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I was wondering if I was the only one one not liking this very much - now I don't feel so alone 😉.
I haven't read the manga but the series was just so boring to me. It was just 5 EPs, max 25min/EP and I couldn't force myself to watch more than 1 EP at a time.
It's not my 1st JP BL, so it's not the "country specific" (I can never with some of JP hairdos 😂 - like in Seven Days: Monday Thursday/Friday Sunday) that made this BL just simply not my coup of tea. Even The 8.2 Second Rule had me more invested than this one. I think it's on the lower level of enjoyment than Zenra Meshi (Naked Dining).
They should really take notes from Our Dining Table or What Did You Eat Yesterday? or Kieta Hatsukoi on how to make the couples and story "work".

Side note: his s*x friend was a lot older, so it was creeping me out.
Side note 2: the kiss scene was actually cute 😊

I just couldn't with his smile - it looked so fake!

Dan was perhaps not necessary (as SandNick were there to show us that you cannot force your heart to feel certain way) but Boeing was IMO (not everything but a lot).
Boeing was the reason Sand had grudge with Top (and hence leaking of the recording). Being treated this way had to leave scars in Sand's heart, so his return was for closure for Sand. For Ray he was a warning that his "threesome tactic" can backfire. He showed that Top's previous partners were just to keep the trauma at bay. Messing with Mew was I think to absolve Top a bit from his past ("stealing" him from Sand) and present relationship with Boeing - like to show that Boeing wasn't just some innocent who was seduced by Top but was equally responsible. For Nick he was the last drop, something that led to Nick decide to choose himself. His encounter with Boston was also needed for Boston to stop pretending.
This doesn't mean that I wasn't frustrated by his presence a lot XD

I just did fast re-rewatch to double check my "Make out table" before posting it here.
I will admit to doing SandRay re-watch several times already.
I am hoping for S2 with them as established couple and no big drama (I read in some novel spoilers that they apparently adopted a child, so I would be down to family drama with them - including them being exhausted from taking care of a child). If S2 is to mess them up I am wholly against it!

They were both hilarious. Especailly the "follout": Nick whemently deneying hook up and both Mew and Ray getting inbetween the guys (let's face it - they were jealous) XD

I prepared "Make out table" of that, if you want to spoil yourself ;)

Which one?
Mine were Sand and Ray.

I have to disagree with you about Boston. He was clear with Atom but with Nick - not really. He was constantly getting his hopes up by "leveing up" his status (verbally and even going so far as for them to take picture together - something that Boston was stricktly against due to his father).
All that to say - Nick was right when he told Boston to stop pretending to be somebody else, as he is fine the way he is (just not right for Nick). And that is the whole truth - he doesn't have to change, settle down etc. He however has to be crystal clear about it the whole time with his patners.

For me the worst he did was the whole Top fiasco (I am not absolving Top from any blame here). Mew was his friend, he knew that Mew had feelings for the guy (they were aready dating at that point, I think) and still he went after him (and before that he tried to manipulate Ray to get inbetwen them). This shows how he values his friendships - as in: not at all. This was also shown in they way he "outed" Ray to Sand - it was done in deliberately cruel way (I know he was hurting because he was rejected but the way he took it out on Ray - and Sand "by stray bullet" - was just awful).
I don't know if he thought that since they were his friends they can forgive everythig but I hope he learned that while hook ups/partners come and go, a true frienship can last a lifetime and is worth care.
I was even wondering if nobody tought him "bro code": hands off of your friend's partners (a lot of them even go as far as exes being off limits as well).


This doen't mean I think he was the worst characted for me (they all had their darker sides and I just couldn't get myself to actually like or care about Top and Mew) - that tille is for Cheum and Atom. Protecting her bro when she thought he got SA was not done in the best way (she was more angry about her friend doing her bro than SA...) but once she got to learn the truth what did she do? Comforted her bro without any scolding! Fals accusations hurt the actual victims, so they lost a lot in my eyes after this "arc".

Unfortunately it is so 😒.
However they sometimes try to talk about different topics like in Not Me, Only Friends, Tale of 1000 Stars, Manner of Death/Triage and Moonlight Chicken (not the main couple but Liming+Heart and Alan+Gupta had interesting storylines; sadly the 3rd couple was basically left unexplored...), which I really enjoyed. KinnPorshe was also not bad.
I feel like we get at least 2 high quality BLs (I am not talking about production value because Not Me had smal budget but for me it was still better than Bad Buddy - I know it's an unpopular opinion 😒) out of Thailand/year recently, so let's hope the trend continues (I haven't watched Last Twilight yet but I have big hopes for that one... perhaps I should stockpile tissues 🤔).

I would say that some HIStory instalments were so-so. Similarly My Tooth Your Love and Plus & Minus.
However overall they have usually quite varied themes (not just string of engineering couples 😉).

👻 story at the end was sad and funny at the same time. Kenji is such a drama queen 😂 (personal story: I know this person who decided to buy used car - the old owner was not using it much and it was in great condition, not to mention that the price was quite attractive; the car was being sold by family member as the old owner died - mind you he didn't die in the car; colleague decided not to purche it because of the spouse who was feeling spooky to drive "dead man's car" o.O).
I would like to know what exactly Shiro wished in the shrine 🤔
It's nice that they mentioned changes in law about partners but as Shiro said himself - it doesn't do all that much ☹️

How about spin off of them and ArronHank? Like visiting Japan...
I just loved Aaron as such a dufus and Hank being done with him (in EP03) 🤣
I would be nice to have series with established copule and their life together as core (like in "What you eat yesterday?" or 2nd couple in "DNA says love you").

They do as cameos + Aaron is everywhere 😉

I don't like big age gaps as they romanticise power imbalance that such relationships often have (gruesome statistics show that women have bigger chance of being murdered by their SO the bigger the gap is). There are some Asian with bigger than 10 years gap (I might be mistaken as I haven't seen them): Pornogrpher and 180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us.

And you are right about the drunken SA portrayal. So what if they are "agreeing" - the sober one should have enough character to just put them to sleep. Sometimes the consent is doubtful because they are both not sober but mostly it's one of them (I just couldn't with History4 step-bros where afterwards big bro was spiraling because he thought that he SA his bro, so he asked his friends and they said that since big bro was bottoming then he did not asoult his bro... it was the younger bro who asoulted drunk older bro! That was however not even considered 😒).

I got them but it's fine, don't worry 😊
Yes, that should be in the tags.

Well I am still not happy with age gap 😒
I am also not happy with SA that was between 2nd couple (one was soooo drunk and the other was sober - or as sober as he can be). Still I like 2nd couple more.

Definitely not law enforcement - he stomped on Ai Di's feet when he deneyed it and tried to clarify.
Perhaps it's like in Kinnporshe - they have some legit and some not so legit business. Perhaps the head is against drugs or wants to distribute them himself, so he needed to get rid of competition.

It's additionally like Zettai BL: BL world all around 😂
Not only or both couples but the boss has BF and another subordinate went to Japan with his BF. Our main antagonist also had a thing for a guy.
I think only one mentioned that he has GF (might be lying 😋) and the bro-heir agreed to marry a girl (who knows if he doesn't have BF on the side - he was surprisingly understanding about his step-bro).

Age gap between actors for 1st couple is 10 years 😒
IMO it's not dub-con for 2nd couple: he was (almost black out) plastered and the other was sober. That's SA.
Still I prefere the 2nd couple's dynamic, like you wrote 😊

I liked 2nd couple more than 1st but I have to warn you: 🚨spoiler🚨 one from 2nd couple basically SA the other (one was sober and the other was plastered), so not the best relationship.