This is not a full review of LIBJ, I have only watched the first four episodes fyi. This is just a rant about how gross I find the casting!

I'd seen a lot of posts about how LIB Japan is far superior to USA S2 so I decided to watch that. So far I agree it seems better than what I know about USA S2 (haven't watched and don't plan to) but I feel like they really screwed the women over.

To start with, all of the women are attractive. They range from pretty to gorgeous. The men? There are TWO I would classify as good-looking, one with terrible acne scarring so that's a big asterisk - that means there's ONE unreservedly handsome man (though he IS short.) The rest range from average to TROLL. One guy looks like a gangly scarecrow with terrible hair and fuzzy yellow teeth like he seemingly never brushes. Excuse me WHAT?!? At least on the original US version they cast all attractive people. To cast only attractive women and then mostly ugly guys... Hateful.

The other issue is the age ranges. The women are all mid twenties to early thirties. The men range from 23 to 56. WTF?? You're setting these lovely women up to FAIL, to be let down and/or taken advantage of. I already know the spoiler that 23 y/o f*ckboy Yudai with the bad skin lied to his 30 something fiancee about wanting kids because he knew that's what she wanted to hear. He also proposed to her without breaking up with his two other main candidates first, SO disrespectful. Even on the Pick Me Olympics aka The Bachelor they have the decency to break up with the other girls first. He had no business being there, he had no intention of being a husband. OTOH we have 56 y/o Shuntaro dating *30* year old Ayano, he's LITERALLY old enough to be her father!!! So so gross. He spoke to her SO paternalistically too, like "I want to take care of you", "I want to help you achieve your dreams", etc. Like a dad. He should have NEVER been cast unless there were also women there in their 50s. (Oh right, women in their 50s are dried up and useless, no one would want them... Grandpa here is fine though...)

To sum up I think the casting people really failed these beautiful women and should be ashamed. Definitely speaks to the misogyny in Japan that they thought this was okay.