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Beyond Childhood Friends japanese drama review
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Beyond Childhood Friends
1 people found this review helpful
by BurntBaguettes
15 days ago
30 of 30 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 5.5
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 4.0
This review may contain spoilers

Bitch, what the fuck

I'm really not quite sure what this was. It was a short drama that I discovered in my first period class today, and then I just now finished it, and it was lowkey a waste of time. I would give it like a 7.5 out of 10. I'm going to say what I liked, what I didn't like, and then my overall notes on the show. But I can save you my terrible review and tell you watch this if you want to see one really tall Japanese guy flirt with a less tall Japanese guy, but they're not actually flirting, and it's like watching two brick walls try to speak to each other. Don't watch this if you don't want to see that.

Starting off with things I liked, I feel like if this wasn't 30 minutes of just straight bullshit and it was like 12 episodes or longer, this could have been really good because the idea is good. I like their interactions with one another, and my only example is from episode 2, where he's like hugging him in bed. I have no idea why they're in bed together, but they were, and it was kind of cute, and then I was like oh I can't wait for more moments like that. I then ate my words because there weren't any more cute moments until the very end. A cute one-sided crush thing that was lowkey double-sided, but the guy was hella in denial despite us starting the show with him daydreaming about his best friend asking him out like the fuck? Whoever played the taller guy in the main couple was sexy as fuck. I don't know if it was the haircut or the fact that he was a little bit tall and a little bit built like a tree, but he was really sexy. This was a very basic Japanese BL with like the oh I like my childhood friend or whatever, and my childhood friend has a fuck ass haircut, but for what it was, I did kind of like it, like it wasn't a hard watch, but it was just your basic Japanese BL. The second guy in the couple, who wasn't the tall guy, had these big bug eyes, and he was low-key kind of cute, but his haircut was not it; he looked like he was 12. Our main couple has a gnarly height difference, and it's a damn shame they didn't use it. They didn't have a single kiss in this, but they could have had some fire kisses with that fuck ass high difference. I like the dynamic between the extrovert and the introvert. And that's kind of all the stuff I liked in this show.

With things I hate, this whole fucking show was dog water. They need to go back to the drawing board, rip the paper, and then jump off the school building where this whole thing took place. Also, they jumped around a lot, like in the second episode, we were doing something completely different. I was like what are we even doing right now. Another thing, they needed to make the dream sequences clearer because just because there's a little bit of whimsicalness on the screen, it doesn't make it a dream, bro. I just thought it was glitchy, like what the fuck? Going back to jumping around, we jumped the gun so much despite this literally being like 30 episodes, why did he confess to him like the third episode, like what? I don't even know who these people are. I don't have any reason to care, and we're just going to be like oh I like this guy, bitch ain't nobody give a fuck. There were four people in this entire show, and they were all irrelevant. And every single girl in this had the same haircut. There were like three different girl characters; they all had the same haircut. I had no idea who was who. There was a random bullshit misunderstanding. I don't know why they did that. The guy with the big bug eyes is the stupidest mother fucking bitch I've ever met in my entire fucking life. Like bitch don't piss me off. You know your friend fucking likes you, you have known from the start, but you just wanted to waste my fucking time. But you're playing on my phone. The confession was very on the nose and a little bit awkward. There is zero plot building (AND ROMANCE BUILDING, BUT THAT’S FINE) in this entire show, like just dumping us in here for no reason. This show is going by very quickly, but time was also standing still, and I don't know why that happened, but oh my God, we need to pace this show better. And that is all of the stuff I didn't like in the show, mostly the whole show.

I took all my notes on paper during my class because we weren't supposed to have our electronics out, and we were watching the same stupid video that we've watched like one time already, so I was trying to be nonchalant about it, hence me writing this on paper. My first note was these guys look 30 LMAO. (I just got clowned on by one of my roommates for writing my review on paper). I did not read the description of this show, and I was watching this with no sound in my class. And the rest of the notes that I took, I put in what I like to what I didn't like.

If you want to waste your time and watch two mediocre, sexy Japanese guys not kiss or flirt, then this one is for you. If you don't want to do that, I do not recommend this fuck ass show. Okay bye!
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