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It was cute, but it was average ?

To be honest if you were going to ask me after watching this final episode what was the plot of the story I will probably think long and hard about it—because to be honest I feel like I lost the plot somewhere in the middle of the series.

It's a cute story with a bit of skin here and there, but I guess that's what you get with hormonal high school boys in dormitories. There were actually a lot of nice moments worth the watch but if you look at it at the bigger picture, it just doesn't make sense? I feel also like we have too many characters but not much time to flesh out who they are and how they all tie up to the story.

Overall, it's a good watch but it's a general "one and done" kind of series.

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What a cute childhood friends-to-lovers story

I guess the moral of the story is to always ruin the friendship and just say it—if the friendship already turned into something else, just confess. Hosaka was right, "if honesty breaks you apart, you were not even friends to begin with". Honestly, I never thought I'd get a line this impactful from a BL series and I was just sold! 😍

I feel like we've seen so much friends to lovers stories and much to my disappointment there's really nothing new to it—but this one's interesting. I love how much Ohara got so worked up when Akane arrived, probably thought it's now or never if he didn't act on his love for Ashiya right away.

Overall, great cast, great characters, great story.

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Typical recycled friends to lovers story

It's those typical "ruin the friendship or regret it" type of story—nothing spectacular but unfortunately nothing new as well. I think the only other thing that stood out is that the other guy has some health problems after drinking (which didn't really went anywhere). It's like he just had that, drinking is not good for him, and that's it.

But you know what, let's give credit where credit is due, these main leads are actually ACTING and not just delivering their lines. Their cute moments are actually cute because they make it look like it is. For me, that should still account for something.

Overall, I'd give this one a chance but probably ONLY when you are in-between series and just really want a change of pace.

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Some deaths could've been avoided

I am liking the story so far at least the source of the zombie apocalypse is not the usual suspect—virus. Some of the characters really brought their A-game into this, while some I believe are still warming up which is definitely not a bad thing. I loved Jean's story and how hurt he was losing Pao.

However, I would stand my ground on this one—some of the deaths in this series could've been easily avoided if they just started to run the moment they see a zombie. But maybe they're just showing how your fight or flight senses might not work totally in situations like this but you know, once or twice in the whole series I can forgive but not to the number I've seen here.

But, I would still give this a good review and definitely a must watch. I don't know if I'm too harsh but after watching The Elixir on Netflix before this I guess kinda made me expect something, you know? 😅

Love it, Domundi!!! Make more shows like this please.

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I've been sleeping on a masterpiece

I must admit this has been on my watchlist for so long because I was struggling to convince myself to do so even though I've seen all the edits, the reviews, and the recommendations. I guess knowing now about the issue of the MC that's a difficult decision to make. However, I decided to give it a try today. Figured maybe the key is to not look beyond the character, forget the actor behind it and just enjoy the series.

And I guess that was the way to do it.

No one really thinks that two boys with different backgrounds would be just as broken inside as with our leads here—one who grew up being battered taking the blows of his deadbeat father, and one who suffers in silence with his parents not being present and always demand the best from him. All it took was a chance encounter and the rest was the whole series. I think this is the first time in a while that I cried at an episode. I don't know why but Episode 7 made me feel the helplessness and all of the thoughts that were racing in Hirukawa's mind. I'm glad he had the courage to step away from all of the pain and chose to continue with his life, with his promise that he will live a good one.

So he did. I love the choice of emotions when they met again. It was so natural how they didn't know what to say or do at that moment. I'm glad they had a second chance at the love they both deserved. And yes, hopefully the law WILL change.

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