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This whole year most of the BL series have done nothing but greatly exceed my expectations. And I'm happy to say that this series also falls under this category. While I definitely had pretty high expectations for this one, it somehow exceeded them.
Excellent acting, a fantastic plot with intriguing and surprising plot twists, stunning visuals, and everything else are truly exceptional. And of course i wanna mention the music which is also quite a highlight for me in this series.
* Bank/Sunny is a devil, wow. At first I thought he would be one of those ex characters trying to get in between the main character and their love interest. But wow, it is so much worse.
* I love all of the small details throughout the episodes.
* Main character is definitely up there with the greatest main characters in BL history!
* This series reminds me of a lot of different series that I previously watched, but I want to say that the one it reminds me of the most so far is Jack & Joker, and it's certainly a good thing.
* I really like Khajorn, he is a good father as well as being just really nice to everyone, including the main character.
* I also like Sky, his cheerful character definitely helps with all the heavy themes of this series.
* Main character seeing his brother in Sky is breaking my heart.
* Main character's performance at the audition absolutely gagged me, just wow. I don't know how much was planned and how much was just pure coincidence; he still did an absolutely perfect job with that one.
* Pakin choosing Sky as his model while knowing that he is not good with cameras feels like bullying.
* I do agree with people who said that Pakin and Sky could be a side couple. While I didn't like Pakin's behavior towards Sky at first, I do agree that as a photographer he would be a great person to help Sky with his phobia.
* Sun finally revealing his identity to Sunny was an absolute highlight of the episode for me.
* The scene where Sky was clearly having a panic attack and started to break down and nobody did anything for a long period of time about people pointing cameras in his face while he was clearly in distress on the floor, crying and almost passing out, really rubbed me the wrong way.
* Even though I pretty much predicted everything about what happened to Sky and his fear of cameras a while before it was shown to us, still seeing it and seeing this whole thing genuinely made me just so sad and mad on Sky's behalf.
* Khajorn and Sky are family Sun so badly needed in his life, seeing them go through everything together and support each other throughout every step is genuinely so sweet yet somehow still breaks my heart.
* Every time I think Sunny can't get worse, he just has to do something to prove me wrong.
* I liked the fight scene in episode 9.
This whole year most of the BL series have done nothing but greatly exceed my expectations. And I'm happy to say that this series also falls under this category. While I definitely had pretty high expectations for this one, it somehow exceeded them.
Excellent acting, a fantastic plot with intriguing and surprising plot twists, stunning visuals, and everything else are truly exceptional. And of course i wanna mention the music which is also quite a highlight for me in this series.
* Bank/Sunny is a devil, wow. At first I thought he would be one of those ex characters trying to get in between the main character and their love interest. But wow, it is so much worse.
* I love all of the small details throughout the episodes.
* Main character is definitely up there with the greatest main characters in BL history!
* This series reminds me of a lot of different series that I previously watched, but I want to say that the one it reminds me of the most so far is Jack & Joker, and it's certainly a good thing.
* I really like Khajorn, he is a good father as well as being just really nice to everyone, including the main character.
* I also like Sky, his cheerful character definitely helps with all the heavy themes of this series.
* Main character seeing his brother in Sky is breaking my heart.
* Main character's performance at the audition absolutely gagged me, just wow. I don't know how much was planned and how much was just pure coincidence; he still did an absolutely perfect job with that one.
* Pakin choosing Sky as his model while knowing that he is not good with cameras feels like bullying.
* I do agree with people who said that Pakin and Sky could be a side couple. While I didn't like Pakin's behavior towards Sky at first, I do agree that as a photographer he would be a great person to help Sky with his phobia.
* Sun finally revealing his identity to Sunny was an absolute highlight of the episode for me.
* The scene where Sky was clearly having a panic attack and started to break down and nobody did anything for a long period of time about people pointing cameras in his face while he was clearly in distress on the floor, crying and almost passing out, really rubbed me the wrong way.
* Even though I pretty much predicted everything about what happened to Sky and his fear of cameras a while before it was shown to us, still seeing it and seeing this whole thing genuinely made me just so sad and mad on Sky's behalf.
* Khajorn and Sky are family Sun so badly needed in his life, seeing them go through everything together and support each other throughout every step is genuinely so sweet yet somehow still breaks my heart.
* Every time I think Sunny can't get worse, he just has to do something to prove me wrong.
* I liked the fight scene in episode 9.
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