EmiLayo

Oh, the frustration.... This is reminding me too much of my younger years, when I allowed longing for another to be the primary state I existed in-- hung up and stalled on the precipice, never falling into anything of substance. I would never willingly return to living life in that way, and because this series keeps dragging this void state of anticipation beyond where it's interesting and, instead, distills down into pure frustration, my interest is rapidly waning. In fact, I'm growing increasingly annoyed.

The continued cold kisses transforms all the supposed longing between Wataru and Chiharu into a pantomime. The actors are playing the parts of two characters who long for each other, and their acting is believable, but once they physically connect, the truth-- that they're two actors who don't feel that way about each other, at all, becomes evident. This makes suspension of disbelief impossible, and instead of watching Chiharu and Wataru muster up the courage to move forward, I'm watching Kazuto and Tomoya in the middle of an acting exercise.

Therefore, what's the point of continuing to balance on the precipice of longing with these characters? Yeah... decision made. Dropping what started off as a promising series. It began as a warm glow, but grew very cold. What a pity.

I arrived at minute 31:26 of the final episode of this series-- the moths to flame performance-- and my chest felt the entire weight of this series' beauty land inside like a mountain and tears spilled from my eyes. In that moment, my heart decided that regardless of how this series concluded, it had achieved a 10. Rarely have I encountered such impactful, exquisitely beautiful poetry in the forms of acting, writing, directing, cinematography and score.

An intense amount of love and the binding, yet liberating threads of karma, were interwoven throughout this masterpiece. So many lessons of how to love and to be loved. BRAVO.

To the entire team )creative and production) of A Winter Sun Wakes the Wind in Spring Hills' Dream, you've left us with an incredible gift. Thank you. 🙏

Now, this is a legitimate drama. Beautiful direction, cinematography, acting (by the entire cast), and writing. Truly well done.

His bone structure, facial expressions, and mannerisms. I can't unsee it. I study designs, so I tend to spot similarities/duplication of designs in unexpected places. To see James' doppelganger in an Asian actor is disconcerting.

Lovely series, so far. The actors are doing a wonderful job-- their emotional bond can be felt, and they're each playing their characters believably. The story also has heft. It's not light and fluffy, while somehow not being down in the doldrums.

For the BL viewers who mainly tune in to BLs to get their jollies off on NC and face eating kiss scenes between males, then those people need to stop wasting their own time and just go watch gay porn instead. In the end, they'll be far happier, the comment sections of most BL series would be less chaotic, and BL series ratings would be a more honest reflection of the quality of the writing, acting, and directing, and less a passive-aggressive punishment for not providing ranch loving viewers a chance to live vicariously through the actors actions.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate deep kisses and skinnemax level NC scenes, but only when the rest of the series takes itself seriously and isn't hiding poor writing & production, as well as weak cast chemistry behind the skirt tails of handsome men bumping and grinding.

I can barely focus on the story whenever the main lead, Kingston, who's portraying the undercover cop, is on screen. Not because he isn't good in his part, because he is, and not because the series, overall, isn't intriguing. It definitely is. It's because he's the splitting image of a young James McAvoy, except for his eye color. The resemblance is uncanny and hella distracting.

There are some bad series. There are some awful series. There are a few pointless series. Somehow, Knot found a way to be bad (in the acting department), awful (in directing, writing, and cinematography), and utterly pointless. They must have thought that NC scenes could elevate this pile of missteps into something passable. Well, they didn't (I forwarded through most of them as they were badly filmed and laughably acted, or worse, mechanical and boring).

I finally gave up after episode 6. I knew I was done when I couldn't have cared less if the main character was preggo.

The 7.9 rating is far too high. This is the first series I've rated very low, at 1.5-- and that's just for their efforts. No one deserves a 0, because at least they tried.

Nope. In some scenes, it's downright atrocious.

The few customers who have appeared were essentially NPCs-- there only to provide exposition, which is doubly awful, because none of it ended up mattering at all.

You should see me at 51. 😄

At 40, I looked 25. At 51, I must still look far younger than my years, because men and women in their mid-20s still hit on me and their eyes almost pop out of their heads when I turn them down gently because I could easily be their mother and I'm not into robbing the cradle. Yes, the actors could have been made up to look older, but why bother when that's not the truth for everyone? Some of us have baby faces, and I didn't get my first gray hair until my 49th year.

As for finding issue with the portrayal of a possible suicide, in 1996, due to the inner cognitive dissonance some Christians (or those raise by Christians) suffer due to their homosexuality, I suppose you've lived the type of life that makes such an opinion possible, so I can't find fault; but, I am compelled to point out that life isn't as simple for everyone, even today.

Are you familiar with Tyler Clementi? Tyler was an American student at Rutgers University–New Brunswick who jumped to his death from New York City's George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River on September 22, 2010, at the age of 18. Three days prior, without Clementi's knowledge, his roommate, Dharun Ravi, used a webcam on his dorm room computer and his hallmate Molly Wei's computer to view Clementi kissing another man and posted that video on Twitter. While Ty;er's father had accepted his son's sexual orientation, his mother, an evangelical protestant, had struggled, yet still didn't turn her back on her child. Even with this, just a video being released showing him kissing a man led to him jumping off of a bridge. That's a brutal level of self-rejection. And this was in 2010-- 14 years AFTER 1996, and in NYC region, one of the most progressive places one can live in the world.

I couldn't heartily disagree with your opinion any more if I tried, dear internet stranger. To each their own.

Found it on Dailymotion.

I also found, Give a Reward When It Can Do ‘Wait.’ It's a sweet comedy and Gennosuke's personality is completely different, as he portrays a bit of a goofball.

I was able to locate Gennosuke's vertical series, Dangerously Sweet, in a stitched together format. I enjoyed that one a lot.

Based on what's listed on this site, you have their ages incorrect. Folk just turned 30 (born on August 4th) and Jame Jame is 22.

As the series progressed, I grew to appreciate Joong's acting and his character, Joke, very much. The very opposite can be said about Dunk's acting, which remained thoroughly mediocre (did he even understand what his character's emotional motivations were supposed to be?). And do I need to even bother to mention his character Zo? I really grew to dislike that dude, who proved to be as wishy-washy as a dishrag.

Since the beginning, I held that thought in, because I wanted to give the series more time to unfold; but, after 6 episodes, the story simply grew more stilted and artificial. Moments within scenes are disjointed, what are supposed to be emotional moments are spoken out loud instead of acted and filmed believably, and NC scenes are transitioned into with the same subtlety as an 80s p*rno film. It's all weird.

OK. Was this series written by AI? It's so lazily constructed, and it's as though the concept of "show, don't tell," has never been learned by any member of the cast and crew.

The fact that this series has retained an 8.0 rating is laughable. There has to be some score fixing happening, because this series isn't even deserving of a 6.0, in my opinion.

OK. Let's go with "analysis".

Your analysis reveals specific details of the plot as the series has unfolded. If someone were watching the first few episodes and encountered your comment, whether you intended to do so or not, you would have spoiled many of the moments that occur in later episodes.

Maybe.

Also, can you place your comment under a spoiler tag?