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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 1 month

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A thousand little kisses.

Only Friends

Our Skyy 2

Be My Favorite

Tokyo In April Is...

Jun & Jun

Dangerous Romance

House Of Stars

Why R U Korea

Hidden Agenda

Only Friends

1000 little kisses (2/?) as part of my favorite bl-tropes collection, in no particular order.

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bellepark · 9 months

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"Ren, you are my everything, my life... My Tokyo in April."

SHIGATSU NO TOKYO WA ４月の東京は (2023) final episode 8

#tokyo in april is...#shigatsu no tokyo wa #kazuma x ren #shigatsu no tokyo wa...#tokyo in april is #jdrama #jdramasource #asianlgbtqdramas #boyslovesource #lextag #userginpotts #userstorge #ninisdarlings #why all this fluffy j bls always has short eps...#likeeee i shouldn't complain bc they gave us a warm lovely ending #but likeeeee gimme moreeee (crying)#belleparkgif

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sololunes · 10 months

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"Something about dressing a person up feels more intimate than dressing them down."

#Tokyo In April Is...#Tokyo In April #Shigatsu No Tokyo Wa #Shigatsu No Tokyo Wa...#４月の東京は…#４月の東京は...

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piningintrovert · 10 months

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Tonight, Ren didn't go back to his own home. The next day and the day after that, too. Ren stayed in my bed, sleeping beside me the whole time. I don't know why, it's just... with my eyes closed or open, Ren is there. That alone is enough, and nothing else matters. The only thing that matters to me is Ren.

Sakurai Yuki as KAZUMA & Takamatsu Aloha as REN TOKYO IN APRIL IS… (2023), dir. Ishibashi Yuho

#tokyo in april is...#kazuma x ren #shigatsu no tokyo wa...#tokyo in april #shigatsu no tokyo wa #tokyo in april is #sakurai yuki #takamatsu aloha #jdramaedit #jdramasource #bl drama #mjtag #userbillkin #lextag #tonanons #userspicy #raemakes #s:tiai #tiai ep4

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sensazioneultra · 11 months

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men in love are so pretty

#shigatsu no tokyo wa #shigatsu no tokyo wa...#tokyo in april is #tokyo in april is...#jdramaedit #jdrama #jdramasource #takamatsu aloha #did i say the l word already well. yes #tbf they have History #nico.gif #these look better on desktop can i get a sad mobile user noise !

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lurkingshan · 10 months

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I may never get over Ren Ishihara. It’s the way he had to part from Kazuma and everything he knew under such dire circumstances. It’s how despite the damage and the distance his devotion never wavered. It’s that look he gets in his eyes first when he is basking in Kazuma’s affection, and then when he is terrified it will be taken away again. All he wants in the entire world is to call Kazuma his home.

#i’m not crying you’re crying #tokyo in april is …#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#japanese bl #shan shouts into the void

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justafriend-ql · 5 months

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If you want to stay unseen, I'll close my eyes. I don't want you to keep it all in. TOKYO IN APRIL IS... Episode 4 // Episode 8

#tokyo in april is...#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#kazuma x ren #takizawa kazuma #ishihara ren #jdrama #takamatsu aloha #sakurai yuki #jbl #melgifs #i love how these scenes parallel each other to demonstrate ren's healing

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heretherebedork · 10 months

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It's just the way Kazuma loves Ren. It's entirely all consuming and self-sacrificing for the sake of pleasure with such this feeling of someone loving someone that is so much better than them on some invisible scale that they would willingly blind themself, deafen themself, just for the chance to be there with them in that moment.

And that's absolutely heartbreaking knowing that Ren loves him in return but sees the situation entirely differently, watching him on a different kind of pedestal, both of them placing the other entirely out of their reach but in way the other person doesn't recognize. @absolutebl This show is going to kill me.

Just the weight that Ren has been carrying this whole time, the entire world of guilt on his shoulders that Kazuma has no idea about, that Kazuma would be horrified to know he thought was true....

Again and again with both of them placing the other on a pedestal of love and warmth and brilliance and brightness. Both Kazuma and Ren look at the other and see someone that is better than them, perfect to and for them, someone that they cannot ever have and cannot ever deserve to be close to.

Ren is just here, ripping my heart out. To himself, even to this day, he is convinced that Kazuma must be straight, must not like him back, must have been hurt by his choices. And no matter how much Kazuma pulls him back into his life, seeks him out, tries to keep him... Ren goes back to this trauma, these answers, this pain and this fear and this loss.

And now he knows that Kazuma has been looking for him this entire time.

The sheer weight of the guilt that Ren has been carrying... that he thinks he forced Kazuma, that he is the reason he got sick, that both their parents think he did this, that he got disowned, that he is so scared Kazuma will die and it will be entirely his fault...

But to see that Kazuma has been searching for him this entire time. That Kazuma wanted to seek him out again and found him with so much joy and so much love and now they're doing everything together and he's just barely holding himself together by a thread. How much can one person hold without sharing that part of himself?

The sheer joy they find in being together is so overwhelming but it's also a cover over so much pain, a thin coating of joy over years of agony and loneliness and desperation and the only hope is that the joy is enough to start healing, that the joy and the love can hold them together when everything beneath the surface begins to break down.

And let the momentary boyfriend era begin!!!!

Boyfriends.

But also just absolutely glorious. The chance they can take to love each other, to be loved, to be together, even though there's so much behind them that they need do discuss.... there's still comfort.

(The pedestals they have each other up on, the love they have between them, the absolute agony of looking at each other and seeing the person they've loved for so long but not realizing how much they are loved, wanted, needed, adored, in return.)

Far too much love. Far too much. How dare they.

Disgusting.

More please.

At some point, all of this is going to have to come out into the open. They're going to have to actually talk about the past. But the more love and the more understanding they share now... the more hopeful I am for them to be able to understand each other in the past.

(Ren is going to break Kazuma's heart when he finds out what he thinks happened and I am going to break with him.)

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bengiyo · 9 months

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Tokyo in April Is...: Bursting the BL Bubble

I haven’t had a lot of time today to read other takes on episode 7 of Tokyo in April is… but I wanted to talk about Ryunosuke and how he bursts the BL bubble around Kazuma in this episode and talk about the righteous anger he has for Kazuma.

I just wrote about Second Lead Syndrome in Korean dramas in a post about Jun & Jun, and I think I have a better grasp on Ryunosuke for this show. Ryunosuke hates Kazuma. He only knows Kazuma through Ren, and Ryunosuke clearly loves Ren. From his perspective, Ren threw himself on the sword of homophobia so that Kazuma could remain naïve and innocent. He has watched Ren continue to suffer for ten years and has tried as best he can to be there for Ren. They have tried multiple times at being intimate and it always ends in failure. From a shallow BL perspective, the height difference between them is perfect!

Then, he meets Kazuma, and he is…exactly the kind of boy that Ren would feel protective of. He’s kind and obsessed with Ren. He’s tall, beautiful, and athletic. He is made of sunshine. He seems completely untouched by what happened when Ren and Kazuma were 15. He doesn’t read as queer to Ryunosuke or Ren. If I was Ryunosuke, I would also doubt that Kazuma doesn’t remember anything about what happened or has no idea what could have happened to Ren. I also get how Ryunosuke would be even more upset.

In Kazuma, everything Ren sacrificed is validated. He suffered so that Kazuma wouldn’t, and he succeeded! Kazuma is fine! He went back to the US and had a normal experience in high school as a member of the football team. He went to school and became a talented professional. He doesn’t carry the scars of growing up queer and feeling different that so many of us wear. He doesn’t even think of himself in terms of queerness. He only thinks of Ren. He is a BL protagonist.

Ryunosuke is understandably irritated by this and feels compelled to challenge and provoke Kazuma. Guys like him can be dangerous in our community. What if he has gay panic later? What if he’s a Russel T. Davies character? Has he ever considered what Ren suffered? Does he know what Ren gave up for him? Ryunosuke has been beside Ren for a decade watching him have panic attacks any time he tries to be intimate, but this jock is the one who finally gets Ren out of that block?

Kazuma cannot remain in the bubble if he’s going to be with Ren as far as Ryunosuke is concerned. He reveals the sordid details of what Ren suffered and forces Kazuma to see the cost of his naivete. I’m not unsympathetic for Kazuma, because he’s been trying to understand what happened for over a decade. Still, I completely get Ryunosuke not accepting that Kazuma didn’t know anything.

This episode left us at a cliffhanger about Ren’s safety, but I genuinely think he’ll be fine based on my reads of Japanese media and dramas. The biggest struggle this episode was in Kazuma having to wiggle around one of Ren’s strict rules to help him. He has to see the ugliness of what Ren suffered and recognize that he’s in a different narrative than he thought.

Ryunosuke is the kind of romantic rival I like, because we know he has no chance. Still, his love for one of the leads forces his rival to change and face something that he wouldn’t otherwise.

#Ben writes #tokyo in april is...#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#japanese bl #bl series

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soiledtaste · 2 months

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this is very belated because i wasn't even sure i was going to do this post but i do enjoy hearing everyone's thoughts when i do. here's what stood out to me last year both favorites and just standouts

kimi to nara koi wo shite mite mo

last twilight (sans the ending)

kiseki: dear to me

moonlight chicken

my beautiful man 2

only friends (not perfect but still enjoyed it)

bokura no shokutaku

the eighth sense

pit babe (i have no words as to why i enjoyed this as much as i did. i blame the cast, why they got to be so good)

the sign (i still haven't watched the finale because i don't want it to be over)

unintentional love story

taikan yoho

kimi ni wa todokanai

tsukuritai onna to tabetai onna

shigatsu no tokyo wa...

@morathicain @gunsatthaphan @starminesister @bilights @pearloftheorient @untouchabyeolman @nocturnalgrimoire @desire-for-madness @haymaepunk @pharawee @taikanyohou @firstkhaoo @ceciolla95 @deshimango @nohshinwoos @thasorns & all

hope some people i follow don't mind me tagging because i've been in such a drama slump as of late that maybe hearing from others about dramas i missed might motivate me to get back into them

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hokkienmee · 9 months

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Sakurai Yuki in Shigatsu no Tokyo wa… (2023) ↳ Episode 7

#i don't necessarily think yuki is a great actor but he was good in this ep!#he just needs a little extra guidance he has room to improve!#4-gatsu no tokyo wa...#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#shigatsu no tokyo wa #tokyo in april is...#tokyo in april is #４月の東京は…#sakurai yuki #櫻井佑樹 #dw yuki i will fill your tags with gifs! just keep acting #.gif #jdrama #every time i tried to color this series it's like im trying to tame an untamable beast

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 10 months

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I missed you... I missed you so much, Ren... Always... All this time.

#tokyo in april is...#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#tokyo in april is... ep 3 #ren x kazuma #kazumaren #kazuma x ren #japanese bl #japanese series #japanese drama #bl drama #bl series #jdrama #asianlgbtqdrama #myedit

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lovetune · 9 months

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While we were apart I felt like I was drifting at sea, but whenever I thought of you I could keep going. I knew exactly which way to go.

4月の東京は… / TOKYO IN APRIL IS... (2023) Episode 8 dir. Ishibashi Yuho

#tokyo in april is...#takamatsu aloha #sakurai yuki #4月の東京は…#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#jdramaedit #jdramasource #asianlgbtqdrama #userfext #*#tv: tokyo in april

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blmpff · 9 months

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TAKAMATSU ALOHA NYLON JAPAN 02.08.23

#takamatsu aloha #shigatsu no tokyo wa...#tokyo in april is...#cast #love the top sir #japanese actors #blmpff #bl fashion irl

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piningintrovert · 10 months

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There are were several rules when it comes to sex with Ren. For example, not turning on the lights. When we're intimate, Ren never shows his face and doesn't let me hear his voice. And ... after sex, always make sure to leave.

Sakurai Yuki as KAZUMA & Takamatsu Aloha as REN TOKYO IN APRIL IS…(2023), dir. Ishibashi Yuho

#tokyo in april is...#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#sakurai yuki #takamatsu aloha #jdramaedit #jdramasource #bl drama #raemakes #s:tiai

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mysterygrl20 · 10 months

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WE GOT TWO (2) JBLS DOING CUTE GOODBYE KISSES THIS WEEK

[Tokyo in April is... and Minato's Laundromat 2]

#minato’s laundromat #minato shouji coin laundry #tokyo in april is...#shigatsu no tokyo wa...#bl series #jdrama #tokyo in april is #shigatsu no tokyo wa #minato shouji coin laundry 2 #minato's laundromat 2 #gifs #beck liveblogs #beteaed #beck makes gifs

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