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Aug 19, 4:50 PM
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I had been hearing decent things about it and decided to check it out, booted up Crunchyroll and i saw that the series had a shockingly low rating

Curious, i came here and, to my surprise, the score was a bit low too (it was worse before but now it has gone up somewhat), on the Stats page there is an abnormally high amount of people giving it a 1 score

What happened? from what i understand BL anime is not huge enough to often attract review-bombings, was there some drama or something?
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Aug 19, 5:30 PM
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MyAntonioList said:
I had been hearing decent things about it and decided to check it out, booted up Crunchyroll and i saw that the series had a shockingly low rating

Curious, i came here and, to my surprise, the score was a bit low too (it was worse before but now it has gone up somewhat), on the Stats page there is an abnormally high amount of people giving it a 1 score

What happened? from what i understand BL anime is not huge enough to often attract review-bombings, was there some drama or something?

yes, homophobes were afraid of it being about gay propaganda when it was nothing of the sort. as a result, crunchyroll took away their comment’s section n reviews.
Aug 19, 5:31 PM
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That’s what i want to know, because i personally love twilight out of focus. I think the trolls/homophobes got to it and just went to town.
Aug 19, 7:33 PM
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Just homophobes getting mad at something they can easily ignore (still curious as to out of every yaoi anime on a streaming service, this is the to get review bomb like??)
Aug 19, 10:02 PM
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Just homophobes getting mad at something they can easily ignore (still curious as to out of every yaoi anime on a streaming service, this is the to get review bomb like??)

yeahhh I'd like to know the reason behind that too, I mean sure it has happened before that an airing bl anime have gotten bad review bc of homophobes but this??? they went too far, like cmon its all so unnecessary.
Aug 20, 5:54 AM
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homophobes were somehow bothered by it like BL anime had never been done before or something 😐
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Aug 20, 7:14 AM
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homophobes r so sensitive lol
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homophobes r so sensitive lol
Aug 20, 9:38 AM
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And the funny thing is, at the time comments & reviews got removed from Crunchyroll, only 1 or 2 episodes had been out. None of these trolls even knew this particular BL would go harder than any regular BL had gone before

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Aug 20, 10:35 AM
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idk what homophobes were even thinking about.. like.. do they even care about this anime?.. I mean WHY do they care about this anime? I liked it. I don't usually watch BL's, but this one is cute.
Aug 21, 6:17 AM

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aedeann said:
And the funny thing is, at the time comments & reviews got removed from Crunchyroll, only 1 or 2 episodes had been out. None of these trolls even knew this particular BL would go harder than any regular BL had gone before

junpeiisgod said:
idk what homophobes were even thinking about.. like.. do they even care about this anime?.. I mean WHY do they care about this anime? I liked it. I don't usually watch BL's, but this one is cute.

Sexual assault in ep 1 of the anime, so believable that he was so sick that he had the power to pin down another man his size and lick him! Yeah, very cute!
Were the reviews just because of homophobia or did people who actually watched the anime gave it a low rating because of the sexual assault scene. Crunchyroll had been promoting it a lot on their social media pages so I wasn't expecting that.



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Aug 21, 10:02 AM

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I bet not even a single review bomber has watched even a damn second of the show. Bunch of homophobes insecure of their own sexuality, fragile masculinity is what it is to me. Glad crunchyroll removed the comment section
Aug 21, 11:19 AM

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aedeann said:
And the funny thing is, at the time comments & reviews got removed from Crunchyroll, only 1 or 2 episodes had been out. None of these trolls even knew this particular BL would go harder than any regular BL had gone before

junpeiisgod said:
idk what homophobes were even thinking about.. like.. do they even care about this anime?.. I mean WHY do they care about this anime? I liked it. I don't usually watch BL's, but this one is cute.

Sexual assault in ep 1 of the anime, so believable that he was so sick that he had the power to pin down another man his size and lick him! Yeah, very cute!
Were the reviews just because of homophobia or did people who actually watched the anime gave it a low rating because of the sexual assault scene. Crunchyroll had been promoting it a lot on their social media pages so I wasn't expecting that.
@Maou_heika
1) Hisashi is 183cm tall, with Mao at 168cm Hisashi is almost a head taller than him and for sure a bit broader
2) Handwave, Japanese logic, anime logic, I am not sure if being feverish to a point of such delirium is a real thing that happens, but trust that plenty of offenders in the West do try to use 'blackouts' as a defense in court, the point is Hisashi didn't mean it, he really thought it was the sensei, and the scene is supposed to be read that way
3) Not a single comment featured in all these compilations of screenshots anyone has seen referenced the horribad, terri-f*cked up sexual assault; it's all about how immoral, unnatural & distasteful homosexuality is to these trolls
4) Eagerly awaiting mass review-bombing of JJK because of the incestuous shotacon! Oh, no warriors of virtue & justice to right this wrong? Didn't think so

But go off, I guess.

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Aug 24, 8:18 AM

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@Maou_heika
1) Hisashi is 183cm tall, with Mao at 168cm Hisashi is almost a head taller than him and for sure a bit broader
2) Handwave, Japanese logic, anime logic, I am not sure if being feverish to a point of such delirium is a real thing that happens, but trust that plenty of offenders in the West do try to use 'blackouts' as a defense in court, the point is Hisashi didn't mean it, he really thought it was the sensei, and the scene is supposed to be read that way
3) Not a single comment featured in all these compilations of screenshots anyone has seen referenced the horribad, terri-f*cked up sexual assault; it's all about how immoral, unnatural & distasteful homosexuality is to these trolls
4) Eagerly awaiting mass review-bombing of JJK because of the incestuous shotacon! Oh, no warriors of virtue & justice to right this wrong? Didn't think so

But go off, I guess.
1. Both are still male so he would have required considerable power to hold him down.
2. Even if he thought it was sensei there was no consent, he just got down on him like an animal
3. I haven't seen the crunchyroll comments or reviews but I often come across fujoshis and fudanshis straight out calling people homophobic if they don't like BL even when sexual violence or toxic relationships are being romanticized in the series, I surely wouldn't trust these people randomly throwing away the word homophobe without any proof
4. Goblin Slayer and SAO became controversial because of rape scenes even though it wasn't between the people that are supposed to end up as a couple unlike how BL always does it, stop playing the victim thinking that it's only BL that's being attacked unjustly.

Lastly you should become a lawyer, a lot of sexual offenders are waiting for you to help them.



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Aug 24, 1:56 PM
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I might be wrong but I saw some post from a page I follow and it said that the first episode was uploaded without the BL tag so everyone that thought that it looked interesting as a drama got to it without knowing (probably how it got the LGBT propaganda rumor going).

I personally think it's a rather decent anime but some people really dislike the whole idea of people having certain sexual orientations. Just keep enjoying what you enjoy and don't worry too much about the reviews there are a lot of anime that have bad reviews but are pretty good if you ask me.
Aug 24, 2:41 PM

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homophobes for sure

but also I wasn't really on board after the first two episodes, there were uncomfortable moments that made me go ehhhh naaahh

glad I stuck with it tho, the second pair was a great development and this latest episode with pink hair guy might be one of my favorite BL episodes all time, it was just so ridiculous and FUN



also pretty refreshing to have a show where there doesn't seem to be an ounce of homophobia within the show's setting, like everyone's just like ahh whatev do you
Aug 25, 2:37 AM

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homophobes for sure

but also I wasn't really on board after the first two episodes, there were uncomfortable moments that made me go ehhhh naaahh

glad I stuck with it tho, the second pair was a great development and this latest episode with pink hair guy might be one of my favorite BL episodes all time, it was just so ridiculous and FUN



also pretty refreshing to have a show where there doesn't seem to be an ounce of homophobia within the show's setting, like everyone's just like ahh whatev do you
@lordgaara good thing at least most ppl can find a flavor that they enjoy ^^ I've personally rewatched HisaMao the most, they are the normiest of all couples & I miss them <3 It's been a while since I've loved the top & the bottom in the relationship equally, cannot wait for their return to the spotlight :3
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Lastly you should become a lawyer, a lot of sexual offenders are waiting for you to help them.
Oh well, that's me told! Gonna get my degree & rush to defend Jin first, he made Giichi cry with his 🍇ist ways after all 😔 All while I don my victim hat (I brought up an extremely popular shounen that every dudebro wets himself over instead of some niche critically panned garbage for a reason, btw). You literally have BL in your dislikes, why are you even here? Just to rain on everyone's parade?
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I might be wrong but I saw some post from a page I follow and it said that the first episode was uploaded without the BL tag so everyone that thought that it looked interesting as a drama got to it without knowing (probably how it got the LGBT propaganda rumor going).
Damn, yeah, I see how that would hurt these dudes, actually, after all basically all of Disney and most of the het romance anime is lies & propaganda ensuring even the worst of these trolls get girlfriends 😂We can't have that counterbalance that shows dudes are better off with each other, actually

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What probably happened is some “anti-woke” YouTuber somewhere was starving for content and clicks and found a LGBTQ anime on the seasonal list. So they hastily put together a poorly edited video about how Sony/Crunchyroll/all of Japan is cAvInG tO tHe WoKe mOb and their NPC subscribers review bombed the show
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Women generally bomb ecchi while men bomb yaoi since demographics generally like different things.
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Women generally bomb ecchi while men bomb yaoi since demographics generally like different things.
@rohan121 At the same time, men love yuri, and women love male ecchi content. Our life is quite ironic, isn't it?

@MarylandIzumiKun It sounds cool, but judging by the bots with the same copy-paste, most likely it was organized by one person. Plus I've never seen anti-woke activists complain about a BL or yuri anime just because it's gay. Most anti-woke bloggers only found out about this because of the measures introduced by CR, without hearing about any attack.
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@Maou_heika
1) Hisashi is 183cm tall, with Mao at 168cm Hisashi is almost a head taller than him and for sure a bit broader
2) Handwave, Japanese logic, anime logic, I am not sure if being feverish to a point of such delirium is a real thing that happens, but trust that plenty of offenders in the West do try to use 'blackouts' as a defense in court, the point is Hisashi didn't mean it, he really thought it was the sensei, and the scene is supposed to be read that way
3) Not a single comment featured in all these compilations of screenshots anyone has seen referenced the horribad, terri-f*cked up sexual assault; it's all about how immoral, unnatural & distasteful homosexuality is to these trolls
4) Eagerly awaiting mass review-bombing of JJK because of the incestuous shotacon! Oh, no warriors of virtue & justice to right this wrong? Didn't think so

But go off, I guess.
@aedeann I know this comment is a couple weeks old but I would be happy to take up review bombing JJK. I have a raging hate boner for that series
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@aedeann I know this comment is a couple weeks old but I would be happy to take up review bombing JJK. I have a raging hate boner for that series
@Armosaurus YES, EXCELLENT, SAME, LET'S BE FRIENDS!

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