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excellent visuals, weak plot (watch suggestions)
Overall: the visuals were amazing but the plot was lackluster - I think this should have been called "Exclusive Death" instead. 12 episodes about 27 minutes each. Aired on GagaOOLala (not available in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong or Macau) https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/5093/exclusive-love-2025-e01 ; iQIYI https://www.iq.com/play/exclusive-love-episode-1-g5451ifukg?lang=en_us ; Viki https://www.viki.com/videos/1257955v-exclusive-love-episode-1
Content Warnings: deaths, kidnapped/held against will, coercion, non con touching, bullying/near torture, fight/violence, manhandling, non con/dub con kiss, past death, mental health struggles, dub/non con kiss, non con kiss, past bullying, past fight, punches, non con turned consensual
Watch Suggestions (to focus on sweeter moments)
- start episode 1 at 16 minutes
- episode 2 watch 3-4:30, 7-7:45, 9-13:15, 16:30-22:45 and 24:10-end
- episode 3 watch 7:30-15:30
- watch episode 4
- skip episode 5
- episode 6 watch 5:30-9:30 (or keep watching if you like guitar playing/singing) and 16:30-24
- episode 7 watch beginning-4:45, 9:05-14:25 and 21:20-22:50
- skip episode 8
- episode 9 watch 16:30-22:10
- episode 10 watch 2:50-5:10
- episode 11 watch 3:45-6:10 and 7-9, 15:20-16, 19:10-19:35
- episode 12 watch 6-9:55 and 14-end
What I Liked
- visuals
- caring moments
- the final episode was pretty good (added a half point for it)
Room For Improvement
- one character's near torture approach in the beginning was awful and then stupidly blaming himself for something, getting angry at a character who was trying to be nice, ugh
- what they did in episode 10 was totally unnecessary, they could have had such a better plot with that character
- multiple love rivals and two people fighting over a person like he was an object and then suddenly the love rivals are all hunky dory
- I liked the side couple in the beginning but the idiot "plan" made it not enjoyable to watch them, they also occasionally disappeared (zero screen time in episode 10
- dub/non con kisses
- continuity error in episode 11
- nonsense stuff: if the guy didn't want to pursue that path and he was over 18 then he could go to the police and no one could force him (also he could hire people to run the business); all those guys with the sunglasses in ep 1 made it seem to be trying for humor but it failed; odd to require physical training for that job and the massage in ep 4; random and cliche plot in episode 3 (wasn't quite goofy enough to be funny); cliche plot in episode 4 of not telling someone something to avoid hurting them which hurts them
Content Warnings: deaths, kidnapped/held against will, coercion, non con touching, bullying/near torture, fight/violence, manhandling, non con/dub con kiss, past death, mental health struggles, dub/non con kiss, non con kiss, past bullying, past fight, punches, non con turned consensual
Watch Suggestions (to focus on sweeter moments)
- start episode 1 at 16 minutes
- episode 2 watch 3-4:30, 7-7:45, 9-13:15, 16:30-22:45 and 24:10-end
- episode 3 watch 7:30-15:30
- watch episode 4
- skip episode 5
- episode 6 watch 5:30-9:30 (or keep watching if you like guitar playing/singing) and 16:30-24
- episode 7 watch beginning-4:45, 9:05-14:25 and 21:20-22:50
- skip episode 8
- episode 9 watch 16:30-22:10
- episode 10 watch 2:50-5:10
- episode 11 watch 3:45-6:10 and 7-9, 15:20-16, 19:10-19:35
- episode 12 watch 6-9:55 and 14-end
What I Liked
- visuals
- caring moments
- the final episode was pretty good (added a half point for it)
Room For Improvement
- one character's near torture approach in the beginning was awful and then stupidly blaming himself for something, getting angry at a character who was trying to be nice, ugh
- what they did in episode 10 was totally unnecessary, they could have had such a better plot with that character
- multiple love rivals and two people fighting over a person like he was an object and then suddenly the love rivals are all hunky dory
- I liked the side couple in the beginning but the idiot "plan" made it not enjoyable to watch them, they also occasionally disappeared (zero screen time in episode 10
- dub/non con kisses
- continuity error in episode 11
- nonsense stuff: if the guy didn't want to pursue that path and he was over 18 then he could go to the police and no one could force him (also he could hire people to run the business); all those guys with the sunglasses in ep 1 made it seem to be trying for humor but it failed; odd to require physical training for that job and the massage in ep 4; random and cliche plot in episode 3 (wasn't quite goofy enough to be funny); cliche plot in episode 4 of not telling someone something to avoid hurting them which hurts them
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