Gendli

Not bad I guess...

I can't believe that I'm saying it, but this was the best series out of all three in HIStory1.

Compared to the other two, this one was at least bearable to watch. I'm not a fan of all this “step-siblings forbidden love” but with them becoming “siblings” when they are adult's, it makes it a tad bit better I guess? Still not sure how I feel about it all, but again in the end it was at least not as bad as the other two, which is honestly a win in my books.

They had their fair share of cute moment's and drama here.
There is not much more to say, it's just kind of this classic (?) bl trope with stepbrothers falling in love, but in a short format. Not really my cup of tea, but it wasn't too cringy or annoying, and at times it was even enjoyable to watch.
The only thing I want to point out is the girl best friend, she was the “highlight” of this series in the worst way possible.
I personally couldn't stand her and any time she was on the screen I was that close to dying from cringe and anger, because of the way she was behaving.
Other than that, as I said, it was not too bad, but it's definitely not my favorite and I won't be watching it again any time soon.

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Meh

That was…an experience, from the cringy and weird scenes to the few actually interesting moments and back to cringe.
It's hard to even rate this, truly because of how awful it was from time to time, not the worst thing I have ever seen, but still not good.

There were so many confusing moments where I would honestly not understand what is going on.
I watched it previously really long ago, and so I had a kind of expectations set for this short series, but sadly this was worse than I remembered.

The things I liked:
1. Story. I guess the overall idea for the plot was pretty entertaining.
2. Grim Reaper. Even though I did found them cringy, I would still say they were pretty funny.
3. The music was not bad, but I don't think I paid much attention to it.

And that's about it, now the things I disliked:
1. Female lead. She was pretty annoying, I didn't felt any sadness or pity for her, and honestly she deserved everything. She was homophobic and just overall incredibly selfish and unpleasant person.
2. Male lead. While he was overall one of the best characters in this whole thing, I still disliked him. Specifically for staying in the relationship with his girlfriend even though he knew that he wasn't happy, and he didn't try to do anything to fix his relationship.
3. The cringe. It was too much at times, I had to pause and just let it sink in at times. It is just that bad.

Overall, it wasn't too pleasant of an experience, and I don't think I'll ever try rewatching it again.

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Not too great

I feel like it could've been much better if it was longer, cause then they would have more time to explain everything better.

The things I liked:
1. Wu Zheng. I both liked and hated this character. But I'll start with what I liked about him. He was pretty respectful and understanding of the Yu Shi's situation, even if he didn't have much to go off of. He didn't push him or Noah for more information, and just let him open up about it on his own.
2. Noah. There is not much to say since he didn't have that much screen time, but I did like this character.
3. Great idea. I feel like they didn't do that great of a job with this story but the whole idea for this plot was so interesting, and I really liked it even though it wasn't portrayed the best in here.
4. Good acting from Yu Shi/Noah's actor.

Things I didn't like:
1. I don't understand what was the girl for. This entire series could've perfectly survived without adding her for this unnecessary 2 seconds of “drama”.
2. The way Wu Zheng's friend handled Yu Shi. It was so weird for me that when he was looking for Yu Shi and found him, his first thought after clearly seeing that Yu Shi is not trusting him was to grab him. I didn't like this at all, and I don't understand how he thought that would be a good idea.
3. Wu Zheng. As I said previously, i both liked and hated this character, so now I'm going to explain what I hated about him. And it's the fact that he flirted, kissed and had sex with Yu Shi before even learning about his condition. And all of that after he clearly states in the start of the series that Yu Shi acts like a child. So he fully acknowledged what he was doing. As much as I can understand that, yes Yu Shi is an adult with an adult body, it doesn't take from the fact that in his head he was 5 years old. So yea, I don't think I have to explain what exactly I found disturbing about this whole situation.
4. Side couple. Again the same thing as with the girl, it was so unnecessary, and instead of giving them all this screen time they should've used it to give us more info about other things.
5. Really choppy and rushed. They didn't give us any info on how Yu Shi and Wu Zheng met and why are they living together until almost at the very end. Even then, there were still questions that I never got my answers to. And overall it was so rushed and everything happened so fast, at times I were quite literally confused trying to understand what is going on.
6. Sharing personal information of your patients with anybody as a doctor is illegal, so yea definitely didn't like how this doctor just let his boyfriend go through patients notes. That was really icky and disrespectful to the patient, apart from the fact that it's also illegal.
7. Not a thing I necessarily disliked, but I did kinda expect it to be more melancholic, that is just my personal opinion and I didn't lower my rating because of that.

Overall, it wasn't too bad nor too good, it was just alright.

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Cute but extremely boring

Sadly, it took me dropping it and then taking a break for 4 months to finally comeback and finish it, it was honestly a hard watch. It is just so boring in my opinion.

One of the reasons to why I dropped it is that the main character, while I guess was made to be cute, is kinda feels like too much. Some moments with him were hard to watch because of the way he acts.
This series has some cute moments, but other than that it's really lacking in any significant plot. While it is just a slice of life series, I don't think it means having no plot and just kinda freestyling each episode with a different relationship problems for the main characters to resolve.

The biggest reason to watch this series is Katori, he is a great friend, so supportive and always there to help mc. At times, he acted like their parent, gentle parenting them into the right direction, it was funny and adorable, I loved seeing all of his reactions to the cute couple moments.
While at first I really disliked Tanaka, he really did improve a lot and was shown to us in a better light. And even though, as I said already, at first I wasn't his fan he still at least added some substance to the story.
I have also seen a bit of a chemistry between Katori and Tanaka, so I would love to see a second season or better yet a spinoff with them.

There is not much more to say since it is pretty much the same thing, just going around in circles until the sixth episode. They have some kind of problem with their relationship, they resolve it over time, done, and then in the next episode it's all over again.
Overall, it wasn't too disappointing, but could've been 10 times better if they worked on the plot more.

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It was

There is so much to say about this series. It was weird but enjoyable in a way, like bad to the point where it's kind of good.
I'm gonna talk about things I liked and disliked more in depth.

Things I liked:

1. Cinematography. A lot of beautiful shots and scenes, made watching it 10 times more enjoyable.
2. Story. Or more of an idea they had for this series, I feel like they didn't execute it in the best way, but it was still interesting and quite original.
3. LGBTQ+ representation. In my opinion, the representation was great and there were few truly important talks about the equality and gay marriage.
4. Acting. It was excellent, all the actors did amazing, I especially loved NuNew's acting, he's a great actor and did a beautiful job in my opinion.
5. Intimacy. The intimacy with all couples was good, the chemistry between actors was incredible, and it was really nice to see them together.
6. TutorYim couple. Totally my favorite couple, they had a lot of sweet and cute moments, great chemistry. And honestly, it was such a palate cleanser and breath of fresh air in between watching other couples interact.
7. Foei. Might be my favorite character, he is such a goofball, the funniest character in this whole series, just seeing him on the screen made me smile.

Things I disliked:

1. MaxNat couple. Really toxic, and I will even go as far as calling it an abusive relationship. Constantly telling a person, that you aren't even officially dating (not that it would be better if they did) to report on where you are, who with, when you are coming home, etc. is borderline insane and pretty much abusive. Even though it's all because of Yi being worried, it is absolutely does not excuse his behavior. There was no talk on whenever Diao is okay with Yi controlling him 24/7, and from what I've seen, I can assume he really isn't. So for me, this whole “relationship” and its dynamic was too toxic. While I can understand dom/sub dynamics in relationship, it is absolutely something that needs to be talked about, and it needs to be mutual, which in my opinion isn't really the case here.
2. Lies and manipulations. The amount of times Lian lied and manipulated Kuea is insane. The way Lian treats Kuea like a child instead of treating him as an equal, as a partner and the person he respects is just diabolical. I hated every part of Lian, to be completely honest, he is just as toxic as Yi just in a bit different way.
3. Toxic masculinity. What I am referring here is a Lian being really weird about the whole proposal thing. He was really against the idea of Kuea being the one proposing, and even almost walked out when Kuea went above and beyond organizing a surprise for him with the proposal in the end. Him being so weird and full on toxic about this whole proposal thing made me grind my teeth with anger. He made up a problem that wasn't even there out of thin air just because “Oh I'm the MAN, so I will be the one proposing”. What kind of logic is that?
4. Weird logic. The whole logic with Kuea having “secrets” that probably the whole world knows about and thinking that for some reason Lian doesn't know anything. This whole thing with these secrets was super weird.
5. Non-con. It wasn't that big, but honestly the whole scene with Lian taking drunk Kuea home made me quite uncomfortable, and I don't think it was a good idea adding that weird non-con kissing.

Overall, it wasn't the worst, but I would probably enjoy it much more if I would just turn off my brain from time to time.

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Not bad

It was not bad at all, I can even say I enjoyed watching to some degree.
I don't get the insane hate around this movie, while the way they went about some stuff could be considered cringy and cliche. It still, in my opinion, doesn't take that much from the fact that the movie was actually not that bad.

I do think it would be much better if it had more horror stuff. I got really excited when I read that this movie is a horror movie, but it was nothing close to what I expected. It was more of just mystery, I guess.
I enjoyed the acting and the story was pretty good, sadly the way they executed it wasn't the best.
I really dislike the fact how they never explained to us why exactly does Rawee had to move in with their family. That felt like a really important piece of information that was never shown to us.

The thing that I disliked the most is the way Rawee was portrayed as pretty much stereotypical “uke” from some dubious bl manga. The way he would always accidentally cut himself on everything and stumble on nothing, and of course his knight in shinning armour was always there to save him. While it could rarely be seen as cute if it happens once throughout the whole movie, the amount of times it had happened here made it genuinely annoying.

I would say that overall this movie is worth watching it, it's just the fact that while watching it don't try too hard to find some logic in it. Because it's definitely lacking in that department. It's a nice movie to watch when you don't really want to think. While I know that this is definitely not the way it was intended, it is the way it turned out to be.

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Not it

It wasn't the worst, but neither was it great.
There were good and bad things, but the one thing that made me really feel nothing towards the end of the series is a main character. His character is so ridiculously stupid that it made me just lost any hope, I'm sorry, but there is no better way to describe it.
At the start, I was fully on the main character's side, supporting his decisions since they didn't seem like too much at that point for me. But the further into the series I went, the more I wanted to rip the hair off my head from how actually ridiculous some things the main character did are.

Let's start with the good things, though:
1. Acting. I would like to point out the acting was actually exceptional, emotional moments were shown perfectly, and I enjoyed watching it.
2. Past. I loved watching their memories from the past of how their relationship were starting to develop. I also enjoyed seeing how much of different memories they had, and how differently two people can perceive the same situation.
3. Cute moments. Even though there weren't a lot of them, it was a nice break from everything else that was going on.

And now to the things I didn't like:
1. Father drama. I honestly didn't dislike it, rather found it unnecessary since it was short and didn't do much for the plot. I know that the series itself was pretty short, but maybe instead of only relationship drama they could've added more of the drama related to Chae Jin Hwan's father.
2. No communication. From the both main character and his boyfriend. A lot of the problems could've been resolved in less than 5 minutes if only the main characters learned to respect each other and try to fix a problem when there is one.
3. Main character. Pretty much self-explanatory, as I said before, at some point I just couldn't care less about what's going to happen to their relationship since main character seem to not care much for them too.
Honestly, as bad as it sounds, I would've personally preferred if the two main character's didn't end up as a couple. It's really rare when I feel this way, but I just think that they are really not a great fit and should not be together.

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Could've been 8 or 9

When I just started watching it, I was super excited and hyped for it, but the further it went, the worse it got.

First thing's first I want to say that there was almost no romance from the main couple until the very end, while they did end up together there were almost no romance or story really leading to that. They just kinda jumped into it.
My mistake was that I started watching this series mostly for the BL romance part of it and not as much for the story itself, which I instantly regretted.
But I did after all only enjoy this series for the side characters and the overall story with the students going through the training. The struggles and obstacles they got on their way and the character's development, it was pretty enjoyable to witness all of that. Sadly I cannot say the same about other things.
I liked the comedy side of the series, it wasn't annoying and good timed in my opinion.

Now the things that made it a 7.5 for me:

1. So much of an unnecessary and out of character drama. What I'm talking about is a conflict, if you can call it that, surrounding Ba-Mhee, Tae and Judy. What was this even about? I guess it was added to show Tae's and Ba-Mhee's personal growth. But I'm sure there were so much more ways of doing it without adding some insane drama with cheating.
While I can slightly understand why Ba-Mhee do what she did, the fact that Judy—the person that was shown to us as a very professional, smart and mature woman. Not only kissed Ba-Mhee back, but also had thought's about getting together with her afterwards, makes no sense. I might be wrong, but that was extremely out of character for her.
The fact that Tae just blamed himself in everything and then immediately forgave Ba-Mhee made my blood boil. That was insanely stupid, and I would probably enjoy it so much more if there was none of this absurd drama.

2. Not enough romance from main couple. Since I already said about that, I just want to add some more context to why in my opinion there were not enough romance. Firstly, for the first half of the series the two main characters rarely interacted at all not only romantically. I would prefer if there were at least some kind of friendship leading to them getting together, instead we got Ryan confessing his feelings out of blue, blushing around Jane for few days and then them becoming a couple. It's just honestly felt really disappointing to look at them act like that.

3. Jane suddenly disappearing for 5 years. Okay so that just left me confused, not the fact that Jane went to study, because that I was fully supporting. No, the fact that he literally disappeared for 5 years without contacting the person he supposedly was in love with. And then trying to justify it all by saying that the only reason he wasn't keeping in contact with him is because he was scared that he would miss him too much and come back earlier. That is one of, if not, the stupidest thing I ever heard. I would understand if it was for a month or something, but even then he should've at least warned Ryan that he won't be keeping in contact with him for the time being. But FIVE years is insane, and the fact that he came back and acted like nothing happened expecting Ryan to just take him back like he didn't just leave for 5 freaking years makes me so upset.

Other than that, I did enjoy watching this series to some degree. I might even watch again in some future, but of course the next times I will at least be prepared for some absurd moments this series has to offer.

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Sweet and fun but rushed

It was definitely nice and heartwarming, but it felt like it would be even better if the series were longer, otherwise the story felt rushed.

I liked almost everything about it, there were no unnecessary drama and no stupid jealousy over nothing. You know, in a way it felt refreshing, I started with little to none expectations and the first episode felt kinda mid, but the closer I was to the end the more I wanted this series to be longer. The music was good, and the food looked really appetising. Characters were really cute and actors had some chemistry.

But if I had to talk about the things I disliked about it, it would be these two things:

1. Not enough romance, it was enjoyable and warm but in my opinion there were just not enough skinship, not enough kisses, not enough even basic holding hand's. Of course, they had their cute moment's, but I would just love if there were more of them.

2. Too short/rushed. As I previously said, this series felt rushed. Especially the story around why Gi Hun were so against drinking alcohol as well as selling it in his restaurant. While they did tell us why, it was so short and seemed like it was an unimportant part, while it's literally a thing that the whole series is build around. The same goes for the fact that Gi Hun started drinking alcohol towards the end, I was supportive of his boundaries around alcohol, so I was caught of guard when this man bent under no pressure and just started drinking. While, yes, he wanted to change and understood that maybe his views were a bit harsh.
It doesn't change the fact that there were actually no time in between him screaming at people because of his hate for alcohol and him drinking like it's water. And it's again comebacks to the point that the series were definitely rushed because otherwise they could've done much better job if only they had more time.

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Interesting, sweet and mature story

It's great, I loved it a lot. I was a bit unsure about watching the second season, especially after watching the special episode, but I'm really happy that I watched it after all, because that was perfect!
I do appreciate the maturity that this show has, especially with all the themes that were included here. The mental health problems and the problems that some people have to go through because of them.

The main couple was great and had an interesting story line. I was a bit disappointed when I realised that the dinner with main character's father that Shi De suggested won't be shown to us. I think that would be a great way to show that their previous conflict is resolved, or at least they are working on it.
I did however was really pleased to see main character's dialogue with his father, I'm happy that father found his peace and accepted main character because that's what makes him happy.

I also really enjoyed the side couple, I was extremely happy for them even in the first season, after i first time saw them interact with each other I was hoping that they could at least be good friends, so I was really happy when I saw them together.

Of course, I would prefer for CEO and Pei Shou Yi to have more of a happy ending, but as much I wanted it, I'm more than pleased with how everything ended. Not everything in this world is rainbows and unicorns, so I cannot expect a happy ending from a "couple" that was doomed for the worst before it even started.
I did enjoy the second season a bit more than the first.

Will definitely rewatch it again!

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Truly incredible

So adorable, I really am obsessed with this series. This series has truly exceeded my expectations. While I thought it would just be like any other Japanese school romance, it is so much more somehow, and I love it.
This series had a strong start, and it successfully continued being absolutely fantastic.

Things I liked:
1. Kanata is growing a lot as a character. He went through a lot of changes throughout the whole series, and I really loved seeing him grow.
2. Akira's maturity and straightforwardness.
3. So many cute and sweet moments.
4. Great chemistry.
5. Supportive friends.
6. Overall maturity from both Kanata and Akira: I love that instead of running and hiding from each other, they confront their feelings.

Things I disliked:
1. Kanda!!! I don't know if I need to clarify that one, there is no reason for anybody to like him.

Overall I'm so happy I watched this series, and I definitely would say it's one of the best Japanese BLs out there in my opinion.

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