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The 10 Year Countdown
Friends to lovers is actually peak romance, sometimes the yearning makes it equal to enemies to lovers. That's how good a well done friends to lovers story can be, but only when done right.
Countdown to Yes got a lot of it right - especially the hesitation about turning your friendship into a romance. It's confusing, it's frustrating because no matter how much you run the scenarios in your head, you can only envision a disaster. Because why change the perfect relationship, even if you know the new dynamics will be even more perfect?
But that's just one aspect of a friends turned lovers relationship, outside of that you can go many ways with the yearning. People thinking "why on earth have you not started dating yet?!" or thinking "don't ruin your relationship by changing it". Other love interests, years and years of pining, maybe even some seperation (which they did have in this, more on that later).
Having your couple's only conflict be their own confusion? That can get a bit tricky.
They did have the seperation like I said, but that actually did nothing for the plot, except create more internal conflict. Wataru and Minato have been friends for years, having met in high school (better than childhood friends might I add), and they drift apart only to meet again for their '10th anniversary'. And Wataru is worried about both ruining their friendship and that Minato and he will drift apart again, which are valid concerns. I just wish the entire 11 episodes weren't based on just the two.
Nevertheless, I really loved them as a couple, there was no doubt at any point that they weren't in love with each other and I'm pretty sure every other character was silently thinking 'just date'. The chemistry was really nice and their sweet scenes, while a bit far and few, were really worth all the angst that never came.
I would recommend this, it is a nice short and sweet watch - and I do have a weakness for stories about photographers and their cameras that can only capture their love interest.
Countdown to Yes got a lot of it right - especially the hesitation about turning your friendship into a romance. It's confusing, it's frustrating because no matter how much you run the scenarios in your head, you can only envision a disaster. Because why change the perfect relationship, even if you know the new dynamics will be even more perfect?
But that's just one aspect of a friends turned lovers relationship, outside of that you can go many ways with the yearning. People thinking "why on earth have you not started dating yet?!" or thinking "don't ruin your relationship by changing it". Other love interests, years and years of pining, maybe even some seperation (which they did have in this, more on that later).
Having your couple's only conflict be their own confusion? That can get a bit tricky.
They did have the seperation like I said, but that actually did nothing for the plot, except create more internal conflict. Wataru and Minato have been friends for years, having met in high school (better than childhood friends might I add), and they drift apart only to meet again for their '10th anniversary'. And Wataru is worried about both ruining their friendship and that Minato and he will drift apart again, which are valid concerns. I just wish the entire 11 episodes weren't based on just the two.
Nevertheless, I really loved them as a couple, there was no doubt at any point that they weren't in love with each other and I'm pretty sure every other character was silently thinking 'just date'. The chemistry was really nice and their sweet scenes, while a bit far and few, were really worth all the angst that never came.
I would recommend this, it is a nice short and sweet watch - and I do have a weakness for stories about photographers and their cameras that can only capture their love interest.
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