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I'm at EP5 and... is the whole team gay (maybe except Zee)? 👀

This (not telling, twin being "not nice") gives me Not Me vibes and so hard!

Thanks for recommending it - when I was reading the comments earlier they were quite discouraging but I just watched EP1 and it wasn't bad.
When Dear started sermon I was like: is it the new Syn (Cutie Pie)? So far he is not as cute as him and his teammates are bigger *sses to him than Syn's friends (and his sermons are much shorter!). There were so many bad moments, like Koh trying to undress him - even if it was not part of his belief system, he has right to refuse. Is Koh trying to get together with him? He is constantly bullying him 😒

I must say that sunflowers don't have luck in this series so far 🤭

EP3: I feel sorry for the prince 🤭 but the reaction Toki had when he raised his hand - priceless 😂
Now I am certain that both his besties know about Toki's feelings.
I felt sorry for him in high heels but then he was lying with his legs so spread out that they were almost falling off and my sympathy decreased 😉
I don't get the idea with the whole cast being male - they have girls in the class as well. Wouldn't it be funnier to do like gender-bender and make girls play male roles?
Sahara looked like a vampire with the blood 🤭

EP2 - I really liked the friendship between the guys. Is it wrong of me to want Toki's friends to be together? 😉 I am guessing that the one taking pictures was the younger bro.
Saha should have happy ending with his (blurry) guy! Let's start petition!
Perhaps younger bro x Toki? 🤔

I just watched 1st EP and Toki is - his way of walking as well - just like typical manga gangster (it gave me flashbacks to trio of "brothers" from Eyeshield21 😂). I think the only thing missing (I know that he looks like in manga) to make him look like stereotypical thug is this weird hairstyle with like a tube of hair sticking out front 🤭 (I think it's called regent... in Kieta Hatsukoi they called it pompadour).
About the lollipop - Sahara did not unwrap it, so does that means he carries unwrapped lollipops in his pocket 😱
Did Todo figured out Toki's feelings from the get go? His smiles were suspicious 🤔
I will say it: I am not totally ok with student/teacher (even if it's student pursuing the teacher). What is the age gap between them? It's 3-4 years between actors but here it seems to be at least twice as much, right? If Toki was like >18-20 (I am guessing he is like 16?) then that gap might not be so bad... (usually the bigger the age gap in relationship - the bigger power imbalance)

Suspenders and glasses 🤤

I simply "love" when person A wants to save person B but turns out to be the biggest obstacle (like used as human shield) 🤦‍♀️
Wahl was like: are you hitting on me with the same line I used on Guy? 😏
TulBoss are unclear to me - they were supposed to talk but we never saw it and they act friendly at the end so... 🤷‍♀️
I agree that gamers were not utilised enough. Muffin and her clothes 🤭

Thank you 😊
Yes, you are right!
August in my opinion is quite normal storyline (I do not like him standing Day up - he should have called/texted or something instead of making him wait for hours). We cannot expect people to not have past, to just exist waiting on their true love. Sometimes the past relationship is easier (like in case of Mhok's ex) but sometimes is not (I don't know if you have seen Moonlight Chicken but August and Alan have some similarities here for me and if I am honest - I liked Alan more than Wen or Jim 😉).
Usually in stories we have A being secretly in love with B and then at the end A and B get together and happy ending. I like that this show shows that not always we get whom we want. I hope that this series would show us more, that what we think we want is not what we actually need, is not good for us and ultimately someone totally different might be the one we love (like in What did you eat yesterday? EP with Shiro's ex).
Also: "love from 1st sight" is such a common trope but is not that common in real life, so I like how we here have more of from "enemies" to friends to lovers - for me friendship makes solid foundation for love (then again it's double pain if there is a bad break up 🥲).

Have you seen First in drag? Especially when he wears the white gown 🤯

Let's consider a bit from August's POV: he got paired with someone he did not like, they had quite high pressure on them to win championships, Day would always coax him when he feels bad, they loose important match due to Day and Day starts to ghost him. A year has past and he meets him by accident. Only after that he learns that Day cannot see.
So in short he feels he was treated badly by Day and now Day has this "get out of jail free card", so he theoretically cannot even be mad at him - he is however expected to adjust to new reality and fast.
They both might have felt something for eachother but even if August wanted to date Day he has to understand difficulties and challenges ahead and it's not something that everybody would be willing to do. Let me point out again that he was ghosted for a year, so I could totally get why his feelings would have faded.

As for out boys - I think that they already like eachother. It's clearer with Mhok and his expressions but for Day the closure with August should make it easier for him to accept. You could see in the scene in the gym, when August took his hand, to guide him and he was not letting Mhok go. He is also quite comfortable with Mhok, he was so not subtle when asking Mohok's ex about their status 😏, both girls pinged his interest in like 5sec 🤭, he wanted to be useful to him (jam on toast bread = love language 😉) and I could tell that Teerak was "inflicting damage" 🤭. Not to mention that he would be making world a favour to take Mhok off the marked and hence saving some poor soul from dating him 😋.

People have past. We are not just existing untill we meet the one and only - sometimes one has to kiss a lot of frogs to find the prince.
I think this is a closure for Day and his old life. It allows him to fully embrace his current situation and perhaps admit to himself that he has feelings for Mhok.

My theory: Night.
We don't know why the antagonism (perhaps Night was somehow even partially responsible for Day's accident - like it was his car and breaks were not properly maintained or something), so he would end the story by "paying back" his brother with his eyes.
For me still the most realistic would be for Day not to get the donation but learning and accepting his new life. Fox said that one does not see with eyes but with heart, right? Mee knew that the curse was broken because flower saw her, like how Mhok sees actual Day.

I would be charitable for max 15min (since no call/info - I can get like car troubles or something but no excuse = max 15min).

Boyfriend experience 🤭

How many hours does one is expected to wait? 🤬

When they were in highschool Kao's friend was hitting on Pete's GF, so Pete with his gang decided to teach him a lesson. Kao was searching for his friend and saw the beating that was happening, so he tried to stop it. This made Pete cross with him (and Pete is being hot-headed and holds on to grudges and is spoiled brat to that).

I think that is not mandatory - there are even some things that are chronologically inconsistent (example: Kao is a great photographer here but in DBK he has no idea how to take pictures 🤦‍♀️).
Then again you will miss one of the greatest accidental kisses 🤣 (I am still wondering how many tries it took them to shoot this).
Another thing is that Pete/Kao are already established couple in BDK and in KMA they start their relationship, so if you like to see that I would just skip other couples. I think there was BL cut of KMA... 🤔 I am however certain that there was one for Kiss (it's like max 10min and Pete/Kao are already established couple but dating in secret - a bit like they did it in Bad Romance) but they haven't included everything, like Pete and Kao "talking" about loosing virginity 🤭 and the scene where they were caught by Sandee (but you get in exchange add for Oishi drink - I think it was the grape's one - so fair trade, right? 😉).

Some of my recommendations (divided by countries):
Chinese (censored BL):
*Hiller and Killer (fair warning it's SE for basically everyone but so worth the buckets of tears; here we have 2 couples: doc+police officer and opera singer+criminal; they even have FL that one does not hate and all 3 FL are interesting in their own way - check them out in this MV that contains a bit of spoilers: https://youtu.be/-UnH-nof90w)
*S.C.I. (3 couples but! In the series they changed ML2 gender to female 😒 - in the novel you have 3x BL; my favourite is the 3rd pairing: cute, naive, stubborn, stuttering police officer and a magician).
*Stay with Me (it's remake od adaptation of Addicted - which I have not seen as I know the author and how she likes to go from r*pe to love 🤮 - which is really good, warm and in puts a lot of weight on the importance of the family, it doesn't matter if it's biological or the one we create - basically opening song tells you the tone and values that are shown throughout the series; slight warning about "lipgloss" 🤭)
*The Abyss/Justice in the Dark/Silent Reading (series got "cancelled"/"blocked"/"paused" after 8 EPs but you can read the novel).
*The Untamed (classic wuxia and just CH classic BL)
*World of Honor (how this flirty ML passed the censorship I would never know 🤭).
French (or oryginal in NO):
*SKAM S3 (the soundtrack is just fantastic).
Japanese:
*What did you eat yesterday? (both ML and MC are 40+ and it tells their everyday life).
*My beautiful man (I love that we get perspective of both partners).
*A man who defies world of BL (comedy based on manga, where or MC figures out that he is background character in BL Universe and gives us tips and tricks how to avoid raising flag = becoming main character in BL novel; in series he however at some point gets love interest 🤷‍♀️).
Korean:
*A shoulder to cry on (just for the cellphone scene 😂).
*Blueming (take note of the colours).
*Choco Milk Shake (I was there only for Milk+Uncle 😏).
*Color Rush (haven't seen S2 but apparently not worth it; dead fish kiss warning).
*Light on me (full length BL 🤯).
*Love Class (S1 and S2 have only the theme of attending Love Class in common; S2 is better).
*Love with flaws (BL cut only, don't bother with the rest - it's about 1h in total but so worth it; the theme is basically that we might think that personal appearance is important but the most important is what is inside - this goes both way, as I think that FL was only dating ugly guys because they are "kind" 🙄).
*Our Dating SIM (there is "game" at the end of each EP - do not miss it ).
*Roommates of Pongdook 304 (same actors as in Kissable Lips - he so looks like a vampire 🤩).
*Semantic Error (I liked how they both were assertive and you could see from a mile that questions about what MC doesn't like are going to be used against him 😂).
*The Devil's Judge (I know it's tagged as bromance and that MC eventually tells FL2 that he loves her but seriously: they have no chemistry! She is additionally visible jealous of MC and ML relationship. Even FL1 was like: MC fits so nicely in ML family - and he so was, he was the glue that brought them all together. Not to mention MC's reaction after "death note" - moping vs. s*icidal; for me it's kind of like censored BL).
*The Eighth Sense (it's interesting how tragedy happens in the middle and they show the slow climb from the bottom).
*To My Star (simply a classic).
Thai:
*A tale of 1000 stars (it's P'Aof, so of course it's going to be great).
*Cutie Pie (but only for 3rd pair: Syn/Nuer).
*I feel you linger in the air (it is a bit different than novel though).
*KinnPorshe (for Vegas/Pete, of course - I loved how in the novel the funeral was described: they almost all got burned/inhaled a lot of smoke and then got scared of ghost 🤣).
*Kiss/Kiss me Again/Dark Blue Kiss (I think it might have been 1st or second BL I saw; Kiss has just like 10min of Pete/Kao but the rest is about them... though not consistent- like one likes photography in one and in the other is totally clueless even though chronologically he was taking pictures before they were dating).
*Love by Chance (I like how 2nd couple has a total dufus as "bottom"... it's like they are living "taming a brat" scenario 😂).
*Love in the Air (I don't care much about Rain/Phayu but love Sky/Pai - I cried when I read the full "love letter" in the novel... that was condensed in the series to few sentences in notebook - in novel it was clear that the last page was written with extreme emotions and while crying but in the series the writing was quite neat).
*Manner of Death + spinn off Triage (crime and doctor 😏).
*Moonlight Chicken (again P'Aof; 2rd couple steals the show and 3rd had big potential but was not developed; 1st is ok).
*My engineer (3rd couple: Ram/King; one is not talking much but loving his noisy huskies and the other is talkative and loving his silent plants - match made in heaven, right? Sadly their story gets cut in the middle and we never got 2nd season).
*Not me (what can I say? It has Gun - he plays twins switching places; it has First; Gumpa has his tincan 😉; don't even bother with the novel as it has only names and the fact of switching in common - it will decrease your IQ; extra: social commentary + recreation of actual rescue by protesters 🥰).
*Only Friends (Sand/Ray just kill it; love the opening and ending song by Kaho).
*Our Skyy (as there are collections of one shot after the series some are better and some are worst).
*Rak Diao (sitcom, so be aware of can laughter but they tone it down after few EPs).
*Sky in your Heart (was it the story or the location that hooked me? 🤔 Don't bother with "prequel", Star in my Mind).
*Why R U + SafaihZon (for me Safaih/Zon were more interesting and sadly due to pandemic we were robbed of a lot of their story).
Taiwanese:
*Be loved in house - I do (Aaron! 😍 Hank was not bad as well).
*Because of You (surprisingly for all reading this - I actually liked the 1st couple the most; then there was the 3rd and the last was 2nd).
*DNA says love you (not the greatest but the subject was really interesting and I thought that the 2nd couple was an unusual pairing that worked).
*HIStory (my faves are 1: Obsessed, 2: Right or Wrong and 3: Trapped but here I liked the 2nd couple more... I might just like dorky, naive characters and whacos a little to much 😉).
*Kiseki - dear to me (2nd couple, especially Ai Di was a scene stealer; Aaron and Hank have comeback here in EP3 and they are hilarious for me).
*We best love (feels like classic TW).

So I binged 6 EPs and have some random thoughts.
1. I am sure P'Insomnia knew about Guy/Tew from the moment they met in restaurant - she just looked at them and had knowing look.
2. I actually think that Ping (Guy) looks better in this series - his face is more defined and not so gangly as in Ai Long Thai. If only he could curb the whining...
3. I thought that Tul was dense (that Boss was flirting with him) but surprisingly he wasn't 🤯
4. The whole romance part is weirdly done - like some parts are missing. He is in love with Whal then almost instantly fells for Tew while still being in love in Whal and suddenly not being in love. Not to mention that the Tew decided to sacrifice everything for him after them knowing each other for quite short span (I doubt that their gaming days were brewing with romance).
5. It was quite obvious who is the "infiltrator".
6. I don't get why boss ordered Tew to kill Kanji - so what if he said that Tew was a traitor? His actions were suspicious. It's not like he actually did anything to betray the gang - on the contrary he was trying to protect it. He was treated worst in the gang than Tew, so I get his resentment. He is also a whako and an addict but that might stem from the treatment he received.
7. The whole kidnapping plot was ridiculous. None of the henchmen had any weapons (I am talking about at least knife, baton etc )? They were all quite easily defeated and it was Tul who had no strength... Boss was totally illogical in all of this.
8. Whal. I've got friends. I've seen all kinds of friendship and this is not normal.
9. Break up 🙄

Random thought: the scene is in the cab - wasn't in the trailer Mhok who fell asleep (I think it's the same scene because of Day's shirt)? 🤔