Kei Kunieda is a newscaster who strictly maintains an amiable and kind persona while at work. Although he smiles on the outside, he covertly curses at others to his heart's content. His everyday life is smooth, even if he keeps half of himself hidden at all times, but that changes when he meets Ushio Tsuzuki, an independent stop-motion animator.
Soon, Kei finds himself caught in a lie borne from his two personas meeting Ushio under different conditions, with the other man unaware they are the very same person. As feelings begin to blossom between them, Kei cannot be sure if Ushio will love both sides of him—or only just half.
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El3na
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, howeverif you still want to watch it, it is available on youtube (i cant seem to find it anywhere else).
littlesnarf
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, with the most memorable thing about him being...yeah, nothing really. Really, I think this film would have benefitted from an additional 30 mins. of run time. I know this was adapted from a LN (which I haven't read) so maybe the story shown is all there is to it, but overall the relationship between the characters felt shallow and it would have been nice to have some more time to see that deepen and make me care more.
THE UGLY---------------
HEY BL CREATORS: There's one trope that's hated more than any other BL trop out there. LET'S STOP DOING IT, okay? The last scene of the movie was uncomfortable and left a bad taste in my mouth--it definitely took some points off from the overall rating for me, which is a bummer.
Still, it was a worthwhile watch and I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genre!
PushMePullYou
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 the2011 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 every sense. There must have been budget issues going on behind the scenes, or else this movie got shafted in terms of funding. The musical score also screamed 'royalty free', I must say, in that the vast majority of it is comprised of plinky piano tracks that kind of sound like someone listened to a shitload of Ludovico Einaudi's ambient piano themes and decided, with no composition experience whatsoever, that they could 'do it better'.
The story is... humdrum. Not bad, not good. It's tropey for anyone who's squinted at BL in the last quarter century, but not unbearable. Its themes are pretty obvious, and in some cases literally spelled out to viewers, and while they're quite nice themes most of the time, I can't call this well written. This is writing that comes at you in a back alley with a hammer. No shade on the LN, because I can't rightly say whether that was any good, particularly since translations can be a bit shaky. But this film, at least, was very blunt with its overall themes of duality of self and such. (Edit: in hindsight, the reason for this is likely that the scenes and dialogue are lacking in subtext. Scenes do exactly what they need to do to showcase the movie's themes, and no more. They don't really serve to enrich the characterisation, or actually dissect the subtextual themes, or present interesting ideas. There's no hidden or double or nuanced meaning to think about in Tsuzuki's stop motion animation, or in his dialogue with Kunieda, just a very bluntly delivered message that serves to highlight how nakedly artificial that message is in the context of the film. If the film had purposefully set up Tsuzuki's dual nature, through foreshadowing in his dialogue and interests, and thereby made the rape at the end make sense, this could have been a brilliant Hannibal-esque toxic romance, where Kunieda's pride prevents him from speaking out in the end, thereby solidly delivering on his own characterisation as someone who internalises his problems.) If you want a film that actually discusses that theme properly, maybe try Perfect Blue instead. If there hadn't been rape, I'd probably be calling this a tropey but cute BL film to watch when you want to shut your brain off, and given it a 6/10. But really, the thing everyone's really here to discuss is the rape, so let's get onto that, because it's a doozy.
Now, BL has some interesting roots that I won't go into too heavily here, but needless to say, it was important in allowing women to enter the manga industry. Look up 'Year 24 group' or 'the 49-ers', or the works of Mori Mari if you're curious. Long story short, this gave us works with very androgynous, almost 'third gender' characters that could be projected onto by just about anyone, such as Gilbert from Kaze to Ki no Uta. In terms of female empowerment, it removed the woman from a sexual scenario, so that they could enjoy romance without placing themselves in situations they found threatening, due to the power dynamic between men and women at the time. Despite doing a fair amount of research for a layman, I'm honestly not sure how this ideal metamorphosed into the creepy, toxic BL tropes we see today, but I suspect a little film called 'Death in Venice' might have some answers. DiV is, at its core, a pedophile fantasy that the author, Thomas Mann, drew from his obsession with a Polish tween he met while on vacation in Venice. This work was, arguably, very influential on some members of the 49ers back in the seventies, and it's not surprising that the idea of a bigger, older man forcing sexual scenarios onto a younger, protesting, boyish character would enter the BL scene, although DiV ends with the obsessed man dying of cholera the moment he decides to actually do something. I can't prove it, but I know DiV was influential on those people, and it seemed plausible as to where this trope could have originated.
Anyway, we got the Seme-Uke thing somewhere along the line, either from works like Death in Venice, or possibly from the 'grow your own spouse' elements of the Tale of Genji, or possibly even through cross-contamination with the shoujo industry's complicated relationship with writing women. And it's bad, at least for gay men's general health and wellbeing. Because BL isn't about androgynes like Gilbert anymore, but much more recognizably about men, with male physiques and rippling muscles, and when you factor in the DiV angle... urgh. Yeah, gay men have been grappling with the rapist/pedophile accusations for longer than I've been alive, and this work does absolutely nothing to change that perception. We're in 2021 now. Gay marriage has been legalized in a lot of countries. And last month, Japan pushed out a dated-looking fifty minute 'film' that features one of the worst 'rape as love' moments I've seen in years.
It's not uncommon for a character to moan 'yamero...' in Japanese erotica (women would probably say 'yamete...' instead), which can literally be translated as 'stop...', but Japanese is a pretty thorny language when sex is involved, as far as I can tell as a non-native semi-speaker. 'Iyada', meaning 'don't' isn't unheard of, but often the reason for all of this is essentially 'we shouldn't do this, it's embarrassing for me', because of Japan's very reserved attitude towards sex. Hence the preponderance of characters declaring 'I can't control myself anymore!' while their love interest essentially screams 'we can't!'. This whole self control vs loss of control thing makes some amount of sense to me, given the cultural background. Now, what I can't get my head around is Tsuzuki's absolutely cursed sounding ways of essentially denying Kunieda's right to say no to him. I get that Kunieda isn't averse to the idea of having sex with Tsuzuki, but he was definitely saying 'not right now', even in the cursed world of BL translation. And then Tsuzuki held him down and screwed him anyway. Look, if that whole pre-sex business was meant to come across as tsundere flirting, then maybe it shouldn't have been shot at dutch angles, and maybe the VAs shouldn't have made it sound quite so realistically panicked.
Either way, it's presented as a solidly 'rape as love' angle, and it was horrible to witness. It felt out of character for Tsuzuki to be so inconsiderate and pushy over sex. Maybe this work was meant to make me wonder if Tsuzuki also had another side, but that wasn't established at all, and his 'other side' is so repulsive yet treated as loveable with no explanation that I can't not call it bad writing. It felt out of character for Kunieda to be fine with things after that, considering his bitchy personality. If Kunieda had a rape fetish in the story, or this had been presented as a legitimate BDSM relationship with safewords, I might have been cool with this. Rape presented as a sign of true love is way too accepted in the BL industry, and despite the help BL has given women in becoming mangaka historically, this needs to stop. I don't give a damn how wet the uke's screams made you. This kind of depiction is quantifiably harmful for gay men in real life.
We can all do better than this crap by now.
kiarak
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 consensualsex , 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, that it's not fair, is just plain wrong. If someone tells you to stop when you're about to have sex, you are going to stop. I mean why, when the person you love is crying, saying it hurts, why for the love of God would you completely ignore him begging you to stop?
This scene was completely out of character for both main characters, it was completely unnecessary and it seriously needs to stop.
So yeah, I would still recommend you watch this, but stop after they kiss at the end.
KisaChan94
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 haveto 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 especially loved the ending theme song it had me teary eyed.
Of course, Ushio and Kei are two great characters, I love these two, whenever they're on the screen together I couldn't help but have a smirk on my face the whole time they were together.
I love Shonen-ai and of course I like to watch my occasional Yaoi, but sometimes we want that romance with a story and this had it and it was all I wanted.
Overall it's a great story with two cute and amazing characters, and it was handle quite well and I hope many others will enjoy this Movie as much as I did.
mochalvs
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 wantactual 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 and i retook it with the new adaptation, however, s&m is very well written and so are the ovas, please consider them if you’re looking for a non toxic or fetishizing bl anime) it’s so hard these days to find decent bl animes, wish the industry took in consideration many other better mangas that are not fetishizing or rushed.
iwastealotoftime
- 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. Canthey not just have consensual sex? I wouldn’t even bother watching the anime.
Harlock_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 andanxiety 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 no consentual roleplay or anything like that, it was clear non consent which has seriously let the film down. I wish I could say I'm surprised. I'm disapointed but not surprised.
I have started to see better representation of M/M couples in anime in recent years which I appreciate. This was very nearly one of them but was let down by that final scene.
3rza
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 throughout the movie, but i just can't ignore that last scene. It could have been a good 8/10, but unfortunately it disappointed.
jose_dumass
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 notequal a better review.
Kanna_4869
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 becauseI 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 either don't watch or skip as said below me (but why would you start watching something just to skip it at the end?). Anyways, let's start.
I really don't have anything new to say that's not been said before, I actually wanted to make my point up there xD but I'll write some more things I liked about this movie for you to understand my rating.
- Kunieda is so relatable, I liked having those doubts about himself and his career, it's really normal to have those kind of questions. I laughed a lot with him being so hysterical (yes, I like tsunderes) and double-faced. His voice actor made an splendid and outstanding job and I can see we are all agree about it.
- Tsuzuki is okay but he has great lines sometimes that also made me laugh a lot to think that he was damned right but in the ''wrong way''.
I also agree that Kunieda's career felt a filler and bored me at the beggining but that didn't take very much screen time to be fair and I actually liked that final post-credit scene, I felt they took charge of every little thing presented in the movie and had a nice conclusion (and also an opening to another movie, maybe?). It's a shame the art is not as cute as the LN.
The story is the most typical and normal thing in BL/Yaoi: the uke being tsudere about the seme and having doubts because #homo and encountering in the most convenient way possible to rush a short story, which I personally didn't mind at all cause I didn't feel it was a bother. Nothing you've never seen before though.
Then why did I rate a 9? Well, I can't put 8.5 and I wanted to give a higher note cause nothing I've seen lately made me laugh so hard with only simple dialogues and also it had a little phonetics lesson and I love phonetics and phonology so this rating is purely subjective to my own tastes and I guess I'm in a good mood. I really liked this movie, simple as that.
If I had to be as objective as possible this is a plain 7/8 cause the story and charas are really normal but it is consistent at the very least with almost everything it has (trust me, I've seen much worse OVAs that lead to nowhere and have zero sense AND also raping scenes, so...). But a 9 fits cool to ME for the reasons said above and I also like to troll a bit sometimes xD.
I do recommend to watch this. I have a feeing that over time it's gonna become a classic like Junjou/Sekaichi series.
lan_er_gege
!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, ifyou like shounen-ai, then just go watch doukyuusei, it's a lot more wholesome than this lol
Patuni_
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 _____________ The character and story ratings are because of this, before that id give them an 8as 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 okay, portraying it like it is okay and everyone's happy in the end is just utter bullshit made to romanticise sexual abuse. I will not stand by it, it's reoccurring in shonen-ai and even henti + anime somewhat. I'm tired, it's sickening, and instead of loving these characters to the end i ended up wishing they'd never met for the poor guy to be happy and the other one to rott in hell. Yet why am I taking it out on the characters? The author is to blame for taking their two nice characters and finishing with this bulshit. STOP PUTTING RAPE IN CONTENT AND TRYING TO PASS IT AS HEALTHY SEX
jisvngis
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 justwasted an hour of your life.
ilkhi123
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 thinkits 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 -
bbb197
I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to enjoy this short movie adaption of the original light novels. The main character is likeable and funny, and the story is easy to grasp and get into. It doesn't overstay it's welcome in regards to runtime, and 50 minutes is a good length to enjoy it. It is well produced and crisp, and lacking in nothing significant. I must say, the last scene was weird and I didn't understand its purpose in the plot, but otherwise I felt it was a well rounded film. I would recommend it to a friend, but not with the expectationthat it would become their all-time favourite, just a good one to have watched.
Neolavender123
[6/10 for Story]: it's simple, nothing groundbreaking. But compared to other yaoi/sho-ai, the progression is relatively natural (if you exclude the reason why Kunieda helped Tsuzuki in the first place, that is). The pacing was really good. It wasn't too fast for me to feel annoyed and awkward, but it's not too slow for me to feel frustrated. The little bits about the show-biz/news-biz/entertainment world are interesting, as well as the technique about pronunciation/articulation which is important in the industry and, interestingly, serves as a plot device. [4/10 for Art]: I googled the original illustration for the light novel, and honestly I don't think this animedid it justice. The novel's illustration looks really pretty, soft, and has a 'light' feeling to it (perhaps also because of the 'soft filter' it uses. I probably didn't explain it right, but just google the novel's cover and you'll know what I mean). The anime's art, on the other hand, didn't even attempt anything special, not even to distinguish itself from the light novel's illustration. It looks mediocre for a 2020 anime. The character design also looked different. They appeared slightly chubbier in the anime.
[7/10 for Sound]: It makes sense for the anime to talk a lot about voices/sounds considering the setting and I think the casting for the VA was really great to maintain that energy. Abe Atsushi's voice suits Kunieda's character a lot and he did well in making the voice for both sides of Kunieda distinguishable. A lot of Kunieda's mannerisms also seemed to translate to the voice. I enjoyed hearing it a lot. Kawahara Yoshihisa, on the other hand, was just okay for me. It's not that he's bad... I actually think he did better than average, but I think it's just the kind of voice that is typical for a 'seme' in yaoi, so it didn't leave that deep of an impression.
[4/10 for Character]: Kunieda is a relatable, yet interesting character. I think I relate to his dilemma about work ethics and job position a lot. His duality, even though exaggerated, is humane. A lot of yaoi MC annoyed me but I'm glad Kunieda didn't (perhaps it's because I saw too much yaoi MC who's easily flustered over every little thing the seme said/did and Kunieda, who the majority of the time wasn't like that, refreshed me). Tsuzuki seemed genuine, kind, and straight-forward. I have to say, he didn't seem very special, but he was personable and seemed like a guy we encounter in our everyday life.
/!!!spoilery paragraph!!!/
I, however, don't like the part where Tsuzuki ignored Kunieda's plea to stop the sex when he's scared. The guy also didn't stop when Kunieda said he was hurt, which I think is an asshole move. With the way the story progressed so far and how kind & understanding Tsuzuki seemed to be, I would've thought that he'd stop. But no, apparently this is still a yaoi movie and characters don't care when their partner is hurting as long as they can serve sex to the audience. How fascinating.
[7/10 for Enjoyment]: It was good because I enjoyed it from start to finish, the majority of the reason being the perfect pacing for me. It's not groundbreaking, but it wasn't as awful.
[OVERALL]: 28/5 = 5.6 = rounded to 6
aexlev
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 soif you'd like to watch this it's on crunchyroll.
arinohaha
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 infront 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 fine if that's what you're looking for. So it's fine. This movie was just fine.
