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storge · 5 months

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Wait... why are you here? I heard it's cold, so I brought a hot pack. That's it? uh-huh. 🥰🥰🥰

Ossan's Love Returns (2024) 1.01

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thebroccolination · 4 months

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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.

#ossan's love #ossan's love returns #makiharu #kento hayashi #tanaka kei #japanese drama #japanese media #lgbtq+#lgbtq #queer media

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mysterygrl20 · 4 months

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EarthMix's cameo in Ossan's Love Returns!

The two will appear as staff members at Moonlight Chicken, a Thai restaurant that Haruta and Maki visit. The restaurant's name is a play on the drama ``Midnight Series: Moonlight Chicken,'' in which they appeared, and the characters are said to be reminiscent of that drama. [source]

#earthmix #ossan's love returns #jbl #japanese bl #earth pirapat #mix sahaphap #tanaka kei #hayashi kento #can someone confirm that that's the correct translation #moonlight chicken

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801number · 3 months

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#ossan's love #ossans love returns #おっさんずラブリターンズ #おっさんずラブ #tanaka kei #hayashi kento #japanese bl #japanese drama #bl japan #boys love

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save-the-data · 5 months

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Ossan's Love Returns | S01E01

Japanese Drama - 2024, 10 episodes

#Drama: Ossan's Love Returns #LGBTQ+#Established Relationship #Comedy #Drama #おっさんずラブ-リターンズ-#Ossan's Love Returns #Tanaka Kei #Hayashi Kento #Yoshida Kotaro #Iura Arata #Miura Shohei #Japan BL #BL GIFS #Japanese Drama - 2024 #Drama: 2024

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apricotto · 5 months

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#*#ossan's love #tanaka kei #ossan's love returns

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offdensen · 1 month

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#ossan's love #ossan's love returns #jdrama #bl drama #おっさんずラブ #おっさんずラブ-リターンズ-#tanaka kei #hayashi kento #yoshida kotaro #haruta soichi #maki ryota #kurosawa musashi #gif #mine #ot3: a bond with no name.#MAKI AND MUSASHI KISS I STAY WINNING #i'm SO mentally ill lmao

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waitmyturtles · 4 months

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Had me HOWLING, HOWLING I TELL YOU!

#ossan’s love returns #tanaka kei #hayashi kento #TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!! lolololol #Instagram

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foralleternityidiot · 3 months

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I can’t believe I have to live with this knowledge for the rest of my life and just be normal about it. Give me back my ignorance I beg T_T

#he’s so my type it’s actually unfair to have been given this gift I’d rather not know this #ossan's love returns #tanaka kei #おっさんずラブリターンズ #haruta soichi #japanese bl #jdrama

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yunoist · 4 months

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the love of my life <3

#haruta soichi #ossan's love #makiharu #tanaka kei #ossan's love love or dead #kei tanaka

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dengswei · 1 year

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UNKNOWN (2023) episode two

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storge · 5 months

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Ossan's Love Returns (2024) 1.03

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thebroccolination · 3 months

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QUEER JOY

Sometimes I coast into this happy, glowing daze, and when I trace all these golden filaments around me to their source, I find my little shining harbor of queer love in media.

As a kid, I only knew queer stories run through with anguish and regret and shame. Reality echoed the same. The gnarled pain of AIDS lingered in everything, and I learned the term “gay panic” from headlines when it was used as a defense for murder.

I started reading the end of novels and watching the last scene of a movie or TV show. Generally, if the queer characters didn’t die, their happiness did.

When I was a teenager on the cusp of realizing my queerness, I craved stories about queer characters who not only got to live at the end of their stories, but queer characters who got to fall in love without punishment. Who got to the last page or the last scene and got to rest in bliss.

I watched shows like Queer as Folk in secret. I sought out any hint of queerness in shows around the world. I wrote queerness in fic where I wished it had been in canon.

When I watched Until We Meet Again in 2020, I couldn’t believe it was real. I devoured SOTUS after that, and Dark Blue Kiss, and Gameboys, and I Told Sunset About You. These queer stories where no one died. Where no one was punished by the narrative for being queer. Where no cruel, underlying message told the audience, “Only agony awaits the deviant queers—as it should.”

That’s why I never take this new era of queer media for granted. It’s what I always dreamed of having when I was young.

It’s queer joy.