#君には届かない

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Kimi ni wa Todokanai | S01E08

Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

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I'm getting very hmmmm about how to translate 君には届かない。

Literally, it's

君 kimi (you)

に ni (particle indicating a direction towards the preceding noun or noun phrase)

は wa (topic marker)

届かない todokanai (does not arrive at, does not reach, does not get through to)

so that'd give us "(something/someone unmentioned) does/will not reach you"

The manga itself has "I will not reach you" on its cover in English in the Japanese edition. "I cannot reach you" is probably more, idk, idiomatic? in English.

But the thing is. the way this is phrased? I'm willing to bet it's short for something like

（僕の気持ちは）君には届かない （僕の思いは）君には届かない

both of which are nuances/variations of "my feelings won't get through to you"

and I should probably read the manga to see how this plays out, or wait until the show is finished

but the way it's phrased is missing its subject, and I do think that's conspicuous.

anyone who's actually spoken Japanese regularly in the past decade or something wanna weigh in?

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ALT

since the next vol won’t come sooner I did some rough sketching to vent some ideas what might happen 🫠(ignore my nail lmao)

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Kakeru and Yamato

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Asian Drama Review: I Cannot Reach Out

~ Warning! Minor Spoilers! Japanese Drama Review: “I Cannot Reach You” 君には届かない。Kimi ni wa Todokanai [2023] ~ REVIEW I was over at my friend’s place for Christmas when I mentioned that a popular Japanese BL drama had recently been added to Netflix USA. So, we checked and discovered that “I Cannot Reach You” has eight episodes, each lasting only twenty minutes. We decided to binge-watch it after…

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Yamato and Kakeru's evolving relationship through each episode's opening ~

+ the parting shot ♡

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Kimi ni wa Todokanai | S01E06

Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

Episodes | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Tencent | Netflix | Catalogue

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I Can’t Reach You (2023) - 君には届かない。 - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : Childhood best friends. Two halves of a whole. The cool, smart one who’s good at almost everything, and his average, dorky friend who struggles to do anything right­ - Yamato and Kakeru. Always by the other’s side, but not together in the way they truly want to be. No matter how hard they try, their hearts cannot reach each other. (MDL) AKA : Kimi ni wa Todokanai

Whumpee : Ashiya Kakeru played by Kashiwagi Haru (laying down) • Ohara Yamato played by Maeda Kentaro (sitting up)

Country : 🇯🇵 Japan Genres : Romance, Youth, School, BL / Boys Love

Notes : This is a Full Whump List • Adapted from the manga series "Kimi ni wa Todokanai." (君には届かない。) by Mika (みか)

Episodes on List : 4 Total Episodes : 8

*Spoilers below*

01 : Ohara Yamato falls & sprains wrist

05 : Coughing .. (at end) passes out

07 : (at end) Ashiya Kakeru sick

08 : … continued from previous ep. ... Sick (brief) .. sprains ankle, carried

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I will not reach you. 君には届かない。Ep 4

I was thinking about subtitles the entire first half of the episode so wasn't really liveblogging, but. These two. I love them. I love the pacing of this show. I really, really like the classmates, especially Hosaka, obnoxious as he's being.

Murasen is such a high school teacher. Dajare and all.

Hosaka is NOT letting this go and I love that for him, for me, and (ultimately, though I don't think he appreciates it yet) for Yamato (and Kakeru).

Arashiyama? EXCELLENT choice, Yamato's clearly a man of taste. When I lived in Kyoto I'd sometimes just bike out to have a walk in the bamboo grove, or to have sweets at one of the cafés, or just stand on Togetsukyo and look out over the water.

Yamato's smile when Kakeru offered!! I am so tempted to translate 'yakusoku da yo' with 'it's a date', but. aaah.

KYOTO oh I miss it (in case that wasn't clear from the rant above)

My kneejerk reaction just now was "oh NO not the girls", which isn't really fair to them – Kayo deserves to see her bf, and Akane is sweet.

"i need the bathroom" classic Yamato

these two, is2g

calling him out to see the stars with you, holy shit, you've got it just as bad as Yamato, Kakeru

the dad lives!!! aah I'm really happy to hear that somehow

awww, they really do go way back

oh Yamato, you're really trying

friends to lovers best dynamic forever, I said what I said

ONSENNNN

ONSENNNNNN

ahahaha Kakeru's SO in his head (but then again, who knows what goes down in the bathroom with teenagers – I legit got groped in the chest by a same-gender classmate during bath time on my own school trip, so, uh, maybe not unreasonable to assume things might get weird)

poor Kakeru, being used as a mule

Yamato is acting 'normal' because he's used to being in love with you, kiddo

HOSAKA

I love Hosaka so much

I kind of wonder about Hosaka's backstory now, with him all insightful

oh that shirt on Kakeru! I want that shirt!

ahaha CLASSIC

aaah, tatami. I'm almost sad my own class trip was to Hokkaido so we stayed at a regular hotel :'D but only almost

I am FOAMING AT THE MOUTH god these two, these TWO

the pacing of this show is so good!

In case you couldn't tell, I'm thoroughly in love with this show. Is it special? maybe not. but like many of my favourites (*cough* Bad Buddy *cough*) it takes an ordinary, run-of-the-mill story and tells it in a really lovely way.

Also apparently the Japanese shorthand for this show is kiminai, so I'll be rebranding in my head and tags, sigh

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Kimi ni wa Todokanai - I Can't Reach You Review

Ohara Yamato has it all: good looks, great grades, and a horde of admirers. But he has a secret—he is in love with his best friend. Read our review of the 2023 series 'I Can't Reach You'/'Kimi ni wa Todokanai,' starring Maeda Kentaro and Kashiwagi Haru.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. As soon as the intro song rolled in for Japanese series “I Can’t Reach You”/”Kimi ni wa Todokanai” in its first episode, I exclaimed to myself “Oh no, I guess he is just going to pine for his crush for the whole show until the last episode!”. After watching so many Japanese shows, it seemed pretty plausible that a high-school romance show would just be an achingly…

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Yo también lo sentí, tenía miedo...

Barreras del corazón

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I Can’t Reach You (2023)

Kimi ni wa Todokanai. (2023)

Final review: sweet. Unfortunately, this brand of artificial sweetener turned bitter for me. Rating: 6/10

[My experience watching this was colored by my experience watching If It's With You. It might have received a higher rating (7/10) if I was being objective.]

Summary: A highschooler (Yamato) bottles up intense love for his childhood-friend & classmate (Kakeru) who upon learning of it struggles till happy ending.

Pairing: kuuru seme with kichiku-leaning tendency (which he regrets) X  nonke uke

What I liked:

1) Brocon-allegation that added a layer of formality between Yamato and his sister.

2) Comphet. Then, compulsory sexuality - evoked by pairing up during festival season. Doesn’t problematize it but addresses it in its own way. Of course, artificial sweetener galore.

3) swan!Kakeru – Kakeru being persuaded into delivering love charm to Yamato who reacts to it as expected.

Painting by Raja Ravi Varma

Swan: Basically, in the epic Mahabharata, king Nala basically enlists a swan to pass on love message to princess Damayanti.

4) Yamato and Kakeru hiding under the covers from their teacher who ignored the unusually huge bulge.

5) Them wearing uniform during outing – brought back memories of middle school days.

6) Kakeru’s academic strides to Yamato.

7) Sweet potato and rain-ruined confession.

8) BL quirk - Empty health room so that our CP can have an intimate moment.

9) Hair pin slipping off Kakeru’s love-interest – ominous end of love. Japan does this well, second only to Bollywood (lamp scene from Devdas (2002) for example.)

10) The dynamics between Yamato and Hosaka Yui.

Reminded me of Jian Yi and He Tian before Mo Guanshan’s arrival in 19 days manhua.

What I didn’t like:

1) Screenplay, direction and acting.

Some scenes were written blandly. It looked silly on screen. It is shame since it is a manga being adapted to screen, they had such rich reference.

Director didn’t do a good job. CGI glitter isn’t enough.

Idol acting from the main leads. They were vases (花瓶) in some scenes, good-looking but not agile.

Some poses our CP held were awkward and avoidable.

2) The narrative dragged on. I wish this one was a tighter, neater story with less pose holds and filler scenes. Secondary characters interactions were unimpactful.

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