Henry

I totally get why Tomoaki got upset with Hiroya. Queer nightlife is such a vital part of our community because it’s often one of the first places where a queer person feels truly accepted. It’s not just about sex, drugs, and having fun. It's about community, love, and acceptance.

The first time I felt "normal" was when I walked into a gay club. Everywhere I looked, I saw people like me. I could dance and sing to my favorite songs without fear of judgment, and kiss another boy without shame. It's where we meet our best friends and partners. My life changed for the better because of spaces like these.

Hiroya made a prejudiced comment out of ignorance, but that's fine, we're all allowed to make mistakes and I'm glad he was able to apologize.

I knew that I've seen Ogami's face somewhere else, but I was REALLY surprised that he was in More Than Words, he just looks so different.

This one is a really promising show and the first episode was amazing. And the opening is just soooo good, one of the best openings I've seen in a BL.

It's "Around I" from 時速 36km, but I couldn't find the song anywhere, so it's probably unreleased by now.

The best part about this one is the diva that keeps slapping everybody

That scene from episode 6 where they were lying on the floor felt so much like a scene from The Eighth Sense, even the lighting was similar!

Everything makes sense now. I've thought that they were probably queer in real life, but didn't know that they were married, I love it!! When I was watching them cooking together it felt like I was watching me and my husband doing domestic stuff haha

That scene from episode 5 where they were all together laughing while trying to stop the water leakage made me so emotional, it felt like they were a beautiful happy family. Kudos to the older actors, the way they played their characters was so natural.

I cannot believe that I was convinced to watch a BL about a penguin and a black panther falling in love. And even more unbelievable is the fact that I’m actually LOVING the show.

I've spent the whole show trying to figure this out. There are a couple of times throughout the series when dates and years come up, and that’s what helped me organize the timeline in my head:

Episodes 1 & 2: Things start in 2014 (you can see it's november 2014 in Mi Ae computer when she is applying for a job) and end sometime in early 2016. Yeong and Mi Ae didn't speak for 10 months, and they finally made up toward the end of 2015.
Episodes 3 & 4: The timeline isn’t very clear, but things happen somewhere between 2017 and 2019. There’s a one-year time skip in the final scene of episode 4, and Yeong’s mom died three years after her initial cancer diagnosis in january 2020.
Episodes 5 & 6: Yeong meets Gyo Ho in January 2020 (you can see the date on Gyo Ho’s phone the morning after their first date). The trip to Bangkok takes place over a year after they first met, and they stayed together for a while after that.
Episodes 7 & 8: No clear date is given, but the story starts one year after the end of episode 6, so I’m guessing it’s set around 2022-2023. I've read somewhere that the story is set in a span of 8 years, so that math makes sense.

Hope this helps ✌🏻

You know that a show has queer representation done right when you can relate so much with the characters and their stories. I see SO MUCH of myself and my queer friends in all the gay characters of this drama and in all their relationships, specially in the protagonist. I wasn't expecting to feel so deeply represented, so that was a really nice surprise. Ko Yeong is such a beautiful character, he is so HUMAN, so full of flaws and morally grey, and the way Nam Yoonsu played him was just *chef's kiss*.

This show and these characters will stay with me for a very long time.

Never in my entire life have I wished so much for two characters to be happy. They both deserve the world.

The last few minutes of this show had no dialogue, yet they conveyed so many emotions. I had tears in my eyes the whole time, as I could feel everything the characters were feeling. It was beautifully shot and acted.

I usually only rate a series when it’s completed, but since they are review bombing this one I’m gonna give it a 10 rating just to balance things out.

The final episode was not perfect, but I love this series so much. I’m gonna really miss these characters. I could spend the rest of my life watching Kohei and Taichi just living their lives.

"A great example is that scene of him telling Kohei to ask people to repeat things if he didn't hear." YESSSS and the throwback to that scene in episode 3 when Kohei couldn't hear Taichi and Taichi just said "it was nothing", but then Kohei was able to say to him "you told me to ask people to repeat things when I didn't hear".

I agree with you; I really don't think there's a right side (we'll never know the whole truth), and it's not right to lash out at someone, especially in front of others. I've always avoided doing something like that, but we're just human beings, and sometimes another person's behavior can be really triggering and get under your skin.

I feel that most people are siding with whoever they can relate to more, based on their own personalities and past experiences.

It’s just so refreshing to see a show that has such good representation of disabled people and doesn’t ever go to the overused tropes of pity/inspiration.

At first, I was really hesitant to start this show because I’m sick and tired of the usual representation of disabled people. They either portray a disabled person as fragile, dependent, and pitiful solely because of their disability (and not because of how society treats disabled people), OR they romanticize every action, struggle, and difficulty a disabled person faces, as if everything they do is ‘inspirational’. I truly hope they keep their distance from those routes until the end of the show.

My thoughts exactly. If someone behaved like MK did during a conversation with me, I’d probably burst into flames right then. I think only people who have dealt with narcissists and gaslighters would be able to understand YJ.

I second this! Old Fashioned Cupcake it's a very easy watch since it's quite short, the actors are amazing and it has the same director of My Personal Weatherman.