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I think they got torpedoes by COVID and did the best they could - but it would have been better to wait. I guess it's hard to get a production back together months later, but anything would be better than this.

It was hard to find - there's no info, and because they named it "love is", it's impossible to google. Why would anyone name it that? Sigh. Anyway, it'll be on the Bright A3 Entertainment YouTube channel tomorrow.

Not to mention rewriting Fiat's promiscuity as heroically helping people. (Note: I don't have a problem with sleeping around. I do have a problem with sleeping around solely to upset someone, which is bad enough in itself beside his using all the people he's sleeping with.)

The pacing is fine, but there's no plot. Fiat has been drained of all his fire, and this is entirely about jealousy over petty things and sulking over petty things. With everything Fiat has been through, he's upset because the cake wasn't from Leo? Everything about this is good except the writing, which is the worst. I mean, who wrote this? Oh yeah, that's right.

I thought I would either love or hate him. Instead my reaction is "meh." He's just dull. Even Ja seems to be phoning it in, but I can't blame him with the material he has to work with.

They're brand new at being lovers - they should be barely able to keep their hands off each other. Leo even said "I can't hold back anymore" - then he held back. Even Fiat told him afterwards to be rougher. (That line was needed and I appreciated it.)

I do have very sensitive teeth, so it's very possibly just me. That made me cringe like when you accidentally bit into tinfoil.

So I basically watch this for Leo (and Leon), and I think Ja is one of the hottest BL actors - but that was a flat and strange love scene. There was just no sexual chemistry there and the dialog didn't match the intensity of the scene.

If you say "I can't hold back anymore", then kiss his hand, you have to wonder, "Holding back what? Your inner 12-year old?" That scene needed to have some immediate heat. It felt like a color-by-numbers BL love scene. I was just staring at my screen thinking, "Hmm, he didn't grab Fiat's hand and pin it over his head... oh, there it is."

I'm trying to figure out what's missing from this - partly it's that there's no plot. But checking on the director, he's done this and TT2, which made me think, "Ah. That explains it."

They've also drained Fiat of anything interesting and made him a "uke by the numbers" - they're re-writing the past. He didn't really want to steal Type, he was only being slutty to help people? What? So where's the dramatic tension? In being upset because a cake wasn't Leo's idea? They even had him do that "eww, stop trying to kiss me" thing that ukes always seem to do.

The only plot device in this is jealousy. Jealousy, jealousy, and more jealousy. Ugh.

Hmm. That's certainly worth considering - but I got a strong impression that it was the actor that was uncomfortable and not the chraracter - if it's the character it needs to be explicit that he's uncomfortable, whereas Leo said "I can't hold back anymore" and then did "BL love scene by the numbers".

Yeah - they have decent chemistry as overall, but none sexually. I was actually uncomfortable watching that scene and I'm usually the one who really wants the sex in my BL. Also, metal feels terrible in your mouth.

Leo said "I can't hold back anymore" - and then kissed his hand. There needed to be some clothes ripping off in this scene (especially Fiat's, because WTF was that shirt?).

So this time we had flashbacks that were actually within flashbacks. It was good to get Phob's POV, but I've now seen several of those scenes so many times that I have a hard time connecting to them, and I'm less moved by this ep than I was by the first few, which are the only ones in which anything happened.

I understand why this episode had this format - it's consistent with Phob's character to only be able to express himself in writing, but it feels a little like it's a tad late - are we to believe Nut never read the letters until now?

Also, we're spending a huge amount of time watching people stare at things and replay the past in their heads over and over - it would be nice to have interaction between the characters, because the acting is wonderful and these two are great together. Ep 6 was a little tedious, but it at least felt like a necessary setup - this one was probably needed too, but shorter and earlier. Wouldn't this have given greater poignancy to Phob's impending operation?

I generally like the way scenes are allowed to breathe and develop as they play out - but not in flashbacks. Those could really be in shorthand. Remember how in the 6th Sense they covered the entire movie in about 10 seconds and how effective that was? You couldn't do it that fast here, but that's what I mean by shorthand. We didn't really need the entire thing to be narrated - Man is perfectly capable of expressing subtle feelings in his acting. And those were the only times where I was moved. I think eps 6 & 7 could have fit in one ep and been more effective for it.

Also, would you repeatedly flash back to walking down a corridor in high school when you just had sex for the first time, with the man you're in love with? Did they even have sex? I'm starting to wonder. This feels more like a bromance than a romance, other than a couple of chaste kisses.

I guess I won't have to worry about glacial pacing next ep, as they have to stuff 16 years into 40 minutes.

Uh oh. I haven't watched it yet, and now I'm scared.

I'll be sure to let you know if it turns out to be really good.

This is really good so far (2 eps in). It's sort of a BL mystery - it's told in a non-linear way, so you really don't understand what's going on at first, and pieces are gradually filled in. It's not going to be for everyone, but it's well-acted and written, and has lots of hot boys in it, so I'm happy.

ThaiBLFan92 is subbing it on his patreon.

Fiat is appealing as a bad-boy, not a cry-baby. Hopefully First will be given something to do at some point.

I think the crying is annoying because it usually doesn't really fit what's going on, and the problems he's crying about are all very easily solved with a brief conversation.

Also, he's gone from being a guy to a 12-year old girl. It just isn't credible that a sexually (very) experienced grown man would be that shy around someone he's known his entire life. If you've badly wanted someone for that long, when you finally get them, you're going to have crazed monkey sex for a week without getting out of bed except to pee (and even then you'll probably have him hold it for you), not suddenly turn into a pre-teen virgin. It would make more sense for Leo to be the shy one, since he's not experienced at all, but some BL writers are unable to conceive of a m/m relationship outside a strict seme/uke structure.

I'm not bothered by the fantasy/fairy tale nature of BL, even if there are plot elements that are outrightly supernatural - but people still have to act like people, or it doesn't work.

You made it through 3.5 more episodes than I could stomach. The transphobia was so awful it made me sick. It feels like this was made by some alt-right anti-LGBTQ+ organization.

I read the manga after watching this. The basic story is the same, but it's quite different and more shallow. Yamato is gigantic. And ginger, for some reason. The thing that happens when Yamato is asleep is so much more heart-stopping in the film.

Anyway, the movie adds the father into the story - in the Manga he's a shadowy background figure and that whole thread of the story isn't very important. Also, I liked the way the movie is almost entirely from Mitsuomi's POV - I think it works better with us not really knowing what's going on in Yamato's head. In the manga, we read his thoughts from the beginning. Also, maybe I'm just not used to it, but the manga was really confusing to read, even after I got into the left-to-right flow.

It's funny - you know how I am, and I was thinking about whether or not I would have put in the last kissing scene - I think maybe just a short lip-touch to mirror the earlier one might have been better. But I will stay true to form and say I wish the camera had lingered bit more in the bath scene.

Anyway, I loved this - beautifully filmed, tight and effective writing. it's about all I could ask for. I'm not sure there would have been enough story for a full-length series. Maybe 6 30 minute eps.

It's terrible. If it were like So Much In Love which was a glorious mess, I might recommend it, but this is a long, boring disaster with no resolution. I'd rather have two totally unreleated ghost plotlines and an evil principal trying to destroy a volleyball team - at least the stories were resolved. These ended up at the worst Christmas part of all time and then just lept off a cliff.