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It looked to me like the uncle was holding the chip and they didn't use it on Ever 9. I think he's uncertain - and probably knew his nephew would hate him forever if he did it.

The uncle perceives Ever 9 as a machine, not a person. If your nephew was in love with a vacuum cleaner, would you intervene or just shrug and say "whatever makes him happy..." - his uncle is concerned about his nephews poor social skills and inability to connect with people - I think his motives are good, not evil. Once he understands that what he's created is a real thinking being, he'll change his attitude.

Why can't a robot eat?

While this is awful, it has a cheesy, campy charm. But it's a little slow. 4 episodes and almost nothitn has happened except a lot of pork-blood soup has been eaten.

Being comfortable with each other isn't necessarily an advantage - sometimes it makes them come off more as friends than lovers and there's an excitement missing. But it probably does save some workshop time.

Because fans are insane and go nuts when they get partnered with someone new as if they're cheating on their boyfriend. BL fans just like the same thing over and over.

The actual reason is probably more like @emothoughts answer. If a pair is popular, there's a built-in audience for a subsequent series, so there's a much greater chance it will be a success and therefore it's easier to get funding.

I don't like it, personally. The problem is that the couple initially works well because they're cast for specific roles that suit them well. Often the next series just has the two actors shoehorned in even if they're not the best fit for the roles.

They're from Stay By My Side, which is about a guy who can hear ghosts, but not when this one other guy is around him. I liked it.

https://kisskh.at/749553-stand-by-your-side

That's difficult to answer. It's awful, but somehow fun to watch. It's just so silly that it has a certain charm.

This is terrible and low-budget, but I enjoyed watching it, largely because the two leads have the cutest smiles and it's so stupid and 1980s teen-movie-ish.

But why are they putting awful wigs on Shane? He has beautiful natural hair.

I'm having trouble with the constant inner monologue - I'm at the scene with the pork blood soup - Yo won't stop talking, and the sound quality is bad. How do you screw up sound quality of unnecessary voiceovers? We know it's stange that someone is eating an impossible quantity of blood soup - we don't need to be told. We should know what Yo is thinking by his acting, not narration, Bad scriptwriting.

On the other hand, the vampire is that hot doctor guy from My Engineer that I was obsessed with at the time.

Sorry, I did kind of get off on a tangent. For me it's because their interaction is so passionless. If they were best friends or had been together for 10 years, I'd find it believable - or maybe if just once Achi read some sexual desire in Karan rather than all his thoughts being a 10 year old girl's attitude for her favorite teddy bear. It IS a comedy - it would have been funny and that they didn't take that opportunity says something. In the source material, some of "Karan's" thoughts are not exactly innocent.

I don't think "chemistry" is just getting along. I think there needs to be some heat. Examples I'd give are Vee & Dome in You're My Sky, First & Gawin in Not Me, or Gemini & Fourth in My School President & Midnight Chicken - the latter is a good example of a young couple that aren't sexual, but the way they lean into each other or touch whenever they can feels so visceral - Tay & New just don't interact like people in love - the things they say and do for each other is loving, but on a visual level it's just not there.

I'm relatively OK with Achi as a character, but Karan is just a fantasy figure more than a real person. If you have lots of people like that in your life, congratulations.

It's too primary school romance for two 30-year olds. It feels like a romance as imagined by a 10-year old girl, not a relationship between adults. It's not helped by the total lack of dramatic tension. Their big relationship hurdle is that Achi had to work out of town for a month. Karan is too perfect and too unperturbable to feel like he has any emotions at all. We've "heard" him think emotions, but never seen them. Achi's mood is also unchanging -it's all so emotionally flat that it's hard to engage, and the "plot" is so pointless and static that it's boring - plus they seem to have forgotten it's a comedy, not a drama.

But, as you said, we all see something different - this is not aimed at me and probably was never something I would enjoy as much as other people do. I need stories and character development, not 12 episodes of people being saccharine sweet to each other. Some is nice, but there's no other point to this series.

That was like watching paint dry. There is zero passion between those two - they have great buddy chemistry, but their kissing made me cringe.

I liked how natural it was to Jinta to build up Min, and how much Min needed it - that was so sweet and well done. And the show was totally stolen by Rock & Pai - that brought tears to my eyes.

Not one single sighting of that hot bod after his episode. Sigh.

I agree - the first 4 eps were great and had a direction - then it strated to meander.

Thank you - I'm surprised not to have been gang-piled!

I agree with your point, but I think the series could have made it much, much faster. This episode on it's own was very good - but having followed the previous 5 episodes, in two of which almost nothing happened, it's not quite enough. Ep 1 & 2 were great, and 3-5 should have been consdensed into one episode. There's not enough development of Kai's character - although I will say the writing is very efficient with what time it has given him.

The problem for me with Japanese BLs is that they "delay gratification" for so long that you never get to really enjoy the relationship. That's not true of every series, but it largely holds true. At least in this one Kai is aggressive so we get some movement in that direction. But Hiro is bordering on abusive and we need to understand what Kai is thinking.

I'd be happy if I were with someone who could put up with me like that, but there's a point where someone can be so emotionally passive that you can't really connect with them.

Although if he looked like Kai I wouldn't give a f@#$ and would call in sick for 2 weeks and never get out of bed.

Agreed. This episode was better because it felt like it was headed somewhere, and the ending... but still a bit static.

That was spectacularly good. Everything about that was spot on - the acting, the writing, the dialogue (well, at least whoever did the subtitles hit a home run), they way is was filmed, the scary foreshadowing, etc. This is amazing and I'm so happy it's gone deeper than just a standard-issue BL with a robot uke and actually explores issues that will soon be very relevant.

I personally wouldn't care if my boyfriend were a robot - if it he has a brain and can learn from experience that shapes who he is, even if made instead of grown, I'm OK. What am I? I've been built and given basic programming by my DNA - who I am is based on what I've experienced. So what's the difference? I'll grow old and die, he'll eventually malfunction. Although you can back him up, whereas I'll totally cease to exist. And I'm sure robots can be designed to aage, although I might leave that out.