Pincolino

The hickey plot ... not a fan. I this a thing in Taiwan? In my country, that's something what very young people do to show off that they are making out with someone. That's not something adults do.
Whatever.
How big is the age gap between Lili and San Pang? Call me a hypocrite, but a potential relationship between Qian and Yuan never looked weird to me. Thinking about their child actors it seemed like there is an age gap of maybe 6 years (the teenage actor is only 14), they are not blood related, didn't really behave like brothers, and Yuan wasn't that young when they met, around 9 or 10. But Lili and San Pang? I mean, I knew it from the preview, and no need to tell me, those two are adults, but ... ugh. This plot opened the door for some good dialogues about how relationships change etc., so yeah, it was needed and fulfilled its purpose, but still ... ugh.
Yuan's cheeky site ... I'm not hating it, but I'm not loving it either. I was hoping for him to keep his cool a bit longer, and to not be so straight forward and take the lead.

Oh sh*t, it airs an hour later today.

I'm only at ep 2, and I enjoy it so far.

Oh, I forgot, the guys of Make Our Days Count had a cameo in Kiseki.
But yeah ... BL had a bad reputation years ago, but not anymore. They can still act in other series, take other roles, but why not doing a BL again with the same partner? Maybe there aren't enough good scripts out there? Louis and Nat from Kiseki could act in any high school BL you can think of. It would be sooo easy to cast them.

Out of topic, but I wonder why Taiwan isn't finally doing what other countries do. They have some great BL couples (Sam and YU, Nat and Louis, now Chris and Kurt), but we won't hear from those guys every again as a "BL couple" after this project ends. Such wasted potential. We don't even get a sequel in Taiwan. Even Korean BLs (they were late in the game) are giving us sequels.

I'm so confused. Now I watched this series, and I see so many emotional comments, good and bad. This was a slow, boring series with mediocre acting, mediocre storytelling, the plot is the kind that appeals to young audiences, It's a bit edgy (but not too much, it must be still cute, you know), we have the bully plot, the trauma plot, those I'm-putting-my-hand-on-the-wall-because-that's-so-hot scenes, the I'm-falling-and-landing-on-you-scenes. I have seen that kind of thing countless times. And before you ask me where, I don't remember, since I consumed hundreds if not thousands of stories in my life. But there was really nothing groundbreaking or worth discussing. I felt no chemistry between those actors, so the chemistry didn't save this series either. And last but not least: I'm so damn stressed by the constant chirping noises in the background when they were outside. Bad directing, bad acting, bad pace, bad audio, forgettable music, and lifeless characters.
I won't write a review, because I see no reason to hate on this series, since I'm not that invested. But I would rate this with a solid 3/10.
Better directing, better acting, shorter length (preferable movie length), better dialogues (who wrote those dialogues, Jesus) and this could have been something worth watching. But not like this.

No, it's not good.
I'm at episode 7, and I have no idea why I'm doing this to myself.
I give up now. I shouldn't have wasted my time with this.

Woah! That's a big list. I have only heard of 11 of them. It seems there are indeed a lot of series with explicit scenes. I completely forgot about Cute Pie, Check Out and Naughty Baby, lol.

I was just asking, because I don't feel like there are a lot of hot series out there, and then people complain about it constantly. Some of those series have a terrible plot, and I didn't look them up or dropped them. So I guess I'm the one with the perception bias.

LMAO I knew what NSFW meant since I looked it up years ago, but NC- scenes, I thought it just means explicit sex scenes. No idea it meant "non consensual" - now we have a completely different discussion.
I'm not native English speaker.

Yeah, I hear a lot of them, but I don't know what people are talking about.
KinnPorsche aired two years ago! Recently we had Only Friends, Playboyy, PitBabe ...
I dropped PitBabe, and I didn't watch Playboyy, but I think that's the only one that deserves the description "endless NC scenes".
There was also The Sign, but that series had a lot of story to offer. Then Big Dragon, which I didn't watch, so I don't know about that.
I mean, I see people left and right complain about porn series, what am I missing? Love In The Air was pretty explicit, but that also aired two years ago. On the other hand, there are countless cute and innocent series airing, mostly Korean BLs (I can't even keep up with them), some Thai BLs too.

What's happening here? I tried watching this, but the acting (especially of the smaller guy who plays piano) is so lifeless. Everything is too slow, too nice looking, too boring, faces caked like they are dolls.
Then you have a rating of 8.3, when some really good series hardly get a 8.0 nowadays?
And then the reviews! 7.0 and 7.5 are the most helpful?
What ...?
Is this good or bad? Worth watching or not?
Apparently it's rather dramatic and deals with some hard issues?
I'm lost here. Is it getting better, because the beginning doesn't draw me in. Then some say, it's great at the beginning, but gets worse later? Is this brilliant, but controversial, or it's just bad and some fans of the manhwa are giving high ratings?
????

"shows with mostly adult characters that aren't just endless NC scenes"
Can you name them? I see such comments a lot, but I don't know many of those series.

Hahaha! No worry. When I'm bored, I'm digging deep. Sooner or later I would have found it. I'm also convinced, after all episodes are out, talented people will make some great fanvids.

I once in a while check the BL calendar I find on the internet.
https://world-of-bl.com/index.php/Main/Schedule-Next
But sometimes I'm not in the mood to look all series up. YouTube knows what I like and recommends me stuff, lol, so I think I'm not missing much.
But this series almost went under my radar.

Watch Taiwan BL. Even if the plot is sh*t, the production low budget, the guys are always 1000% committed.
I recommend Unknown - best airing BL at the moment.

What? It's already finished? Did those episode air all at once?

It's a tiny Taiwanese series with not much promotion. People will flock towards it when all episodes are out. The actors are not well known, it's not a HIStory series either. If not for Youtube who recommended me the first episode (shortly before ep 3 aired) I would have never seen or heard from this series.

I think Qian is very confused and not ready to put a label on those feelings calling them "romantic love". But before the kiss happened, there were several scenes where Yuan came very close, or he was hugging him, and Qian was irritated and nervous, but it didn't seem that he disliked it. I felt like the writers were showing us from the beginning in a very subtle way, that Qian is indeed feeling something. Him being so miserable after Yuan left, also shows that something is not right.

"Life isn't that hard. We make it hard for ourselves."
Best quote of the whole episode. That's so true.

Here the long trailer again. We are at 7:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DIuqA0SVV8&ab_channel=YOUKUEnglish-GetAPPnow
What we will get in the next episode from the preview and the clothes they are wearing:
- The relationship between San Pang and Lili will be revealed (for those who now think Yuan will play games and behave like he is in love with San Pang - wild theory!)
- We will get the fishing scene where Yuan admits that he doesn't care if the person he loves gets married, he just wants that person to be happy. So I would assume he admits that he is still in love with Qian, but he is chill about it. Why else would he say something like that? Like ... why? Will he pretend to have a one-sided-love (with someone else)? Again? I doubt it. No games here.