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I've rarely seen a drama/series with so many forgettable characters assembled into one story. I've seen a few comments speculating they tried to find a new couple that clicked with the audience... but if I'm honest it had the opposite effect on me. Next time there's a drama with any of them I'll think twice if I even watch it. The drama is basically 4/5ths just them doing odd tasks in teams of 2 while one is flirting with the other who seemingly has no romantic interest and then somehow these teams were all couples in the last episodes.

I've also seen YouTube mini-series with more production value than this. It's like they put all their money in make up and outfits and forgot that there's more to a series than that. All in all the second worst full-length Thai GL I've seen so far (but still better than B-Friend).

Edit: I almost forgot... Does anyone know why this girl "Wolf" is completely missing in the group pictures at the beginning and end of episode parts? She has some of the most screen time in the first few episodes, but it's like she's not even part of the main cast.

Native Title: 映画 - The native title on here is literally just "Eiga", which means movie. I think something went wrong there because the original title slipped into the aka section. You can't even edit the original title to get it approved, hence why I write a comment.

Seems like you don't know much about Asia and their school-, especially all-girls-school, culture. It has nothing to do with me being straight (I'm ace if you want to be exact). And it's not an identity, it's a sexual orientation. Regardless, to give you a non-Thai example of what I was eluding to (in my parenthesis): One of my best friends, who taught at a Japanese all-girls' high school for over a decade had, on average, five couples per year in her courses. And she remembers maybe three or four students out of at least 50 from those couples who actually (admittedly) had a romantic same-sex attraction after they left high school because she was kind of interested what became of them a few years later at reunions. Some of them even married while still in or shortly after university. It's called "experimenting", "curiosity", "romantic friendship" or even "queerplatonic" if you want a modern term, just to give a few examples.
Look, I'm not saying that they can't be LGBTQ just because they went to an all-girls' school, it's just that it doesn't mean "I'm bi/a lesbian" if a Thai GL actress says she was in a same-sex relationship once when she was at such a school. Most of the time they just give a non-committed answer anyways if they're asked about their orientation to not drive away people who like fan service, just like their patented "love is love".

Unfortunately that happens way too often. This is probably the most annoying thing in the Japanese entertainment industry. Idols are the absolute kings/queens of TV and they get drama roles handed on a silver platter if they are in a high budget group or on enough popular magazines. There's so many dramas that could have been good and got ruined because they had to cast some talentless idol, just to promote them or their group. Best example is gravure Idol Asakawa Nana and every drama she starred in as an important character, at least until 2024. She has absolutely no talent for acting and only gets cast because her scantily clothed boobs are on a lot of popular magazines.

I wanted to wait till I complete it (ep11/14 now), but I don't know if I will get there, been skipping a lot since ep5 or 6 I think. Sorry for the long comment in advance. Edit: I gave up in Ep13, the "script" finally hit stupidity rock bottom for me.

What is this? This seems like they had a budget of 500k USD and used up 495k on the actors, their make-up/clothes and the sets. There was no thought going into the script or the story, at all. Just to name one example, how is it possible, especially in the age of social media and parasocials going crazy, for a father to imprison his 24 year old (!!!) successful idol/singer/entertainer daughter for days without any kind of reaction from fans or media? If she's ill, she could at least make a statement on her social media accounts or whatever, but he even took her phone away. She has her own income, house and everything, there's no rational reason why that should be possible. That was the point for me when I thought "ok, let's just skip through it".
But there's so many idiotic decisions going on here. The bodyguards with the 5cm long penny heels. The "almost deadly wound" from which she bled so much that she almost fainted, but they were probably afraid to make her 1% less beautiful, so they went with a graze that looked like she got scratched by a cat. The "generational backstabber" accusations are extremely crazy, too. I know Asian culture is a lot of "like parents, like child", which is pretty stupid, but this series cranks it up to eleven because she didn't even grow up with her father except for a few years, when the stepbrother tried to bully her and she didn't want anything to do with her family even then. The constant slow motion everytime they're close, even without resulting in a kiss, which would be annoying enough, is extremely taxing aswell, but that's more a subjective opinion I guess.

Second worst "produced for TV" Thai GL I've seen so far (after B-Friend). Do better Channel3. Don't only invest in things to look good, actually make it good. I was gracious because their acting was pretty good and gave it a 3/10.

Pretty predictable and very semi-professional in parts, but one of the better Thai GL Youtube mini dramas of the last few months. It's a shame JPC only seems to produce AI slop now. Their production, acting, chemistry between actresses and stories overall are/were way better than H'our for example.

You could also watch it for free with subs on the original Youtube channel. Which, by the way, supports them.

Sorry, you misunderstood. These kiss.whatever sites steal the subs from drama-otaku and other sites, remove the credits and put ads over it to make money themselves, even though the people who actually translated the subtitles put a lot of work into it for free. Drama-Otaku is free, but you need to register (and I don't know if it's open or not).

Go to drama-otaku.com and register. all those kiss.whatever sites steal their content and monetize it, which is why such a site needed to be made in the first place and a lot of subs are behind pay walls nowadays.

Not to squash anyone's expectations, but the whole yuri plot is just implied. It's basically a story about best friends. The only thing that makes it yuri is the fact that the Mangaka said in an interview that they're actually dating and that it was released in a yuri manga magazine. You don't see anything about them being in a relationship or even in love in the Manga, and I guess therefore in the drama (I haven't seen it yet), itself. It's really cute and wholesome though for what it is.

TL;DR: KDramas are totally westernized and thus get higher rated because of higher production value, more money and westernized direction and acting, while JDramas are mostly made for the native market which a lot of people see as a detriment because they're often very understated when it comes to production and people immediately think the direction and acting are bad because it's different.

I understood "an older woman" more like "10 years older" or if he's in his early 20s she'd be in her mid to late 30s. That's why I was confused in how they'll make this work. But of course, generally speaking you're right and that could be the case aswell, it's just a matter of how you understand the wording.

This post is literally the answer to your question.

I dropped it because of the subs, they are Google Translate, probably directly off of Youtube, and just left as is. I didn't really understand 30 - 40% of what's said in the first episode because the translation didn't make any sense at all. I hope there'll come a day when people (and especially channel owners) realize that you just can't auto translate (word for word) Asian languages into English, which is what Google Translate does.

So Youtube is the cut version and the "TV" version is uncut? Lately I think all the companies don't want to upload on YT anymore because of all the stupid AI changes they made and videos they randomly delete... it's really a shame what happened to that site.

Never seen a decrease in quality between season 1 and 2 since One Punch Man. Any anime fan probably knows what I'm talking about.

For those who don't... I wrote a review because my comment got pretty long and I didn't want to be a nuisance.

Japanese fans are used to it because actresses, female artists, etc get oversexualized all the time in JDramas and entertainment in general. And if not sexualized, they're often dumbed down or naive to a point you can only scratch your head and ask yourself if the screenwriter(s)/director(s) ever talked to a woman, especially in romance dramas. Now, I haven't watched the series yet, but given it's from Thailand, it's probably pretty tame if you'd compare it to what's "normal" in Japan. Speaking as someone who's into Japan/JDramas/Anime/music/etc for 15+ years.

I usually don't write ultra lengthy comments in the middle of watching or when I drop something... but what is this series? The audio and video is so bad, the constant interferences and sound breaks give me a headache, as if they just bought two $5 mics in the next electronics store and filmed everything with their 2018 smartphone, even though the video quality isn't as bad as the series' with their "main couple". This couldn't even be considered a high school project because kids these days have way better equipment than what seems to be the case here.

Their acting is also pretty bad. The constant pauses and unnatural cuteness attacks are like if someone stands behind the camera and tells them constantly what to say and how and when to do something, which would at least explain why they constantly go "hmmm", because they have to wait for the next instructions. And what is this plot? "Let's create a new menu together nobody has ever seen to save your cafe!" - "Yeah, what about combining your cocoa and my waffles?" - "That's a great idea!". What? I usually watch every mini series till the end if they at least have chemistry, but I don't even get to that point this time because I really can't watch more than 2 episodes of this.

I think I watched almost every H'our series and not one of them could be considered "good" so far, but I always hope they'll improve in their next. Seems like it'll never happen. I'll watch the 3 latest with their "main couple" and that'll probably the last I'll touch from this channel until Meen and Amee do another one, those are at least watchable.

Then ask to help out. Appropriate criticism is all well and good, I do it all the time, but complaining that something someone puts hours and hours of work in and you get for free "takes to long" is a pretty over-privileged take, even you have to see that. Be glad it gets subbed at all, the majority of Asadoras never get any (finished) subs.

What the F*CK is NIZI? What's with the "translation" of the title, it doesn't even make sense pronounciation wise. But even if it had, are the people who rename these dramas brainless or do they just compete for who has the stupidest translation for a title? Please MDL, stop jumping on the idiot train.