7 Days Before Valentine (2023)

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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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.

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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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Bom, eu procuro ser o mais sincera possível, mas opinião é pessoal e cada um tem a sua. Confesso que no início achei a série chata e superficial: alguns elementos desnecessários em excesso que só dificultam a compreensão do enredo. Mas, conforme os episódios foram passando, pude observar a profundidade do tema que gira em torno de reconhecer os próprios erros e buscar ser melhor como pessoa. Infelizmente houveram muitas falas de produção e direção, algumas situações secundárias ficaram "sem explicação" deixando o espectador sem resposta. Os atores são bons, lindos e a mensagem é simples mas poderosa. Vale a pena assistir? Para mim, que amo BLs, sempre vale, mas não é uma das melhores produções.

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Comment ai-je failli passer à côté de cette série!

Alors oui, si l'on cherche un BL avec tous les tropes, les bisous, les câlins et le scénario écrit avec les pieds, il faut absolument passer son chemin. C'est une série onirique et pourtant si ancrée dans la réalité de tout à chacun. Il y a le côté onirique pour les références à la mythologie occidentale, mais surtout elle nous parle de nous simples humains si compliqués et avec un égo si fragile. Les acteurs ont été juste dans l'interprétation de leur personnage. Les décor et les choix artistiques étaient osés et tranchants mais ils mettent en valeur les propos de l'histoire. C'est une franche réussite. Je ne comprends pas qu'elle est reçue si peu de bonnes notes! C'est sûr qu'il faut réfléchir, que rien n'est tout cuit et qu'il est bien d'avoir les références qui y sont proposées, mais elles sont quand même expliquées même si c'est succinct. J'ai trouvé tous les choix artistiques intéressants et valables. Le personnage principal est très bien écrit, il est ce que les humains sont, égoïste, égocentrique et solitaire. C'est une balade philosophique et une prise de conscience sur la faiblesse humaine. Il y avait aussi une réflexion sur la prise de parole politique qui était très intéressante : sans rébellion ni contestataire , il n'y a pas d'avancée sociétale, de recherche d'équité et d'espoir pour les plus défavorisés. Cette série est aussi sombre que lumineuse. C'est une introspection sur l'âme humaine. 10/10 à ce bijou étonnant et inspirant.

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