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Jul 15, 1:27 AM

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jotasui said:
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1. jojo didn't start in 1995. the anime began in 2012. there are two ovas, one from 2002 and another from 1993 but nothing from 1995.

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I do not have anything with people who are supporting this community or those who are part of it, this is just their choice of life. But I believe this should not be normal, we were made to build relationships with women (if you are male) and with men (if you are women).

This statement is emotional and ignores all known facts and logic.
If you would like to go to the "it's not natural" argument Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the hit book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind would like to disagree with you.
“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior tat goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
Why would we need to add rules to society about what's natural and unatural if these things were truly not innate to human nature? It's very funny that we have no rules on what is actually not natural for humans, e.g photosynthesizing, but we have rules for things that humans do and have done all throughout human history.

You are clearly a highly emotional person who doesn't value facts or rationale. You are being brainwashed by the culture into ignoring reality and science. wake up.

You do not know me in person and you don’t have any right to judge me based on what I’m thinking. My opinion is that LGBTQ+ should not exist, God did not create us to form man-man couples or woman-woman couples. Everyone is free to do what their heart says, I am not judging anyone, but I believe this is not right, that’s it.

Yes, my bad. JoJo anime began in 2012, thank you for correction.
@OtakuKun1 holy shit, and it only got worse. I hope you're just a very young person because saying this type of thing ("My opinion is that LGBTQ+ should not exist") is hateful and hurtful. God is also supposed to love everyone equally and even commanded "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself". Dou you think you shouldn't exist too? Saying someone shouldn't exist doesn't display love but hate, so you are actually going against god wishes.
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Im surprised a confession and kiss happened just on second episode. I thought that would drag on longer.

Ugh these subs plus that censorship messes with the feeling of scene. Pedo and lolicon dont mean the same thing and only come close because of how recent years the term "pedo" in US has been applied so widely beyond it's original scope of meaning. For subs it usually is better untranslated while dubs can make all sorts of changes for context since you cant hear the original audio.

As for comments here on "grooming" I understand the sentiment but it would be more accurate to say what the teacher did with presumably ulterior motive from the very start exploiting Hisashi for his family situation. That would have been no better if he was not a teacher or if he was same age as Hisashi or Hisashi was of age if the teacher was aware of what he was doing which he presumably was. Actual meaning of grooming of the sexual nature how actual psychologists used it is directed at things done to little kids from lack of awareness of physical boundaries and lack of knowledge about sex, it involves intentional deception about larger social norms such as confusing them of meanings of words in order to achieve an ulterior motive. Hisashi was not that naive so it is more a situation of him being between a rock and a hard place and that the company of his shitty boyfriend was preferable to him over being alone which is why he stayed with him for years even though it wasnt a very healthy relationship for him and only broke it off now when he realized he had other options.


jotasui said:
A lot of other things could've been done to put Hisashi in a tough spot. Why this comically stupid misinterpretation?? Was Hisashi's sister trying to get him in trouble? Most people who'd get caught in a situation like that would insist that it's "not like that" but we see nothing of her defending Hisashi. Just feels dumb. It really takes the punch away from the teacher story IMO. It's genuinely such a stupid way to get from A to B.

I think it was just meant as one starting point for other things not shown but yeah it is kind of weak unless we assume the step sister repeatedly did things like that.

IzanaSolos said:
Hisashi, a handsome and openly gay delinquent

Are you using AI to help you write your posts? We all know Hisashi is gay in secret.
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Kreikka95 said:
@OtakuKun1 holy shit, and it only got worse. I hope you're just a very young person because saying this type of thing ("My opinion is that LGBTQ+ should not exist") is hateful and hurtful. God is also supposed to love everyone equally and even commanded "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself". Dou you think you shouldn't exist too? Saying someone shouldn't exist doesn't display love but hate, so you are actually going against god wishes.

Everyone is free to do whatever he/she pleases. But, again, I am not here to judge anyone. I believe you got it all wrong. I did not say someone should not exist, I said the community “LGBTQ+” is not normal and that thing must not be normalised. It is a big difference to say a person should not exist or something like a tradition, culture, community or anything else who doesn’t imply human beings should not be part of this planet.

Every person living has the right to choose how they want to live and God did not let us here to speak bad or to judge anyone, this is a great sin. I know God loves anyone, but this might violate God’s rules. I simply do not agree with LGBTQ+, no more than that. Please do not believe if I am going to see someone from LGBTQ+ or a man-man/woman-woman couple on the street, I would judge or insult them. That is truly not the case, I would simply ignore and pass by them without any bad thoughts.
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Okay I'm glad the pacing is good, so is the animation so far. Calling out ped*s is something we need more of, props to that
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Danae said:
I am a slowburn fan so I wasn't expecting this development so soon! I get getting scared or whatever especially when it involves coming to terms with your sexuality. But refusing to talk about it the next day to this extent was kinda cold ngl. I hope they manage to sort things out soon

yes ...it was quite disheartening...he could have just said lets speak about this after...but he avoided that topic completely..I have read the manga and what concerns me is they have covered half of the manga within 2 chapters but the anime has 12 chapters...I think they might add new aspects to the anime
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I'm not the biggest BL fan but when you got one calling out pedophilia like this. I think I can dig it. I am really starting to really like this series. This has been fun. I think this may be the first BL I fully finish since Yuri on Ice.
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I’m not really supporting LGBTQ+, but leaving this aside, the anime is pretty good till now.

Mao and Hisashi make a great job working together at the film club. Hisashi and others are preparing seriously for the shoot in order to be as good as possible. There was a love connection between Mao Tsuchiya and Otomo Hisashi from the very beginning. Although they recorded a video swearing that no secrets would be shared, the fate changed all of it.

strange to me that you are watching this and you dont support lgbtq+. you should rethink why you don't support it and research more about it and the personal stories of people in the lgbtq+ community. often, they will face prejudice that heterosexual and cisgender people wouldn't face.
@phaon1 That is why I have an issue with those who enjoy yuribait/yaoibait. They say shit like this but will gleefully beat their meat to legit fetish porn.(This show isn't that obviously.).
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MasterHavik said:
@phaon1 That is why I have an issu with those who enjoy yuribait/yaoibait. They say shit like this but will gleefully beat their meat to legit fetish porn.(This show isn't that obviously.).

what are u even waffling about? I am literally gay so shows like this are important to me? it's not a fetish
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MasterHavik said:
@phaon1 That is why I have an issu with those who enjoy yuribait/yaoibait. They say shit like this but will gleefully beat their meat to legit fetish porn.(This show isn't that obviously.).

what are u even waffling about? I am literally gay so shows like this are important to me? it's not a fetish
@phaon1 I'm talking about the person you responding to. It invites people like this into that space. I had a feeling you were gay. Either way, in short I am agreeing with you but just don't like it some shows invite people like the one you're responding to.
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MasterHavik said:
@phaon1 I'm talking about the person you responding to. It invites people like this into that space. I had a feeling you were gay. Either way, I'm in short agreeing with you but just don't like it some shows invite people like the one you're responding to.

my complete apologies I am so sorry for the way I responded. totally misunderstood what you meant.
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@phaon1 I'm talking about the person you responding to. It invites people like this into that space. I had a feeling you were gay. Either way, I'm in short agreeing with you but just don't like it some shows invite people like the one you're responding to.

my complete apologies I am so sorry for the way I responded. totally misunderstood what you meant.
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Disappointing.

Everything is too rushed, there is no emotional depth to it at all, as there hasn't been enough time to build it (that's how I felt with the manga too), so consequently I couldn't care less about any character -- plus, the side story of the filming is "meh".

I always think it's a pity the BL manga that are chosen to become anime, as there are some amazing manga out there, but we usually get blah stuff like this.

Still a pretty art style, the soundtrack is pleasant, and I like the OP, but the animation is janky and the story is dull.

Again, will stick with it as the art is beautiful. It's just a pity it doesn't have any more depth than this.

EDIT: Oh but still giving it a 9 out of 10, because of the art style and because it's rare we get a full-length BL anime instead of 6 episodes of 5 minutes each or nothing at all.
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So was right, but was even worse.
Sister sexually assaulted him, so family ostracized him for her actions. Then only person that was willing to look after him was a pedophile who I assume had been raping him, but he felt this was the closest thing to love he could get... but then the sweet thing, these two are in true love <3
I think it was right decision to focus on the film, they both confessed love to each other and need time to change.
3/5, child sex abuse, even if teenager, is disturbing, as is any sexual assault like on last episode.

edit: apparently pedophile was raping with his butthole, still wrong, but gay-boy getting over his abuser with that rant gets a little better with that.

Kreikka95 said:
I wasn't expecting to read homophobia in a BL anime thread.

Yeah it's pretty wild, it's the same thing as saying red-heads shouldn't exist, or "insert minority" shouldn't exist, or disabled people shouldn't exist, hell, anything that isn't "normal" (the usual, average, or typical state or condition.). Technically saying this website shouldn't exist as watching and tracking anime is definitely not "normal".
Commenting this and a 100% homosexuality focused show's EPISODE 2, is the most wild.
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The BL film gets going, though the prep has quite a lot to be done. And even then, Mao still gets the tingy feelings for Hisashi, which doesn't make the latter all that convincing when the former gets the word that he's been dumped by his boyfriend, needing an avenue to rant his feelings out, which Mao wholly gives it to him, recognizing his feelings for Hisashi.

The thing is, Hisashi's been subjected to misunderstandings, yet feeling the attachment of being loved and belonged to someone, that Mao was the only one who made him feel that way. In the same way, despite the promise that he made, Mao is willing to submit to Hisashi, despite having feelings that he thought he wouldn't have. And when the film shooting gets underway, Hisashi isn't feeling it, and Mao just wants to push all the way through.

Feelings are important, but the film is even more so.
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It's the way I want to beat Mao's ass rn 🤨. It was seriously selfish of him to think only of his feelings and confess immediately after Hisashi was clearly just VIOLENTLY broken up with. And then to Run Away right after kissing him?? He didn't think about how that would make Hisashi feel? Like I understand the feeling of "oh shit I'm gay, oh shit I really just did that oh my gosh" but 😭 sometimes you need to know when to put your own feelings aside! Anyways I'm glad that they established that they Will talk about it after shooting, which I think will definitely create interesting tension 👀.

All that aside I'm really liking this show so far! And I feel really bad for Hisashi :( that poor boy has been through so much, he deserves a home he feels safe and comfortable going back to. I hope these boys learn more about eachother and that Mao cab help him feel more assured.
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I didn't expect him to confess when the other dude JUST got dumped. That's a weird timing for sure.

Poor Hisashi, that teacher should burn in hell. But damn, the art makes me feel like they're adults, I forgot they are high schoolers, 16 years old, holy fuck.

But it's so cute they both liked each other and I like that the author acknowledged that Hisashi's action may seem like a rebound.

No way he just ran off lol.

Ending song slaps af.

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Cmon... im dissapointed 1st how fast stuff happened between tehm? 2nd lack of communication and the ending words of Mao. Also oh my lord how traumatised Hisashi is... poor man, no wonder he felt so comfortable with Mao in dorm, couse Mao actually cared about him somehow, Hisashi didnt even experience familiar or friendship love before it seems. I will keep watch new episodes, but i feel like it was too much information for 2nd episode and i feel theres gonna be more misunderstandings *facepalm laugh* But art stile is so nice and i wonder how they will solve their issues together. Lets fkn go, i guess?
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THE TEACHER?!!?!?!?!
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Danae said:
I am a slowburn fan so I wasn't expecting this development so soon! I get getting scared or whatever especially when it involves coming to terms with your sexuality. But refusing to talk about it the next day to this extent was kinda cold ngl. I hope they manage to sort things out soon

You totally explained my POV. I didn’t expect to have all this happening at ep2, that soon…
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THE TEACHER?!!?!?!?!

Nah fr disgusting….
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THE TEACHER?!!?!?!?!

Nah fr disgusting….
@Slay_rylle im praying for this dont get worse... already traumatised
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@Fabio_lopess Exactly ! Because if additionally to this and the fact everything feels a bit a rush, only 4 episodes out of 12 in, things start going downhill I’ll be dropping this 😭
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@Fabio_lopess Exactly ! Because if additionally to this and the fact everything feels a bit a rush, only 4 episodes out of 12 in, things start going downhill I’ll be dropping this 😭
@Slay_rylle cause if they are all lovey-dovey on the fourth episode, who knows what gonna happen in the next ones 😭😭
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@Slay_rylle cause if they are all lovey-dovey on the fourth episode, who knows what gonna happen in the next ones 😭😭

Update : I’ve dropped this btw cuz I’ve been thinking if I wait that much for another episode to come out when we already have them kissing and all, I will just be losing my time lol 😭.

Do you have another BL anime to recommend ?

(Ur lady gaga pfp is eating btw)
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@Slay_rylle cause if they are all lovey-dovey on the fourth episode, who knows what gonna happen in the next ones 😭😭

Update : I’ve dropped this btw cuz I’ve been thinking if I wait that much for another episode to come out when we already have them kissing and all, I will just be losing my time lol 😭.

Do you have another BL anime to recommend ?

(Ur lady gaga pfp is eating btw)
@Slay_rylle one BL i highly recommend is "Given", the plot is very, very good. Another one i recommend is the movie "Umibe no Étranger".

(thanks :) your pfp is kinda cute tho)
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@Slay_rylle cause if they are all lovey-dovey on the fourth episode, who knows what gonna happen in the next ones 😭😭

Update : I’ve dropped this btw cuz I’ve been thinking if I wait that much for another episode to come out when we already have them kissing and all, I will just be losing my time lol 😭.

Do you have another BL anime to recommend ?

(Ur lady gaga pfp is eating btw)
@Slay_rylle FYI it's because the anime adapts a very short manga with spin-offs 😭 ep 4 was already jumping somewhat ahead in the timeline, and this week's ep forward will focus on another couple (and then another after, there likely being 4 episodes allocated per couple). Every couple is involved with the film club.

Think of it as the three-act structure repeating thrice over the course of the series. The trailer for the next couple's story just dropped today on the anime's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzza7-H5SrU
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いる。

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Fabio_lopess said:
@Slay_rylle one BL i highly recommend is "Given", the plot is very, very good. Another one i recommend is the movie "Umibe no Étranger".

(thanks :) your pfp is kinda cute tho)

Oh ´given ´ ? I know this by name but never watched. Maybe I will try it out soon then! I will tell you if I start one of your two recommendations (I will have to check out for the other one’s synopsis tho) 🧚🏽‍♀️
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aedeann said:
@Slay_rylle FYI it's because the anime adapts a very short manga with spin-offs 😭 ep 4 was already jumping somewhat ahead in the timeline, and this week's ep forward will focus on another couple (and then another after there likely being 4 episodes allocated per couple). Every couple is involved with the film club.

Think of it as the three-act structure repeating thrice over the course of the series. The trailer for the next couple's story just dropped today on the anime's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzza7-H5SrU

OMGGG THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE ! 😭
I will check out the trailer to see what the following couple is, I never expected another couple in this!
Thanks <3
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@Slay_rylle one BL i highly recommend is "Given", the plot is very, very good. Another one i recommend is the movie "Umibe no Étranger".

(thanks :) your pfp is kinda cute tho)

Oh ´given ´ ? I know this by name but never watched. Maybe I will try it out soon then! I will tell you if I start one of your two recommendations (I will have to check out for the other one’s synopsis tho) 🧚🏽‍♀️
@Slay_rylle okayyy!! im sure you'll like them!
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aedeann said:
@Slay_rylle FYI it's because the anime adapts a very short manga with spin-offs 😭 ep 4 was already jumping somewhat ahead in the timeline, and this week's ep forward will focus on another couple (and then another after there likely being 4 episodes allocated per couple). Every couple is involved with the film club.

Think of it as the three-act structure repeating thrice over the course of the series. The trailer for the next couple's story just dropped today on the anime's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzza7-H5SrU

OMGGG THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE ! 😭
I will check out the trailer to see what the following couple is, I never expected another couple in this!
Thanks <3
@Slay_rylle YAY! I really hope ppl continue watching, and that you give these stories a chance! I haven't read the manga properly yet for each couple's story (wanna experience that through the anime), but I did check out some... saucy panels out of context and... well, all the tops
, is all I have to say. And I think that's beautiful and so rare in BL anime 😭 (less so nowadays)

I'm buying all the manga volumes as we speak <3

And I second Fabio's recommendations! Given is wonderful and a masterpiece of a romance, it is famous for a reason! Try not to spoil yourself and definitely watch the sub! And Umibe no Étranger is short and sweet and stunningly gorgeous, like the animation is absolutely out of this world

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@Slay_rylle YAY! I really hope ppl continue watching, and that you give these stories a chance! I haven't read the manga properly yet for each couple's story (wanna experience that through the anime), but I did check out some... saucy panels out of context and... well, all the tops
, is all I have to say. And I think that's beautiful and so rare in BL anime 😭 (less so nowadays)

I'm buying all the manga volumes as we speak <3

And I second Fabio's recommendations! Given is wonderful and a masterpiece of a romance, it is famous for a reason! Try not to spoil yourself and definitely watch the sub! And Umibe no Étranger is short and sweet and stunningly gorgeous, like the animation is absolutely out of this world


I watched the trailer after I replied to your comment this morning and eventhough I was surprised by the second couple, I didn’t think of continuing but I will because if you insist it must be worth it. I will tell you abt my thoughts as I watch it then !🧚🏽‍♀️

And I LOVE BLs with green flags tops so I will definetely try it out. I’m sick of those with borderline SA for no reason and twisted characters lol 😭

If you second Fabio’s recommendations, these must be good ! 😔☝🏾
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@Slay_rylle YAY! I really hope ppl continue watching, and that you give these stories a chance! I haven't read the manga properly yet for each couple's story (wanna experience that through the anime), but I did check out some... saucy panels out of context and... well, all the tops
, is all I have to say. And I think that's beautiful and so rare in BL anime 😭 (less so nowadays)

I'm buying all the manga volumes as we speak <3

And I second Fabio's recommendations! Given is wonderful and a masterpiece of a romance, it is famous for a reason! Try not to spoil yourself and definitely watch the sub! And Umibe no Étranger is short and sweet and stunningly gorgeous, like the animation is absolutely out of this world


I watched the trailer after I replied to your comment this morning and eventhough I was surprised by the second couple, I didn’t think of continuing but I will because if you insist it must be worth it. I will tell you abt my thoughts as I watch it then !🧚🏽‍♀️

And I LOVE BLs with green flags tops so I will definetely try it out. I’m sick of those with borderline SA for no reason and twisted characters lol 😭

If you second Fabio’s recommendations, these must be good ! 😔☝🏾
@Slay_rylle

Yeah, ever since Hisashi asked Mao if he was alright after the, y'know, and seemed genuinely concerned about the answer (like his integrity as a man & a top would take a nosedive if the answer was 'no'), I've been all heart eyes, m-f***er! 🙈 Granted, that's a pretty low bar, but even if there are tops who care in BL they pretty much never talk about it, and what's been so different about this anime is all the things that it does and shows that in other stories are assumed or left unsaid, if that makes sense? I love that, love that, love that!

Sometimes (and especially when it comes to romance & slice of life genres) stories don't need endless dramatic, world-ending conflict to be good! Like for Hisashi, I think this story/arc is about healing.

Glad to hear you're into green flags, both Given & Umibe no Étranger are so full of green they are practically meadows XD


Might I also recommend the following anime? Doukyuusei, Sasaki and Miyano, No.6, and Yuri!!! on Ice. While the latter two are not strictly categorized as BL, let's just say historians are unlikely to say 'they were such good friends...' 😉

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@aedeann It’s curious because I didn’t receive a notification when you mentionned me 😭.
So I just started tasogare out focus where I left it (at the beginning of ep4) and yeah ommgggg I see what you mean.
Even in the s€x scene (that was shown in a gentle way), the top genuinely cared abt his boyfriend to have as much as pleasure as him and not feel pressured in any way!

I will watch given and all y’all recommendations after. I’ve decided during these holidays I’ll be extending my BL culture to animes because I’m more used to watching others genres in animes whilst I only watched BLs with actual humans before (I don’t know if I was being clear 😭) .
In all what you added to the recommendations, Yuri!!!on Ice is the only one I know but never watched tho I’ve had the opening in my playlist for so long lol
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@aedeann It’s curious because I didn’t receive a notification when you mentionned me 😭.
So I just started tasogare out focus where I left it (at the beginning of ep4) and yeah ommgggg I see what you mean.
Even in the s€x scene (that was shown in a gentle way), the top genuinely cared abt his boyfriend to have as much as pleasure as him and not feel pressured in any way!

I will watch given and all y’all recommendations after. I’ve decided during these holidays I’ll be extending my BL culture to animes because I’m more used to watching others genres in animes whilst I only watched BLs with actual humans before (I don’t know if I was being clear 😭) .
In all what you added to the recommendations, Yuri!!!on Ice is the only one I know but never watched tho I’ve had the opening in my playlist for so long lol
@Slay_rylle aaahhh! you're inspiring me to revisit those scenes again! even though I've been on my ep 5 rewatch streak XD glad to be able to show you the light, haha! 🙈

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@Slay_rylle aaahhh! you're inspiring me to revisit those scenes again! even though I've been on my ep 5 rewatch streak XD glad to be able to show you the light, haha! 🙈

You should totally rewatch it, it’s a sane decision 😋! Especially when we’ll have to wait a little (it feels long tho) for another episode to come out
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@Slay_rylle aaahhh! you're inspiring me to revisit those scenes again! even though I've been on my ep 5 rewatch streak XD glad to be able to show you the light, haha! 🙈

You should totally rewatch it, it’s a sane decision 😋! Especially when we’ll have to wait a little (it feels long tho) for another episode to come out
@Slay_rylle truly... every week I suffer untold trials 😔

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@aedeann Life is so tough 😔
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Pick me, choose me, love me - Meredith Grey Mao

Well isn't the roommates-to-lovers upgrade quick.

Love that kinda uniform, suits Hisashi perfectly ✨

Why the god*beep* censorship?! I *beep*ing hate that

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Pick me, choose me, love me - Meredith Grey Mao

Well isn't the roommates-to-lovers upgrade quick.

Love that kinda uniform, suits Hisashi perfectly ✨

Why the god*beep* censorship?! I *beep*ing hate that
@RenaPsychoKiller that short gakuraaaan! and the high waist trousers! I'd be disrobing immediately too, if I was Mao...

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oof well, let's get the positives out of the way first: the ending was badass

after such abusive relationships he finally found a safe space for himself in mao, but i'm not sure i like the direction where this is going. sure i started this for the romance but i honestly don't think that's what ootomo needs rn. finding unconditional love would be the best for him, and even if he feels his relationship with mao is like that, a romantic relationship is NEVER unconditional or stable, even if both parties want the best for eachother. not communicating and avoiding eachother after what happened to him is not a very positive start of their love story
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Mao running away like that was a bastard move but Hisashi does need to get it together.
That said, Hisashi really has it rough. The guy can't catch a break.
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1) all boys high school was it , why not a single girl ?

2) got one girl this time but way too young and she messed up mc life .



3) more than enough for me , sayonara tasogare!
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