Category: Japan

BLISS RATING: ★★★★★ “A chosen family is where you are accepted, where you are seen, where you are loved.”  – Oprah The best way to describe this series is that it is off-beat and quirky. It is also warm, gentle, loving, peaceful, reflective, tender, devoted, relaxed, reverent, nurturing, and supportive. Have I left anything out?…

BLISS RATING: ★★★ “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that can heal it.”  – Nicholas Sparks This is an emotionally draining series that is so exacerbating in the way it was presented. It had such deeply poignant undertones to its characters – all of them. Yet, proceeded to present…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.”  – J. J. Watt Joy! That was the first word that popped into my mind when I thought about this wondrously charming series. It is a word that we do not often use much to describe BLs…

BLISS RATING: ★★★ “Love is the sweetest fruit at the end of a beautiful journey called waiting.”  – Unknown To be sure, this story is a lot more of the same. A few more BL tropey ‘flags’ that trigger Bl developments were introduced that Mob (Inukai Atsuhiro) wiggles out from with seemingly little enthusiasm or…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★ “Let’s make clothes that give people the courage to get close to each other.”  – Quote from Punks Triangle This series is a deeply pensive and reflective mind-twisting journey into OBSESSION. And not just of one individual either. It focuses on one young man’s adventure into a world of devotion, adoration, fixation,…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★ “Love does not sit there like a stone, it has to be made like bread; remade all the time, made new.”  – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven While I have a great affinity for Seasons 1 and 2 of this series, this set left me just a tad feeling…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★★ “The more beautiful something is, the more I want to destroy it.” – Quote from The Journey To Kill You Wow, I was not expecting this! The series is hard to describe yet somehow made scrutable by the organic, unadorned human interactions. It is sequences of contradictions composed of oxymoronic concepts. Full of…

BLISS RATING: ★★ “You are not afraid of new love.  You’re afraid of old pain.”  – Pinterest Confusion. I just did not get this series. Perhaps had I known this was composed of snippets of  movies/series, I might have appreciated it more. I assumed it was a stand-alone series. Not having seen any of the…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★★ “Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”  – John Galsworthy While I have no way of scientifically testing my theory out, I am guessing that this series will be way more poignant for individuals OVER 40 than under.  Moreover, its cogency will also be greater for those of us who…