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@anonymouslye

i need at least four business days worth of time to recover from kiyoi saying "so you prefer unrequited love, right?"

@bengiyo

Utsukushii Kare 2 Ep 3 Stray Thoughts

My Beautiful Man 2 Ep 4 (Finale) Stray Thoughts

@chaos-thea

The symbolism in this scene fucking broke me.

@coconuts-mafia

My Beautiful Man Master List

@dreamingsnowflake2013

Hira's altar to Kiyoi's awesomeness may seem like the typical work of an obsessive fan, but, in reality, it's much more intimate and deeply personal.

It makes so much sense that Koyama immediately figures Kiyoi out and sees right through him because anyone who truly bothered to look at him and could put two and tow together would notice how emotionally invested he is in Hira.

@emotionallychargedtowel

Utsukushii Kare master post

@goldenmorningglory

okay ranted to irl about this but.

@heretherebedork

It's hard to fully imagine how long Kiyoi had felt unloved, how long he'd felt like there was no one close to him, no one the understood him, no one that cared about him, no one that could truly see him

@jemmo

so i finally watched the utsukushii kare eternal movie properly.

@my-usernames-posts

The power of emotional attachment - My Beautiful Man

@lurkingshan

The brief spark of hope on Kiyoi’s face - when Hira said he didn’t like telling his cousin they were friends - makes this all so much more painful.

My favorite thing about Utsukushii Kare: Eternal is Kiyoi’s growth

@mikuni14 @lurkingshan

Utsukushii Kare Ep 4

@respectthepetty

MY IDOL AND HIS STALKER ARE BACK!!!!

I've mentioned how Hira constantly lowers himself around Kiyoi because he has never seen himself as an equal.

Did you see it?

Dear My Beautiful Man's second season.

@sexyglances

The evolution of "gross" from a crude epithet to a term of endearment in Utsukushii Kare is so compelling because the evolution essentially tells the story of the development of Kiyoi and Hira's love

@sotterramii

The fight at the end of episode 3 is a necessary evil that I really hope will serve as a wakeup call for Hira.

@space-boy-who-lives-next-door

I've gotten back into re-watching shows and ended up re-watching my beautiful man.

@sublimepoliticsmusicbiscuit-blog

Another reason I'm obsessed with My Beautiful Man, they completely deconstruct the whole Tsundere trope and make it better.

@vegasthehedgehog

Kiyoi

@waitmyturtles

Turtles Catches Up with the Essential BLs: Utsukushii Kare Edition

I’ll definitely have more thoughts tomorrow, but on the first episode of the second season of My Beautiful Man/Utsukushii Kare, really quickly: 1) Goddamn, my heart, THESE TWO

I definitely have a big Bad Buddy meta hangover (I’m so. wiped. out. from writing.), but I HAVE to write something about Utsukushii Kare S2E3, because: IT WAS GREAT.

I feel like I haven’t given Utsukushii Kare/My Beautiful Man season 2the kind of love and attention that it either deserves, or that I expected to give to it, simply because my brain is all in Thailand with Moonlight Chicken at the moment

@wei-ying-kexing-apologist

Sorry to any of my friends on here who have heard me say this for the third time now but I cannot get over the way Utsukushii Kare shows us the ways in which negative self-perception can impact EVERYONE.

Please let me know if there is any other meta I should add!

Kiyoi's harsh attitude is used masterfully to not be seen as vulnerable and he even convinces himself that he's not as emotional a person as the rest of those around him. And Hira's worship of him just adds to this. But Kiyoi is greedy for Hira, even as he can't bring himself to accept just how much he has come to need Hira to love him.

This is why Hira and his insecurities while heartbreaking to see, never make me angry, because if this were every other romance then Hira would keep trying to make Kiyoi love him. But Hira limits himself, cause he's so genuinely respectful and hates the thought of doing anything Kiyoi wouldn't like. And Hira doesn't believe himself worthy of love so the Tsundere!Kiyoi has to break out of his own protective shell to be vulnerable!

Kiyoi can't live in denial about who he wants. His abrasive behaviour, which is a defense mechanism, has consequences! The man he loves just pulls further away. His inability to communicate his feelings verbally leaves Hira without an understanding of what Kiyoi feels. And so Kiyoi is unable to live in denial and is forced to accept repeatedly just how much he cares about Hira, just how much he wants him.

Kiyoi even tries to repeatedly let go of Hira in typical Tsundere fashion, which is a call for attention. But in this case it doesn't work! Kiyoi doesn't get to be chased as his ego demands! HE HAS TO DO THE CHASING!

Kiyoi has to learn to be honest with himself and with his lover. And that's why they're soulmates! Only Hira could have pushed Kiyoi into smashing out of his shell. Just as Kiyoi is the only one who can motivate Hira to grow and fight to overcome his own shell.

NME, 20 March & 27 March 1993

What does Brett "rap" at the end of Stay Together? David Barnett, author of Love and Poison: The Authorised Biography, answers this via a Facebook post from some years ago (per this thread):

“Here you go:

Time to wheel this out for the millionth time ... My best attempts at transcribing the two very different Stay Together 'raps', taken from collating various attempts by other fans over the years …

Recorded version: ad-libbed live in the studio, September 1993

'It's my father he stands around the farm

Now the world shines from his hands

It started in my time

Time can fucking do that

I don't need his heart that steals the sky

Not this land

Not when this gets his hand

Not tonight

Not tonight when the fires come down

Not tonight on the sickly scowls of his hand

Not tonight when he's stealing another heart

Not his style

Not to steal the car

Not to take me back to the past

Don't take me down to the farm where the cars are there

Don't take me there

Fire in the hands of the drunken

Take me somewhere else'

Live rap: especially written for the live performances, circa November 1993 (note, this changed slightly between concerts but the themes were similar and it always ended with the whipping up a storm rant.

'Now see our lives in the shadow of a gun

Looking for a girl where the pigs won't come

Cried sixteen tears for every year

Shacked up together while we burn in fear

Now here lies the shadow of a god

Hanging in the sky like a star from the son

Snap crack a single bed

Whipping up a storm like a fucker from the dead

See our lives in the shadow of a gun

In a little hole where the pigs come from

Cried sixteen tears for every year

Shacked up together with a bird in here

Now hear our lies in the shadow of a gun

Hanging in the sky like a comet from the sun

Smash grab in the concrete dream

White noise falls to the tune of the dream

Have another ciggie on his hands and knees

Now see our lives in the shadow of a gun

Took a little girl in the shadow of a gun

Single tears for every year

Shacked up together with a bird in here

Shout pout in a single bed

Whipping up a storm like a fucker from the dead

The Pharmacy is buzzing, and there’s an air of expectancy surrounding proceedings. I am just about to attempt small talk with Damon when I notice a commotion by the entrance: David Bowie has walked in, and there’s a palpable intake of breath from all and sundry. Bowie walks straight over to our table and greets Damon warmly.

‘Hello Damon,’ he says. 'Really nice to meet you.’ Then he turns to Polly, Rachel, and me and says, 'And hello ladies!’

Great, I think. I made a big impression here, then.

Damon and Bowie chat for a few minutes before Bowie wanders off to greet someone else. Damon turns to Polly and whispers quietly, dramatically, in an absurdly high voice, 'David Bowie knows who I am!’ We all laugh.