Personal, emotionally intimate and SO RELATABE (+controversial ending talk)

At times humorous, but also diving into serious topics such as: emotional abandonment, parental absence, self-harm, depression, suicide, bullying, burnout (I also believe one of the characters has BPD). A story about growing up, teenagers finding themselves and each other, healing and slowly learning to love, express themselves and expose their vulnerabilities.

I started watching it after seeing tik tok edits, but first episode made me feel a bit sick and I didn't want to continue. Gladly, i did.

Episodes 2-5 are amazing and this is probably one of the most realistic storyline I have seen in a kbl. Or maybe it speaks to me because main characters deal with a lot of trauma/mental illness and are neurodivergent-coded and it feels a bit personal.

I had some stigma regarding the 2 final episodes due to reviews filled with disappointment (apparently pacing issues/time-skip), but tbh it absolutely didn't bother me. It was handled pretty well while keeping the mains in character (but the reason it didn't bother me might be also the fact that i knew about the time-skip before the watch XD). Tbh i don't think there were pacing issues, just the time-skip was unnecessary, though i think it gave them both time to grow emotionally into this relationship and WE GOT THEM IN ACTUAL OUTFITS!! THAT MATCH THEIR AGE!! AND NOT THE UNIFORMS!!

The last episode was ultimately touching (ocean sequence), romantic and hilarious! something these boys definitely deserved and definitely weren't ready for in high school. I saw people complaining about lack of kissing scene and... seriously? We're being served such amazing piece of queer romance and some people are upset because it didn't live up to their fantasies? Obviously, I understand it would've been much more meaningful if we'd seen main characters become so intimate, but the point is; did we really need to? Personally, this show was remarkably meaningful and the characters have become emotionally intimate to the point where it just felt SO right for it to end the way it did.

Final verdict:
soundtrack - 10/10
acting - 9/10 i particularly liked Yechan in his role, he was very good
cinematography and scenography - 10/10
story - 9/10 (-1 for that time skip i think they could have managed without it)

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