Especially the last guy dinging it right off the bat because it’s “aimed squarely at the fujoshi market”. Yeah no shit dummy did you think you were sitting down to watch an Oscar-nominated drama about the gritty realities of the gay experience? How did you even get in here? Please understand that these are essentially sexy aliens who look and behave like men only to the extent that it is attractive to the audience which is 99% female and 1% sexually repressed bisexual men. My God. Sorry for party rocking discoursing, everyone
E: Fitting that this is all Tasogare Outfocus reviews because IMO it’s the flipside of guys stumbling across BL and getting mad that it’s woke. It’s not even in the same conversation
"I watched a romance drama and it was melodramatic and unrealistic???"
Yeah? No shit, that's what most of them are like.
BL, geicomi, and LGBT are different marketing categories at the book store. There is crossover and overlap between categories but they all have their own defining features. If you want realism and good representation you don't pick up a random geicomi and then complain that it's all unrealisticly beefy dudes pissing on each other, that's what you signed up for.
