Since there's no English subtitles yet (asfarasIknow) I will explain what happens in episode 1 for those curious…
So for episode 1.
6 dudes wake up in a warehouse with a dog-plushy there to tell them its a death-game. The rules are that they can't have like heartbeat-excitement moments as it is measured, basically you can't be too in love with something. When they do have a heartbeat-excitement moment a little sound+red light goes off so they know they're in the danger-zone.
The plan is to ''act normal'' and avoid these excitement-moments so they don't die.
So the main green dude is kinda inspired by/crushing on the motivated beige-shirt dude who tries to be hopeful. This causes an alarm to go off for him first as beige-shirt dude shifts around how he sits in a cute way.
Next black-shirt delinquent guy tries to intimidate glasses-guy which is how its found out that black-shirt delinquent guy is into people blowing air onto their own bangs.
Side-note which I got from the character summaries: This is apparently related to his backstory with a brother of his which I suppose they will go into later.
Anyway now that they know what triggers them they know to be careful. Then otaku idol-guy has a hype moment for his favorite idol and dies out of exciment rip. So they now all know to be careful. This is where the episode ends.
Since there's no English subtitles yet (asfarasIknow) I will explain what happens in episode 1 for those curious about the BL-levels in this death-game. See below spoiler post ->
Poetic description from a Japanese article: A journey under a shared umbrella on a snowy evening. As fine snow falls lightly, ML 1 (Ikebe Ryo) waits for ML 2 (Takakura Ken), wearing a black kimono and holding a white Japanese umbrella. ML 1 takes the hand that holds the umbrella and brushes the snow off ML 2 's shoulder with a towel. Then, slowly, step by step, they walk down the dark, snow-covered street under the shared umbrella.
The two meet in a variety of situations over the course of the movies. Sometimes they are boss and client. Other times they are subordinates and clients of two rival organizations. The two do not necessarily meet happily. They may cross swords. They may even fight over a woman. But in the end, they always end up "traveling the same path."
In this show the psychic powers are more a curse than a superpower. But through all the trials the brothers developed a really strong bond like they are the only ones in the world. They are not afraid to be vulnerable with each other and look out for each other really well.
Looks like I'm not the only one still researching this one XD Seems nice, it'd be interesting to watch one day!…
It's super rare ye ^^ the only reason I even know it exists is from a Japanese articles comments regarding live-action BLs. Good to see you here Nicksden!
I read a comment on a Japanese forum that the story is:
''The story is about (character of Tanihara), who has always thought about his childhood best friend, confessing his feelings to (character of KINJI) on a trip to Bali with him on their high school graduation anniversary.''
Honestly great series with iconic moments. Wasn't as big of a fan of the Red Dragon-arc which felt weakest for…
So to summarize:
Lily and her dad and mom move into ''the zero crime'' Poblacion Ardiente and meet the ruling Ardiente family. Lily befriends the rejected son of the Ardiente family ''Diego'' who is being abused by his family and looking for support.
Diego's dad Raul has a tendency to r*pe women as he tries to get away from his jealous wife Emilia. Raul sees Lily's mom and attempts to r*pe her, this fails but Lily's dad finds out and is furious.
Lily's dad goes to the Ardiente family to discuss what happened and Emilia poisons him so he dies. The mom and Lily are heartbroken and try to leave but an armed man breaks into their home. Lily is instructed by her mom to run away and she ends up in a big city. The mom becomes mentally broken and is saved by Raul and he decides to keep her in a secret location away from Emilia. Everyone now thinks the whole family is dead.
Lily ends up meeting a boy called Jepoy who saves her from being r*ped and when she is almost run over by a car a wealthy lady called Prianka takes her into her home. Prianka lost her daughter and wants to teach Lily to take revenge. She gives Lily the name ''Ivy'' to hide her identity and adopts her. They also take in Jepoy and Lily befriends a niece of her maid called ''Ana''.
Years later Prianka dies of illness and Lily is unrecognizable from when she was a kid so she goes back to Poblacion Ardiente for revenge. Jepoy takes a job as a bodyguard at the Ardiente family to have insider information. Lily meets Diego again and he falls for her but he doesn't recognize her yet and is still waiting for Lily to return as he thinks she may be alive. Diego is also supporting farmers against the Ardiente family who want to clear the farmer's land.
Lily is introduced to Arnaldo whom she tries to seduce with her wealth and Emilia also takes an interest in her money. At this point Jepoy, Diego and Arnaldo all like Ivy/Lily. However, Arnaldo is already engaged to Natalie due to political-alliance reasons.
Lily discovers her mom is still alive and rescues her as Emilia tries to burn her to death. Jepoy gets exposed as a spy and has to flee for a long time. The relationship between Natalie and Arnaldo ends due to a split in political alliances and Emilia has Natalie's father killed. A greedy and jealous girl named Nimfa tries to expose the identity of Lily but she gets shot by Arnaldo because he's triggered. Arnaldo ends up killing Lily's maid because of a rage-attack as well.
Lily is set to marry Arnaldo in a week, she goes to the wedding in a black gown. Diego enters and a whole reveal happens which cancels the wedding. Arnaldo at this point is pretty crazy as he's torn between his love for Ivy and his evil Ardiente family.
Raul is revealed to have a double-identity as ''Jaguar'' (a gangster) which he uses to kinda rebel against the Ardiente family in his own way. This takes up so much of his time that he has less time to cheat on Emilia but he still gets it on with Natalie as she is on the lookout for revenge too.
Arnaldo is in a sort-of coma and the Ardiente family now knows Lily is not their ally. So Emilia and the Ardiente grandfather capture Lily and have her burried alive. She saves herself and Diego, Jepoy and the ''Jaguar'' finds her. A man who looks like Lily's father (with a moustache) is revealed to be her gangster-uncle and he tries to get with Lily's mom. Also the aunt of Emilia finds out that Emilia has a different mom and warns Emilia of this shortly before dying from gunshots from the grandfather.
The Ardiente's have a party and Lily makes an iconic return with the words ''Black is out, Gold is in and like Gold I am indestructible.''. Basically also proclaiming that Ivy-side of her is now dead but her Lily-side is alive.
Then Emilia's real mom ''Red Dragon'' returns and she's some gang-leader of the Red Dragons which becomes a thing for a while. At this point Arnaldo wakes up from coma and now we have the Arnaldo-amnesia arc as he becomes a priest for some reason. The Ardiente grandfather wants to restore Arnaldo as he wants to continue his legacy through him. Raul in his Jaguar-disguise accidentally gets shot by Emilia and dies which makes Emilia get locked into a mental hospital by the grandfather. Arnaldo slowely starts remembering Ivy/Lily and returns to being hateful. He tries to kill Ivy and Diego in their wedding but fails to do so. Arnaldo shoots himself in desperation that Ivy/Lily will never love him.
Meanwhile Jepoy and Ana kinda become a thing but Natalie is also into Jepoy so that is a whole drama. The grandfather decides to burn the town down as he now has no more successor and he tries to publically hang Lily. Diego and the others save Lily and start rioting and destroying the Ardiente house as Emilia and the grandfather flee. Natalie is happy because she has now taken revenge for her killed father. Diego becomes leader due to the Ardiente's being gone but gets sniper-shot by the grandfather during the celebrations and dies.
Lily finds Emilia and the grandfather and has taken receipts with her to prove to Emilia that her grandfather killed her loved ones (like her aunt). Emilia makes a last-minute switch and shoots her grandfather, meaning Lily has not had to kill anyone directly herself. The Ardiente grandfather survives the shots but is kidnapped by a newly revealed adoptive daughter of the Red Dragon who intends to torture him as long as possible. Lily becomes leader of the town. Emilia becomes paralyzed and is sometimes visited by Lily. The end.
Honestly great series with iconic moments. Wasn't as big of a fan of the Red Dragon-arc which felt weakest for me in terms of the characters. There were no big iconic moments like in the start of the series. Especially since the final arc after that kinda brings everything together and has big moments.
But in general they just struck gold with the casting for the evil family and Lily.
For those that don't wanna watch but still wanna know all the tea, read SPOILER comment below where I summarize most of it:
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6 dudes wake up in a warehouse with a dog-plushy there to tell them its a death-game. The rules are that they can't have like heartbeat-excitement moments as it is measured, basically you can't be too in love with something. When they do have a heartbeat-excitement moment a little sound+red light goes off so they know they're in the danger-zone.
The plan is to ''act normal'' and avoid these excitement-moments so they don't die.
So the main green dude is kinda inspired by/crushing on the motivated beige-shirt dude who tries to be hopeful. This causes an alarm to go off for him first as beige-shirt dude shifts around how he sits in a cute way.
Next black-shirt delinquent guy tries to intimidate glasses-guy which is how its found out that black-shirt delinquent guy is into people blowing air onto their own bangs.
Side-note which I got from the character summaries: This is apparently related to his backstory with a brother of his which I suppose they will go into later.
Anyway now that they know what triggers them they know to be careful. Then otaku idol-guy has a hype moment for his favorite idol and dies out of exciment rip. So they now all know to be careful. This is where the episode ends.
Fans will understand
A journey under a shared umbrella on a snowy evening. As fine snow falls lightly, ML 1 (Ikebe Ryo) waits for ML 2 (Takakura Ken), wearing a black kimono and holding a white Japanese umbrella. ML 1 takes the hand that holds the umbrella and brushes the snow off ML 2 's shoulder with a towel. Then, slowly, step by step, they walk down the dark, snow-covered street under the shared umbrella.
The two meet in a variety of situations over the course of the movies. Sometimes they are boss and client. Other times they are subordinates and clients of two rival organizations. The two do not necessarily meet happily. They may cross swords. They may even fight over a woman. But in the end, they always end up "traveling the same path."
In this episode they solely play a game of Jenga. That's it, no plot-additions. So only watch if you really love the characters of the original show.
''The story is about (character of Tanihara), who has always thought about his childhood best friend, confessing his feelings to (character of KINJI) on a trip to Bali with him on their high school graduation anniversary.''
Lily and her dad and mom move into ''the zero crime'' Poblacion Ardiente and meet the ruling Ardiente family. Lily befriends the rejected son of the Ardiente family ''Diego'' who is being abused by his family and looking for support.
Diego's dad Raul has a tendency to r*pe women as he tries to get away from his jealous wife Emilia. Raul sees Lily's mom and attempts to r*pe her, this fails but Lily's dad finds out and is furious.
Lily's dad goes to the Ardiente family to discuss what happened and Emilia poisons him so he dies. The mom and Lily are heartbroken and try to leave but an armed man breaks into their home. Lily is instructed by her mom to run away and she ends up in a big city. The mom becomes mentally broken and is saved by Raul and he decides to keep her in a secret location away from Emilia. Everyone now thinks the whole family is dead.
Lily ends up meeting a boy called Jepoy who saves her from being r*ped and when she is almost run over by a car a wealthy lady called Prianka takes her into her home. Prianka lost her daughter and wants to teach Lily to take revenge. She gives Lily the name ''Ivy'' to hide her identity and adopts her. They also take in Jepoy and Lily befriends a niece of her maid called ''Ana''.
Years later Prianka dies of illness and Lily is unrecognizable from when she was a kid so she goes back to Poblacion Ardiente for revenge. Jepoy takes a job as a bodyguard at the Ardiente family to have insider information. Lily meets Diego again and he falls for her but he doesn't recognize her yet and is still waiting for Lily to return as he thinks she may be alive. Diego is also supporting farmers against the Ardiente family who want to clear the farmer's land.
Lily is introduced to Arnaldo whom she tries to seduce with her wealth and Emilia also takes an interest in her money. At this point Jepoy, Diego and Arnaldo all like Ivy/Lily. However, Arnaldo is already engaged to Natalie due to political-alliance reasons.
Lily discovers her mom is still alive and rescues her as Emilia tries to burn her to death. Jepoy gets exposed as a spy and has to flee for a long time. The relationship between Natalie and Arnaldo ends due to a split in political alliances and Emilia has Natalie's father killed. A greedy and jealous girl named Nimfa tries to expose the identity of Lily but she gets shot by Arnaldo because he's triggered. Arnaldo ends up killing Lily's maid because of a rage-attack as well.
Lily is set to marry Arnaldo in a week, she goes to the wedding in a black gown. Diego enters and a whole reveal happens which cancels the wedding. Arnaldo at this point is pretty crazy as he's torn between his love for Ivy and his evil Ardiente family.
Raul is revealed to have a double-identity as ''Jaguar'' (a gangster) which he uses to kinda rebel against the Ardiente family in his own way. This takes up so much of his time that he has less time to cheat on Emilia but he still gets it on with Natalie as she is on the lookout for revenge too.
Arnaldo is in a sort-of coma and the Ardiente family now knows Lily is not their ally. So Emilia and the Ardiente grandfather capture Lily and have her burried alive. She saves herself and Diego, Jepoy and the ''Jaguar'' finds her. A man who looks like Lily's father (with a moustache) is revealed to be her gangster-uncle and he tries to get with Lily's mom. Also the aunt of Emilia finds out that Emilia has a different mom and warns Emilia of this shortly before dying from gunshots from the grandfather.
The Ardiente's have a party and Lily makes an iconic return with the words ''Black is out, Gold is in and like Gold I am indestructible.''. Basically also proclaiming that Ivy-side of her is now dead but her Lily-side is alive.
Then Emilia's real mom ''Red Dragon'' returns and she's some gang-leader of the Red Dragons which becomes a thing for a while. At this point Arnaldo wakes up from coma and now we have the Arnaldo-amnesia arc as he becomes a priest for some reason. The Ardiente grandfather wants to restore Arnaldo as he wants to continue his legacy through him. Raul in his Jaguar-disguise accidentally gets shot by Emilia and dies which makes Emilia get locked into a mental hospital by the grandfather. Arnaldo slowely starts remembering Ivy/Lily and returns to being hateful. He tries to kill Ivy and Diego in their wedding but fails to do so. Arnaldo shoots himself in desperation that Ivy/Lily will never love him.
Meanwhile Jepoy and Ana kinda become a thing but Natalie is also into Jepoy so that is a whole drama. The grandfather decides to burn the town down as he now has no more successor and he tries to publically hang Lily. Diego and the others save Lily and start rioting and destroying the Ardiente house as Emilia and the grandfather flee. Natalie is happy because she has now taken revenge for her killed father. Diego becomes leader due to the Ardiente's being gone but gets sniper-shot by the grandfather during the celebrations and dies.
Lily finds Emilia and the grandfather and has taken receipts with her to prove to Emilia that her grandfather killed her loved ones (like her aunt). Emilia makes a last-minute switch and shoots her grandfather, meaning Lily has not had to kill anyone directly herself. The Ardiente grandfather survives the shots but is kidnapped by a newly revealed adoptive daughter of the Red Dragon who intends to torture him as long as possible. Lily becomes leader of the town. Emilia becomes paralyzed and is sometimes visited by Lily. The end.
But in general they just struck gold with the casting for the evil family and Lily.
For those that don't wanna watch but still wanna know all the tea, read SPOILER comment below where I summarize most of it: