#komiya rio

[kiwioshi]

GRAND GUIGNOL (2022)

#grand guignol #peaky romance tbh #they're everything jongwoo and moonjo couldn't be :( #strangers from hell #japanese bl #komiya rio #sota ryosuke #nakao masaki

[duckflyfly]

Micchan is very warm.

#eternal yesterday #eien no kino #oumi mitsuru #yamada koichi #inoue sora #komiya rio #my gif #jdrama #jdramaedit #boylove #boy love #otp #japanese series #japanese drama #japanese bl #bl series #bl drama #my heart

[25shadesoffebruary]

Sleeping in Koichi's arms was so warm. I feel so happy that I can't describe it. It's a very special feeling. I wonder if this is called peace.

#eien no kino #eternal yesterday #japanese bl #bl series #asian lgbtq dramas #asianlgbtqdramas #japanese drama #komiya rio #inoue sora #25shadesedit

[blmpff]

Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But To Kiss 2: The Walking Dead

#ehehehehe #get it #mr unlucky has no choice but to kiss #x #eternal yesterday #favorite scenes #grand guignol #sota ryosuke #komiya rio #blmpff

[connorjesup]

It was in the blink of an eye. It was so sudden, it was inevitable. I couldn’t do anything.

EIEN NO KINO (2022) | EP 01

#eien no kino #eternal yesterday #eiennokinoedit #jdramaedit #lgbtedit #komiya rio #inoue sora #my gif #show: eternal yesterday #allenk #death for ts #flashing gifs for ts #idk just in case for the truck sorry for picking /this/ moment to gif sqmlkdhfqsdlkhf #not me being in every jdramas' businesses sqdfljshqdfkjqsdf im sorry #you're lucky i didn't start that 8loom cutie band show or that detective reibai show or the scamming scammers show yet #i started the van gogh one and i almost giffed one scene cause it was funny #anyway this is potato quality my gosh dramahd do not have my back for this one or kk sigh #anyway this gifset is a lie there is NO color in that show i am sorry to lie to you like this but yeah just a heads up #anyway you know how it is everything from the tag is in my queue so you'll get stuff about it in 2 months so just start it now hehehe

[storge]

these 3 needed more scenes together lol

Takara-kun to Amagi-kun 1.08

#takara kun to amagi kun #takara-kun to amagi-kun #高良くんと天城くん #jdramaedit #asiandramanet #jdrama #userdramas #japaneseartistsinc #dailyasiandramas #asiandramasource #asiancentral #asianlgbtqdramas #sato arata #suzuki kosuke #komiya rio #lextag #usermare #mymymy #ep 8 #LOLOL #thank you for this lovely request friend #hope this is what you wanteddd sorry it took so longgg #this wassss funny #the empty space of quiet made it soo lololololol #i love these youngins and i miss themmm #takara was always so serious when talking to katori about his relationship #they are brossssssssss #and im glad tanaka didnt turn that bad like he could have #the way he was like ?????? ahahaha #also thank you for your lovely complimenttttt

[kolaicendionysos]

God, im not your strongest soldier.

#eien no kino #eternal yesterday #永遠の昨日 #komiya rio #inoue sora #japan bl #bl series #j drama #doroma #other #my creations #love

[801number]

#grand guignol #グランギニョール #japanese bl #japanese movie #komiya rio #小宮璃央 #bl japan

[save-the-data]

Grand Guignol (2022)| Kiss Scenes

#Grand Guignol #LGBTQ+ #Horror #Psychological #Community Label: Mature #Asian Movie #Japan #Komiya Rio #Uragami Seishu #Sota Ryosuke #Nakao Masaki

[tokusongs]

"Turn Courage Into Music", from Mashin Sentai Kiramager (2020). Performed by Kiramei Band: Kiramei Yellow/Imizu Tametomo (Kihara Ryu) on vocals, Kiramei Red/Atsuta Juru (Komiya Rio) on guitar, Kiramei Green/Hayami Sena (Shinjo Yume) on keyboards, Kiramei Blue/Oshikiri Shiguru (Mizuishi Atomu) on bass, and Kiramei Pink/Oharu Sayo (Kudo Mio) on drums.

#Mashin Sentai Kiramager #Kiramager #Super Sentai #Character songs #Kihara Ryu #Komiya Rio #Shinjo Yume #Mizuishi Atomu #Kudo Mio #SoundCloud

[waitmyturtles]

Eternal Yesterday. Before I dive into a meditation on memory, let me get a couple words down regarding a memory about memories.

I’ve written before that I’m pretty sure the first piece of Japanese art I ever consumed was Yoshimoto Banana’s novel, “Kitchen.” But also memorably, in college, I watched Koreeda Hirokazu’s film, “After Life.”

“After Life” is about a group of counselors who exist in purgatory. Their job is to meet the souls of those who have recently passed away, and interview them about the memory they want to re-live in their afterlives. Many of them choose memories related to their children or spouses, or moments in time that gave them beautiful feelings, such as snuggling against their parents when they were small children themselves. Over time, it’s revealed that the counselors are living in this purgatory because they themselves haven’t chosen a memory to live with. The story particularly focuses on two counselors who come to terms with their decisions, and how it changes them.

I’m reflecting on this movie because when I watched it, so long ago in college (me, old), it was one of the first pieces of art from Asia in which I saw that a quiet tone and even pace to delivering a message via content was incredibly vital to accurately conveying that message. In this case, the tone and pace of the movie was necessary to indicate that choosing this everlasting memory was a very important decision, indeed — it would be the very last decision these souls would make.

And I think there was something similar happening here in Eternal Yesterday.

The wonderful @bengiyo’s review of the show made me realize that while I was slightly confused and bemused by the magical realism play of Koichi not being quite dead throughout the series, that there was a very deep and real point to the concept that Koichi was a living corpse. I think that point relates, at least for me, to the reflection that I’m having on “After Life.”

It’s not clear if, in the universe of Eternal Yesterday, if people outside the circle of Mitsuru’s life who pass away can also experience a moment of living death; in other words, I’m not clear if this is a common occurrence in the world of this show outside their characters. Nevertheless, I’m only going to focus on Mitsuru for a second:

The fact that this phenomenon happened to two very close people in his life makes me think that the concept was designed here as a means for helping Mitsuru to begin the process of mourning. I think it was designed as a means for preparing Mitsuru to begin the process of letting go -- by leaving him with a slew of gorgeous memories, with the people he loved, as a means of him living out the love he has for them for the rest of his ontological life. 

I am twisted with angst, beautiful and saddened angst, at the thought of this concept. It is unbelievably COMPASSIONATE to me that there would be a concept that the way for someone living, to let go of someone who has passed, with a moment in a kind of purgatory that allows two people to create their final memories together, intentionally -- I mean. How much more humane and empathic can art get?

I was drawn to this show by the intense reviews of the series finale by @gillianthecat and @lelephantsnail, two people with amazing taste in shows, and when I saw how much Eternal Yesterday moved you two, I had to eat this show up, and I totally get why. For me, I’m totally wrapped up in the intensity that BOTH MITSURU AND KOICHI got to have their final moments together, knowingly, INTENTIONALLY. It’s gut-wrenching.

And there’s one more point that’s really getting to me -- it’s something related to why I really need to learn Japanese in my older age. 

Earlier in the series, during the campsite confession scene, I thought that (at least on Viki, I don’t know about other translations), the English translation of the word ichiban to “my number one” was a little inaccurate. I thought it was incredibly cute that the the guys called each other their ichiban, but I thought that “number one” as a translation was a little reductive in the context of a confession.

Ichiban, to me, meant something more like “superlative” in that moment. I think (I think!) it was meant to indicate something like, “I like you the very best of all,” rather than the guys saying to each other that they were each other’s “number ones.”

I’m harping on this because I was totally, utterly wasted and gutted by Mitsuru’s final words in the last episode -- when he said about Koichi, ichiban aishiteru.

I’m a real sucker for aishiteru in doramas, especially BLs. I was wrecked when Adachi used it to describe his love for Kurosawa to Kurosawa’s parents in the Cherry Magic movie earlier this year. 

It’s because I think it’s really necessary that this word is used more in Japanese BLs, because of how it indicates the very heavy and deep love that one partner has for another. For me, the usage of the word is a very welcome BL trope (I remember it being used memorably in Life: Love on the Line, when Akira uses it with Yuki when they meet again in Alaska). 

Aishiteru indicates the only love, the permanent love, the absolute love of a lifetime that exists between two people. It blows away the everyday English “love” by way of intensity and permanence. (I think it belongs in BLs so that audiences can see that aishiteru can exist in same-sex couplings -- it’s not limited to cishet pairings.)

What twisted me about ichiban aishiteru is that it indicated that Mitsuru was going to be OKAY with this reality for his lifetime -- that Koichi was going to be his superlative and permanent love for the rest of Mitsuru’s lived life. Mitsuru wouldn’t say such a heavy thing if it weren’t true. It was SO BEAUTIFUL to me that he used this phrase. I’m so messed up by it because of how concretely and resolutely Mitsuru said it. 

@bengiyo wrote in their review that this show is “poignant queer cinema,” and I could not agree more. Eternal Yesterday was DEEPLY satisfying and moving. And, I think, necessary in the library of BLs, to demonstrate depth of love between two characters that could not stop or help themselves to love each other. 

(THANKS @gillianthecat and @lelephantsnail, for the encouragement! Fantastic recommendation.)

#eien no kino #eternal yesterday #micchan x koichi #koichi x micchan #inoue sora #komiya rio #eternal yesterday meta

[duckflyfly]

"I'm the one who became the corpse. Because it's my corpse. So I felt disgusted."

#eternal yesterday #eien no kino #oumi mitsuru #yamada koichi #inoue sora #komiya rio #my gif #jdrama #jdramaedit #boylove #boy love #otp #japanese series #japanese drama #japanese bl #bl series #bl drama #;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[hokkienmee]

Komiya Rio for HYSTERIC GLAMOUR the distance between them

#komiya rio #rio komiya #小宮璃央 #.png #jdramasource #i kinda miss him 😤

[scarefox]

Uh Oh 👀 

did not expect that crossover

#this movie is so trashy in the classic horror sense but we got a Mr.Unlucky x Eternal Yesterday crossover #aw damn now I am rooting for them to survive #i didn't plan to be on anyones side #Grand Guignol #spoiler #Sota Ryosuke #Komiya Rio

[connorjesup]

Hey, were you two together all day yesterday? Yeah. Did you two do something special? S-Special? Special? Of course, we wouldn’t do something like that. Right, Micchan?               [We did. You can tell from how flustered Koichi got. It’s true that we did something special.]

EIEN NO KINO (2022) | EP 04

#eien no kino #eiennokinoedit #eternal yesterday #jdramaedit #tobelle #lgbtedit #komiya rio #inoue sora #otomo karen #narumi yui #show: eternal yesterday #my gif #allenk #finished it!!!!!!! so anyway!!!!!!!! uh!!!!!!!!! idk when i'll gif the rest now i'll need months to recover sorry #posting this one i made weeks ago and then no more skqdljhfqsdhf

[loveallserveall]

eternal yesterday/eien no kino icons

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#eien no kino #eternal #eternal yesterday #japan bl #bl boys #bl icons #dorama #dorama icons #2022 drama #jdrama #jdrama icons #komiya rio #inoue sora #yamada koichi #micchan #i love them #i love this #loving this #永遠の昨日 #asian lgbtq dramas