Yes ka No ka Hanbun ka

[6/10 for Story]: it's simple, nothing groundbreaking. But compared to other yaoi/sho-ai, the progression is relatively natural (if you exclude the reason why Kunieda helped Tsuzuki in the first place, that is). The pacing was really good. It wasn't too fast for me to feel annoyed and awkward, but it's not too slow for me to feel frustrated. The little bits about the show-biz/news-biz/entertainment world are interesting, as well as the technique about pronunciation/articulation which is important in the industry and, interestingly, serves as a plot device. [4/10 for Art]: I googled the original illustration for the light novel, and honestly I don't think this anime did it justice. The novel's illustration looks really pretty, soft, and has a 'light' feeling to it (perhaps also because of the 'soft filter' it uses. I probably didn't explain it right, but just google the novel's cover and you'll know what I mean). The anime's art, on the other hand, didn't even attempt anything special, not even to distinguish itself from the light novel's illustration. It looks mediocre for a 2020 anime. The character design also looked different. They appeared slightly chubbier in the anime. [7/10 for Sound]: It makes sense for the anime to talk a lot about voices/sounds considering the setting and I think the casting for the VA was really great to maintain that energy. Abe Atsushi's voice suits Kunieda's character a lot and he did well in making the voice for both sides of Kunieda distinguishable. A lot of Kunieda's mannerisms also seemed to translate to the voice. I enjoyed hearing it a lot. Kawahara Yoshihisa, on the other hand, was just okay for me. It's not that he's bad... I actually think he did better than average, but I think it's just the kind of voice that is typical for a 'seme' in yaoi, so it didn't leave that deep of an impression. [4/10 for Character]: Kunieda is a relatable, yet interesting character. I think I relate to his dilemma about work ethics and job position a lot. His duality, even though exaggerated, is humane. A lot of yaoi MC annoyed me but I'm glad Kunieda didn't (perhaps it's because I saw too much yaoi MC who's easily flustered over every little thing the seme said/did and Kunieda, who the majority of the time wasn't like that, refreshed me). Tsuzuki seemed genuine, kind, and straight-forward. I have to say, he didn't seem very special, but he was personable and seemed like a guy we encounter in our everyday life. /!!!spoilery paragraph!!!/ I, however, don't like the part where Tsuzuki ignored Kunieda's plea to stop the sex when he's scared. The guy also didn't stop when Kunieda said he was hurt, which I think is an asshole move. With the way the story progressed so far and how kind & understanding Tsuzuki seemed to be, I would've thought that he'd stop. But no, apparently this is still a yaoi movie and characters don't care when their partner is hurting as long as they can serve sex to the audience. How fascinating. [7/10 for Enjoyment]: It was good because I enjoyed it from start to finish, the majority of the reason being the perfect pacing for me. It's not groundbreaking, but it wasn't as awful. [OVERALL]: 28/5 = 5.6 = rounded to 6

Waste of my time honestly. I had high hopes for this cause at first it seemed charming and fun but the ending completely ruined it for me. There’s not much to be enjoyed here. SPOILERS AHEAD Im tired of BL following certain tropes that really shouldn’t be tropes in the genre anyway. At the end there is honestly a disturbing rape scene that really felt out of place and gave me secondhand embarrassment it was so bad. Nothing was really special about this and I wish I had more to say but there isn’t. I gave this short an overall 2 but I have to give credit to some of the animation.

I really enjoyed it, I'm not to see yaoi but it wasn't that bad, overall the story gave me laughter and more (spoiler) when they had s3x at the end. It's a bit silly from my point of view, I'm not saying it's bad just that it's like it's not the big thing. I don't understand the characters well, at some point it gets a little boring; if you want to hang out watching a yaoi movie, this is your story. To be honest, I liked the ending more than the whole movie, I thought it was very nice and it was the best part. As I said it was not very interesting, they were very insipid.

I was so excited to watch this! Whilst watching it I found it pretty decent and interesting. The characters were not terrible but not extraordinary. The art was actually pretty good. The music was decent. (Occasionally the well know piano piece would play). The background was super good! The char etc interaction was actually good. I liked the little animation thingy that was added in for the news preview! I thought I was very cool and unique.[SPOILER] Though, sadly it was just the last couple of minutes that ruined it for me personally. Like many other yaois consent was non-existent. I was disappointed. But that's a very common thing amongst talks and such. If that scene was the opposite I would definitely consider it a top movie

I liked this movie fine. Kunieda's character was cool. Tsuzuki's character was kind of lackluster with a couple good moments. I was excited to see the two start a relationship until THAT scene. Tsuzuki lost all respect I had for him previously during that scene. I liked the art style and the character design was good, in my opinion, but yeah, I think you get my point. The voice acting was good though, so woo, haha. Others may disagree, but I personally don't really think the career scene at the end was necessary. Kunieda's career was really just like filler for the whole movie (that's what it seemed like to me anyway). I guess it would make sense if it more of the story was focused on him building a career, but it really wasn't, so I feel like it took away from the big events that happened in the scene before (even though I hated it). Overall, I think this movie had the potential to be pretty good. I really did like some aspects of it. I enjoyed Kunieda's double sided character, and all the scenes with Owari and Tsuzuki, and I loved the art style, but the ending ruined it for me.

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to enjoy this short movie adaption of the original light novels. The main character is likeable and funny, and the story is easy to grasp and get into. It doesn't overstay it's welcome in regards to runtime, and 50 minutes is a good length to enjoy it. It is well produced and crisp, and lacking in nothing significant. I must say, the last scene was weird and I didn't understand its purpose in the plot, but otherwise I felt it was a well rounded film. I would recommend it to a friend, but not with the expectation that it would become their all-time favourite, just a good one to have watched.

Sweet, simple, decent animation, a little rushed. Sometimes the MC could get a little grating, but I believe that was more a consequence of such a short run-time than poor writing. Yes ka No Ka Hanbun ka had a lot of potential and it even got me a little teary-eyed, however it rapidly falls victim to one of the most notorious negative BL tropes. This is a great movie to watch if you want your entire viewing experience to be ruined at the last minute. Unfortunately for me it would feel disingenuous to rate it any lower because I really did enjoy the first 40ish minutes.

For the first 45 minutes this is an enjoyable romance anime with the cliché "mis-identification, torn between 2 folks" trope. Throw in the "Can only be myself when in disguise" cliché and that's this show. For that time it's quite enjoyable and the "shoulder personality" throwing out true back of the head snark is done well. The artist is played off a bit to "perfect person" though. Then we hit the last scene. BL Fans .. NO MEANS NO. If you flipped one of the genders in this it'd get screamed down left right and centre. Please stop portraying any teased/horny man as a beast who will never except "not yet" or "no" from a partner and just has to go for it. The existence of a Y chromosome does not actually mean that you are a slave to your hormones. Dropped it from a 7 to a solid 6 for me when it did that.

As a yaoi fan, I rarely dislike any, but this one was decent. I wasn't super super into it but for a short movie, it was fun. I loved the premise, with the hidden identity. Having just gone through a pandemic with COVID-19, I was so put off by the fact that the main character was hiding behind a surgical mask. I don't know if anyone else felt the same way watching this is in 2021, but I was so distracted by the mask. The art and story was really good and I loved the music of the show as well. The characters were also done well, and no one was really that annoying. I am a sucker for dark haired anime guys, as all girls are, and he was definitely done well in this show. I have to say though... the ending. Just what. What in the world. I wish I could erase the last five minutes of the movie. I know yaoi is generally a problematic genre, but that was borderline insane. I would skip the last five minutes. Otherwise, this is a great and fun movie.

I rated this a 6 in my list and a 5 for the overall review because those seem to have the words to best describe this movie. It's... fine. It's pretty mediocre. It wasn't AWFUL or anything; it has a very stereotypical shoujo manga mindset plot, but at least this one is less obvious of who's hiding behind the mask (sometimes when I see those kinds of story plotlines with girls as the main character, I'm like "There's only one girl with purple hair in the entire town, who else would this mysterious person be??"). I did think the scene where it flashes between him in front of a camera and then wearing the mask was kind of interesting - it really showed his struggle in that one second of keeping up both facades. But then lol it didn't hold up and it went towards the typical BL route which is fine if that's what you're looking for. So it's fine. This movie was just fine.

Very relaxing anime to watch! You can see the genuine connection being built between the couple, first over forced proximity, then over very simple things like food taste, routine and world views. It doesn't classify as enemies to lovers for me, but it does have one trait in common with the genre, which is the depiction of one person falling in love with the other despite seeing that person's worst side. Actually you could say love happens BECAUSE the main character's "worst" side is shown. Their main conflict revolves around the main character's internal issues with his persona, a change from BL plots in which the main obstacle are misunderstandings, third parties or internal homophobia and I think this is a variation a lot of people will enjoy. Overall, this is a soft romance where it's easy to relate to, or least understand the characters' fears and thoughts. Just a warning: there's a sex scene by the end. It's not very graphic, but it's clear what's happening, the sound is very explicit and it lasts a few minutes so careful if you're gonna watch around other people or without headphones lol

Most of the movie was fine, i was going to say it was mostly good with a few hiccups but that final scene just ruined it for me. It was so unconfortable and left a bad taste in my mouth, i would go so far as to say that it soured the whole thing. If we're ignoring the ending scene though i guess it was good enough, i did mostly like it up to that point and it was interesting to see them, it was kind of predictable but i don't personally have an issue with predictable stories; The main character was enjoyable to follow and even though the love interest wasn't very fleshed out he was fine for what he was supposed to do, i liked the small spotlight on the job of animation and it was overall sweet to see their relationship start.

This whole movie was "yes, no or maybe?" The art and animation went really well hand in hand, especially the art style, I really loved. The characters were okay, they didn't have much depth, but they were certainly interesting. And...the sex scene. First off, sex isn't a go to for connection, I don't understand the obsession. Second, consent, without consent it's literally rape. It's not right for someone to stand there and say they "understand you" when you're stating the opposite. It was not a good scene, made me uncomfortable, to force oneself onto someone else. It ruined the movie for me, rated it down a notch. Maybe the author had something different in mind, but they didn't execute it well. My advice for them is to have different points of view, or ask other people for opinions.

God, I tried my best to make it through this movie. I thought it might be cute, a normal-ish couple who ended up a couple through working together after working through some differences in their personalities, but I couldn't even get that far. I had to stop watching because it was irritating me. Some spoilers, but it doesn't matter because I didn't make it to the end. The main character is an insufferable twat. I can tell they added the mental asides for him meaning for them to be cutesy (hence the cute chibi version of the character representing his mental voice), but I really just wanted to strangle him. In fact, adding in the main character berating other characters in his head for infractions like (gasp!) daring to think he's a decent guy, really just serve to make him more unlikeable, and I found myself wishing he'd get hit by a bike or something. When he didn't get hit the first time, my disappointment was immeasurable. Neither of the main characters are enjoyable to watch. One is an asshole, and one is a boring nothing character whose only personality trait is 'openly bisexual'. I've found more personality in the nearly cardboard representations of characters in other barely coherent anime. The one redeeming trait to this movie is that the art is pretty good and the characters are portrayed as normal looking dudes instead of the stereotypical uke and seme portrayals in nearly every other BL anime. However, at one point I looked away and looked back (because I got bored) and suddenly had no idea which character was which. There's a serious lack of diverse characters in this, and by that I mean I literally couldn't tell some of them apart. And I've watched Osomatsu-san. My number one main complaint for this entire thing is that it's just...so boring. I couldn't force myself to pay attention. And after seeing a couple reviews that say not to watch past 45 minutes, and finding out that this movie falls right back into the harmful BL stereotypes that make it so hard to find decent gay representation in anime, I couldn't let myself watch any more. It's shameful that anyone could see yet another rape scene and still find the movie charming. I thought we were better than this.

"Yes, No, or Maybe?" Do you consent to sex? "Yes, no, or maybe?" Did I like this anime? "Yes, no, or maybe." I loved this anime. It was a lighthearted romp. It was fun, it was impactful. It made me feel a type of way. I got butterflies in my stomach from it. I loved the audio, the story, the concept, the resolution, the characters - everything. As a woman who struggles with a personality disorder, the concept of never being able to show the real "you" really caught me, and I really connected with it. However, there was no real substance beyond "please like yourself". There's nothing that will stick with me for the rest of my life after leaving this anime, and if it wasn't for MyAnimeList, give it 4 years and I'll forget what it's even about. It wasn't Given. It wasn't Strangers by the Sea. It wasn't Hitorijime My Hero. But it WAS A Tyrant Falls in Love. It WAS Finder. It WAS Dakaichi. Long-time fans of yaoi anime know exactly what I'm getting at. When it was all looking so good, there was very dubious consent in the last THREE MINUTES of the entire thing. Seme wants it. Uke says no. Uke vocally resists ~a fair bit~ and the seme ~~~can't control himself~~~. Uke says "Stop". Seme doesn't. It was hot. I'm only human. The sounds, the visuals, the animation, the music. The way the Seme says the Uke's name mid-sex. It's not something we get very often outside of straight-up hentai. It was never framed as "what is appearing on screen right now is bad". Many animes refuse to even go "there" with gay relationships, giving no kisses - let alone sex. But this one did, and I have to give it that to its credit. However, even IF the Uke was okay with it afterward (which he was, btw. He was happy to stay under the Seme and hug and talk about their feelings), WHAT was the POINT of that dubious consent? Strip him down naked, he's happy with it, and then when the dude tries to put it in, the uke dislikes it? And the seme does NOTHING to reassure him? I don't know. I felt it was needless. I felt like the movie went, "this is what all yaoi anime does, so if I want to be one of the cool kids, I need to do it too." And it was just so unnecessary. I enjoyed myself. Truly. The ending was satisfying, and despite the questionable sex making me feel a little icky, I had fun with this movie. I'm just so disappointed in it for adding literally a pointless dialogue that he wasn't okay with it. If they'd just made the Uke silent, or made him say "don't look" or something equally bashful, if that's what they were going for with the whole "yamete kudasai~~" nonsense - it would've been nice. Instead, it's apparently sexier to want someone SO MUCH that you "lose all reason" and become a rapist in this genre. Ahh well. At least it's fiction.