Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
blackbunshin
Very relaxing anime to watch! You can see the genuine connection being built between the couple, first over forced proximity, then over very simple things like food taste, routine and world views. It doesn't classify as enemies to lovers for me, but it does have one trait in common with the genre, which is the depiction of one person falling in love with the other despite seeing that person's worst side. Actually you could say love happens BECAUSE the main character's "worst" side is shown.
Their main conflict revolves around the main character's internal issues with his persona, a change from BL plots in which the main obstacle are misunderstandings, third parties or internal homophobia and I think this is a variation a lot of people will enjoy.
Overall, this is a soft romance where it's…
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Most of the movie was fine, i was going to say it was mostly good with a few hiccups but that final scene just ruined it for me. It was so unconfortable and left a bad taste in my mouth, i would go so far as to say that it soured the whole thing.
If we're ignoring the ending scene though i guess it was good enough, i did mostly like it up to that point and it was interesting to see them, it was kind of predictable but i don't personally have an issue with predictable stories; The main character was enjoyable to follow and even though the love interest wasn't very fleshed out he was fine for what he was supposed to do, i liked the small spotlight on the job of animation and it was overall sweet to see their relationship start.
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Sweet, simple, decent animation, a little rushed. Sometimes the MC could get a little grating, but I believe that was more a consequence of such a short run-time than poor writing. Yes ka No Ka Hanbun ka had a lot of potential and it even got me a little teary-eyed, however it rapidly falls victim to one of the most notorious negative BL tropes. This is a great movie to watch if you want your entire viewing experience to be ruined at the last minute.
Unfortunately for me it would feel disingenuous to rate it any lower because I really did enjoy the first 40ish minutes.
Read at the sourceEllieCats
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.
Not entirely sure why more is required in my review. More words does not equal a better review. Not entirely sure why more is required in my review. More words does not equal a better review. Not entirely sure why more is required in my review. More words does not equal a better review. Not entirely sure why more is required in my review. More words does not equal a better review.
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…
Read at the sourceSapphiRubyCrys
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.
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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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For the first 45 minutes this is an enjoyable romance anime with the cliché "mis-identification, torn between 2 folks" trope. Throw in the "Can only be myself when in disguise" cliché and that's this show.
For that time it's quite enjoyable and the "shoulder personality" throwing out true back of the head snark is done well. The artist is played off a bit to "perfect person" though.
Then we hit the last scene. BL Fans .. NO MEANS NO. If you flipped one of the genders in this it'd get screamed down left right and centre. Please stop portraying any teased/horny man as a beast who will never except "not yet" or "no" from a partner and just has to go for it. The existence of a Y chromosome does not actually mean that you are a slave to your hormones.
Dropped it from a 7 to a solid 6 for me…
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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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This whole movie was "yes, no or maybe?"
The art and animation went really well hand in hand, especially the art style, I really loved.
The characters were okay, they didn't have much depth, but they were certainly interesting.
And...the sex scene. First off, sex isn't a go to for connection, I don't understand the obsession. Second, consent, without consent it's literally rape. It's not right for someone to stand there and say they "understand you" when you're stating the opposite.
It was not a good scene, made me uncomfortable, to force oneself onto someone else. It ruined the movie for me, rated it down a notch.
Maybe the author had something different in mind, but they didn't execute it well.
My advice for them is to have different points of view, or ask other people for opinio…
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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.
Read at the sourceKomfertM
Waste of my time honestly. I had high hopes for this cause at first it seemed charming and fun but the ending completely ruined it for me. There’s not much to be enjoyed here. SPOILERS AHEAD
Im tired of BL following certain tropes that really shouldn’t be tropes in the genre anyway. At the end there is honestly a disturbing rape scene that really felt out of place and gave me secondhand embarrassment it was so bad.
Nothing was really special about this and I wish I had more to say but there isn’t. I gave this short an overall 2 but I have to give credit to some of the animation.
Read at the sourceSenaMinomori
God, I tried my best to make it through this movie. I thought it might be cute, a normal-ish couple who ended up a couple through working together after working through some differences in their personalities, but I couldn't even get that far. I had to stop watching because it was irritating me.
Some spoilers, but it doesn't matter because I didn't make it to the end.
The main character is an insufferable twat. I can tell they added the mental asides for him meaning for them to be cutesy (hence the cute chibi version of the character representing his mental voice), but I really just wanted to strangle him. In fact, adding in the main character berating other characters in his head for infractions like (gasp!) daring to think he's a decent guy, really just serve to make him more unlikeab…
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I really enjoyed it, I'm not to see yaoi but it wasn't that bad, overall the story gave me laughter and more (spoiler) when they had s3x at the end.
It's a bit silly from my point of view, I'm not saying it's bad just that it's like it's not the big thing.
I don't understand the characters well, at some point it gets a little boring; if you want to hang out watching a yaoi movie, this is your story.
To be honest, I liked the ending more than the whole movie, I thought it was very nice and it was the best part. As I said it was not very interesting, they were very insipid.
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"Yes, No, or Maybe?"
Do you consent to sex? "Yes, no, or maybe?" Did I like this anime? "Yes, no, or maybe."
I loved this anime. It was a lighthearted romp. It was fun, it was impactful. It made me feel a type of way. I got butterflies in my stomach from it. I loved the audio, the story, the concept, the resolution, the characters - everything. As a woman who struggles with a personality disorder, the concept of never being able to show the real "you" really caught me, and I really connected with it.
However, there was no real substance beyond "please like yourself". There's nothing that will stick with me for the rest of my life after leaving this anime, and if it wasn't for MyAnimeList, give it 4 years and I'll forget what it's even about.
It wasn't Given. It wasn't Strangers by the…
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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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As a yaoi fan, I rarely dislike any, but this one was decent. I wasn't super super into it but for a short movie, it was fun. I loved the premise, with the hidden identity. Having just gone through a pandemic with COVID-19, I was so put off by the fact that the main character was hiding behind a surgical mask. I don't know if anyone else felt the same way watching this is in 2021, but I was so distracted by the mask.
The art and story was really good and I loved the music of the show as well. The characters were also done well, and no one was really that annoying. I am a sucker for dark haired anime guys, as all girls are, and he was definitely done well in this show.
I have to say though... the ending. Just what. What in the world. I wish I could erase the last five minutes of the mov…
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I rated this a 6 in my list and a 5 for the overall review because those seem to have the words to best describe this movie. It's... fine. It's pretty mediocre.
It wasn't AWFUL or anything; it has a very stereotypical shoujo manga mindset plot, but at least this one is less obvious of who's hiding behind the mask (sometimes when I see those kinds of story plotlines with girls as the main character, I'm like "There's only one girl with purple hair in the entire town, who else would this mysterious person be??"). I did think the scene where it flashes between him in front of a camera and then wearing the mask was kind of interesting - it really showed his struggle in that one second of keeping up both facades. But then lol it didn't hold up and it went towards the typical BL route which is f…
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