ROOKIES: Believe in yourself, or I'll punch you in the face!
ROOKIES
He's a violent teacher who reforms violent delinquents through violence. (Also, baseball.) Together, they are partially nude!
I swear they made this drama just for me. Hot delinquents, cigarette smoking, artful swaggers, slapstick comedy, rain scenes, sakura petals, random nudity, deliciously inappropriate teacher/student UST, and hot guys who just as soon punch each other as share a group cry (they're not gay, they're sensitive! male friendship is beautiful!).
And then there's the teenage rebel who makes super-secret hand gestures of love to his male teacher IN THE MIDDLE OF A BASEBALL GAME.
That's the level of gay we're talking about.
Because when I want to establish my juvenile delinquency, I walk in coordinated rows through falling sakura petals.
And frolic in the river with my friends, laughing merrily.
I know what you're thinking, though. Just because they're a bunch of fashionable, hair-conscious teenage boys spending all their time together, gripping each other's shirtfronts and prone to tears, doesn't mean they're gay.
And the hugs are a natural expression of male friendship.
Yes.
Totally straight.
ICHIHARA HAYATO IS FUCKING HOT. LIKE, SCORCHINGLY HOT. Like, I've been watching him in dramas for years and I never wanted to jump him like this until he dyed his hair and gave oral sex to a cigarette. HOT.
AND HE FUCKING KNOWS IT.
COMMENCE EYESEX WITH TEACHER IN THREE, TWO...
THIS IS HOW KAWATO-SENSEI IS LOOKING AT HIS STUDENT. THIS SMIRKY INDULGENCE. THIS KNOWING LOOK.
In this scene, Shirota Yuu is rearing back to slug him, and Kawato-sensei catches his fist, holds it in his hands, then ever so gently uncurls his fingers and presses their palms together.
All with a speech about love.
I can't make this up.
This is why Japan cleverly made all the students of age, so we can't go to hell after scenes like this.
BECAUSE IT'S VERY HETEROSEXUAL TO CORNER SOMEONE WHEN THEY'VE GOT THEIR DICK IN THEIR HANDS.
Koide Keisuke is the team's bitch. They rough him up and make him run errands and he accepts it all with quiet lip-wobbly ukeness, thinking about his lost dreams. (Still not making this up.)
They even make use of liberal uke music. Swear to god, there's this twinkly little number, I think they're triangles.
Why is he half-naked? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
RAIN.
MORE RAIN.
OH YES.
ALSO ARMS.
"You-- you got your own movie?"
"Heishin, motherfucker."
I LOVE THESE DORKS SO MUCH.
One more, for the road!
He's a violent teacher who reforms violent delinquents through violence. (Also, baseball.) Together, they are partially nude!
I swear they made this drama just for me. Hot delinquents, cigarette smoking, artful swaggers, slapstick comedy, rain scenes, sakura petals, random nudity, deliciously inappropriate teacher/student UST, and hot guys who just as soon punch each other as share a group cry (they're not gay, they're sensitive! male friendship is beautiful!).
And then there's the teenage rebel who makes super-secret hand gestures of love to his male teacher IN THE MIDDLE OF A BASEBALL GAME.
That's the level of gay we're talking about.
Because when I want to establish my juvenile delinquency, I walk in coordinated rows through falling sakura petals.
And frolic in the river with my friends, laughing merrily.
I know what you're thinking, though. Just because they're a bunch of fashionable, hair-conscious teenage boys spending all their time together, gripping each other's shirtfronts and prone to tears, doesn't mean they're gay.
And the hugs are a natural expression of male friendship.
Yes.
Totally straight.
ICHIHARA HAYATO IS FUCKING HOT. LIKE, SCORCHINGLY HOT. Like, I've been watching him in dramas for years and I never wanted to jump him like this until he dyed his hair and gave oral sex to a cigarette. HOT.
AND HE FUCKING KNOWS IT.
COMMENCE EYESEX WITH TEACHER IN THREE, TWO...
THIS IS HOW KAWATO-SENSEI IS LOOKING AT HIS STUDENT. THIS SMIRKY INDULGENCE. THIS KNOWING LOOK.
In this scene, Shirota Yuu is rearing back to slug him, and Kawato-sensei catches his fist, holds it in his hands, then ever so gently uncurls his fingers and presses their palms together.
All with a speech about love.
I can't make this up.
This is why Japan cleverly made all the students of age, so we can't go to hell after scenes like this.
BECAUSE IT'S VERY HETEROSEXUAL TO CORNER SOMEONE WHEN THEY'VE GOT THEIR DICK IN THEIR HANDS.
Koide Keisuke is the team's bitch. They rough him up and make him run errands and he accepts it all with quiet lip-wobbly ukeness, thinking about his lost dreams. (Still not making this up.)
They even make use of liberal uke music. Swear to god, there's this twinkly little number, I think they're triangles.
Why is he half-naked? Does anyone know? Does anyone care?
RAIN.
MORE RAIN.
OH YES.
ALSO ARMS.
"You-- you got your own movie?"
"Heishin, motherfucker."
I LOVE THESE DORKS SO MUCH.
One more, for the road!