Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
EllieCats
This film is better suited to longtime fans of yaoi. People who enjoy things like Given and Umibe no Étranger won't like how this ends. I will say it's not as bad as things like the first episode of Junjou Romantica or any of the short yaoi OVAs from the early 2000s.
Story: The classic mistaken identity story - "he's not Superman when he puts the glasses on". I liked the setting. It wasn't anything special but a cute take on this trope.
Characters: Kuneida was one of those two sided characters who has different personalities depending on who he's with and what he's thinking. Tsuzuki started off gruff but warmed up quickly and became kind. Common tropes, but they worked well with each other and the story.
Style: The art is nice and well-detailed. It makes this story's setting soft and pl…
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Its as if the bl industry hasn’t been going on for over 20 years. When will they stop adding unnecessary intimate scenes to a good bl, they moved too fast imo but it cant be blamed since it was just a movie, yet they still decided to add a useless intimate scene that was, in my opinion, disguised cherry coated r*pe. Awful T_T i do not recommend this to anyone, it’s like if love stage and junjou romantica got mixed together. (Both awful fetishizing animes btw). Why can’t we as an audience get something that’s not toxic or fetishizing T_T just please if you want actual non toxic bl, just watch sasaki and miyano or cherry magic (currently being adapted into anime), they’re both slower at pace and handle non fetishizing relationships. (Not so sure abt cherry magic, i did not finish the show an…
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What the heck. Way to ruin a cute show towards the end. That scene is entirely out of no where. I can't even imagine a loss in translation situation because the character is very clear more than once.
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Read at the sourceHarlock_Phantom
It seems I'm not the only one who felt this film was seriously let down by the intimate scene at the end.
Up until that point it was a pretty decent film, nothing extraordinary but it was a pretty sweet, enjoyable love story.
As a queer man I have become a lot more weary of "BL" titles than I was as a teen, due to the unhealthy depictions of M/M relationships and the blatant fetishisation. I got my hopes up watching this.
The animation is nice and if it had been longer it could have been a solid love story. It had pretty decent depictions of masking and anxiety and, I thought, a realistic depiction of a bisexual man.
And then the intimate scene threw the problematic and fetishised trope that has made yaoi a problem for years. There is nothing sexy or romantic about ignoring a no. There was…
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Important:- I wouldn't recommend this movie as anyone's First BL! It is so much better than some of the BLs I had the displeasure of getting exposed to like Junjou Romantica that made me glad YuuriXVictor from Yuri On Ice is the first homosexual relationship I watched. So if it is your first BL I recommend Doukyuusei movie instead.
Review:-
Surprisingly Good. I like the plot and how our MC is living a double life. One as a Calm, Friendly, Polite News Anchor and other as a well... his inner thoughts which are filled with frankness about his feelings without holding anything back. Everyone only sees the New Anchor persona and not the Inner thoughts one. Then he meets the LI and I surprised by how well their relationship developed.
The LI meets both personas of our MC and gets close to both…
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I was really excited for this anime, and I thought it was going to stick the landing until THAT SCENE happened.
The story is relatively interesting with the main lead having two different personas, one nice and one mean. I enjoyed all his side comments on anything anyone does. The main love interest is kind of boring, nothing special. All in all, it felt pretty wholesome, and I thought it was going to end that way, until that happened.
That scene must be talked about because it completely took me by surprise in this entirely wholesome anime. The fact that this happened continues to age my view of the anime as time goes on.
It's so baffling because I'd argue it's weirdly portrayed as both positive and negative. Positive in regard that it happens, and the anime doesn't condemn the action.…
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I cannot believe the audacity of this bitch, everything going smoothly, even the scene at the time 30:30 of it was like okay the mood was set and it all made sense..... but NO! WE CANT HAVE SOMETHING NICE FOR ONCE, the next thing im gonna say isn't a spoiler, this is a warning!!! at the very end of the movie dude has to go and rape the guy, like what the actual fuck
It was a solid 8 for the genre until it plummeted to a -10000, I'm angry okay
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The character and story ratings are because of this, before that id give them an 8 as well and i really liked the blond guys concept. Like I was enjoying it very much, some things were a bit cliché here and there or somewhat wtf is this plot but overall was nice story and everything.... just why ruin it, why author WHY. This is not ok…
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- This review only spoils the last five minutes
It was good at first, and had the potential to be really wholesome. And then it wasn’t. They decided to throw in sex scene at then end, which I mean I don’t normally have a problem with, but it was non-consensual. It was basically rape. I was disgusted. Kei repeatedly asked Ushio to stop, and that he didn’t want it. Ushio told him to shut up, because it was “too late to stop”. This scene ruined the entire anime for me. No means no. I’m tired of seeing yaois adding in this rape-y stuff. It’s gross. Can they not just have consensual sex? I wouldn’t even bother watching the anime.
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At first i really liked this anime. It had kinda interesting plot line with the main character having 2 ''faces'', which was something different from the rest shounen ai genre.
Till like the 40th minute everything was nice and wholesome, the couple confessed and overcame their problems, so i thought the movie was about to wrap up.
BUT then the ''rape'' scene happened. It is very sad that it is still normalised and commonly found in the shounen ai/yaoi genres, but this time i think it was even worse than usual. PLEASE STOP DOING IT!
The blonde guy was basically forced! When he had said multiple times ''NO'', the brunette just ignored him and continued. It just really disappointed me.
I really thought this movie had good potential, the characters had good chemistry and made me smile thr…
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TLDR: 7/10. A good movie. The way that the semi-last scene was written was quite uncomfortable, however, I disagree with the other reviewers and think that it wasn't as detrimental to the quality of the movie as they are suggesting.
[Story]
The story was simple and cute with an interesting dynamic. I learnt a bit more about news reporters and stop motion and it was an easy watch.
[Art]
I liked the way the art was. Also simple but cute. No yaoi hands or chins and pretty eyes.
[Sound]
Meh, could've been better but it's just a romance anime so it's fine. [Character]
While the MC and main love interest didn't seem to have any friends lol, their personalities were both sweet in their own ways. I would've loved a deeper delve into it but that might not have suited the vibe of the movie so idm…
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I loved the beginning, the plot and characters. I was planning to love this once but the scene at the end totally ruined everything.
I would've added this one to my favorites but that scene ruined the whole mood (!!SPOILER!!) with the non consent. I wish I could've just skipped that part. I wish they'd shown Tsuzuki being more gentler or waiting instead of just raping/forcing him.
I also do not like how many people normalize r@pe in yaoi... It ruins everything when the story just turns like that. I watched this on YouTube but I can't seem to find the link or anything so if you'd like to watch this it's on crunchyroll.
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!SPOILER!
Even as someone who quite enjoys shounen-ai and yaoi, that end scene was just painful to watch. If you still want to give this a try, do yourself a favor and only watch the first 45 minutes. The beggining was fine, but it gradually became a typical 2000-2010 bl, lack of communication, (kind of?) forced sex, you know the drill... I think it could've been nice, but that end scene just doesn't sit right with me. It was just so uncomfortable to watch. Except that one scene, it was overall pretty nice, not a masterpiece or something life-changing, but still quite cute and passable.
Imho, if you like shounen-ai, then just go watch doukyuusei, it's a lot more wholesome than this lol
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I really thought that I had finally found a shounen ai/BL movie that was just cute and wholesome. Initially it was just that. The characters are nice and relatable, the storyline was solid and you could see how the mc's slowly started to like each other. It was rather natural even?
UNTIL! Until the last scene of course. Absolutely ruined it. Every day I ask myself WHY authors do this. Have they ever heard of CONSENT!!! It's a huge trigger warning for so many people as well. So do yourself a favour and stop watching at around 45min. That way you won't feel like you just wasted an hour of your life.
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now this has been said in every over review, but this film is pretty good. i was genuinely on the edge of my seat thinking 'what was gonna happen?', and for the most part the payoff was pretty good. my only problem was the scene at the end, this was relatively wholesome until this point. i didnt really look into this film before watching it, i just clicked on it at random, so maybe others who watched this had a better idea where this was going. but it still is incredibly uncomfortable and makes the ending of the film much less enjoyable.
!!! i think its worth a watch but i would skip the second to last scene to protect your soul!!! - if you watch the fansub on youtube the time stamp is from 45:36 - 47:54 -
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After reading the other reviews, I must say, I am pleasantly surprised that most of the people here call this movie out for the things it did wrong.
Honestly, I loved the movie until the last couple scenes that are unfortunately promoting the ever present mindset of rape sex being a thing of love.
There was obviously no consent. And don't get me wrong, you can definitely portray rape in movies. But the moment you portray it as something to be accepted in a relationship, as something normal, that's where you cross the line.
I think it's time we finally got some more BL animes with consensual sex , is it that hard? All you needed to do was for both characters to want to have sex, how is it so impossible to do?
And an argument, that you can't stop doing it, when you've already started, t…
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Ok, so I read ALL the reviews on this here (except for the long one cause I was both lazy and anxious to give my own point of view) and I'm glad we all as society grew up and started finally seeing rape as it is. But, come on.
Nah, I'm not judging and I'm not writing this at rage (I was actually gonna start differently before reading them and I wanted so see if I watched the same movie as everyone else, if you know what I mean) but I think that being progressist about it is ruining a scene that I liked because I laughed my ass off on the dialogues. I, as well, felt a bit weird about that scene, I'm not gonna hide it, but I personally don't mind at all cause I take it as just fiction and in real life I know it's wrong.
If you really, really are gonna take a cartoon so seriously, I'd say e…
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I give up. Why is this still considered acceptable? I admit, I'm not familiar with the light novel, so maybe it wasn't as creepy, or maybe it just has a big following, but why did this have to be one of the few BL works to be adapted into animation recently? Why did they choose this one?
Yes ka (shortened for the sake of my fingers) is, according to this adaptation, a very traditional BL that follows along the lines of Sekaiichi Hatsukoi and the like. Literally everything about this production screams of a work that's right at home in that mid 2000s to around the 2011 mark, and the animation quality and lineart will back me up on that one. I legitimately think that the Black Butler anime, which debuted in 2008 (and which I also dislike heavily) had better looking art than this film in eve…
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Just like another person mentioned the last scene really ruined the whole anime for me. The story in general was at most mediocre, kind of had the same vibe as 2000-2010 yaoi anime, so immediately wasnt my favourite. But the ending scene just was not it. (Spoilers ahead) I have learned to kind of dismiss rape-y scenes in the yaoi genre cause its so normalised and frequent, but I cant anymore that was just plain wrong and the dude was sorta coerced into doing it, it just doesnt sit well with me. The story had potential but it just didnt work. I wouldnt recommend, however if you still want to watch it, it is available on youtube (i cant seem to find it anywhere else).
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I had high hopes for Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka, but it fell victim to a few stereotypical shounen ai/BL/yaoi tropes which made it fall short of its potential.
THE GOOD--------------
This anime definitely accomplished a lot story-wise for being under an hour long. The storyline does hinge on the classic "misunderstanding that spirals out of control" set up, but the way it played out felt more unique in a way I really enjoyed. The main character, Kei, also felt unique and had some nice character development.
Finally, the animation and voice acting was very nice -- especially shounen ai usually doesn't get the biggest of budgets. No complaints there!
THE BAD----------------
It would have been nice to see a little more personality in the secondary character, Tsuzuki. He kind of just existed, w…
Read at the sourceKisaChan94
I was skeptical at first since this got announced way back, but I knew I was going to be alright with it even if it was just good, but tbh after watching the full movie (which is 53mins) I was surprised with how great it actually was.
I actually got the LN not to long ago and read it and I loved it, and so I was fully prepared to watch it and see if it could live up to the LN... and it did.
I wasn't too familiar with the studio and a bit worried thinking it wouldn't be as good but I have to say they did really well.
They handle certain scenes well and the animation was great but of course its never perfect but I can overlook it and its not really something I care about as long as the story is there and handled right, that's all I need. Also I have to say the music was good as well, I e…
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