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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 10 months

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You little brat!

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liyazaki · 9 months

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the 30-something was too stunned to speak

MINATO'S LAUNDROMAT 2 | EP. 4

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smittenskitten · 9 months

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#minato shouji coin laundry 2 #jdramaedit #minato shouji coin laundry #asianlgbtqdrama #みなと商事コインランドリー #nishigaki sho #minato's laundromat 2 #kusakawa takuya #minatoslaundromatedit #prangon gifs

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taikanyohou · 8 months

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HIGUCHI KOUHEI x NISHIGAKI SHO. For Gianna Magazine (2023).

#my personal weatherman #higuchi kouhei #minato shouji coin laundry #minato shouji coin laundry 2 #nishigaki sho #jdramasource #jdramaedit #*#faiza gifs #GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD THEM TWO IN A MAGAZINE PHOTOSHOOT TOGETHER? OKOKOKOK!#tw flashing

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ginpotts · 9 months

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Minato Shouji Coin Laundry 2 🧺 Episode Three

yukata shopping date aka free time for shin to stare adoringly at akira in a yukata

Bonus: akira staring adoringly after shin in a yukata too

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heretherebedork · 10 months

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@absolutebl A BL feeling expressed perfectly.

#minato coin laundry #minato shouji coin laundry 2 #bl drama #bl series #minato coin laundry 2 #jdrama #japanesebl #bl japan #japanese bl #japanese drama #jbl #bl jdrama #bl japanese #asianlgbtqdramas #asian lgbtq dramas #japanese series #i love him so much

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emotionallychargedtowel · 8 months

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about that Minato's Laundromat season 2 storyline...

As your resident psychology PhD I'm commenting on this even though I would rather forget about the whole thing and just hope it's over soon. But I haven't been able to restrain myself from ranting about it privately, so I may as well rant here.

Setting aside what I think of this as a plot device (what I think is that it sucks), this is even more unrealistic than most TV and film portrayals of traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, which as a whole are abysmal. (Please note that "traumatic" in this context refers to a sudden tissue injury due to an accident or violence, not to the person having a traumatic experience, though of course the two things can totally co-occur.)

If I can take a step back for a second, once you learn anything at all about traumatic brain injury so many plotlines in TV series and movies become incredibly frustrating. How many times have you seen a character bonk another on the head as a convenient way to render them unconscious only to find that soon afterward, the person who's been hit in the head wakes up practically unscathed after a convenient span of time has passed? I have no doubt that there are people who have taken these portrayals seriously and hit others hard enough to cause a TBI because they thought it wasn't a big deal. I'm equally sure that the prevalence of this trope has had an effect on TBI survivors's difficulties being taken seriously. It's pernicious and it makes me so angry. TBIs aren't the type of thing that you typically just walk away from in the same condition you were in before they happened, and they shouldn't be portrayed that way in media.

Back to the Minato's Laundromat plotline. Shin sustains a pretty serious fall-related TBI. He appears to have been unconscious for a good while since it looks like a bright afternoon (maybe early evening at the latest) when he falls and it's dark when Minato sees him and is told he regained consciousness not long before. It seems like he was unconscious for more than half an hour but it hasn't been 24 hours yet, which puts him in the range for his injury to be considered a moderate TBI. Don't let the label fool you--a moderate TBI is a very big deal. People with moderate TBIs can experience personality changes, cognitive deficits, and all sorts of other major issues.

Loss of memory is common with TBIs, but the most common type of amnesia with a TBI pertains to events just before or just after the injury occurred. Retrograde amnesia, where you can't remember what happened just before the injury, is rather common. Anterograde amnesia, where you don't remember events after the injury, can happen too. But forgetting details about your life? That is not a common symptom.

Guess what's even less common? You guessed it: the kind of highly specific amnesia Shin has in Minato's Laundromat. Forgetting one specific relationship or person isn't unheard-of in psychology, but it's almost always selective amnesia related to a traumatic experience. It's like an extreme defense mechanism in which the person unconsciously blocks out a whole swath of their experiences. The information that gets lost is linked not by its location in the brain, but by a semantic link--a link based on the meaning assigned to those memories. Loss of semantically-linked memories is associated with psychological causes, not physical ones. This kind of symptom is based on thoughts and emotions, not brain structures.

The effects of TBIs, on the other hand, are related to the location of an injury and the functions of whatever portions of the brain are impacted by that injury. Brain localization is the phenomenon whereby different parts of our brains are responsible for different functions. For example, our frontal lobes house a lot of our executive functioning abilities, so a TBI mostly affecting someone's frontal lobe could make them more impulsive, less able to plan effectively, and so forth. Or if a person sustained an injury to their Broca's Area (a spot near the front of the left hemisphere that is important for speech), they would likely have difficulties communicating. If Shin had an "all about Minato" section of his brain and it got hit when he fell, then sure, it would make some sense if he lost his Minato-related memories. But that's not how our brains work--except in that one genre of cartoon humor where we see inside someone's brain and each of the things they care about has its own little region. But Shin isn't a cartoon character. His memories of Minato aren't housed in one specific place separate from his memories of other important people in his life.

I dug around and found that there have been some cases of selective amnesia due to TBI. However, these are vanishingly rare, with only a handful of case studies and nowhere near the amount of data that would be needed to draw any generalizable conclusions (in other words, any facts we could apply to other cases). If Shin was a real person and he forgot about his relationship with one important person in his life due to a TBI, this would be so unusual that psychologists and psychiatrists would have come from miles around to observe him and he would likely have had his case written up in a neuropsych journal, after which it may have ended up in more widely-read publications. He also would likely have been kept for observation much longer than the period we saw in the show.

But the weirdest thing about his case, if he were a real person, would be that he is suffering such an intense amnesia symptom and yet has no other symptoms of note. Moderate TBIs can have very severe effects. They can change your personality, cause serious difficulties with communication, trigger seizures, sharply increase someone's risk of substance abuse--I could go on but you get the idea. The effects are often profound. Many people who experience a moderate TBI develop a serious disability as a result. Occasionally, people who experience a moderate TBI can get lucky and avoid the worst kinds of symptoms. But to have one highly unusual and severe symptom and no others would be extremely weird.

Once again, we find that a media portrayal of TBI is highly unrealistic. Worse, it's trivializing. Honestly, treating a TBI in this way, as a cheap ploy to further a romance plot, is pretty ableist.

Sometimes we suspend disbelief about this kind of thing when we watch visual media. There are so many other psychological diagnoses and symptoms that are inaccurately portrayed and generally overused. For example, how many TV and movie characters have had a "split personality" that bore no resemblance to actual experiences of Dissociative Identity Disorder? But if a show or movie is going to use something like this to advance a plot, they need to make it count. It needs to serve a real purpose that couldn't be accomplished just as easily by other means. And that's simply not true in this case.

The only solution to the issues created by this plotline would be to resolve it as quickly as possible and allow the characters to move on, preferably memory-holing it completely, like that time on Friday Night Lights that (spoiler alert) Landry murdered a guy and then no one ever spoke of it again.

#minato's laundromat 2 #minato shouji coin laundry 2 #minato's laundromat #minato shouji coin laundry #the shin amnesia plotline #psychology of BL

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blmpff · 3 months

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✨ Various Tropes: Hand-Holding on a Beach (1/?) ✨

TITLES IN ORDER: 1. Bad Buddy (2021) 2&3: Never Let Me Go (2022) 4: Minato's Laundromat 2 (2023) 5: Last Twilight (2023)

#TITLES IN ORDER:#bad buddy the series #never let me go the series #2x #minato's laundromat 2 #minato shouji coin laundry 2 #last twilight the series #hand holding #part one #various tropes #blmpff

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mysterygrl20 · 9 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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narakoi · 10 months

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he's so normal i love him

#really enjoyed seeing him smile so much #minato shouji coin laundry #minato shouji coin laundry 2

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 4 months

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Drying hair as a sign of affection and caring (Part 3/?)

My Beautiful Man 2

Egoist

My Engineer

Tokyo In April Is...

Don't Say No

Minato Shouji Coin Laundry 2

Unintentional Lovestory

History 5

My Personal Weatherman

Sky In Your Heart

My favorite bl-tropes-collection.

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liyazaki · 10 months

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Katsuki Thirstier Than Mosquitoes Shintaro, First of His Name

MINATO'S LAUNDROMAT 2 | EP. 2

#minato's laundromat 2 #minato shouji coin laundry 2 #minato's laundromat #minato shouji coin laundry #jdrama #perk of being home sick (yet again): giffing the gays midday #jdramaedit #tonanons #lextag #userstorge #nishigaki sho #kusakawa takuya #japanese bl #asiandramanet #asianlgbtqdramas #asiandramasource #asiandramaedit #mor gifs minato's laundromat

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smittenskitten · 9 months

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Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2 (2023) ep. 03

#minato shouji coin laundry 2 #jdramaedit #minato shouji coin laundry #asianlgbtqdrama #minato's laundromat 2 #nishigaki sho #kusakawa takuya #みなと商事コインランドリー #minatoslaundromatedit #prangon gifs

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bengiyo · 10 months

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Minato’s Laundromat 2 Ep 1 Stray Thoughts

I was not even hoping for this to get a sequel, but I am so excited that we are. We so often leave characters at their starting line. Minato unpacked a lot of his own internalized homophobia and cowardice in the last season, and I’m excited to see what the showrunners think the early phase of his relationship with Shin will look like. I’m not much of a fan of time skips, and so this is what I’ve not-so-secretly hoped for when I ask for more stories about gay people staying together.

I like that we’re opening this season with a reaffirmation that Minato actually likes running the laundromat.

There he is! My favorite menace!

I like the new intro.

Asuka!! My second favorite menace!

Okay, I’m legitimately excited for Asuka pursuing more learning for himself. There was a melancholy resignation about his life hanging over him before.

Shin is still crushing the hopes and dreams of potential female suitors.

I really love Japanese filmmaking styles around walking. Asuka jumps in step with Shin, revealing that the two are still friends (despite Shin’s apparent irritation with Asuka). When their issues come up, Shin immediately falls behind. They both stop, and this kicks them into an A-B shot conversation briefly. We’ve landed at the first worry that has broken their stride. It’s good! It communicates so much. Shin is worried about his three-month-old relationship with Minato, Asuka is being picked on to study by everyone and teased about his crush on Shun. These two are still the gay friends who’ve been together forever but are always seemingly picking on each other. It’s great.

I’m enjoying this divide in the way these two are handling being together. Shin has known of his attraction for a long time, and wants Minato to be direct and open about his feelings. Minato is still shy about them, and gets embarrassed.

“Have I been a good boy for the last three months?” There’s my favorite menace!

I’m relieved we’re getting Minato’s internal monologue. Shin is going to speak his feelings aloud because he has no shame about them, but we the audience need to hear Minato’s worries. He’s too anxious a character for us to just read them from his face.

Curious where Minato’s specific hang up on saying “I like you” to Shin comes from.

See, this is what I’m talking about with good use of side couples. We cut away from the mains to Asuka telling Shun he likes him and Shun telling him to focus on his studies. Shun is incapable of returning the romantic feelings Asuka is projecting at him, but he’s been clear about that the whole time. Still, he agrees that Asuka’s presence is a positive one in his life. I’m LOCKED IN.

This beach always looks so uncomfortable.

I have missed Minato’s shirts, but not how hungry they make me.

I love that Asuka goes to Minato to complain about Shun. Minato is also the one not meeting his partner’s vocalized needs, so it puts him in the awkward position of defending Shun. Also amused at Minato dodging the question about whether he and Shin have been intimate, because we know for sure they have.

I hope Shin isn’t playing games with Minato about being busy…but also low-key I hope he’s using this as an opportunity to mess with Minato. I’m sorry. I’m a little shallow. I like when characters misuse malicious compliance to give their romantic partners what they say they want.

“Who’s the real kid here? It seems like it’s me.” Love when we read a character correctly.

You know Minato is approaching 30 because he’s excited about a new broom.

Shin working at the same cram school as Shun gives so much potential for other character dynamics.

Just one of these times I want to see Shin throw hands with Asuka.

Shin remains my favorite. Minato is playing avoidance games again and Shin is not having it.

I’m curious if the reason Shin can’t go home tonight is about the ruined refrigerator and he’s just being dramatic.

I’m not sure how living together works when Minato still has all these hang ups.

I like the new version of the beach outro.

Nishigaki Sho and Kusakawa Takuya are just ridiculously attractive. My goodness.

I’m genuinely excited about what domesticity looks like for these two.

I missed these boys so much! I don’t care if we don’t have a manga to rely upon. I am so excited to get a season about these two starting their relationship. This feels like a warmup for TV Tokyo before we get more of What Did You Eat Yesterday? in the fall. I am just so satisfied with my BL experience lately.

#minato shouji coin laundry 2 #minato shouji coin laundry #minato’s laundromat #minato's laundromat 2 #japanese bl #bl series #Ben watches

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ginpotts · 10 months

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Minato Shouji Coin Laundry 2 🧺 Episode One

Minato "Hearteyes" Akira

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heretherebedork · 10 months

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Minato's Coin Laundry Season 2!

My tiny side couple is back!!! Also Minato and Shin and just... everything. Look at it! And a neck kiss just for @absolutebl with the best age gap couple.

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