Heracin

This short BL had an amusing meet-and-cute with its two main characters meeting because of a checkered shirt. One is an ingeneering student, the other a bartender and there are some interesting aspects around self discovery that are approached by the series as well as some realistic aspects of the dating culture (the bar hunting, the cocktail names innuendo, the mandatory military service duty impact...). Unfortunately past the introduction, the story felt very bland and clearly lacked of a proper ending.

The acting was alright but lacked chemistry. There are some nice kisses but overall I did feel that some passion and heat were missing. The series had clearly a limited budget but it is foremost editing issues (between scenes and sometimes in-between episodes) in addition of the overtly too present and repetitive OST that were the main problems. It is unfortunate that subtitles were also not good.

I would not recommend this to people as I feel there are better bite-size university BL out there. The introduction is interesting but past the premise, the scenario goes nowhere and the series end on a frustrating open ending. Right at the start of what could have been a compelling conflict for the relationship. That said, if a season 2 is produced, I will watch it to hopefully have a proper conclusion to the story.