It romanticised bordeline stalking (sure stalking by a middle-aged man is creepy and it's fine if it's a supposedly cute teenage boy who knows nothing about the big bad city), but not in the same way that "My Beautiful Man" does it. The latter had some character development and an intriguing dynamic between the MLs which created a perverse yet captivating chemistry (which is what i think was what it was going for). This though, had almost zero character development (both main and side characters).

The actor playing Taishin was not able to pull off the cute innocent country boy role (he looked like a scared frog talking at 0.5 speed 90% of the time). Bad casting choice and the script was as flat as a runway. Everything was very mediocre for a japanese BL and was quite honestly a waste of time for me.