Beautifully subtle is the best way to describe the Japanese BL Senpai This Can’t Be Love (Senpai, Danjite Koidewa!). Adapted from the manga of the same name by Harekawa Shinta about the love between a 3D CG designer and the man he mentors, Senpai veers quite a bit from its source material but retains the deep feelings the two leads share.
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Is an 8.2-second stare the time it takes to fall in love at first sight?
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The invisible boundary between adulthood and childhood feels like a sacred place. And, in truth, it is. It exists in that moment when we prefer things to stay the same while also wanting to shake things up a bit.
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Life throws the unexpected at us, and this is precisely what it does for coin laundry owner Minato Akira.
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Two men.
An unrequited love.
A war against time.
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Cold personalities sometimes hide awkward feelings people don’t always know how to channel. Such is the case for the unfriendly behavior Kaneda Yuki (Seto Toshiki) shows towards his co-worker and mentor, Yanase Jun (Naito Shuichiro), in the new Japanese BL Senpai, This Can’t Be Love.
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Sometimes falling in love can be as easy as playing pretend.
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Is there such a thing as luck?
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Sometimes you come across a series which opens up an entirely new world for you. That is what happened to me. My first ever BL drama was Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! (we’ll call it just Cherry Magic for now because the name is huge) and it lives so close to my heart that sometimes I am not able to like anything else just because my expectations are so high. There are so many moments that I love and so many scenes which live in my heart. Cherry Magic is a sweet natural romance with a tiny bit of supernatural.
Luck is a tricky thing, a perchance happenstance that can be cruel or giving. And no one wants to be on the receiving end of a cruel twist of fate.
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