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It was such a blast from the past to get the YouTube notification and finally get to watch this movie in HD. I have to say, it's definitely worth the watch for the tragic BL storylines, the costumes, the music and the snowy setting. Considering this was shot in a span of a few days, the production value is insane. You might be concerned about the tragedies that happen in this movie, but Candy Boys movies always depict tragic and fated love, and when bodies start dropping, they don't stop dropping. In a way, they depict a cycle of two people finding themselves again and again, and falling in love. The audiovisual experience of the series is probably nothing like you've seen before, so it's worth giving it a shot. All of the movies feature a lot of nature, so it's also very pleasing on the eyes.

The full title is "Shanaō O-Edo no Candy 3", but it's easier to refer to it as Candy Boys 3 which comes from the French title on the poster "Les Garçons-Bonbons". This is the third movie in the Candy Boys series, but it's not connected to the prior two titles in any major way other than depicting fated love and being set in the world of Edo, a world inhabited only by men. The first two movies do explain some of the lore, but it's not really necessary for this movie. As you can imagine in a world where only men exist, familial relationships often go to the side.

This movie is largely inspired by Japanese history, namely Genpei War and two rivalring clans that clashed against each other - Taira (also known as Heike) and Minamoto (also known as Genji) clans. I won't explain that in detail since the movie deviates from it, but if you're interested in reading a quick summary about this period of time, I recommend reading this article. There are plenty of videos and articles explaining more if you feel like that wasn't enough.

It can be quite confusing to place all the characters, so I explain who they are below, along with their historical counterparts.

Watch here:

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Cast:

Suga Kenta as Shanaō (Minamoto no Yoshitsune), Shanaō was actually Yoshitsune's name at the temple he was hiding at in exile. The word Shanaō 遮那王 is composed of 遮那 (Mahavairocana - who's a Buddha in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism) and 王 (king).

Note since the movie itself uses Shanaō, I went with this romanization, even though it's not my style of writing it.

Miura Ryōsuke as Benkei (Musashibō Benkei)

Imari Yū as Tomomori (Taira no Tomomori), the second son of Kiyomori, but in reality he was the fourth son of Taira no Kiyomori

Zaiki Takuma as Omasa (Hōjō Masako), the wife of Minamoto no Yoritomo

Tateishi Toshiki as Oshizu (Shizuka Gozen - famous court dancer and Minamoto no Yoshitsune's mistress)

Daigo Kotarō as Ōhime, eldest daughter of Yoritomo (technically her real name is unclear, but Ōhime was a word used for eldest daughters of high-born people or daughters of someone of high social standing back then) who died very young at the age of 20, spending most of her life traumatized

Wagō Shin'ichi as Shigehira (Taira no Shigehira), third son of Kiyomori, but in reality he was the fifth son of Taira no Kiyomori

Aoki Tsunenori as Munemori (Taira no Munemori), eldest son of Kiyomori in the movie, but in reality he was the third son of Taira no Kiyomori

Konishi Seiya as Kichiji (Kaneuri Kichiji)

Teruma as Yoichi (Nasu no Yoichi)

Fukikoshi Mitsuru as Kajiwara (Kajiwara Kagetoki)

Takenaka Naoto as Kiyomori (Taira no Kiyomori)

Ishibashi Renji as former emperor - Emperor Go-Shirakawa (Go-Shirakawa-tennō)

Hirose Tomoki as Yoritomo (Minamoto no Yoritomo)

Other actors:

Watanabe Aoto

Yamada Aina

Nakayama Satsuki

Narration: Maro Akaji

Here are some translation notes about this movie, but there are spoilers ahead, so read these after watching.

You may hear Shanaō or Yoritomo being referred to as Genji no Onzoushi. Onzoushi (御曹司) as a word is currently used for sons of rich/influential families who are set to inherit the family's legacy or fortune, but in the past it'd be used to refer to the sons of the Genji (Minamoto) clan. I translated it as Genji son since that's the best meaning. This isn't in the movie, but for some trivia: The sons of the Heike (Taira) clan were called "kindachi" (公達).

About that sennin-giri. It's actually said that Benkei was never defeated until he met Yoshitsune. He was the 1000th person that Benkei fought, but couldn't defeat. After that, Benkei pledged his undying loyalty to Yoshitsune. The movie merges the two meanings of sennin-giri and uses Benkei sleeping with them as a means of defeating them in a way (possibly making them loyal to Shanaō).

"Liberté, égalité, fraternité" is a French national motto and means "liberty, equality, brotherhood".

I found it really funny that Kiyomori named the parrot Yoritomoto, his mortal enemy. Still not sure if the parrot is meant to represent something or if he was being used as a spy. Let me know if you have any thoughts on this!

Benkei was actually a vassal of Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Benkei as a warrior monk protected him loyally, and there are several legends associated with him.

The poisonous mushroom was actually highly poisonous, but not that poisonous as they make it out to be. Destroying angels (Amanita virosa) have amatoxins that are fatal, but they shouldn't get absorbed through the skin like that. I don't think there's such a high risk of putting your hands into your mouth after holding it in them, but there'd definitely be a risk if it got mixed with saliva and you chewed on it. But I'm not a mushroom expert so don't quote me on that. I wasn't sure how to sub those lines because of that, but I think it makes sense this way.

The marriage of Yoritomo to Hōjō Masako was not just political one as she was known to be quite jealous and married Yoritomo against her father's wishes. She ended up holding quite a lot of power through her marriage to Yoritomo even though she married him when he was exiled by the Heike clan. After Yoritomo's death, she became a Buddhist nun, but she still held great power and influenced a lot of events. She became known as nun-shōgun.

Blister beetles have a poisonous compound called cantharidin. Symptoms of poisoning are vomiting blood, burning of gastro-intestinal tract, agitation, impaired consciousness, seizures, damage to the kidneys, fever, electrolyte imbalances, and drops in blood cell counts. Death comes from kidney failure for the most part.

Crimson red was a dye extracted from safflowers back then and very expensive, so it was dilluted into light pink.

or the concept of a pride flag is considered to be inappropriate for 13 year olds.

happy pride 2026. here's a pride flag for when corporate interests of a site run by dogshit transphobes, handwringing pearlclutchers, and "powerless" "allies" tell you that pride and your gender is no one else's fucking business:

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

According to the Engineering post on the subject, that should be the default behavior:

Enabled by default if you are currently sharing likes

Disabled by default if you are currently not sharing likes

I thought it might be because one or more of the users sharing a blog have likes set to visible, but no, it turned up for one where both the other person and I don't share our likes.

The tattoo behind your ear. It's a seal.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

when I taught university literature classes, I made a point to stress to my students that narratives in any media are shaped by a series of decisions made by the creators throughout the process, not events transcribed wholecloth. while reasonable people might go 'well duh, it's fiction,' I mean it in the sense of not thinking of it as one big solid whole, but rather stopping to analyze it in terms of all the choices we can see as smaller parts. analyzing the footprints rather than just saying 'oh hey there's a trail here,' if that makes sense. whether the creator(s) was/were an author or a writers' room, directors and actors or a lone comic artist, etc. the craftsperson/people had to stop and think and choose every element of what we see in the text.

sometimes those choices are made unthinkingly, and that can also tell us a lot, because these narratives are influenced by the culture and time in which they were made. they are covered in the fingerprints of the sentiments, ideas, and indeed, culture-shaping prejudices that existed at the time they were made. they're kind of like fossils in that way, especially the ones from longer ago.

when we look at these stories with the gaze of a. reading these people as Real People, and b. holding them only to standards we understand now, versus what people might have understood then, we lose a lot of the ability to think deeply and learn about the text and the time it was written in from those choices. that's also not to say every narrative gets the 'well that's just how they were back then' card, because the difference between other times and ours also tells us a great deal and is absolutely worth exploring. I mean it more as 'we can't look at fictional devices, especially from other times, as Real Living People, and definitely can't try to understand them as flesh and blood members of Our Modern Society, because they aren't. even if they're from a very current narrative, they were never meant to be. their actions do not carry the same weight a flesh and blood person's, and the people affected by those actions will not experience them like a flesh and blood person would, because this narrative is Fictional.'

Gilbert Baker was an American artist and activist known for designing the rainbow flag. Born in 1951 in Parsons, Kansas, Baker served in the United States Army from 1970 to 1972. After his discharge, he learned to sew and became involved in the gay rights movement in San Francisco.[7]

Influenced by his friend and gay rights activist, Harvey Milk, Baker adopted Milk’s call for openness and truth among gay people. He saw the flag as a direct way to express presence and identity.[8] At the urging of filmmaker Arthur J. Bressan Jr., Baker created the rainbow flag to serve as a symbol for the movement.[9]

The first flags appeared on June 25, 1978, during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration.[10][11]

According to a profile published in the Bay Area Reporter in 1985, Baker "chose the rainbow motif because of its associations with the hippie movement of the Sixties but he notes that the use of the design dates all the way back to ancient Egypt".[12] People have speculated that Baker was inspired by the Judy Garland song "Over the Rainbow" (Garland being among the first gay icons),[13][14] but when asked, Baker said that it was "more about the Rolling Stones and their song 'She's a Rainbow'".[15] Baker was likely influenced by the "Brotherhood Flag" (with five horizontal stripes to represent different races: red, white, brown, yellow, and black) popular among the world peace movement and hippie movement of the 1960s.[16][17][18][19]

The first rainbow flags commissioned by the fledgling pride committee were produced by a team that included artist Lynn Segerblom.[20] Segerblom was then known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow; according to her, she created the original dyeing process for the flags.[21] Thirty volunteers hand-dyed and stitched the first two flags for the parade.[22] The original flag design had eight stripes, with a specific meaning assigned to each of the colors:[23][24][25] Hot pink Sex Red Life Orange Healing Yellow Sunlight Green Nature Turquoise Magic/Art Indigo Serenity Violet Spirit

The two flags originally created for the 1978 parade were believed lost for over four decades, until a remnant of one was discovered among Baker's belongings in 2020.

Source: Wikipedia

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

Question: What would you like to see regarding support for Y-content? Babe: I want to see a focus on craftsmanship—whether it involves the actors, the directing team, or the production crew. I feel that if there were sufficient budget and time—allowing the team to really dedicate themselves to the work—and if support came from various sectors, the quality would improve significantly.