Now if a drama wants to break out of the variety of new dramas in each season, and there is no super-popular starring actor, the only way is to start a title that can make people "can't control the hands that want to open". Like the protagonist we're going to introduce today, Rotten Girl Inadvertently Confesses to Gay.
During this season, and even this year, the number of episodes depicting LGBT-related themes increased dramatically, and almost all of them became popular. It is indeed not a bad thing to gradually face up to sexual minority groups and let the public know about them through multi-angle communication. But somehow there are very few dramas that portray the hardships of being part of this group head-on.
At first glance at this title, "Rotten Girl Inadvertently Confessed to Gay", it is easy to mistakenly think that this is a comedy, and then casually click on it with the mood of "I don't know what tricks I want to play". In fact, its style is completely different from the other two topic dramas of this season: the relaxed and warm middle-aged husband's daily "Yesterday's Food" and the bloody and funny women's clothing teacher conquering the campus "Where Did My Skirt Go". It focuses on the confusion of adolescence and depicts the identity dilemmas faced by young homosexuals.
The original was originally an online novel published due to its popularity, and it also had an eye-catching title: "She Likes Momo instead of Me."
The protagonist, Jun Ando (Dachi Kaneko), is a male high school student who hides his homosexual identity. One day at the bookstore, he stumbled upon his classmate Saeki Miura (Ryoko Fujino) as a rotten girl who loves BL.
Saeki, worried that her corrupt identity will be exposed, asks Chun to help her keep it a secret, and the relationship between the two quickly approaches.
In the process of getting along, Saeko is gradually attracted to Pure, but she does not know that Pure is gay.
Not to mention that Jun also has a married boyfriend (Akisuke Tanihara).
Although he is gay, Chun also wants to have his own children and build his own family. For this reason, he felt that liking women was "necessary".
Wanting to achieve ordinary happiness, and just in time to meet the confession of the yarn, Pure began to associate with the yarn branch.
He tried to make himself like the yarn, but found several times that this could not be done.
By this point we can glimpse some of the pure inner struggles of being gay.
In the middle of the story, more intense dramatic conflicts emerge, greatly deepening pure suffering.
A netizen who has been a pure spiritual partner for a long time suddenly told his pure same-sex partner that he died of AIDS.
And chun in the hot spring trip with Saeki, received a suicide note from netizens, indicating that he wanted to follow his partner.
In shock and grief, Pure left the yarn branch and bumped into her boyfriend Makoto in a daze. The scene of the kiss with Makoto, who did not know whether to vent or comfort, was just broken by the yarn branch.
Later, he was learned of his identity by his classmate Ono and isolated by the boys in the class.
Overwhelmed, Chun jumped from the balcony outside the classroom and tried to commit suicide.
Although she saved her life in the end, due to the commotion, Chun's mother also knew the secret.
In the face of the mother's inquiry, who tried to remain calm, but still hoped that something was wrong, she vented her despair.
The gradual analysis of the homosexual heart makes the audience look at the play more and more seriously. Therefore, after the show aired, the message board of the official website received various comments, including the feelings of people who had similar experiences:
"Until episodes 1 through 4, it feels like you're looking at the story you've created. After watching the trailer and the main film of episode 5, I suddenly felt that I had a taste of reality, and I overlapped my words and deeds of pure sight and indifference with myself, and the tears could not be stopped. I also think that if I do the same thing, I will definitely want to escape, but if I can't find a place to live anywhere, I will definitely do the same thing as Pure, which is a terrible thing. I want to try to see the story after this. (20 year old male)
A feeling that I want to become ordinary: "Although I reached this age, I was hurt just yesterday because of a meaningless word. Why would a man be so cruel to someone who is always unable to be 'ordinary'..." (50-year-old male)
"Always thinking about the ordinary. It's hard. I don't know what the right answer is. It's just that, unlike most people, it's hard to survive. I felt the pain before he jumped. I think this is a TV series that you can learn a lot about no matter what era. (50-year-old female)
There is also the idea of creating a society that makes it easy for people like Chun to survive:
Ono said, "It doesn't matter what's not like that, what matters is whether we think he's disgusting" is worth thinking about. Pure herself was also tormented by this thought and could not bear it. Even if the term LGBT goes mainstream, it's actually hard to create a society that truly embraces it. (30-year-old female)
In addition, in this show, each episode uses QUEEN's music as a subtitle and connects it to pure voice.
For example, in the second episode, when she learns that Yarn is about to confess, along with "I Want It All", Pure's heart shouts "I want it all".
When Pure is determined to associate with Yarn, the owner of the coffee shop who often goes to him says to him: "You have started this performance, even if you don't like it, you can't give up everything and selfishly escape from the stage", corresponding to "The Show Must Go On".
In the fifth episode, in order to escape the sight of those around him, he urgently jumped off the balcony of the school. 「Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?」 The music of "Bohemian Rhapsody" resonates with the voice that says "I want ordinary".
And what heals such purity is the yarn of angelic goodness and simplicity. As sung in Somebody To Love, "Can anybody find me somebody to love." From exposing sexual orientation to the people around him, to jumping off a building to commit suicide, after experiencing the greatest pressure in life, the distance between pure and same-sex boyfriends has also begun to be estranged.
But on the other hand, the distance with yarn weaving is gradually getting closer than when hiding the homosexual identity.
With the idea of "getting to know each other", she naturally decided to "lend BL comics to pure eyes that are hospitalized", although the idea is ridiculously simple, this is the only light that pure in the abyss can see.
In the confused adolescence, most people will face the social psychological crisis of self-identity and role confusion, and it is not easy for ordinary people and sexual minorities to complete self-identification. Peer groups are the people who play an important role in this stage, some people can stand on their side, some people are willing to help and support themselves, some people are willing to at least understand what they think, or even just have someone to accompany, which has a positive impact on the smooth passage of this period.
The world is not so simple, and there are still many things that are not understood. Just like Chun's mother and friend Liang Ping will also try to understand and understand pure things from now on, it is important to understand the world that neither you nor others know, this drama takes us to see such a corner of the world.