Âme sœur (2026)

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Que dire de Soulmate… c’est une histoire vraiment touchante. Tout n’est pas parfait : j’ai notamment trouvé que le passage avec Arata manquait de clarté, et il reste encore plusieurs zones d’ombre.
On reste sur un drame assez classique, du déjà-vu, mais malgré ça, l’émotion fonctionne. On ressent profondément l’amour entre Ryu et Jo Han, même sans réelle proximité physique entre eux, et ça, c’est assez fort.
Quant au final… je n’ai pas les mots. J’ai pleuré à plusieurs reprises devant cette série, et la conclusion j’en reste sans voix.

BL ou pas ? À chacun de se faire son propre avis selon ses critères.

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Why do non-BLs always have to be sad and tragic?

This is not a BL, it's a queer series. It's slices of live spanning over around 8 years or so. The beginning is a bit strange because there are too many coincidences in the first episode. And of course while we know they are gay, there is no explicit scene about confessing and of course no kissing at all. I don't need any nc-scenes at all, but their relationsship is not defined. We can asume they are together because they love each other but it would not have hurt to give as at least one fluffy moment.

On the other hand this slices of life are mostly a series of negatives. For me it was very emotional because every negative stroke of fate just happens. Ryo gets confessed to but he can't handle it. The confessor get outed and jumps (we do not know from how high), but survives, Ryo runs away to Germany of all places and gets nearly killed in a church were another gay persons throws molowtov-cocktails at the altar and is saved by a man who just before listenes to his guilt-confession.

And the list goes on... Is there a happy end? Kind of, but not really. Of course there are also happy moments but anything happy will be destroyed by a tragic event. Is it really necessary to make queer series where everything is tragic? Do we get only stupid, crappy BLs for happyness? I don't mind if there are tragic elements in a story, but this was too much.

I can't fault the actors, they did their best, but watching this series is very taxing. I can only fault the script & direction. I wish we get realistic gay stories which do not end always badly, or where at least the good and bad balance each other out. So, I'm a bit disappointed that they choose not do so. It's very emotional and I needed some tissues. I can't even say it was "bad". Yes the script had it's flaws, the story-arc is not what I wished for, some scenes are too slow for my taste, but it was done mostly in a good way. If you crave for something tragic, this series is for you, if you want something happy, this is definitively not for you.

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