okay I'm sending you the og scene as well cause I'm annoying like that
https://youtu.be/oZvdK4O57N8?si=ZsS0JZ9PWwyLfdlp
hope you enjoy 💖
OMG that was so funny!! 😂 please don’t think you’re being annoying, I’m glad you sent me that! This show looks good but idk if I should watch it before or after the Thai version now! 🙈 I know it’s ridiculous but I enjoy the cringe and laughs
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Apologies if you've already mentioned this but I just read My Beautiful Man is getting a movie sequel with I think the same 2 leads. Is it normal for a bl to get a movie sequel? Are you excited or a bit nervous about this?
Are BL Sequels from Japan Normal?
Well, we are talking Japan, there is no normal. There is only varying conflicting traditions.
But it's not uncommon for them.
Most of their early BL got released as a series of movies (see Takumi-kun also Seven Days), and they still do that a lot (see the Pornographer series, or the Shortest Distance is Round series - or don’t see them because... ARGH).
Then there's Boy's Love which got a kinda series and a kinda movie, with almost but not really the same characters and actors. Sort of multiple (tragic) realities.
Ossan’s Love experimented with the a series of series of alt timelines with the same story arc and cast. (I loathe this franchise, so I’ve never made it through all of them.)
His the series got a movie "sequel" (different cast same characters, different life stage) in His the movie. But they are so different I don’t really think of them as connected at all.
More recently, A Man Who Defies the World of BL got two seasons, and Cherry Magic just got a movie spin off. I’m fine with both of these. What Did You Eat Yesterday? also supposedly got (was getting) a movie.
I think we were all a little surprised by the My Beautiful Man announcement. In this particular instance I’m nervous.
I think Utsukushii Kare is damn near perfect as it stands (especially the ending). I don’t want them to mess with it.
But also Japan will do whatever Japan wants to do and hang the consequences. Possibly because there aren't any consequences that they take into account.
I don't think sequels have a great track record in BL in general. But specifically with regards to Japan? Like everything else BL in Japan, it's very mixed. There doesn’t seem to be a predicable outcome to which ones, when, when and what style much less whether it will be good - and “good” under what standards?
I’m not one of those who just wants to be fed the same characters over and over again. I have said it before and I wills ay it again, but it’s fine to just eat ONCE PIECE OF THE DAMN CAKE. I have never understood fandom’s obsession we MORE of the same thing. Better to still be a little hungry than gorge and vomit. Then all you remember the next day is throwing up.
Eh that metaphor got away from me... but you get my point.
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Do we know for sure that Earth is cast as the boss in Ossan’s Love or is that just the assumption coz he’s the Token Old?
I wouldn’t mind seeing him in Maki’s role because he makes a nice caretaker, but Earth as Haruta would send me plz. Let him get hit on by someone older. Let Mix kabedon him in the shower. Thanks 👍
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Done with episode 2 of Ossan’s Love Returns, and
1) “Does that mean that she accepts us?” got me WELLING, and
2) I may need to request to a gif maker all of the fight scenes between Chief Kurosawa and Maki, because I am HIGH-KEY DYING at them.
GREAT SHOW SO FAR, and I’ll be fully caught up after tonight!
OH! I FORGOT:
3) Choko-san’s “affair” may be based on a real-life scenario where a wife suspected her husband of cheating. She hired a private detective, and found out he was actually obsessed with a virtual idol. The husband talked about it all on Twitter in 2022, including how he wasn’t “out” as an idol otaku and how he hid his obsession from his wife. What could have been devastating turned out to be not!
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"Ossan's Love" Becomes Japan's Number One Friday Night Drama of All Time
名シーンの連続に、第1~3話とTVerで配信中のスピンオフの見逃し配信総再生数が700万回を突破(※ビデオリサーチにて算出 期間1月6日~24日)するなど、金曜ナイトドラマ枠歴代1位の快進撃となった。
oricon.co.jp
"This series of famous scenes has become the number one Friday night drama of all time, with the total view count of the first three episodes as well as the spin-off episode (available on TVer) surpassing 7 million (calculated by Video Research Ltd. from January 6 to 24)."
The Ossan's Love franchise began in 2016 with a TV movie that earned a small but loyal following that enabled the 2018 series that saw the casting of Hayashi Kento and the introduction of Maki's character. It's his inclusion, the chemistry between him and Tanaka Kei, and the extra work they did on developing nuance in their characters that I think led to the massive popularity of the 2018 drama.
It was only seven episodes, and no one expected it to be popular, but the final episode trended globally at number one on Twitter, which is bananas.
Summer of 2019 saw a movie that continued on from the end of the 2018 version. This was massive. Red carpet event for the premiere, nationwide theaters, merch, and the biggest screen in Roppongi Hills (the one with the fancy armchairs).
Ossan's Love was a massive success.
There was also the plane show in winter of 2019 (without Hayashi). It sure did happen.
The fanbase of the 2018 version (called S1 by the Japanese fandom) is huge and enthusiastic, so it's no surprise to see the success of S2, but to claim the number one Friday night drama of all time!!! For a queer drama!!!
A queer drama just became the number one Friday night drama of all time in Japan, a country that has yet to legalize marriage equality.
Incredible.
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