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Bro I feel the same way about that. I was expecting him to end up with that one patrol guy who showed up suddenly after Takoi returned from the springs. Instead he does a 180 and becomes an evil underworld boss with henchmen? I guess they wanted more action but it came off extremely silly especially that spin kick taking out three guys.

Yeah besides that it was a pretty good series. Definitely knocked a few points for me with that ending.

It was good. Actors are amazing and the romance was great. The rest of the story though was kinda all over the place in quality. Timeskips aside, wished they set up more of the criminal underworld instead of having them seemingly come out of nowhere. Most of the time it just felt too convenient for the characters and all talk instead of showing plot which gets old fast.Overall enjoyable.

Bruh now the short episodes are starting to annoy me. That cut to the credits was so jarring. Wished they did two episodes a week but I may just have to wait until it finishes airing to binge watch.

Strong start and decent pacing for being so short on runtime. Although it kinda feels like we are wasting precious time on the secondary student couple. It does seems like one of them is going to contribute to the story with the main leads.

Bro I know! Serizawa acts like a love sick puppy but Suzuki thinks it’s all an act for his novel. I don’t think Suzuki will be the one to confess unless Serizawa comes clean and tells him directly.

I definitely think Takeuchi will play a part. I haven’t read the manga but it seems like he has a crush on someone too. That line from this episode made me think back to those scenes early on with the PE teacher? Idk but Serizawa needs to stop playing around!

Him fully understanding that he likes Serizawa in a romantic way. It was pretty obvious.

Hopefully this will push one of them to be direct with their feelings! I wonder who will break first. I’m betting Serizawa which would make sense for him to fix the mess of misunderstandings he caused.

Yeah just forget that Serizawa proposed the “date” for research and framed the kiss as research too. Suzuki is understandably dense but Serizawa is more annoying for not being direct.

Kudos man! Seems like many people are lacking media literacy skills and are forgetting Suzuki’s perspective. It also doesn’t look good when it’s spelled it out for them in this episode but what can you do. Some just want these characters to get together in spite of the story and their characterization. I’m loving this show and prefer this lighter drama over them getting together early and getting the cliche love rival plotline. Hopefully we don’t have to wait much longer for a confession because I suspect one of them will slip!

Yup as I suspected it just seems you are stuck on wanting the characters to get together instead of them developing to that point. Remember to Suzuki he didn’t know Serizawa back then and that’s a key point he uses to come to the wrong conclusion on Serizawa’s crush. They literally spell it out in the episode. Also, remember he believes Serizawa’s intimacy with him is an act to help with his novel. So no an “earthworm” in Suzuki’s perspective wouldn’t figure it out. Serizawa keeps their relationship vague and doesn’t confess directly because he is afraid of pushing Suzuki away. Suzuki doesn’t confess because he doesn’t want to chance ruining another friendship so instead he protects what he has and resorts to rooting for Serizawa on the sidelines. Suzuki also just realized that he likes Serizawa in a romantic way so no they aren’t stagnant for the sake of plot nor are there any scenes that are no longer needed in these past episodes which is what redundancy actually means. It’s all for developing the character’s perspective and reasoning to why they have reached this point of being further apart. While the solution is simple I’d rather have these characters come to the understanding that they mutually like each other and build their relationship than to have them suddenly get together despite their characterization, circumstances, and reasoning. Now that would be frustrating and all for what? More “action” between them? Is that what some people believe romance is? Now that would be some lazy redundant writing and there are plenty of dramas that are like that out there. Hopefully you will come to enjoy the series and I don’t think we have to wait much longer for a confession.

Well Suzuki can’t watch episode 7 like we did lol. I think they should have saved that episode for right before we get the inevitable confession. That way people don’t get upset when a character acts accordingly to the information they have or within their characterization.

What’s dumb is not following the logic that the character literally lays out. It’s really simple and I find it funny how people are getting upset about it.

The friends have the right idea.

Firstly, loved the episode and Serizawa’s actor is so good. Those last frames were heartbreaking. I can’t wait for the next episode!Now, Suzuki’s reasoning is very simple to follow and I’m surprised how many people don’t understand or are willfully ignoring it because they just want them to hurry up and get together. Or don’t understand that these characters don’t know everything like we do.Personally I’m enjoying this slow burn mainly because it’s not really a simple misunderstanding like I’ve seen done before. I mean he was a fudanshi and thinks the others are too especially Serizawa who first started their relationship on the basis of helping with Suzuki’s novel. So with all the information he has currently it’s a believable conclusion his character has come to. Also, Suzuki has lost an entire friend group for opening up before. It makes sense for his character to not confess his crush on his new best friend. I was kinda worried they were gonna have his jealousy push him to confession and im glad they didn’t go with that tired cliche.

Kudos for the critique on the plot. I’ve noticed many don’t give much thought to the story when they are mainly there for the NC scenes or the “couples” especially with Thai BL. I was somewhat interested after seeing some clips but from other comments the story doesn’t seem compelling and neither does the conclusion.

That’s why I prefer those slice of life dramas over other BLs with wild plots that lacks compelling characterization and most of the time the low quality plots are just vehicles to NC scenes.

Yo that episode pushed this to an all time favorite! Next episode preview got me excited and worried!

kinda funny reading the ai comments but they’re nowhere to be found on Thai BLs that also use Ai.