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Para-special Relationship
If you're a fan of any male idol group, then tap into your delulu selves to get the full experience from this movie!!First off, this was heavy on the fanservice, especially with the idealized portrayal of our beloved idol boys. The only thing lacking is giving more emphasis on each of the members's characters. In the movie, we only got to know about Kota and Kanato's personalities. If they were trying to sell this "idol all-star" boy group, then they should have given some spotlight to the other members as well. But I have to say, the You Are Special song was good. It flowed along with the movie.
About the movie itself, I thought the first half was fast-paced. Around 20min in and our main girl, who swore was never going to fall in love again, already admitted to herself that she's gone in too deep and has already drafted her 10-year roadmap to getting together with our main idol boy.
Also, it has a lot of the classic shoujo mune kyun moments, which could never be taken away given that this was made for the fangirls. This might not be for those who've grown out of their cheesy corny romance era. But if you still do enjoy these type of moments in shoujo movies, then you'll be glad.
I do like the last quarter of the movie though, especially with the mild angst that I kinda wished it didn't have a happy ending. Instead, I would've preferred it if Sahoko and Kota went on to live their separate lives while cheering for each other from a distance. Or maybe even have them reunite in the sequel series instead.
Speaking of the sequel series that is currently airing, I hope they focus more on some of the stuff lacking from the movie like: the other members, Emika & Kanato's relationship, and that thing about their rival band.
Overall a fun movie. May not the most extraordinary one out there but I would still recommend this to those who are interested in watching it. And I'm looking forward to the sequel series.
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Boys Love Over Flowers
I can love cliche plotlines. I can enjoy cheesy moments. But I can never handle terrible acting, especially from almost everyone in the cast. I'm sorry but there were no chemistry between our main leads. The lack of it made me cringe during their intimate scene.Also, if you're going to use cliche plotlines and cheesy moments, at least make the minor (but relevant) details realistic. No way would a nicely shot photo of your lover's smartphone that is featured in an article. which your co-worker coincidentally had in her notification, let you know where your lover is at that moment.
In addition, the music is so bad? A lot of it sounds like cafe video game music. Good thing they toned this down during the latter half of the show.
Anyway, the only parts that made this bearable were the birthday date episode (which was cute), Iwahashi Genki in glasses, the "reveal" part, the flowers & gardening parts, and the fact that this show only has eight 25-min episodes.
All in all, not a must-watch, but I won't stop those who are interested in watching it.
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