A Masterpiece and One Of The Best! Magnum Opus!
Undoubtedly, this is one of those series that will either be loved or panned, mainly because of the esoteric and metaphysical nature of its theme and its presentation as a Greek tragedy. It is allegorical with metaphorical representations of life presented in temperaments of profound introspection surrounded by an almost overwhelming sense of loss, guilt, and shame. It tackles all the hidden and unexplored and often times buried emotions of humans we do not want to face or find impossible to bear. It strips away for us to see and quite literally experience and feel. We see it through the eyes of a protagonist and an antagonist at the same time; with each character being both. This series is a thought-provoking, intellectually stimulating elegy that uses the language of words to embody love. If you want to see lust, or romps in a bed, or contrived love scenes, or soft rituals of love, this is not for you. If you want to see a deep, meditative, and, at times, profoundly poignant perspective of human nature augmented by the process of finding what the meaning of love is all about, then this is for you. There is nothing ‘cute’ about this transmigration at all. It is deeply solipsistic, pensive, and intensely mystifying. There is also nothing ‘clear’ about this series. It is symbolic with symbolisms of all kinds bombarding you. At times they overwhelm you. Everything has meaning. Even the smallest of details. Blink and you might miss it. You have to decipher their meanings. Much happens mostly through words but also through deep reflections in expressions of the faces, manners, and body language of the main two characters, as well as all the other characters in this series.The rest of my review of this phenomenal series is posted at BLBliss.com.
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Frustrating but enthralling
Going into this show you need to understand that the protagonist is the MOST frustrating character you will ever encounter, with a redemption arc that comes late in the show. With that in mind, it is still a very good show to watch. I enjoy watching shows that tackle social commentary with unique means and this is exactly what this show does. You get to reflect on society and yourself as well throughout the show. The cinematography was beautiful and that aided in the overall storytelling. Why this is not a 10/10 show for me was mostly because of the main character, I understand that he is supposed to be unreasonable and I also understand that we are supposed to follow along his growth journey with him, but I have a short temper so it was hard to watch sometimes. But that's more of a me problem, not anything inherently wrong with this show. All in all, this is a great show to watch and then ponder on some more in your free time.P.S.: This is not really a BL in the way that you think of one. It is a love story that entails men if that makes sense.
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Late to this party... but
Wow what a ride this was. Luckily I have studied classical history, and this helped here 😆 .Atom.and Jet nailed it, chemistry throughout was on point. Would love to see them together again.
The writers definately came up woth something i havent seen before in a bl here... amd im here for it!
Binge watched in a day, whilst waiting on my other series and dramas to release episodes.... once i started on this, i had to stay until the end. Loved it! 🥰
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Of actions and consequences
Honestly speaking, I didn't catch a lot of the symbolism and easter eggs they probably hit us with because I wasn't in the right mood to be paying attention to all the details when I started. What did catch my attention (and made me inevitably pay more attention to the rest of the series) was the balance between actions and the subsequent aftermath. Butterfly effect, ripple effect, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, whatever you want to call it.I watched a lead make bad and impulsive decisions whose after effects he only feels a while later, being guided by a jaded and patient lead with a dark past that led him down the path he was currently on. I watched them navigate situations messily, learning lessons along the way, and growing (even though it took a while for one of our leads to do it, while all our other lead needed was closure).
The show is shot in a very art house manner, theatric, with twelve acts, scene lighting, long conversations and an air of sombre. It's slow and dramatic, but stick with it and you get to witness a story of love and loss, growth, acceptance, forgiveness, a story written on the shores of sadness. All of this leads to one of the best finales I've watched, truly. Stories like this usually end on an open note, but the point of the series was closure, and we do get it.
Sombre, sorrowful and full of meaning that I may not have quite caught onto, but it did make an impact.
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Nice inter-time love story, heavily influenced by Goethe and Genki Kawamura
I recently started watching this series, and was immediately captivated. The storyline pretty straightforward: Sunshine makes a pact with a supernatural being, who grants him 7 wishes in order to bring his boyfriend back (very much like Dr. Faustus did with the devil in the classic novel by Goethe, however to a different end), and for this has a price to pay. The price for every wish is to make someone disappear from the world (an idea very similar to the exceptional novel "If Cats Disappeared From The World" by the Japanese author Genki Kawamura, which cost me two sleepless nights). Each wish predictably leads to unanticipated results, which gradually teach Sunshine a lesson about life and complexity. The story is based on the book by Patrick Rangsimant, but (at least the few pages that I read) there are differences, especially with respect to the overall atmosphere. In fact I like the adaptation more. I cannot tell about the actual plot and its ending, since the series is ongoing.The acting is quite good, and the two main lead characters have great chemistry (according to some research I did, which I am not sure is correct, this reflects their relationship in real life). Despite the reason for it, they definitely are very convincing.
Technically the series is good, the sound background very nice, cut and angles are very good.
Having said that, I do have some criticism as well. I am not a huge fan of overall dramatized stories (you know the one that make you cry all the time). I like emotions to come in finite portions, while here (especially in the last episodes), the drama simply grows and grows. It is not a perpetual whining yet, but I feel that the series would gain more with a touch of down-to-earth objectivity. But this is a matter of personal taste perhaps. The second (rather technical?) thing that bothers me are the countless flash-backs, which not always serve a purpose. I would go for shorter episodes, since rewatching so many scenes again and again in most cases brings no new information.
As a whole, I am really enjoying this series, which gratefully is not another high-school puppy-love BL drama, but explores more aspects of the human nature, and clearly comes from the pen of an author with certain life experience and maturity. We certainly need of those.
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Cupid Reaper falling for Sunshine
Im liking that this 10 episode giving me a love story with Sunshine and Kyu aka Cupid Reaper 🩷🩷 i can't wait to watch next episode between these two characters. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥🫢🫢🩷🇬🇧 does sunshine fallen for Kyu. He starting to understand why Rain left him for Air, he was an arrogant young man with his head in clouds ⛅️ 🙄 i think sunshine was to know more about Kyu aka Cupid Reaper. 😉 is to understand your inner self ✨️ this why Cupid Reaper came into his life, Kyu made the same mistakes that he made, by putting things right from the start.Was this review helpful to you?
A nihilistic nightmare that will drain your happiness out of your soul!
tldr: STAY WAYGods above! I rarely so much wanted my time back I wasted here. It is by far the worst BL I have seen so far (which isn't so long but still). Actually it has BL slapped on but it is just a drama with gay characters and love in it.
Where to begin... okay the acting is good. That's is the good. Like all of it. What the studio tried to pull off was a Greek Tragedy or a Shakespearen Drama like Lear or Hamlet. And sorry, nameless studio, whose name I shall not look for to waste MORE time, YOU ARE NOT HOMER OR SHAKESPEARE!
What I saw was a nihilistic, depressive dark meta-message about life. As if I needed more! There was nothing dark in the sense of rape or violence. But the dark that ruins your feels.
The MC starts with his boyfriend breaking off, and a Cupid Reaper appears, giving the MC 7 people in the coming 7 nights before Valentine can "make vanish" whom he thinks will bring his BF back. And BOY this MC is an unbearable character! What starts as nuisance quickly descents into chaos and nihilistic horror. There is NOTHING interesting or even remotely entertaining in seeing this unfolding. So I broke up at the recent Episode 10, and I should slap myself for being too dumb to see there is nothing rewarding coming. I am really ANGRY about having watched this, since the idea could have been used for a fascinating plot. This series will literally suck joy out of your soul. Avoid it at any cost. As such
1/10
Stay away!
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Is this even a bl???
This is a repeat on how trailers do be misleading!!!!I am now going unto the seventh episode of this series and i am yet to see a spark or hint of romance between Q and sunshine
And is it me or am i the only one that recognizes that rain and sunshine can never get back together????
Like it is super obvious that everytime sunshine makes every possible person that kinda hinders their relationship disappear,) rain either forgets he exists, move on to another person, or never existed or become friends with benefits 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Sunshine cant be this dumb to recognise this simple fact !!!
I guarantee most ppl who watch this is confused as to where the romance is and me too
I would mostly call this a bromance if anything
Like is Q and sunshine are going to end up together???
Because i am not seeing anything that hinting that they are going to be together
Man it is like i am walking down a long narrow path and it is never ending
Like it is so clear sunshine is not the brightest bulb everyone knows this and let me be real
The time when he erased rains ex boyfriend now tell me if this maths is mathsing
So when rain broke up with sunshine he told him that he was in a vulnerable moment when he met sunshine and he needed someone at the time
Now note, that the peron who made him vulnerable was rains ex
So common sense, when he erased rains ex
What do u think will happen ???
He would not know sunshine obviously 🙄🙄
Because rain would not go to mins bar where he would meet him and he would not vulnerable
At this point he is just randomly choosing ppl to erase
My advice to him (even Q said it himself) move on he is never going to go back to you get it through ur head!!! Just imagine he is doing all this stuff ( leaving potential dads without their child in ep 2, changing civilization ep 6 etc) just for one guy who does not like him anymore 😕😕😕😕
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Underrated Gem
I don’t understand why this series is not talked about more. This is ART. the way it was filmed, the message, the lessons… very Shakespearean. the male leads are very talented and i feel like they did amazing work with probably not as many resources as some of the big production houses would have done. I really enjoyed it and every time I talked about it’s like it was in no one’s radar. Craptastic series have gotten more love that this Amazing story. I think that if you have not watched it yet, you should give it a chance.Was this review helpful to you?
a must-watch to me!
SOOOOOO good. i almost didn't watch it because of the reviews on here but i think i've learned not to trust this website now, cause this has got to be one of the best BL i've seen. i'm sure there were plotholes, but overall it felt like so much love was put into the writing of the story and the characters, and the pacing felt just right, nothing was rushed in the way it often happens when they sideline the plot for the romance. love me a fantasy, and this really left me satisfied and reminded me of what i love about the genre.Was this review helpful to you?
Y'all are haters.
What the title says, y'all are haters.This show deserves a higher review so I'm leaving this here. Obviously to each there own, but some of y'all are just hating on this serious bc y'all have brain rot TikTok attention span and hate when bl's actually have plot and it isn't just 2 guys kissing.
You complain about bls being bad etc, but when y'all actually have to watch something you asked for "it's boring".
You have the attention span of a rat.
Stop watching plotless dog shit and watch real shows for once.
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