More Than Words

This TV series will difinitely get a low review for anyone who doesn't understand Japanese culture. So if you are coming in watching only western gay TV series or movies, you have to watch this with an open mind. Some may even say the scenes are slow but I find it really relaxing to watch. The cinematography, music, the facial expressions of the actors, the dialogues, the quiet moments are to be savoured.

It's definitely a "slice of life" type kind of watch, like I am just a third party observing how these 3 people live their normal lives and make their choices due to circumstances and people around them.

More than Words is a realistic take on the lives of 3 Japanese Characters and the effects of traditional society and life have. This is not a show to watch if you want perfect endings, it is however, a beautiful and inspiring journey through life and very fulfilling! This series was so real and I was completely caught off guard, relatable and emotionally hard hitting.

I should inform that I don't usually enjoy 'just' drama shows but this show kept me up all night and I'm writing this at 7am after completing it.

Story: The Story is broken up into two parts that you can commonly find in most LGBT shows. The good half, where friendship and love is found and no obstacle is too hard to overcome, and then the 2nd part where the reality of life sets in, but in this show they decided to throw down the gauntlet. Dysfunctional families, unspoken words , jealousy, pretending everything is okay. I was shocked and constantly in turmoil as MTW took me down the hole of what life looks like when it gets real!

Cinematography: The camera work was excellent showing the audience what they needed and letting us figure out some of the story through expression and creative scene flow. Emotion was captured and conveyed with the scene. It's so important for cinema to embrace the idea that we don't always need to have everything explained and then shown.

Characters: What can I say, all 3 of the main characters in this show are exquisite. They grow and develop and have friendship and love built out of hard hitting life situations. You will get to see what makes these characters real. You get it all; compassion, empathy, understanding, frustration, impatience, duty, longing, jealousy and grief. Don't expect them to be perfect people, humans make mistakes, they change their minds and feel differently after something changes or after a period of time. Characters with depth written as if they were biographies.

Pros: -Beautiful ORIGINAL story that makes you wonder if you haves friends that are experiencing this.

-Characters are real and relatable.

-Great acting and amazing production quality.

Cons: -Hits very hard maybe a little too hard.

-Emotionally frustrating.

-Not the typical BL love story I thought it would be.

-Some of the storyline is a bit rushed compared to the well thought out and planned bulk.

Conclusion: Watch this show, it's a beautiful story that you don't want to miss out on. It's hard to watch, but you won't be able to stop once you start.

This series should come with a warning: "the story preaches gay cure". Outrageous. I don't mind sad endings, but using heterosexual conversion is too much for me. This film is an abomination to all gay people in the world. I don't know if the actors agree with the gay cure, but if they agreed to work on this series they shouldn't give much importance to this nonsense. The worst thing is having to watch almost the entire series before falling into the trap of this production's troupe. It should be classified as a "religious extremist" series and not BL. I wasted my time and my patience. I will never watch a BL series again without first reading the reviews very well.