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Gemini has such a nice voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yazx47GuHTY&ab_channel=greattheflute
I don't know what this is from, but he's got such an effortless, and vibrant singing style.

This is just such a cute drama. They really do a good job in every scene, and everything is believable. Gun is a little dumb and doesn't know how to lead the band because he doesn't understand the importance of discipline. Sound is much more intelligent, but is too impersonal to be the leader. It's nice to see the transition where Gun learns enough to become the leader of the band again. This was perhaps a simple plot but it was executed well, and is still way better than most of these BL's where the character's motivations and logic are baffling. Also Tinn does well in letting Gun go back to the band, even if he could date him without any fuss if he keeps him out of it. It's just a nice touch to show Tinn isn't just a manipulating, controlling jerk. Really a well done episode which is sustaining the momentum of the previous episodes really well. I thought it was going to be hard after that dance at the end of episode three to keep it going, but they really have done a remarkable job.

The depiction of the sexiness is a decision made by the directors who have Fourth dancing half naked while practicing with his partner. Other BL's do this all over the place with high school students. If this offends you, you should stop watching My School President, because they are going to do it again, I'm sure. I have no interest in promoting sexual relations with minors and my post is about the how iconic the dance sequence is. I find your insinuation appalling, but I can see how you got to that opinion. I run a mental counseling center and we deal with minors all day long, and I've dealt with hundreds of minors. The most important thing is to have good parenting, and access to counseling. TV has long been toxic and it's been hypersexualizing kids for decades. I can agree with you on that, but my comment is tangential to the depiction of minors as sex objects. I'm thinking of the actors who happen to be 18 and are in a setting where they are playing minors. That could be seen as promoting an unhealthy interest of minors in a general sense, but that would be a nebulous accusation if you were leveling it at anyone. I hope you have a nice day.

I thought it was really great. I'm not quite sure how people are perceiving this as boring. I'm really captivated by it. The young naive reporter meeting the jaded Kaburagi, and the development of their relationship is done so well. I really like the Machiavellian moves of Kaburagi who uses everything, including his body, to get the scoop, contrasted with the super altruistic Onoe, who wants to save the world with his pen. It's just great tension between them and a well done enemies to lovers trope. It's also interesting to see the head editors put these two together as contrasting members, with different skill sets, to learn from and sort of challenge each other. I thought this was all set up cogently, and the dialogue seems pretty fluid, most likely made by people well versed in this business. It's much better researched than your typical BL, and the story is more dynamic involving yakuza and other elements of societal corruption. These topics are usually atypical for the bubbly BL genre, but have proven to be a welcome relief to the normal artificial, insipid ones of the university, and high school dramas. It's a nice melange of the newspaper, and entertainment business, with the mafia underground, and BL romance. All these elements seem to have equal components which makes every scene multi-layered and quite engrossing for me.

Oh, lol. Well his Chinese might be more for reading than speaking 🤣🤣. Well, his English is excellent and he has a smattering of Chinese. Still impressive for me, but perhaps not as impressive as I made out 😀😀

That dance sequence is iconic. I just replay that part, and will always remember it as one of the best segments in any BL ever. They really captured something there - it's very whimsical, and romantic. It’s built up by two preludes. The one by the pool was really a nice, sexy dress rehearsal, and the other one in the bedroom was cute and intimate. The full dance was just beautiful with their friends playing in the background while they dance capturing the sexiness and intimacy from their previous pairings. I’m not a fan of ballroom dance but it was not old and stuffy here, but magical, and captured the essence of the romantic spirit which inspired it.

I know. My partner studied Chinese in China for a while, so I know about that. Did you watch the video? He says he does speak Chinese. I understand his pronunciation is off, but is it really unintelligible the way he speaks in this series?

I really don't have time to scour the internet for what you want here, but I found this that just relates how he speaks Chinese. Now, I take him at his word on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQd2bXcIq_s. You can see him discuss it at somewhere around the 1:30 mark. Studying languages myself, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages for a non-native speaker to learn. He didn't say he was fluent in it. I speak a few languages myself. My Spanish accent is excellent but my French is just passable, if not bad, and I'm much more knowledgeable in French. One can learn the grammar, and the vocabulary, without being a master in the pronunciation. I assume Phuwin might have that issue, but it is still impressive being at least at the conversational level in 3 languages.

Phuwin also speaks Chinese although he isn't fluent in it like with his English. He's really a very talented, and intelligent actor. Unlike some people that are criticizing his acting on here, I find it really excellent. I think the staring scenes must have been orchestrated by the director. He's doing much better in this episode. He is playing a very sensitive character that has already experienced a huge range of emotions in just two episodes. He's at turns arrogant, and shy around Pond, and is very playful around Ben [and initially pointedly remorseful in their first encounter]. He's often expressing dismay at social norms that he finds repugnant like with Palm's fathers insistence that Pond remain in a servile role. That subtle portrayal of guilt as he's walking by the other students while running late to class, and that fiery hatred he expresses through his eyes when the other students mock him, are just done adroitly, and with a real naturalism. I think he's had the most dynamic and difficult role in this series by far and has really proven remarkably up to the challenge.

That was a massive breakfast that Neungdiao was eating at the beginning. If he's forcing himself to not waste any of it, he should be pushing 300 lbs. The father should really let his son help Neungdiao with that so he doesn't die of obesity.

This is really a good show, though, with just a few quirky scenes. The chemisty between Pond and Phuwin is really much better this episode, and there is a huge amount of suspense. I just wonder why no one is talking about who killed Neungdiao's father. Forgetting about that, they're really laying the groundwork for a lot of drama in future episodes. The tension in every scene with the Tanya and the uncle is really gripping, like the sense of rivalry and competition is just palpable.

I like the highschool as well. It really feels like a normal school with all the bullying, and social cliques. That was nice touch of realism. I like the sort of parallel world set up here that is comparable in some way to the mafia-like business world that Phuwin's household lives in, including all the social stratification - that scene where Neungdiao just walks in late while others are being punished for being similarly late is an example of this. I like how guilty Neungdiao looks while he is walking into the school with no consequence, hesitating several times before proceeding. The social commentary in this series is really well done. Palm's father is really a good example of someone stuck in a caste system mindset. I think he's just like many Thai's from the lower classes who don't dream of allowing themselves to mix with the virtual aristocrats from the business dynasties. The kids, though, in Neungdiao's class are more like the majority of the populace who reject classism, and are willing to attack the upper classes when given an opportunity on a level playing field. The depiction of all this is very well done in this series, and kudos to them for bringing out a heightened realism to the often hyper-fantastical BL world.

So far this series really rings true, and is far more believable than something like KinnPorsche, and I don't compare it at all to the other bodyguard stories we've seen. Those are all plasticene plots that only lightly touch on this scenario involving a person being protected by a bodyguard. That's what makes this series much more interesting for me.

I’m going to do a crossword puzzle, play a video game and listen to music in the background while watching this and I might still have to ff a lot, but I’m finishing this 😂😂😂 but I’m a little bit of a masochist with a little OCD - I can’t help it.

OMG there are actually 3 more episodes. It seems like that's real - the last episode is on Jan 9. I think I've never wanted a series cut short so bad. How much more pain are they going to inflict on us? I can't imagine this getting better, but perhaps they will have some better resolutions for some of these plots given a few more episodes, but, my god, I can't imagine wanting to watch more of this trash.

Thank god Shogun and Maitoh kissed. Otherwise I would have felt I wasted 10 hrs. I enjoyed this because I really thought the main BL couple was engaging. I'd love to see them in something else in the future. I think Gap's story was sadly lacking - did anyone really care about him? I don't know what struggle he went through, and his whole story seems pretty empty. I liked Namwah's story a lot better, and that she broke through her psychological barrier at the end was a well executed plot-line. I think her relationship with Kanoon is a major drawback, and the redemption arc for that character is very misguided. You might as well have a quick and sloppy redemption arc for a pedophile. I mean the writing isn't bad, but it isn't that good and very tone deaf in many places. Overall, only rewatchable if I skip the whole Namwah - Gap arc, except maybe her singing on stage at the end. I wish Maitoh and Shogun had had more screen time. I really enjoyed their time at the tea plantation, and the kiss on the beach. I just really wish there had been about 3x more screen time devoted to scenes like that.

Just one more with ear nibbling. What these boys do for their craft, 😂😂😂
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/azgkdcWTTAg

That was the best episode. Art and Golf's lovemaking was the best for me of anything I've seen this year - partly because they're the most beautiful couple and partly because of their intensity. The shots of the moon were just stunning this episode, and the cinematography was just excellent overall. I'm happy to see the director on this board, and congratulations on an excellent show! Where do I contribute? 😄😄😄

I usually don't post this kind of content, but I like how Fourth pats Gemini on the butt here, lol
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zvYblmQtHUk

I know what you mean. I saw your comment on another board, and you'll know what I mean when I say its been about 4 years for me since my former partner passed on . I can't watch tragedies either, and I watch BL's for their bubbly positivity. I think I was traumatized by History 3, MODC for several months, and still get depressed thinking about that show. I'm going to finish this one because I'm a little OCD, and have recovered a little bit.

The break up of Gun and Golf is just too quick. Anyone that's been in a long term committed relationship should see some warning signs before the idea of a break up actually comes up. These screenwriters who are always ready to create angst, don't build up anything. How can Golf not see any of the warning signs? Can't he just look at Gun one day and say something like, "What's wrong, Gun? You look upset about something?" He just seems like he's completely baffled by Gun's statement. Golf should also have some opportunity to rectify the problem, before Gun just throws in the towel on their relationship. This is just more terrible writing. It's just that the screenwriters rush everything in their desire to create angst wherever they can.

It's just a weird BL with virtually no romance, even among a gay "married" couple. I just feel kind of numb at this point. The storylines always seem to change and there is no clear narrative to any of the stories. The emotions we get vested in are rapidly replaced by other ones and there is no resolution to some angst that occurs in previous episodes because the cause of the angst suddenly disappears. This happened with all the stories. Name's selective mutism is completely cured, and it looks like he's going to an online school. Nan completely wins over Chompu - all he had to do was find her address, apparently. Champ forgives his family after a year, no questions asked. Even in the story of Gun and Golf, they forget about their weird separation in minutes, and instantly become boyfriends. It's all poor storytelling. No one is made to process their emotions in an organic way. The past trauma just disappears to be replaced with new trauma. Why should I feel sad for Golf now when he's about to break up with Gun? Golf will probably just say he's sorry, and will be taken back in a matter of seconds. This series makes you not want to feel any emotions because your emotions are just being toyed with. Now I've learned to not care about anything that happens to these characters, so I feel like I've totally wasted my time. In a way, I'm hoping for a clear cut tragedy so there are some consequences for people's actions. I also wish there had been more BL content in this series, so overall, just a big waste of time, except for the fact that they had a few new ideas that other people can use to build a better BL in the future. The time jumps, excessive number of characters / storylines and THE WIGS are all disastrous choices, along with the terrible music. I wouldn't recommend this series to anyone, unless you're a content creator looking for a slightly different format for making a BL. But new is not better, and this show definitely proves that point.

I wish Winny could get his own series, he's cute asf, and really would be just so perfect for a BL lead.

But speaking of this series, that scene where Gun is tickling Tinn's chin was just cuteness overload for me. This series just gives me the BL palpitations ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️