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Same. I didn’t find it hard to understand at all.

I liked it. Apparently, this was made by the same people who did Where Your Eyes Linger? I’m not sure, but I see a lot of comments comparing the two. Imo this one wasn’t as good, but I still really enjoyed it. It’s lighthearted, funny, and the leads have chemistry. My favorite aspect was how bubbly Sangha is. He’s just a walking, well, running, ray of sunshine.

I love when Sangha jumps on Jin Won like a spider monkey in episode 4. LOL

I don't mind the plots with gay guys falling for their straight best friends. You're right that happens a lot and so many films/shows have shown what a beautiful mess it is, but I just don't specifically like how often those film/shows end on a happy note, as in both of them getting together after a really short period of time. I'm not saying we gays don't deserve happy endings to our youth, but is it really necessary to exhaustively show us realistic gay life up until the very end and switch to fantasy? I guess it is all for the fantasy. My Bromance is one of the only Thai BLs that I can think of off the top of my head that presented queer teen life beautifully and realistically from start to finish without being too sad (side note: I definitely cried. lol). Two low-budget productions Key Love and My Friendship also felt true to life, though much darker in tone.

I guess Chon doesn't come off as immature to me as he does just selfish. Everyone's allowed to fight for their love, I'm just really uncomfortable with the notion of making someone "realize" they're both gay AND into you. Like, yeah Ton is into Chon and loves him deeply, but the notion of a romantic relationship with Chon is something he's quite blantantly said he didn't want and this is on top of the fact that he doesn't want to come to terms with his sexuality and displays a lot of homophobic behavior too! Yet here we have Chon and no fewer than five other people purposely manipulating Ton to get him to do something he's clearly not ready to do. I mean, I'm not really trying to defend Ton, I swear, because I don't like him either, but I feel like in spite of his personality and temperament, there are so many better ways Chon and his "team" could be going about this.

In the context of gay coming-of-age film plots internationally, the plot of ITSAY is formulaic and isn't anything that hasn't been done several times over since the mid 00s in one way or another. In the context of Thai BL, It's in a different realm. ITSAY's strongest points imho are storytelling and cinematography. I didn't like the ending, but I'll be damned if it wasn't the best gay show I saw last year alongside Cherry Magic.

Part of the reason I never got around to watching season 2 of 2 Moons is because Kim/Copter weren't in it. Since then, I've been patiently waiting to see them on screen again. I can't believe how completely enamored with them I am. They really are one of the most, if not THE most underrated BL couple right now.

Yeah, there are a few....at least two that I can remember.

I'm looking forward to his new drama this year, Immortal.

Ok you win. I lost it at “Now look that monkey behind him.” LMAO

Chinese cultural influence in Korea started around the Tang Dynasty about 1300 years ago. It got even stronger in the Yuan Dynasty when Korea was a vassal state of the Chinese/Mongol Yuan empire. Ming is the dynasty that comes right after Yuan, so this could have been the height of cultural exchange between the two places.

Am I the only one who thinks feels that Chon's also kind of a sh***y person for being in full awareness of ALL of this but still goes the extra mile to manipulate Ton into realizing his own sexuality via the same abusive behavior?

I'm really over gay characters doing stupid stuff for guys who profess themselves to be straight. In spite of ITSAY being the most beautiful Thai gay drama I've ever seen, I had this gripe with it as well at one point.

When someone tells you who they are, leave it at that. Sexuality is HUGE deal. As gay males, running ourselves into the ground over "straight" guys (especially the loud and violent ones) more often than not ends up in an 'experiment' for them and heartbreak, trauma, and depression for us. The fantasy that BL presents that a gay guy's straight bestie will become his true love is cute when the story is told well, but the violent homophobic, bully/bestie becoming the true love?.........it's weird and sadistic. That's how Chon comes off to me. Weird and sadistic. Ton's stupid, but Chon knows better and is carrying on anyway.

He sure is. :)

The way Kit's so serious, but also plays right along with Mark's silly jokes, the "To the moon and back" on the Infiniti loop bumper stickers, and their chemistry is SENDING ME. Mark/Kit are chicken soup for the BL lover's soul and that's that on that.

I think Thanu's indecision is interesting. He definitely likes Phai, but is also falling for Wayu. I don't know how it's gonna end up and an element of mystery is good, especially in such an often predictable genre as BL.

Thanu and Padbook on the other hand...
*insert GIF of Judge Judy tapping on her watch*
Padbook needs to get over by the end of episode 9 or else I might just end up fast-forwarding through his scenes.

I read this like four times before I realized what you were referring to. lol My mind was DEEP in the gutter.

This is gonna be a little hard to explain, but: "刻在你心裡的" more or less directly translates to: engraved in your heart's and "名字" is name. The character 的 here indicate's possession and it's the 's I wrote after heart.

If this were translated another way (a way that I think would have a more common or standard ring to it), it'd be "The Name Etched/Engraved In Your Heart". This would match the Mandarin title better both in translation and in meaning. "Your Name Engraved Herein" means that the speaker has someone else's name engraved in his own heart. In Chinese, the title means that the speaker has his name engraved in someone else's heart....which I guess is more or less the same thing, but still. lol

Simple and sweet. The biggest drawback for me was that I felt like we didn't get enough of what was going on in Sine's head/life. It was very focused on Tan, which is ok if it was meant to be that way, but I would have liked a bit more of sweet, little Sine.

This was nothing amazing, but if you're a BL fan who has nothing going on right now (which is hard because there's a LOT going on in the BL world right now), I'd recommend it, I guess. If you didn't hate En of Love: TOSSARA in terms of shaky acting skills and production quality, you won't hate this.

Loved this film. The actors did a great job and so many shots, especially of Chang Jia Han staring off into space were so beautifully crafted. Another one of my most favorite shots was the one of them lying on the beach covered in sand. This movie was hard-hitting and worth the praise it gets.

Also, does anyone have any idea why the song “O Danny Boy” keeps playing throughout the movie?

Also, before Shin explicitly tells Keng he doesn't seem him romantically, we're not even given any implication from Shin that he actually feels ANYthing emotionally for Keng other than friendship and admiration. That time when Keng puts his arm around him on the bed, Shin is visibly uncomfortable and takes it off. Shin and Keng were the protagonist and the antagonist of this story, not the main couple. It really is gross that people would ship them...I'm almost uncomfortable at how this is advertised (based on the promo pics above) in such a way that kinda makes it seem like a romance too.

I think things are starting to pick up again. Quite a few pieces were put together this episode.

This was the icing on the delicious cake that was Cherry Magic. Just sweet and well-produced as the other episodes. Tsuge may fumble over his words sometimes, but in the end, he's writer and that shows. Love him.