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The last shot of every episode of Taikan Yoho / My Personal Weatherman (2023), ep 1-8

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Here Kouhei version 📸

It was hilariously painful watching Mizuki eat that terrible curry. He’s just like “I would rather be eating shards of glass” but because Yoh is the one who served it to him, he crunches right along with those raw carrots lmao!!! Actually, he’d prolly also eat shards of glass if Yoh served them to him. And they way he was just petting him as Yoh knelt at the side of his bed!! Like an actual fucking pet!! Head pats are the highest form of affection!! We all know this to be true! And of course Yoh is confused as fuck because he’s kept in a state of perpetual confusion by their miscommunication. Like, they’re saying the same things to each other, just in different languages, and then they’re both frustrated when the other doesn’t seem to understand.

Also, that one dude saying that he wanted Mizuki to be his best man at his wedding and Mizuki was just mentally going

was absolutely fucking hilarious. Then the chick is like “well I’m gonna marry Mizuki” and Yoh just pops out of nowhere like “you made my muse uncomfortable, you don’t deserve to be graced with his presence anymore!”

Fuck, I adore this show and it’s batshittery!

Segasaki so possessive and kinky, jealousy here, bondage there, and yet it turned out that his biggest dream is to be an ordinary salaryman with a cute husbando waiting for him at home with a home-cooked dinner and okaeri on his full, kissable lips. This series is everything, it's adorably domestic with just right amount of spiciness 😍

"Being happy over something like this ..."

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN (2023). Episode 1 -> Episode 8.

What can I do to make you mine alone?

2023 WATCHLIST

⤷ My Personal Weatherman (2023)

Higuchi Kouhei Instagram 📸

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HIGUCHI KOUHEI x MASHIKO ATSUKI. For SoCool Magazine (2023).

"You're the only one I love."

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN (2023). Episode 8.

Higuchi Kouhei as SEGASAKI MIZUKI & Mashiko Atsuki as TANADA YOH

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN ⬪ 体感予報 (2023) ⬪ #02.

atsuki literally Dying on the floor not being able to watch That Episode 8 Scene .... meanwhile kouhei ..... is just sat back .... chilling ..... loving it.

HIGUCHI KOUHEI x MASHIKO ATSUKI. For Gianna Magazine (2023).

Higuchi Kouhei as SEGASAKI MIZUKI & Mashiko Atsuki as TANADA YOH

MY PERSONAL WEATHERMAN ⬪ 体感予報 (2023) ⬪ #05.

Love how in My Personal Weatherman Yoh has the most ethereal face with full luscious lips and a bone structure that would make God cry but everyone’s like WHAT A FUCKING WEIRD FREAK WHO WOULD WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH THAT LOSER

I want a season 2 of My Personal Weatherman and it’s just Yoh and Segasaki having a three hour long conversation about their needs and expectations in the relationship and they explain their insecurities to each other directly and then say I love you credits roll please and thank you

I love My Personal Weatherman because it’s visual poetry, it’s so soft and warm and gently spicy like a hug on an Autumn’s day and it’s also about two giant dumbasses who are madly in love with each other but are too emotionally constipated to realise and I think that’s beautiful.

I sometimes forget people don’t have the same pop culture frame of reference as me. I was talking to my sister and joked about how BLs had become my coping mechanism bc life’s been kicking me relentlessly lately and mentioned My Personal Weatherman and she was like, “oh, Japan does BLs? Didn’t think they’d do that sort of thing”. And I just…

Because like WHAT DO YOU MEAN? Of course Japan, the land of yaoi, does BLs. Then I was like… oh. She doesn’t know what yaoi is. That is not universal knowledge 🙃

15 day BL challenge time!

OG here 🧡

Day 8 - The trope you hate except when it’s “this series”.

Throughout the course of my twenties, due to a combination of working with incredibly difficult people (never work in Australian media y’all) and navigating personal drama, I have learned that the best way to interact with people is through direct, honest communication. I have learned how to be gently confrontational, I am comfortable being uncomfortable and saying to someone, “hey, can we sit down and have a chat?” And as a result, I find myself huffing impatiently when miscommunication rears its ugly head.

Looking at you buddy

Ah yes, miscommunication. My arch nemesis. Miscommunication is the rotten toenail of tropes. So often it feels like a cheap way to manufacture drama because the writer was too lazy to come up with something more original.

If the central conflict of your story stems from a miscommunication that could be resolved if the characters had a two minute conversation, but instead you stretch this petty misunderstanding out for an infuriatingly long amount of time… ya boring. Go back to the drawing board. Think of how else you can create tension and obstacles that compel the audience to care.

So which show is my only exception?

BL: My Personal Weatherman.

My Personal Weatherman, for those unfamiliar, is essentially a story about two emotionally constipated dumbasses that are desperately in love with each other.

And I adore it.

So what makes their miscommunication different?

This is not a surface level miscommunication that can be solved with a simple conversation. It requires serious introspection, recognition of fears, voicing insecurities and allowing vulnerability. These are not things that happen overnight.

Yoh has incredibly low self esteem and believes he has nothing to offer Segasaki. He constantly downplays his abilities, despite the fact that throughout the series we see him being Segasaki’s safe space.

He can’t bring himself to be honest about his feelings to Segasaki (except when he’s drunk). He is confused by Segasaki’s actions and finds himself becoming resentful, finding reasons to hate Segasaki because he thinks his heart is the only one that races when they’re together.

Segasaki, on the other hand, wears a mask around others, feeling like Yoh is the only one that understands him. He can pretend with everyone else, but with Yoh he is utterly defenseless. Since day one he has been captivated by this man that sees right through him to his very core.

Segasaki desperately needs Yoh to be by his side, he craves him, and yet it takes seven episodes for him to finally break and say, I can’t breathe without you. Even after this declaration we see him tying Yoh up in an attempt to keep him from leaving, begging telling Yoh to be his and his alone, his insecurity palpable (also, he never actually tells Yoh about his insecurities, he just tortures himself in private). This moment of vulnerability is a turning point in their relationship.

And all this is externalised through a lack of communication, and not just that, but a lack of understanding about different communication styles. Segasaki is taken aback when he finds Yoh drunk and sullen, proclaiming that he will earn enough money to move out because Segasaki only sees him as a slave. Meanwhile Segasaki is like, wow, okay, first of all rude to say that to your husband.

But after this, Segasaki specifically takes Yoh out and they experience all these cute little date moments. It’s super sweet and everything is going well, until Yoh says, “hey, if you want to do something without me you can”, leading Segasaki to walk away despondently (and lie about having other plans) because he clearly thought they were on the same page (however, he still uses this time to buy Yoh a jumper while Yoh goes off to buy more sheets so they can fuck be intimate more often (because they’re both dumbasses who haven’t heard of a dryer)).

Through Segasaki’s actions, he thought he was clearly saying, “hey, I like you.” And yet, the lack of literal vocal communication meant these gestures went completely over Yoh’s head (literally at one point he says, this guy really needs to use more words!!). His low self esteem has created a barrier in their relationship. He doesn’t understand that Segasaki actually wants to be with him. How could this amazing man ever actually want him? And it’s understandable that he’s struggling, because Segasaki can be quite ambiguous with his words.

Now could all of this be resolved in one conversation? Not exactly, no. It’s more complicated than that. Which is why it works. Because there is something far deeper going on.

In order for these two to find each other, they have to overcome their own insecurities. They are each fighting an internal battle and don’t actually understand how to vocalise their needs and fears to each other.

It’s hard, but they get there eventually.

Dumbasses (affectionate).