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Very late but heres my take on the oversized males clothing. Courtladies in Japan usually wore more fabric to show their status (juni-hitoe, twelve-layered robe). So the important guys are wearing more fabric to show their increased status in this case.
Edit: I just looked up Mori Ranmaru and turns out they really did wear that kind of clothing to look pretty back then. So its not something they exaggerated for the movie, they just liked pretty big clothes for highranking guys (if they wanted to show off).

This drama is good and I recommend it! Not all episodes are focused on the romance so that's why I think some people consider it to be a bit longer than needed. Drama has comedy but also heartfelt moments of human understanding.

I'm going to solely judge the series on what I saw in the trailer and first episode and honestly it's definitely not as bad as the rating of 4.5 (currently) made me believe it would be. So here's my take, remember people, it's personal opinion.

I love watching series where I can see the actors having fun with the acting and I can definitely see that shine through with multiple characters. I also have a soft spot for Ph BL/LGBT content and love the English sentences throughout. Sure there is some awkwardness in the acting at times but it's not been that bad to me. I tend to skip scenes if things get boring (you develop this skill when watching certain Chinese BL-bait stories) but I watched the majority of the first episode. Sure things could've been more interesting in the first episode but we're still at the start and a ton of things can still happen. There were some kinda funny moments and I think I'm gonna love those dogs.

It's definitely not the worst boss-employee BL relationship drama I've seen of its kind (I'm sorry but Capture Lover (2020) lowered my standards for these types of BL quite a bit).
Doing this kind of dynamic in a BL is difficult to pull off for actors from what I've seen. So I honestly didn't have high expectations of seeing some amazing ''hate to love''/''class difference'' romance story. Do I hope to see some genuine chemistry? Yes and mayby it'll happen, the dances of the trailer looked promising.
Anyway, if someone knows of a BL drama that did pull off the employee-boss dynamic well please alert me because I've yet to find it. Doesn't help that most quality Thai dramas are set in universities. For this drama I will continue watching it till the last episode because I'm interested in what kind of tropes they'll use from other BLs or if they'll use those at all.

Ayyy yeah I haven't seen it yet!!! Thanks my friend!

Yeah to me personally it doesn't matter much whether they make her male or female-looking. I was just there for the angst/shy moments of the ML but its been pretty much absent so now I'm here for the bromance between the main group-members.
I recommend Bromance (Taiwan) to anyone who wants a male-looking crossdressing female.

Yeah I know its obviously not the real Europe (multiple factors give that one away ). It'd be too expensive/impractical to do an actual European historical drama HOWEVER I will say that they do try to emulate the medieval/post-medieval European atmosphere very heavily in the Aiteria world. In regards to atmosphere, culture, written language, politics and clothing.

The fact that I comment on historical inaccuracies (in regards to a general medieval/post-medieval European world) is not meant to be actual unfair criticism but rather a compliment to the many things they do right. Besides this, in a previous conversation with another user I mentioned I really just like to rant about historical stuff. There I also mentioned I perceived this drama as having a RPG-inspired medieval version of Europe. I know about it being a very heavily altered version of Europe but I see enough historical accuracies to make comparisons with the real world for my own enjoyment.

Attack on Titan is very heavy on the fantasy so I'd never make comparisons with medieval Europe for that series since it'd be pointless. If Aiteria had giants/elves/dragons/fantasy creatures I wouldn't have even begun with a comparison. Anyway, thanks for allowing me to explain since some new viewers may indeed misunderstand the premise of the drama based on my comment.

This drama is basically a reverse harem (multiple guys and 1 female) so I doubt they'll make major considerations for the male audience in this case. Considering that reverse harems are usually more popular with a female audience.
The real problem is likely similar yet much more severe as in Korea. Which basically means that even accidental confusion about whether its a gay relationship from the viewers must be avoided by the producers.

This feels like an ancient place considering the few comments here are almost a decade old. The users from the most recent discussion here (8 years ago) have both long left MDL.

Im honestly just here to see that poor dog reunited with the male lead. I honestly didn't think this was going to be as big of a part of this drama as it has become. They tease the viewer with it too a lot of the time, so close yet so far away.

Liked the series overall however.... That final episode where Khett kisses his brothers body is kinda throwing me off. They make it seem so romantic but I'm like... So not only is he kissing his brothers body, Kims body likely collapsed when Pans soul got yeeted back into her body. He gave his own brother a death kiss and sucked the life out of him, leaving him to deal with the corpse afterwards.

Basically he is probably given another chance at life for if a sequel ever happens.

Seems like a fun movie

That ending though.. Blue jellyfish.

I'm willing to see where they lead the story but yeah I would definitely still recommend SKS above this one. For me its mainly just seeing some of the SKS scenes not being taken advantage of. I recognise some story arcs like the island one but they take much less advantage to progress the relationship. I think its cause of the amount of episodes but its still unfortunate

To be fair, that's all of Chinese and Korean historical crossdressing romance series. FL always wears a lot of make up and the falling in the arms is just a traditional romance series trope. The point isn't that she looks obviously female, it's to explore romance in a different setting with a slightly different dynamic. Sure in real life she would be discovered for her appearance and behaviour but just see this as an alternate world or something like that where people are much less observant. Anyway, its just how these types of series are and some like it but some don't and that's ok

Not sure they will considering this is a Chinese production. In the original there were some much stronger indications between them but I'm sure they're toning it down here.

Oh yeah China BL baits a lot, the producer definitely knew what he was doing. I don't know if this is based on a novel, don't see that mentioned anywhere. And yeah Pei Ni, will probably be kinda scared when she finds out hes got a robot replica of her.

Yeah it happens with older movies unfortunately

Well that gap can even be a grandfather and daughter gap like with Nodoka's Garden. Dude looks mere days away from death. I guess some people like seeing the symbolism of love surpassing boundaries.

I love seeing Tomita Miu since she's an amazing talent and her smile is so bright. Definitely going to see this and hoping she gets more main roles.