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Why does that matter? Sex scenes usually last 30 seconds onscreen, but the sex has got to be (I hope!) at least 50 times that long - they're not going to show everything. I think female writers way, ,way overestimate the pain of bottoming. All you need to do is relax, and hopefully have a drink first. And lube - but it would be pornographic to show that in a series that is watched by minors.

Totally agree and I hope so!

Maybe it's partly because he's on the older side and this isn't a Taiwanese drama where all the high school kids are played by people in their 30s.

Also, he's fairly masculine and muscular, which isn't the normal look for a BL actor - If you think about other big guys, they're usually on the cute side, like Ohm Pawat. Women tend to go for tall, but maybe he's pushing it at 6'2" (188 cm). I really don't know, I'm just flailing with guesses - but I'd put him in everyhing.

I don't think he's unattractive, but he's so dull and lifeless that I don't get anything from him - wereas Atom & Poom are so sensual and sexy as well as beautiful. I watched this a long time ago - I remember Guide had a cute smile, but he didn't stick with me like Atom & Poom did.

Trying to hide that the actors are old enough to be their characters' fathers.

There doesn't seem to be a point to this series - it's people in their 30s playing high school students and not really doing anything, This whole episode was about people doing homework and texting each other about doing homework. I guess it must have been written by a high school student, or someone who really, really misses high school. There are some cute moments and the guys are all cute, and although I don't dislike watching it, I do end every episode wondering, what am I watching?

Someone below made vague comments about how personality characteristics the characters have in the novel have been sanded away removing a lot of the purpose of the story, and I can believe that.

I never thought I'd say Big was the strongest actor in a series, but here we are. I'm just not feeling Park at all, but Big is so radioactively hot that I can't look away. The body on that man... his arms are thicker than Park's torso. I thought I would melt into a molten puddle when he came out of the shower.

I have to confess I've lost interest in this. It isn't going anywhere and it's not really a BL. The acting is fantastic, but it's not enough for me - I need a little heat. Coupled with knowing the drama of the plot will be driven by implausible misunderstandings, and I just can't.

JBL seems to feel it has to religiously follow the source material, but it really doesn't. It doesn't take more than an hour to read manga that cover everything in an entire 12-episode series - so in one, you have slow burn for and hour, and in other, for six hours after excruciating 1-week waits.

And even if you give that a pass, why can't there be romantic chemistry? It could be there while still remaining faithful to the source material. These actors could certainly pull that off.

Yeah, but I'm afraid they won't continue it.

This was a good episode marred by really ridiculous cliches. One beer and he's in a state that would normally be associated with drinking half a bottle of vodka? Come on. It was really distracting, along with getting sick from a/c on a mildly cold setting. Does the whole country get sick in winter?

I'm already having to suspend disbelief at people in their 30s in high school. And the kleenex in the nostril was carried way too far.

Anyway, this is a well-paced slow-burn. The cinematography is really good, and the acting is good, but getting a little one-note. Clearly the leads can act - I hope they're cut loose in future episodes. I love Andy Chen.

Same. It went on way too long. Also, the author has obviously never had a beer if she thinks it would affect a grown man on a full stomach like that. Also, don't get me started abojt gertting sick from the a/c on SIXTEEN DEGREES. If it had been negative 16, maybe that would affect his immune system, but 16 is barely enough to need a sweater.

I don't understand your point. Did you just read the first sentence I wrote and not the rest?

Also, the word "toxic" is now meaningless - it's used to mean "anyone less pefect than Jesus" (or Buddha is you prefer). The relationship between the two is not non-toxic, it's rather negative and full of resentment at this point.

I didn't like the first episode - it put me off for some reason, partly because it's basically Addicted Heroin and aslo all the actors are way, way too old to be playing high school students.

But I did really enjoy the second episode, which got deeper and showed off the actors' talents.

I love Andy Chen.

OK, Ep 3 was really good.

I have to say I'm getting annoyed at having every BL cliche possible into one episode. Childhood connection? Check. Accidental kiss? Check. Two people encountering each other in a non-descript neighborhood in a huge city by pure coincidence and get chased by gangsters? Check (OK, that's not quite a cliche yet, but it does happen a lot).

The writing is lazy. Why did the gansters give up so easily? Why did Sea make a fuss about answering the studio, when Sea says Neil is his sun whose gravity will always pull him and it's completely obvious he was going to go? If Neil is his sun, how could he possibly not recognize him despite kissing him and fighting gangsters? Because he has longer "hair" now? So Neil is Clark Kent?

But there's a lot of cute guys in it, so I'm in. The acting is good, too.

Yeah, that's too bad. Incest is best.

I don't know, I'm a gay man and I see him as a stereotype. He's not flaming, but BL characters never are. Let's see: Teenage bangs covering his eyes and overall wardrobe way too young for his age, passive in behavior and sexually, immature and surly, goes to his man's house to cook for him instead of just inviting him for dinner, has no skills or abilities that aren't domestic... add to that being physically weak (drunk after 1.5 beers) and short, and you have your classic (and hardwired in JBL) seme-uke dynamic. It would be nice if they would shake it up every once in a while.

BLs usually just drop a male into the woman's role without rethinking the character, but there's also a man-boy element to it. You will never see a CEO being railed by a wispy intern in a BL - it's just totally foreign to the genre and the mindset of the (overwhelmingly female) authors. The latter isn't a criticism - it's only natural that authors write from their perspective.

It's like we've entered a new Victorian age. Why is everyone so traumatized by everything? I would have had a much happier life if a hot step-brother stepped into it.

I think she has relatable and realistic motivations, unlike most evil female characters in BL, and I think she can be redeemed, bnbut the wild boar thing was so manipulative and malicious that I can't have positive feelings for her. I have very positive feelings for the actress, who is brilliant.

Note that she doesn't appear bothered when Kohei talks to anyone but Kohei, who is her romantic rival. She doesn't behave like a "standard" evil female in a BL - she's cold and guarded, which is a refreshing change - but that doesn't mean she has no romantic ambitions. She aggressively tries to keep Taichi away from Kohei - this is a case of "actions speak louder than words".

I think her repressed feelings will burst at some point when it becomes clear she can't win.

Take a second look at the scene where Kohei is comparing Taichi to a wild boar - what Maya says is so manipulative and evil that I'm assuming there must be some sort of error in subtitles for people to think there's anything funny about Maya. I think she's a well-written and well-acted character, but she's malicious.