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Genre: Shonen-Ai
How much seen: whole thing (subbed)
What it's about: Your basic romantic comedy of misunderstandings, by which I mean the uke (Ranmaru) is given every reason to believe that the seme (Kei) is cheating on him - he comes home late, he has lipstick marks on his chest, and there's a mysterious phone message from a woman. Naturally this leads to angst and flashbacks and a total lack of actual communication.
The flashbacks are to a high school romance, very sweet, heavy on the sakura blossoms. The present doesn't have the excuse of being teenagers. Ranmaru would rather jump to conclusions than actually talk to Kei. He seriously goes out, stands around angsting, and gets randomly picked up by a chick, rather than behave like an adult.
Naturally the chick who picks him up turns out to be the chick who left the phone message, and naturally this leads to finally seeing Kei again. Kei, being a practical sort, locks them all in a room so that actual talking can occur, and Ranmaru can't run away without the truth: not only is Kei not cheating on him, the chick is apparently a pre-op transexual. How exactly that makes it all better I'm not sure, but apparently it does. Kei nonetheless gets mad props for actually going through with the room-locking that so many of us have been tempted toward for couples that were stupidly misunderstanding each other.
Those mad props are seriously diminished by the ending, however. They give us an ending with heart (well, some heart - Ranmaru hits Kei enough to make me think cynical thoughts about why it's fine when it's the uke doing it, but less so when it's the seme doing it), and then under-cut it with a gag ending. Bah, I say. If you're going to be sappy, then be sappy.
...okay, and also, if you're going to lock two lovers in a hotel room and start stripping off the clothes, cutting away and not giving us the smut? I object. I object strongly.
Overall opinion: no, really, gay people can talk like reasonable people too. I swear. :sigh: Ah, well.
Genre: Shonen-Ai
How much seen: whole thing (subbed)
What it's about: Your basic romantic comedy of misunderstandings, by which I mean the uke (Ranmaru) is given every reason to believe that the seme (Kei) is cheating on him - he comes home late, he has lipstick marks on his chest, and there's a mysterious phone message from a woman. Naturally this leads to angst and flashbacks and a total lack of actual communication.
The flashbacks are to a high school romance, very sweet, heavy on the sakura blossoms. The present doesn't have the excuse of being teenagers. Ranmaru would rather jump to conclusions than actually talk to Kei. He seriously goes out, stands around angsting, and gets randomly picked up by a chick, rather than behave like an adult.
Naturally the chick who picks him up turns out to be the chick who left the phone message, and naturally this leads to finally seeing Kei again. Kei, being a practical sort, locks them all in a room so that actual talking can occur, and Ranmaru can't run away without the truth: not only is Kei not cheating on him, the chick is apparently a pre-op transexual. How exactly that makes it all better I'm not sure, but apparently it does. Kei nonetheless gets mad props for actually going through with the room-locking that so many of us have been tempted toward for couples that were stupidly misunderstanding each other.
Those mad props are seriously diminished by the ending, however. They give us an ending with heart (well, some heart - Ranmaru hits Kei enough to make me think cynical thoughts about why it's fine when it's the uke doing it, but less so when it's the seme doing it), and then under-cut it with a gag ending. Bah, I say. If you're going to be sappy, then be sappy.
...okay, and also, if you're going to lock two lovers in a hotel room and start stripping off the clothes, cutting away and not giving us the smut? I object. I object strongly.
Overall opinion: no, really, gay people can talk like reasonable people too. I swear. :sigh: Ah, well.