Yuri on Ice unlocked something in me that I didn't know I was missing.
Like I never got soap operas like my mom watches. I'm gay. It didn't appeal to me. I never had romance stories of gay men growing up because America is prudish AF. 35 years of not having stories that reflected me. Yuri on Ice filled a gap in my life and I suddenly understood why my mom watches soap dramas and lifetime.
I think of this every time there is an LGBTQ book ban.
My favorite music is from Uematsu and Mitsdua.
FF7 brought me in touch with the planet and concepts that we are all connnected. It is a very philsophical and spirtual story. It cracked that conservative shell I was raised in and helped me grow as a person.
Japan may be prudish and have a hellish work culture, but they get art and music and stories. Far better than colorless, lifeless, joyless USA.
You should check out Aggretsuko on Netflix where her boss is a literal shovanistic pig.
That show is a commentary on Japan's work and prudish culture in hopes to address it.
the writing decided to character assassinate Haida and suddenly make him a well-off failson and le genius coder out of nowhere and introduced a New Original Boss Don't Steal and made Tadano into an absurd Mary Sue character up to and including winning at arm wrestling effortlessly without the slightest sign of ever doing strength training and in fact being known for being lazy and THEN said he was going to do a little space tourism as a treat because that same writer probably wanted a donkey version of :my-hero: . Also the (attempted?) murder with the scream laser at the end broke the setting's delicate balance of surreal and plausible.
Yes I'm pissed at that season and worried about the premise of the upcoming and final season. :sadness:
Yuri on Ice unlocked something in me that I didn't know I was missing.
Like I never got soap operas like my mom watches. I'm gay. It didn't appeal to me. I never had romance stories of gay men growing up because America is prudish AF. 35 years of not having stories that reflected me. Yuri on Ice filled a gap in my life and I suddenly understood why my mom watches soap dramas and lifetime.
I think of this every time there is an LGBTQ book ban.
My favorite music is from Uematsu and Mitsdua.
FF7 brought me in touch with the planet and concepts that we are all connnected. It is a very philsophical and spirtual story. It cracked that conservative shell I was raised in and helped me grow as a person.
Japan may be prudish and have a hellish work culture, but they get art and music and stories. Far better than colorless, lifeless, joyless USA.
You should check out Aggretsuko on Netflix where her boss is a literal shovanistic pig. That show is a commentary on Japan's work and prudish culture in hopes to address it.
I loved Aggretsuko until the season where
spoiler
the writing decided to character assassinate Haida and suddenly make him a well-off failson and le genius coder out of nowhere and introduced a New Original Boss Don't Steal and made Tadano into an absurd Mary Sue character up to and including winning at arm wrestling effortlessly without the slightest sign of ever doing strength training and in fact being known for being lazy and THEN said he was going to do a little space tourism as a treat because that same writer probably wanted a donkey version of :my-hero: . Also the (attempted?) murder with the scream laser at the end broke the setting's delicate balance of surreal and plausible.
Yes I'm pissed at that season and worried about the premise of the upcoming and final season. :sadness: