I really like what you said about Koh - "He's unlikeable and I think that's the point. I don't quite think that we, as the audience, are meant to really like him. Only Jira is." It's one of the things that made this show so interesting to me - Koh isn't really given a full redemption arc - he pays penance in a way by sleeping miserably in his car for a year and he moves out of that god awful soulless hotel apartment, but he doesn't have a come-to-Jesus moment about AI or capitalism and he never apologizes to Jira.
Koh's an asshole and I would never want to meet him in real life, but I believe that Jira is inspired by him and wants to be with him, and that's what matters to this story.
I think the most relevant shift in terms of the KohJira relationship is that Koh can keep a flame lily plantation alive at his childhood home. That's all we get as an audience - a subtle possibility that Koh might not destroy Jira.
Because BLs are definitionally romances, I can understand why a lot of BL viewers felt underwhelmed or frustrated by the ending. I, however, loved that P'Nuchy let these flawed humans stay flawed and gave us a happy-enough/happy-for-now ending.
Koh's an asshole and I would never want to meet him in real life, but I believe that Jira is inspired by him and wants to be with him, and that's what matters to this story.
I think the most relevant shift in terms of the KohJira relationship is that Koh can keep a flame lily plantation alive at his childhood home. That's all we get as an audience - a subtle possibility that Koh might not destroy Jira.
Because BLs are definitionally romances, I can understand why a lot of BL viewers felt underwhelmed or frustrated by the ending. I, however, loved that P'Nuchy let these flawed humans stay flawed and gave us a happy-enough/happy-for-now ending.