Ron Does Stuff

By the end of the second episode, I was already thinking that William and Izaya were going to be the messy homos inside the Green Room. The third episode confirmed that, and now I’m just waiting what this fourth episode is going to bring me.

We start off at the gym for this episode, and wouldn’t you know it, the people inside it are Izaya and William. And Izaya immediately brings up the fact that William has cheated on a partner before. William clarifies that he kissed someone who wasn’t his partner, and his current partner found out and actually cheated with somebody else. He doesn’t want to elaborate further though when Izaya presses him on it. Messy, messy, messy.

William says he’s learned from his mistake and doesn’t plan on making the same one again, and then tries to say that maybe it wasn’t a big deal. Izaya, of course, doesn’t think agree. But he does admit in the confessionals that William admitting to this helped him know him a little better, and that he found it impressive that William was willing to talk about his past relationship. Okay.

Opening credits time!

After the opening credits, we get a one-on-one between between Bomi and Kazuyuki, because Bomi thinks Kazuyuki still isn’t at ease with the rest of the group. He’s a gay man in his 40s! In gay years, that means he should have diminished and gone into the West! Kazuyuki admits to feeling insecure when he compares himself to the rest of the cast, and to Bomi’s credit he does his best to lift Kazuyuki’s spirits up.

Over at the kitchen, we’re back at the William and Izaya show and William’s asking what kind of guy is Izaya interested in and what are the things he can’t forgive and I honestly do not understand why he’s asking Izaya these things and then push Izaya away when Izaya declares his feelings. He even tells Izaya that he’s looking for someone who’s looking to settle down. I know you’ve got a big cock, William, but that doesn’t give you the freedom to just go around and confuse people like this!

It’s Jobu’s time in the gym and Kazuyuki’s joining him, and Jobu tells Kazuyuki that he’ll only be there for a bit since he’s joining William and Izaya at the baths. And to be fair to Jobu, he tried multiple times to engage Kazuyuki in conversation, but the dude was just silent. Maybe he’s not ready for the Green Room just yet.

Back at the kitchen, Jobu gets canceled on by William and Izaya, who have decided that maybe their not going to the baths anymore. This is just me overanalyzing, but I think Izaya took one look at Jobu, clocked that he wanted William, and blocked his attempt to see William naked at the baths. Jobu goes back to the gym, and it would be so funny if William and Izaya then decide to go to the baths.

However, William and Izaya do not go to the baths, but continue to talk about what it is they’re looking for in a relationship. William says he’s more careful now when it comes to entering into a relationship because of what happened to him before, and Izaya takes it as a challenge to win William’s trust.

But that isn’t the only challenge Izaya is taking on, because he’s also filling in Kazuyuki’s eyebrows. It’s actually a group project with William, Jobu, and Bomi watching it happen, and while I’ve never really thought about my eyebrows, Kazuyuki does look better with them filled in. And Izaya did the better job than William.

I don’t know what they’re having for dinner later that night, but it sure looks delicious! But that dinner is immediately overtaken in my mind by a new arrival approaching the Green Room. The new arrival is Ryuki, a 20-year-old university student. Is he the youngest ever? I looked it up and apparently, he is! Ikuo was the youngest in the previous season and he was 22. Ryuki says his last relationship was pretty painful and I would ask why do all of these guys have traumatic relationships and then I look at myself and go…well.

But then we find out that Ryuki went out with Huwei before and my ears suddenly perk up. It doesn’t look like Huwei is the previous traumatic relationship since he says he and Ryuki only went out like twice, but then again this could be another William and Izaya situation where Huwei is William and Ryuki is Izaya. According to Huwei, Ryuki was the one who started ignoring him, but I’d like to hear Ryuki’s version of the story first.

Huwei and Ryuki recall the details of their date in front of the whole group and Bomi is fuming. Me? I’m cackling. I love mess. Bomi asks when Huwei went out with Ryuki, and then brings up that Huwei left him hanging when he promised they’d go on a dinner date. He continues to rant about it during his confessional and tries to diminish Huwei and Ryuji’s date because it was spontaneous and I gotta say the jealousy is delicious.

The next day, the boys walk out to a buttload of snow and what starts out as Huwei judo throwing people into it turns into a fun snow fight. Certainly more aesthetically shot than one of my favorite snowfights.

After the snow fight, Kazuyuki is picked as the coffee truck shift leader and the person he picks as his partner is Jobu. Once they set off in the truck and find a location, they set a ¥7,000 target for themselves that I initially found ambitious but looking at episode two post, Bomi and Huwei missed it by just ¥150. And they make ¥8,800! They really should appreciate Kazuyuki more because if this happened during the first season, Usak wouldn’t have had to sacrifice his chicken smoothies.

After their shift, Kazuyuki and Jobu talk about…William. My good. Thankfully, Jobu steers the discussion towards Kazuyuki, who just got out of a 15-year relationship. That’s a millennia in gay years! Kazuyuki is thinking about getting into a new relationship, but there’s isn’t anybody in the house that he’s seriously considering yet.

Back at the Green Room, Izaya takes William to the snow dome that the cast built for what he calls a “first date”. Izaya point black says that he doesn’t want anybody else to get to William first, and then the ominous music starts and I am just waiting for whatever bombshell William says this time around. William says he doesn’t know what so great about him and in the middle of pointing out William’s good qualities, Izaya ends up telling William he likes him.

To William’s credit, he’s very careful when he shares his thoughts with Izaya. He tells Izaya that he thinks they’re moving too fast and that Izaya’s emotions are getting head of him. And to Izaya’s credit, he doesn’t want William to feel like he’s being pressured and rushed into things, and that he’d rather they just build things as they spend more time together.

All of that is happening when Kazuyuki and Jobu come back from their shift, and it’s Kazuyuki who ends up pointing out to Jobu that William and Izaya are in the snow dome. Jobu is plucked and gagged and sulking and leaning against a wall and not talking to William. I’m sorry Jobu, but I’m enjoying all of this. And then Izaya reveals that he, William, and Ryuki used the sauna, despite Jobu texting them not to do so until he was there. I AM CACKLING LIKE THIS DUCK.

I know I should feel sad for Jobu but I just find it hilarious. Just like Mel Brooks said, “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”

However, the universe has got Jobu’s back because later that night, Izaya looks at a message on William’s phone right in front of William and of course that’s not good for either Izaya or William. Whatever they’d built in the snow dome quickly crumbles, and what’s funnier to me is that all of this happened by accident, it’s not like Izaya planned to look at William’s messages. They were just looking at Smiley, apparently, and the message popped up. At least Jobu can console himself with that. Things get tense and if it wasn’t an asshole thing to do I think Jobu would also be cackling like an evil duck.

With Izaya sulking, Jobu makes his move and tells William he’s attracted to him and William says THANK YOU. OH NO. The conversation then becomes about Izaya and if I were Jobu I would end it right in front of William and change the trajectory of his life. William then says that he can’t deal with both William and Jobu and I. AM. SCREAMING.

The next day, the guys are told that they’re going to go on one-on-one dates if the person they write on a piece of paper has mutual feelings, and I am cackling again.

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