Zach and Emily extract the sublimity and terror of love in Utada Hikaru's perennially misunderstood 2018 masterpiece \u521d\u604b HATSUKOI and Hashiguchi Ryosuke's 1995 gay tragedy \u6e1a\u306e\u30b7\u30f3\u30c9\u30d0\u30c3\u30c9 LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. Rape, eroticism in death, romantic crossdressing, mistaking your best friend for your lover, the smell of a man lingering in your bedroom, mourning, grief, locking your love away from the activists outside your doorstep, time in reverse, funneling your emotion through unavailable channels.\n\nFollow Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/hikkipedia\nAnd on Youtube: youtube.com/user/gateauxQ\nAs well as the I'm So Popular Twitter: twitter.com/imsopopularpod\n\nimpopular.me