Family and betrayal often walk hand in hand, but rarely is that tension as cutting as it is in The Journey to Killing You. Adapted from Asai Sai’s manga Anata wo Korosu Tabi, this Japanese BL drama pulls us deep into the world of the yakuza where loyalty, honor, and survival collide.
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Age has a tendency to make people more afraid of choices. I think a lot of that has to do with overthinking everything that could go wrong when you’ve already been through years of trying to figure life out day by day. As a woman in my forties, I certainly overthink things way more than I used to in my twenties. And the same goes for Suzume in the Japanese BL 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 (adapted from the manga 40 Made ni Shitai 10 no Koto by Mamita).
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We often make love more complicated than love actually is. Love is more than an emotion, it’s a deep look at ourselves.
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Is there truly a proper way to love?
Love is a language that isn’t spoken the same way by anyone, which means it’s an unspoken language that’s the hardest to translate. For me, that’s precisely what The Proper Way to Write Love was all about: two men learning to read each other’s hearts, even when their pasts made it almost impossible.
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Life after a confession isn’t always smooth sailing, and sometimes, it’s downright absurd.
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We don’t always realize how deeply our past shapes us until we come face-to-face with the very moments, and people, that left a mark. That’s the emotional pull of The Proper Way to Write Love, a bittersweet Japanese BL drama adapted from the manga Renai Rubi no Tadashii Furikata by Ogeretsu Tanaka and starring Iwahashi Genki as Suzuki Hiroshi and Soma Satoru as Washizawa Natsuo.
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It is love at first lust for some people, feelings might follow later!
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There are moments in life when everything around us blurs, when the noise of expectation, pain, and routine drowns out the quiet beauty of connection. But every so often, someone steps into view so clearly, so unexpectedly, that they sharpen our world with a kind of gentle urgency.
Love isn’t just about youth and firsts. For many of us, love isn’t something that happens in our twenties. Sometimes, it shows up long after we’ve settled into a life we didn’t mean to build, after the routines, the work, the quiet loneliness, and the quiet comfort.
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The world often feels much smaller than it is, especially when it brings people together in the most surprising ways.
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