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There are cute animals in every episode :)

On top of that, their college life is completely glossed over. The writers didn't use anything like the tennis club or Taliw struggling to make it through her nursing practicals to create some comedy and drama. Everything has really gone to some tragic levels after watching the final episode. Kiss Me spent way too much time on anticlimatic love square instead of each of the characters and their relationship to one another.

Thanks. I saw the post again and I understood. At this point, I want to get over watching this drama. Almost everything that could be ruined about Itazura has been said and done. The only thing is keeping me going until the end are Aom's and Mike's palpable chemistry.

Reply #1 to Aru: Thanks for telling me. I had a feeling the case wasn't so with marriage and I needed this to be confirmed before I could judge properly.

Reply #2 to Amastris: I agree with most of what you say. I was dumbstruck by today's episode too. How were 45 minutes were wasted? It makes no sense. At this point, I feel safe to say I am over this drama. King's and Tenten's fight with Dan's photo of King and Taliw should have happened this episode. What in the world are they waiting until the last episode to play everything out? Too many episodes (and timeskips) have gone by for both Tenten and Taliw to keep pining for each other and sitting in their bedrooms depressed. They both look so weak. Tenten doesn't look like a genius and Taliw's determination is lost. I feel like those two best qualities have been diminished.

Both you and Amastris seem to be right. I was thinking maybe in real, every day life, Thai school rules are what forbid young marriages. (Could you ask your friend about this?) At the same time, this thought seems unlikely and it would really insult their culture. I watched Aom and Mike in Full House and they got married originally for false reasons. There wasn't an outcry from Thai culture to stop that drama from airing. From what I understand, Full House is extremely popular. I am left with the thought that Kiss Me's production team is acting really shady. From I could guess, they want to pass off the ceremony in the final episode as a "wedding" to their viewers rather than an admit it is an engagement. Because they don't want their viewers - a lot of whom are Itazura fans - to be pissed off. This sounds far fetched itself. It isn't unlikely considering Kiss Me differs from the original story so much.

I looked at Mike's IG account, he posts in both English and Thai. He asks to forgive Tenten for his asshole behavior. Which post was where he said Taliw was in pain?

This is just disappointing to hear. I understand it is their culture. I checked IG and the pics look really nice. But that isn't an excuse. Kiss Me is a fictional drama. Nothing about it is real. Culture shouldn't be used as an excuse. I find it rather insulting to Thai culture like this. Kiss Me's production team sounds like they are trying to deceive their foreign viewers. Also, if they truly watched the other versions, they would know Naoki delayed registering their marriage officially. I see no reason why they couldn't hold a wedding ceremony.

What was the official source that confirmed the finale is going to have just Tenten and Taliw get engaged? This would be the worse adaptation of Itazura if this is true.

I am calling it right now that Taliw and King will kiss because of how this drama is playing out and stuff. I am annoyed since it is likely.

Thank you! I would have been pissed if there wasn't a wedding. I was going to be so done with this show if they didn't keep the main stuff. They better keep their reconciliation in the rain too.

After watching this week, what even am I watching? Seriously? Taliw (Kotoko) gets engaged?!!? They might as well change the ending to King (Kin) and Taliw (Kotoko) getting together. To me, this makes Taliw (Kotoko) look weak. She is lying to herself and leading King (Kin) on. King (Kin) looks selfish, too. He acts as if Taliw's (Kotoko's) feelings don't matter to him at all. In the other versions, Kin genuinely cares for Kotoko's feelings and wants to make her feel loved and happy. He tries to kiss her even though it was forceful. I could still understand he was desperate to show Kotoko how he felt about her all these years. Same goes to Kotoko. She understood how Kin felt and didn't want to lead him on. Kotoko was in the same position herself.

I am also disappointed Taliw and Tenten (Naoki) don't really have any scenes anymore. While I do love Mike's and Aom's amazing chemistry, their lines in Thai probably suck and it looks so awkward as a result. It makes me wonder how they are going to make them get back together if they don't see each other normally. If you ask me, this whole ex storyline should have been about curing Taliw's childhood amnesia of Tenten and his family or something like that. Maybe Tenten could have hit her in the head lol and by the finale, she gets all of her memories back. Because why would something like that be mentioned and Taliw couldn't recognize her childhood friend and his family that raised her? It would make sense to me. Because if I compare now to how Kiss Me first started out, I would have sworn Tenten came back from Japan looking for his lost childhood love Taliw. He even enrolled at her school when there are a bunch of other schools in Bangkok. I bet that he told his dad about Taliw and her dad losing their shop and home too. Instead, Tenten chooses to keep a commitment to another woman and Taliw's relationship with King goes in way too deep.

I'm sorry if I spoiled for the episode for you. But it is true when Nana shows up, she doesn't come with any malicious intent. If you have seen other versions of Itazura Na Kiss, her equivalent is Sahoko. She was originally arranged to marry Naoki to help fix Naoki's dad's financial company problems. Sahoko was the perfectly polite granddaughter of the other company CEO. Since she is his ex in this version, I just think they never really broke up when Tenten moved from Japan. By her coming to Thailand, it just proves both Nana and Tenten didn't and they need to resolve that instead of him leading her on.

I don't think it is right to blame Nana. She doesn't force Tenten to be with her or seem to know what is happening. From Nana can tell, when she came to Thailand, Tenten gives her the impression that they will pick up right from where they left off and it is rather Tenten's fault for leaving both Taliw - and by extension, Namkang in the dark. First, he does this to Namkang. He quits his job and just straight up ignores her. Tenten doesn't offer an apology to her. That is insulting to a person to ignore them like that. Secondly, he hurts, insults, and ignores Taliw the most. He doesn't apologize to her EVEN after Taliw's dad lectures him. Taliw isn't the smartest person. He is playing around with her feelings for him. By kissing her so many times, he looks more like a douchebag who is leading her for reasons just to insult her. I know they are going to get together in the end. I just hate how everything is playing out right now especially with his ex coming back and Tenten's current mistreatment of all 3 girls.

I am starting to dislike this version. I don't like how Tenten (Naoki) disregards and treats both Namkang (Yuuko) and Taliw (Kotoko) like trash. In the other versions, they weren't treated harshly this way. Kotoko was never given false hope and she knew what to expect when it came from Naoki. When he was mean to her, Naoki always made up for it. If anything too, Yuuko was at least considered one of Naoki's friends. Naoki stayed true to his intelligent, yet seriously asshole personality.