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Beautiful

That was a great series, I really enjoyed watching. It is sweet with good communication from main characters and no unnecessary drama involved. Even though at first I was a bit sceptical, I can gladly say I enjoyed it more than a Japanese adaptation. While both of them are a great series, Thai adaptation just got more of a special place in my heart.

There were a few things that I did found annoying at times, but I'd want to start with the things I liked:
1. Great communication. As I mentioned previously, in this series you can see two adults who are good at communicating and resolving their problems without unnecessary fights and drama. It was satisfying to see it since it is sadly a rare occurrence.
2. A lot of fluff. I really enjoyed how sweet and cute this series is, that's something you can watch after watching something really sad. The cute moment's from this series made my heart ache, it was the sweetest.
3. Humour. All the funny moments were nice to see as well, they were good timed and definitely weren't too cringy, as it could be at times.
4. Acting. There's really not much to say about it. It was good.
5. Family. I really loved Achi's parent's, seeing how they made Karan feel so welcomed, and the way they were so happy for their son.
I also liked Karan's sister and her way of communicating with their mom, to make her understand Karan's real feelings.

Now, when it comes to the things I didn't enjoy as much:
1. SO MANY ADS. I want to start by saying that i of course understand that it helps with funding a series, but honestly that might be my first time seeing so much product ads in one series. Even though I understand how much it helps them, it's still was pretty annoying at times.
2. Side m/m couple. This one is my personal opinion, maybe I am the problem since in both Japanese and Thai adaptation I was really not a big fan of the secondary couple. While in Thai adaptation I enjoyed them more, it still wasn't my cup of tea.
3. Pai's character. She is both one of my favourite side characters and also, one of the characters I found annoying. She was great with a lot of stuff, but when it came to her own story, she was acting really weird, and it felt like she was trying to play dumb at times.

But even than that, the series was fantastic, and I definitely can recommend it!!

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Impossible watch

Honestly I don't even know what to say except for how terrible it is, I truly tried finishing it, but it's honestly impossible.
The cringe and stupidity is just too much. It hurt to try to watch this series.

The only reason I even started this series is Pao/his actor, and I wanted to give this series a try even though I saw so much negativity around it. I tried watching it for him and the side couple that he is a part of. But I watched 7 episodes and the whole time we had one side couple interaction and maybe a few minutes of screen time for both of them.
There was only one thing I truly liked about this series, and it's Phloen, I liked his actor he is such a sweet character and honestly deserves so much more.

Other than that it is just a trash, I'm sorry, but it is actually terrible. Insanely slow and boring. All the problems are just sucked out of the thin air and disappear as fast as they occurred with no explanations.
It is really choppy, so much stuff is going on “behind the screen”, they have a conflict and then all of a sudden time skip to the next day when everything is magically fixed with no explanation.

Tin keeps acting like a literal child, it is annoying and honestly sickening. Park is just plain annoying with his random mood swings and cold demeanor. Their dynamic is so jarring.

When I saw that the screenwriter for this series is the same person as Park's actor, it told me everything I needed to know.
Overall, it is just plainly bad, and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody unless they ask me for the bottom of the barrel type of BL.

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SWEET

It wasn't quite what I expected, but I still genuinely enjoyed this series for the most part. I do think some things could've been done differently for a better result, but overall this series definitely is worth the hype.

Things I liked:
1. The main character's dynamic is so wholesome. They are adorable together, I really like their opposite personalities.
2. Great chemistry.
3. All of the kind and romantic gestures Jeong Woo does for Jiwon.
4. Friends. They were so funny, and I loved how supportive they were.

Things I disliked:
1. Jiwon hiding his relationship with Jeong Woo from their friends. I understand that he is worried about people finding out and their reaction, but he is selling it far too hard and for far too long. Especially since they are their friends, hiding it from them is insane.
I also understand that it's his first-ever relationship, but his boyfriend clearly said that it hurts him, but he continued doing the same thing.
2. Jiwon pissed me off incredibly in the 7th episode. I just wish they didn't add all that drama in one episode.
3. I really wished for the side couple to actually become a couple. Instead, we just got teased a few times, and that's it. I really loved them together; they truly deserve a separate mini-series or at least a special episode.

Overall, as I said, I enjoyed watching this series and probably will rewatch it again someday!

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Cute but nothing special

That was a nice short series with a lot of wholesome and funny moments.
Due to it being so short, everything felt really rushed, but it was still an enjoyable watch.

The whole vampire thing was extremely underwhelming, not gonna lie. I wasn't a fan of how their eyes looked when they smelled blood. And as far as I'm concerned, it was supposed to be a romance series about vampires, but to be honest, it felt like just a classic “forbidden love” series. Even if we took away them being the vampires, not much would've changed about the plot.
I really liked the side couple, even though they barely had any screen time. I still loved them.

Overall it was an enjoyable watch, cute and funny at times, but as I said, nothing special, just a classic short BL series.

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Unhinged

Don't get me wrong, I knew what I was going to watch. It's just that instead of a movie about BDSM, they just made it into a manga inspired soft porn with dubious consent and bizarre behaviors from most of the people involved.
If anything, I'm guessing the manga they were inspired by to make this movie is a hentai manga. So that would explain a lot of weird and unhinged moment's, I just think that for adaptation they could've at least tried making it more logical.

So much unhinged moment's that would never happen IRL, and you can only meet in that type of movies and mangas.
Like when Kaoru's mom gave his sex toys to a neighbor girl to hide them from him. In a paper bag for that matter, at this point she could've used a plastic see-through bag… Hello? Aren't you even ashamed of giving a paper bag full of your son's sex toys to a neighbor? Like that is just so wild.

Or Nana trying on the “clothes”, without knowing where it was or if it was used by anybody! Who in their right mind would do that. I guess you could say, that since he doesn't have a girlfriend it's probably clean and unused, but what if he likes to wear stuff like this himself and don't wash it afterward? Or worse? Like girl, please, think about it before doing something like that!
As well as Kaoru blackmailing Nana into submission. That is disgusting and while I could see an argument of “well she did come back for more” and well the only thing I can say to this is: OF COURSE she did! Because you are watching a porn that has nothing to do with reality, and none of this bullshit would've ever happened in the real life.

The consent is dubious in this as well as Kaoru being an absolute disgusting creep. The way he's behaving is absolutely atrocious, no one who actually participate in any kind of BDSM relationship will ever act this way. Disregarding of what she wants and thinks and just bluntly pressuring her into doing things she isn't comfortable with, nobody is doing that unless they agreed upon that prior to action.

Overall, I think I'm just isn't one of those people it was made for, and that's why I see it to be so problematic…

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Not worth it

That was so much worse than I expected, I guess it's my fault for having any kind of expectations for this series. I truly tried enjoying it, but I just couldn't, and I had to skip through most of the last episode.

Things I liked:
1. Out of everything that was happening in this series, I found a thing that I actually liked, and it was Met's story. Even though it was made a bit sloppily, I still liked him and his family. The last moment with his parents made me tear up.
2. The idea behind this series. When I first read the description to this series, it sounded amazing, and I was hoping for a cute comedy with supernatural bits. Sadly, it ended up being just a slop that looks like they didn't even try with it.
3. Angel Shan. He was one of the most interesting characters, and the ending made me even more interested in him and his story.

Things I disliked:
1. Female doctor Nongning. She didn't have too much screen time, but it was enough to make me dislike her. She is so extra for no reason, all of her reactions and behaviors were highly exaggerated. Nongning was a good, supportive friend, but the fact that they wrote her to be so dramatic most of the time just made her annoying.
2. Cringy. Too many sound effects and cringy jokes/toilet humor. Editing is straight from 2014.
3. Visual effects. That was probably the worst part of it all, it's just hurt to watch at times.
4. So confusing. There were so many moments where I was actually confused about what was going on.
5. First episode being literally about nothing, cut most of it out, and we lose absolutely nothing important.
6. Their first kiss. I can somehow understand why Krit initiated that kiss, being drunk, confused and whatnot, but I see quite literally 0 reasons for the main character not only not to push him away but to also kiss him back… They know each other less than a day, and as far as the series shows us they had no previous flirting or anything, so I really don't see a reason for this kiss to happen.
7. ZERO CHEMISTRY! I don't know if it's the actors or the writing's fault, but the main couple has no chemistry at all, everything feels dull and all of their interactions are empty. They talk to each other like two robots, and any time they would kiss or a have a “cute/romantic” moment, I truly could not care less about it. I guess whoever made this series though that adding “romantic” music to some of their interactions will help, but it only makes it worse.
8. A lot of useless fillers. Most of the screen time is just them doing anything but what they actually supposed to. They were on the time crunch and still spent most of the time just doing nothing useful.
9. Acting is really lacking in a lot of moments.
10. All of the series budgeting clearly went to rent out a car for the main character.
11. Zero build up for the so-called “Love”!

Overall it was truly disappointing and the only reason for me to want a 2nd season is that I just want to know more about Angel Shan. But I'm almost a hundred percent sure that if they continue with it and make a 2nd season, that it's going to be the same slop. So I think I'm good on that.

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Eh...

That was quite underwhelming.
It wasn't terrible, but I didn't earned anything by watching it, except for headache.

The things I liked:
1. I'm sad to say, that out of everything I only have one thing that is worth mentioning and it's the series ost. There really wasn't anything else that really stood out to me.

Things I disliked:
1. Series villian. What was that about? There was no explanation on why he was doing what he was doing, and I truly believe even he himself had no idea what he was doing. He was the worst villian in the whole history of villians, like really...
2. This whole thing with J. Like it was just about nothing, I get the feeling that they really had a lot of complicated ideas for all of the characters. But because of lacking the time and budgeting they ended up doing just whatever and put everything together without any thought.
3. No kisses. It's honestly not that big of a deal, but come on, not a single kiss is crazy.
4. So much nonsense. Eden was deadly afraid of water and then he just..got cured??? Are we serious right now? There were so much things like that, that just don't make any sense.
5. So choppy and rushed.
One thing that I want to mention but I won't put it in the list is that in one of the episodes Eden is looking at his hand thinking about Ji Hoon holding his hand. What my problem with this moment is that he is looking at the wrong hand. Like guys please...
I could've expected this from any indie film, but that series definitly had enough people working on it to see such mistake. It's honestly not that big of a deal after all, but I felt like they don't even care about what they producing, just filmed and posted it.

But yea, I started watching this a long time ago, but dropped it because I found it pretty cringy.
I chose to give it another try, and i'm not gonna say i'm dissapointed since I already wasn't a fan of it and I knew what I was doing. I'll just say I wasn't loosing much by dropping it and not giving it another try for so long.

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Heartwarming comedy

Previously, I dropped this series halfway through because of one moment that I found cringe in the end of the episode 4.
But I'm quite happy with my choice to come back because in the end it was worth it.

I loved the acting and the chemistry between characters.
I also really liked two girl side characters who were shipping our main couple from the start, even though they barely had any screen time I still loved them.

I want to say that I haven't read this manga before, so I don't have much to go off here when judging this series.
First thing that I found a bit weird is that how they made Kaneda some kind of creep with shrine for his “god” and other strange moment's. It felt kinda odd, and that was one of the things that made drop it in the first place before.
I also think the characters could've had better communicating skills because sadly they acted like two teenagers who got their first ever crush and don't know how to behave.
Another thing is that we got almost no actual romance, especially since the series ends right after them confessing to each other. So we didn't really get to enjoy any moments of them as a couple.

Overall, it's a quite cute and funny office romance. It was not bad, maybe even good, but they definitely had so much chances to make it much better.

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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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Disgusting

Who needs a good plot when you can just put sexual assault in every scene and call it a day!

Not my first time watching it, I've watched it before probably around the time it came out and back then I didn't really enjoy it, but I also didn't realize all integrity of how bad things were.

I understand that the name is “Obsessed”, but there is a big difference between being obsessed and just sexually assaulting another person just cause you feel like it. It's hard to expect a healthy dynamic from something with this name, but they went beyond being unhealthy.
It is terrible, and it shocks me that there are still people trying to defend it and say that it's a masterpiece. A dumpster fire is all it is and there's nothing that can change my opinion on that, sadly.

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