Maggi64

So the light between dog and wolf is the title Blueming? Do they use the color blue in the chinese word for it as well? I assume it means the way the sky looks bluish but not black at twilight

Good lord, she revealed her taste with Miracle of Teddy Bear! The premise of that was as idiotic as the Thai one where a guy falls in love with a dude who's really dead. The Thais make so many BL's that they have clearly run out of relationship tropes. And the Thai BL's tend to suck all around, even if the relationship trope is something new.

For those of you who saw it in Asia:

Do they kiss in this one? The first one copped out on that.

Gagaloo's subs are so bad it interferes with story logic. For instance, it had the text from his sister address him as "To Dad" instead of "From Dad." I thought that if he was someone's dad, the text must be from his kid, yet he was only 27. There were plenty of other screwups too. So many that if I had only seen it on Gagaloo, I would have called it a bad show. Gagaloo also misrepresented "My Beautiful Man" by having Kiyoi call Hiro "disgusting" all the time when, in fact, he was calling him "weird," which is much less offensive. That caused a lot of people to drop My Beautiful Man also (they thought Kiyoi was "toxic"). Gagaloo has a nice selection going back years, but their subtitles suck.

viki only has 2 eps????

Is LOM "Light on Me"? I thought that came out last year. Otherwise, yea, the Koreans own BL right now. Thai shows are largely crap. Some stand out (TharnType), but even the good ones go on too long with 14 episodes just so they can pack in more product placement. There's no product placement in a Korean show. They use tight storylines that use their time wisely.

I liked this show but felt the same as many others about the final episode falling a bit flat. Also some things made no sense.

First, what's the point of saying you'll get married in countries that do not have gay marriage (CuteyPie does this too). This was in the manhua and also made no sense.

Second, why on earth is Taesong going to be a pastry chef? He was never shown baking and, to the contrary, constantly shown exercising, running and at a gym. So does he become a physical fitness trainer or athletics coach? No, he becomes a pastry chef. I hated this in the manhua too.

Third, why does the mother do a180 about turn in one minute flat? Again, this made no sense in the manhua either.

Fourth, where the hell did Youngee's crush on JiHa come from? That was purely added out of nowhere.

The one thing they needed to explain from the manhua but forgot about was the reason for Taesung crying that he did not want Haeboom as a brother in ep 2. It was cuz he wanted to grow up and marry him. Without this explanation the audience is left thinking, wait, I thought Taesung always liked Haeboom even in childhood. Did the screenwriter really just forget that they left this hanging? And took time to set up other irrelevant plot points instead?

Mafia shows do not employ cliches -- to the contrary, they upend them in seeking uniqueness. If you want cliches, then you have thereby revealed your own level of unthinking tastes. And you certainly have not ever read a critical review of masterpieces like Godfather or Goodfellows, which are lauded for uniqueness. Frankly, I wonder how some people on MDL manage to find the site when so many of you clearly have no foundational knowledge of world cinema.

The couple was SiWon's parents as if they'd never divorced. It was DaOn's vision of things in a perfect world.

Nicely said, thank you. I am also surprised by how people are complaining this is boring. Now I agree with some that the mom's acting is overwrought when she discovers the boys (gasping, yelling, grimacing, hair pulling, etc), but that is still a more realistic portrayal of Korean homophobia than we get in other KBLs.

For example, Semantic Error was truly wonderful, but I didn't buy that the 2 girls would treat JaengYoung's pursuing a guy as the most natural thing in the world. Nor that JaengYoung would be so nonchallant as to say to another guy, "Why not date?" In Korea, there are still a whole helluva a lot of reasons for 2 boys to not date each other, and Cherry Blossoms at least covered this honestly.

Indeed, it's odd that many were saying they were "bored" by the old "disapproving parent trope," when disapproval is so real in that country. I think the KBL's are geared to the more homo-friendly international audience and, hence, skip what Cherry Blossoms is showing us about homophobia in actual Korea. Even the excellent Blueming (my current fav) will have to take on a disapproving parent if that crazy mom finds out in a sequel.

As for Cherry Blossom's sequel, the tepid reviews indicate that there shall not be one. Kind of crazy when we see so many truly, really bad Thai BL's get sequels. Korean BL's have now risen to top status in the international BL arena and have gotten so good that perhaps we are rating them against each other and setting the bar overly high. If, however, one rates a KBL like Cherry Blossom vis-a-vis other BL's in general, it would show how good Cherry Blossoms actually is.

I wanna see that smoldering, serious side of Taesung from the dream scene show up in other scenes. The cutesy stuff's ok, but this dude's got it in him to be hot, so let's see that again too. Anyone else?

Your reading comprehension leaves much to be desired. You fail to glean context and instead look for quick summations. This is why you were incapable of understanding a moderate review such as mine, and were only capable of thinking a review either loved or hated a show. I cannot converse with stupid people, and thus I shan't converse with you any longer.

Sometimes it's better to change a manhua, as they did for Blueming. But the Asians are, in general, super faithful to source material. I am enjoying this show yet it could've benefitted from one overarching plot instead of separate stories strung together -- ie, the bullies, then the manipulative girl, then the horrifying mother (who overacts when she sees the boys kiss) . In all, I am enjoying the 2 boys, and thus it would've been better to make their progress an overarching plot line and flesh it out by adding new levels and incidents that were not in the manhua.

I paid for QIYI as it's only 99 cents a month. Also, it gets a show ratings whereas youtube free views do not. Ratings will ensure a show gets a sequel so we should all support the legal sites.

You addressed all points perfectly. And I'm glad you noted that DaUn's dream included SiWon's parents as still together. If we were ever confused about that being a dream, well, SiWon's parents together definitely makes it a dream! lol. You are also quite right in how DaWoon imagined a perfect world. While SiWon is prickly, DaWoon aspires to perfection as a good son who causes no problems for his parents (top student, nice to everyone, makes no waves). This sets their characters apart nicely.

I think you are right -- especially since DaWoon's character really went for it and took the lead with the kiss on the beach and in bed. I think we are to assume his character has some sexual experience whereas SiWon's a virgin who did not know how to kiss. So sweet!

As for whether DaWoon had girlfriends or boyfriends in the past, his parents are in the arts, so I could read his character as having been exposed to and/or dated guys. But the show really does not tell us anything about this. I wish the show would've addressed the boy on boy action at least once. They have the artist girl just accepting it when Glasses guy tells her SiWon and DaWoon hooked up, yet in other Korean BL's we see heteros going ballistic at the idea of gay men. There is a schism in the Korean BL's with this.

Semantic Error also showed the female classmates being totally cool with gays, as if it were never a big deal in their country. Yet take a look at Cherry Blossoms After Winter and we can see that Korean parents still act as if a gay son is tantamount to death and horror. I suspect that Cherry Blossoms is a more realistic reflection of Korea's sexual mores and that the other shows are pitched to Western BL fans and they know we are relaxed with gay men.

Good lord, calm down. I did not hate it, and was clear about that. I said the lead had charisma, not just hot looks. I was rather moderate in my review. You however, seem verily obsessed with the show. As for product placement, it's in the mixed martial arts scene. He holds up chapstick. Perhaps you were too excited in your obsession to notice that, but it's there.

Re the hotel scene that most are saying was a sex scene.

I am not sure that the director wants us to think the characters had sex cuz SiWon is fully clothed when they awake. Is there a sex scene in the webtoon? I wonder why the director had one guy shirtless and the other one fully clothed in his white jeans and same teeshirt as the night before?

Thank you! When you say you paused to read Caotalk, you mean their texts back and forth on the phone, right?

Yep, we agree again Tim. I watched Double Mints 3 times. I am so in love with the face of Matsuko One, ie, the streetsy one. And I love how Matsuko the 9-5 office worker and ostensibly "normal" one is actually the one who's unhinged. Matsuko One actually wanted to turn himself in. Not Matsuko Two. That mother fucker was fearless! His life finally had a jolt of electricity and he was not letting go. I loved the darkness and what was (all things being relative), a happy ending. I mean, they escaped, they were together and Matsuko One asked Matsuko Two to spend his life with him (a fansubber said the film's last line of dialogue "Will you die with me?" is a Japanese version of "Will stay with me till death due us part?"