Totally get what you mean! I also started it just out of curiosity, thinking I wouldn’t go beyond one episode…
Exactly. And given how they insisted on the brother and the messages he was receiving when she went home, I wouldn't be surprised if they also adapt First Frost and I'm here for it tbh.
yeah, exactly. It's not okay for Shinpei and Takuzo to be intimate with each other without having a talk about…
I wonder more and more if Saromura didn't just want to try to date a man and found the polyamory pretext to do so because he seems more invested in his relation with Mitsuda than anything else... Is it just me?
She has so much more chemestry with her childhood friend, their story makes much more sense but I guess the thaï actor is the end game. Me and my never-ending second lead syndrome... 😅
ML is a famous thaï actor in visit in Japan for work. He escapes to get a little sense of freedom and he ends up in a sweet shop, thus meeting the FL. She helps him several times and he ends up helping her with the sells instead of going back to his work. It's sweet.
Dropped this at episode 4. ML yelled at FL because she (rightfully) didn't follow is ORDER to not meet an other man he know is a player without EXPLAINING why to her (in his mind, she just has to obey because he said so). And yet he manages to fully explain EVERYTHING to SML, so in the end he is able to manage to make full sentences and an argumentation. But why bother explaining to the person concerned when he can just shame her and belittle her? This story makes absolutely no sense. The cringe is just too omnipresent.
tbh if this wasn't an adaptation of a well liked bl manhwa we wouldn't be this mad😔
I've seen this argument a lot here and I'm not sure I get it. It's still a BL, the two male leads are explicitely gay, it's said, it's not watered down, it's a fact (which is not the case in Chinese censored BL). And as any slow burn, the story will end when they end up together. The secondary couple being straight (we assume, we don't know, the best friend seems more bi than straight to me but it's personal interpretation) doesn't change the fact that this is an LGBT+ drama about two gay male leads falling in love, but with one of them having to mourn the loss of his first love before being able to fall in love with someone else, hence the time the love story takes to develop. Yes, there is now a heterosexual couple in this (but still, it's never stated that any of them is just plainly straight, and as there are other LGBT+ characters, they could totally be bi - but in this case it should have been explicitely said to really count as representation) but the story it tells is still the one of the main gay couple. Which is the only criteria for it to be considered LGBT or BL. 😊 As for the reasons to drag the begining of their love story, I love how this drama lets its characters the time to develop their feelings. I wouldn't have believed the change of heart of the main character if it had been more rushed than here. This story shows how a person lets their first unrequited love slowly die to fall for someone giving them signs of interest without them even realising it. It's a slow process and I love how this story shows the littles changes of heart till the realisation of love. It feels real to me. Way more than if they were already together after 5 episodes (at the middle of the story, as it's the norm for a normal drama, not a slow-burn one).
tbh if this wasn't an adaptation of a well liked bl manhwa we wouldn't be this mad😔
I know it's an unpopular opinion but I like when the adaptation is different from the original piece because I don't really see the point of retelling a story if it's just plainly exactly the same. I like when the story itself, the tone and/or the subtext are different, like in Pride and Prejudice 2005 for instance (I was there when it was in movie theaters and I have seen how it was criticised for its infidelities to Austen originally when it's so well-loved now, but I loved it since the begining because it was a new way to see this story I loved so much). In this case, I haven't read the original manhwa so I can't say but I understood there weren't girls in the main characters in the original story and I'm happy of the change because for once, there is a normal and likable girl in a BL, it's so rare, still now. It's a pity a BL of this quality is rejected when we rarely have KBL as well done as this one. Long, well constructed, well directed and interpreted KBL are still a rare thing, and I say this loving KBL and having seen all of them except the vertical ones I couldn't find.
Just because I feel alone when coming here : if you love Heesu in class 2, me too. It's my fave BL of 2025. It reminds me of the KBLs of March 2023. It's so well directed and soft. I'm really enjoying it, I hope the last 2 episodes will be like the rest of it.
I really love Jdramas, I've watched more than 200 of thel, and I've had to close my eyes to the sexism more than once but here, it's just too much. "Women have to sell themselves because men are the buyers", hum, non hein. Dropped after 2 episodes, can't stand more of the boss being sexist and the FL selling herself cheap to her ex and having zero pride 😅😅😅
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This story makes absolutely no sense. The cringe is just too omnipresent.