ShortCircuit

On the other hand - morning wood.

Because it also happens :D

Yeah, well, I only get access to the SevenSeas danmei, since they're easily available in Europe, and I already spent quite a lot of Euros I don't really have to spare on almost EVERYTHING they've published, LOL (with the exception of the fish pet story, that I haven't read already and I didn't really get into when I tried reading it.) The books themselves are GORGEOUS and even if I mainly read ebooks lately, just the feel of the paper is luscious (got the cheaper paperbacks, too, not the DeLuxe editions, I don't have that kind of money LOL).

If you DO decide to get at least ONE of them - get Ballad of Sword and Wine (Qiang Jin Jiu) - other than MDZS, that might be the best danmei ever translated.

Just the one novel, but in three volumes. The fan TL is one single file. The official TL (when it comes, I read it's licensed now) will probably span more volumes, they usually do with danmei.

(English official TL of MDZS for example had 5 volumes, TGCF had 8!, 2ha isn't even finished and reached its 6th volume... YGM! only got its first one published, BUT on the bright side they look extremely good and I don't cry (much) about the price :D)

Yeah, well, when exhausted... It happens to all of us :D

It doesn't deviate much at all, IMHO. I AM a big fan of MuSuLi, though my favourite is Copper Coins (because Xue Xian - that is all). I think she'd approve of this adaptation.

... But I do miss the nickname and the cat HAS to come soon. I hope they keep the cat in.

Don't worry, he notices. He REALLY does. His personality is way more sunny and in the open than JT's, and he seems to get over things really easily, but he's not dense. And he's continuously gathering small pieces of info about JT, because he cares so much. As is JT - he's paying attention at all times to his Wang-Zai.

They're attuning to each other, getting closer and closer.

I don't really see any LOGICAL stopping point except for the time skip (and that'll have a SE if it ends there.)

If they want to stop at the realisation of love (and force the parents into being supportive, which is not in the story), then it can have a HEA and that's that, but it'll be a waste of an extraordinary love story.

If they follow the story... Ack, at this point in time I'm getting really frustrated, just as I wanted to enjoy it as it goes. *sigh*

About 1/5th of the story remaining after the time skip (94-112). That'll be a short season, if it goes like that, or they could fluff it out a bit, LOL. But IMHO there's no way they put in half the book in the remaining 6 eps from this season, if they make it seasonal, and also I can't see how they can split it so that it does have a meaningful end (in case s2 doesn't happen) and still not reaching the time skip...

In the novel they're 16, but yeah, in the drama they can change a few details.

It wasn't SW's b-day, I think it was Gao TianYang (maybe) - he's the one who is in the row in front of SW in school, LOL.

The novel is very much HEA. But if it ends in S1 then they'd have to get an original script (I don't mind at all, as long as MuSuLi has a say in it in some form) OR they end it at the time skip and the HEA comes in S2. It'll be a shorter season too, if that's the dividing point, because only a third of the story comes after.

Chapter-wise, we're 35 in from 112 by the end of ep6, so only a third in... (edited because math isn't happening LOL).

They're 16, they don't know themselves what's in their minds, LOL. All hard drive space is taken by schoolwork, RAM is using up some borrowed space to focus on food and maybe 1% goes to guessing their own feelings and maybe the occasional passional meltdown LOL.

IMHO, it's extremely clear JT is laser-focusing on SW lately, like he can't let him get out of his sight. And SW is pretty conscious at times of it.

For anyone who remembers the story of Leader the cat and JT's obsession with it (AND the reasons for THAT), it's painfully obvious too how and why he's choosing SW as his new home beacon.

Both come from dysfunctional families, one has lived on the streets, the other one has a very shady past, their own relationship starts out as pretty functional (sex in exchange for shelter and sustenance) and ends up as a lot more, there will be violence and neither is really likable (though both are pitiable.)

There's a HEA for the manga, if you want to know but they can go either way with the adaptation. IMHO 8 eps won't be enough to go through all chapters of the manga, but who knows.

They're not saying it's a Furuba adaptation outright either. So maybe it'll have some flavour of it, anyway? :D

PangPang: When there's something strange... In your neighbourhood... Who you're gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!

Kan:.... What she said.

So is this going to be a SK take on Fruits Basket?!

... If they get a girl living in their back garden we're all set LOL. I want JCW to be the cat!!!!!!!

ETA Or maybe the dragon. I am of two minds about this.

It won't be a cliffhanger if they end season 1 at the separation. It'll be a sad ending and that's that, if they never make a second season.

But the story is NOT about them ending up separated, it's about love against real life hurdles. It'll be a total disappointment if they always intended to have two seasons and never let on until the first part was halfway done.

I am definitely not happy right now if this is confirmed.

I also want it wrapped up in one season, because there's no certainty of a second season and even it they make it, it'll take time.

So yeah, kind of not happy with it ATM.

They're hate-bombing it. Don't mind them. Sometimes cnets go into hive-mind moods and they go on until they get bored. Something new will come up and catch the haters' attention soon enough.

He doesn't easily remember faces, it's in the original.

Face blindness comes in varying degrees. Diagnosed prosopagnosia is usually quite severe, but there are ways to cope with usual face-blindness and most of the time people don't even realise they have it.

LOL, my own version of face blindness isn't related to instant recog, but to long-term memory of faces I've seen and associating them with voices and names in real life. Nobody would call me as a witness for anything I've seen, I am unable to remember any kind of facial features that would identify someone, hahaha~

I am kind of bummed by the news that there MIGHT be a second season. 1, because that means they won't complete the story in 12 eps and it's very probably they'll end it at the separation and time skip and 2. because who knows if and when a second season will be produced to complete the story.

I want a complete dramatisation, not pieces of it...