fuminori

[ladyelainehilfur]

Goodnight to everyone but the people who profit off uncompensated, voluntary fan labor, not mentioning the CEO of Fandom by name or anything

[rustystars]

s1 of true detective has its own share of misogyny but at the very least, there’s a thread throughout it that not treating the women in your life with respect leads to those women not wanting to be around you. marty consistently views women & girls as either in need of protection or in want of sex rather than as complex people, & the story punishes him for this. maggie leaves him & his daughters barely talk to him & his girlfriends are few & far between. & this doesn’t make him a bad person! he’s the hero of the story & he cares incredibly deeply about them, but until he sees them as people, it’s hard for them to want to be around him. it’s a baseline understanding that misogyny, both systematically & on personal levels, leads to women being miserable.

compare that with s2, which somewhat builds itself around conversations of sexual agency & exploitation, but cannot define a single woman outside of her relationship to men. women are abused by men & must be saved by them; when women help themselves they do so ineffectively; they scream & cry & fuck & even then men know how to do it better. even ani, the main character & the Strong Badass Woman detective, is punished for having sex. she cannot protect herself or process her own sexual trauma (only men can help her do that), & she cannot make good decisions in terms of partners (& it's only fair that men degrade & shame her in response.) the only way she, & any other woman in s2, can be happy is through marriage or motherhood. she expresses nowhere in the show that she wants to be a mother, but the viewer is meant to accept her ending as happy, because she has a baby, so she MUST be. the only women who matter, or who can find any sort of contentment, are the mothers of sons. every child in s2 is a boy because women exist only to raise or fuck them, & have no experience of girlhood at all. you can be happy only if you find a good man, & if you can't, only if you commit yourself to being a good mother to your sons. women can only be happy with men to guide them. & also the mystery is boring to watch because fuck you

[tintakaca]

I've lived my whole life so that I could be with you, I thought.

As long as you continue to smile and be happy, I can say that my life has meaning. I really like the way you smile. So keep smiling.

I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry.

Thank you. Goodbye. I love you.

(Naoki Torino)

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Parallels: The fact that in their series, Buffy, Angel, and Faith are always having barbecues with their teams (usually at the end of the seasons).

And then in Buffy season 12, where Buffy, Angel, and Faith are all working together again and are all living together in the same city once more by the end of it, they all have a barbecue together: