“Low-key but Obvious Thorny Bondage” (Or, Episodic Commentary on “The Betrayal Knows My Name”)

We all knew it would happen sooner or later, right? After watching Yuri!!! On Ice (which is NOT a Boy Love; FIGHT ME), it was only a matter of time until this gateway drug positioned me fittingly to observe a whole new world of Shounen-ai; and observe I did, from the shadows of the YOI fandom, …