Uke uses something to defend himself! This is great!
Something really rare in the history of yaoi! （￣へ￣）
When he grabbed the knife my eyes widen in surprise I felt so proud with how far we've come
(づ￣ ³￣)づ
Movies and romances can be good even if there are no smexy scenes! Giving into the cheap way to make money and better ratings makes you cheap!
School Nurse: "No! No! Aren't you too fucking big?!"
Katsumi: "It's fine, it's fine!"
Me: Katsumi, you're one helluva bastard, you know that lol
I feel like this would make an excellent Kdrama or anime. Either way, the entire Kdrama ingredients checklist has been checked off. Stunningly bad communications, cheating men, main couple breaks up and tries to go their own separate ways and then end up still in each others lives, the man/seme is from a rich family, girl/uke is poor and has bad background. There's more, but I think you get the point.
Yeah! I totally agree! It would be great!!!
I don't really understand. Isn't incest technically defined to be towards people whom share blood relations with each other? If that's so, then Haru's and Ren's relationship isn't more so incestuous rather more like two people who have romantic feelings for each other and have been adopted by the same parents. Or am I defining incest wrong?
Incest based on bloodline, it because you share same DNA with your bloodline family that's why it forbidden. Because combinating same DNA make teribble result. In case Haru and Ren, it isnt incest at all. They just adopted family, their relation is just on paperwork made by society, not bloodline.
After all the declarations of love from the other characters and seeing their stories, I can't but help feeling that Kunimasa is still just using Nori as someone to bear his child, that the love is just one-sided and Kunimasa isn't saying anything crass and avoiding his mistakes from earlier. After all, when Nori said he gave up, I think that just ended the romance right there for me. Everything after is just Kunimasa covering his ass.
yeah.. it just so sad for norio,, he loves kunimasa and trust him with all his heart but kunimasa just sees him as a being to carry an offspring... (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
I hope someday norio will choose someone else who loves him as himself
Hidekuni seems to truly love Norio... I feel kinda bad for Hide lol
As an older brother, Hayate failed terribly for asking for Sari instead of spending some more time with Tatsumi. I mean getting two younger brothers is cool and all, but seriously, you caused one to fear you terribly so shouldn't you be trying to make up to him more?
Also, when someone gives you a warning, there is usually a reason why. Like stranger danger, even if it is the brother and father of your so-called boyfriend.
Also, said boyfriend is a jerk in using physical force to make a point.
I totally agree with you, I cant understand why people like the uke. He spent way more time with some alien instead of his lover, and wasnt even mad that the alien took over his body. Not only that, he failed to understand and trust the serious warnings that his lover was goving him. Plus, he could at least apologize to the seme for ignoring and not trusting his words. 1/5 stars
That the school and some others are beginning to talk about Ememoto is becoming concerning. Haru needs to step up his game and take a closer look at the teasing, or Ren is going to be thoroughly confused by Ememoto. I also have a nagging feeling that Ememoto might like Ren as well, so all the more dire the warning.
Remind me whose Ememoto?
NVM figured it out ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Story has bullying, a lot of it. And characters just breeze over it and call it pranks. Malicious pranks are just pranks, afterall........no they're not. The characters must be saints for not trying a hand at revenge.
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I don't know about that... What the characters say and how they act are two very different things in this case.
First off, and I cannot say this enough: The 'pranks' were malicious, DANGEROUS, and cruel. They were bullying at its worst. Two people ended up seriously injured because of it. I absolutely do not condone this, and think those characters shown participating in it don't deserve the kindness shown later.
However, <in the context of the story> it's a very interesting crucible to put the characters through. How the main characters deal with it is very life-like.
The uke calls a spade a spade several times, and is fully prepared to defend his boyfriend, which he does on numerous occasions, not just that attempt at the end. He also offers to not hang out with the seme to protect him, even though he himself feels quite vulnerable alone, clearly putting his friend (at that time they weren't more) first.
The seme, on the other hand, *does* trivialize it. He does this for two reasons. One, he doesn't want to worry the uke, nor does he want to quit hanging out with him. He considers the uke more important than his own safety. Also, it shows that he is a fairly well grounded individual, especially since he doesn't let them get to him on any level where he wasn't already shaky (ie his acting, which he himself acknowledges sucks). He sees them as an unfortunate downside to something awesome, and considers the uke more than worth the inconvenience. The second reason feeds off the first: He trivializes it to try and make it less painful. This is a very human reaction, and oftentimes feels like the only choice the bullied person has. He's trying to take away the hurt by ignoring it. He's not successful, almost no one ever is at this, but that's what he's trying. Watch out your window while schoolkids are going home and I can almost guarantee you'll see something like this. It's sad, but it's a very common and very realistic reaction.
The captain, on the other hand, *grows* through the bullying, from the point of being a bully to protecting the seme. And for all he says that it's so the uke won't cry, his facial expressions say otherwise. Though he was fully complicit in making the seme play Nurse, his time trapped with the uke taught him a few things. Namely, it taught him what the seme has that he doesn't: Decency, self-respect, respect for others, compassion, and a sense of fairness. It's those traits, the seme's own innate decency, that drew the uke to the seme. And regardless of what he told himself, the captain's unease before the rescue proves that he does want to be better than he was, and that he's looking at the seme as a role model in that.
As for revenge? The uke bides his time on the seme's wish, same as the seme did for not reporting the sexual assault. And for the same reason: It wasn't his to tell. And, in both cases, they probably should have anyway. But it's hard, to betray the trust of someone you care for. Neither gives up on trying to convince the other, but they respect the wishes of the victim first, which is important in not re-victimizing people. The seme, on the other hand, just isn't the sort of person to *want* revenge, and his behaviour the whole way through lines up behind that. Because it's him, he can forgive. Some people are like that. He had a harder time forgiving the rape of the uke, you may have noticed. But he, again, stands by on the wishes of the victim. The captain is changed, so we don't get to see his later reaction. Considering how he himself was, though, I don't imagine he would have much of a leg to stand on for going after anyone.
tl;dr: You seem to think the story didn't give weight to the bullying, but I think it did. That the characters didn't respond in your preferred manner is simply because of the character traits sensei chose to give them.
Right! I want to do that in real life, they would need to be institutionalized! Pyschos!
Well about bullying, it really depends on the mind of the individuals, Iwaki has real friends who care about him so he probably won't care about the mobs, the same goes to Alice (LMAO
Like oh damn! You have to give it to these lords and nobility for making life as complicated as a knot that has infinite curls to untangle. There are so many ways to solve their problems, but they have to choose the hard way! Also, greedy bastards should just let Tomoyuki go home.(〜￣△￣)〜