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These two are remarkably cute, funny, sweet, sincere and also, somehow, they have generated a palpable sexual tension that I felt in the first episode already. I love these two actors and characters. Great direction.

By the way, why do you care what the hell I think? I'm just some rando on the internet. It's interesting that
you're so defensive about little IU's bad acting. If you think she's so awesome, why so annoyed at the opinion of some nobody online?

Is it your position that NO ONE other than professional actors who work in Korea are permitted to critique the performances of actors in Korea?

Are the only people allowed to assess the performance of professional baseball players, OTHER professional baseball players? Not fans, not sports writers, not anyone at all, anywhere at any time, other than professional baseball players?

Just trying to get a handle on your philosophy here.

Yes, that is correct.

Yeah, people always say that when anyone dares to critique the acting of a bad actor like IU. But guess what? Some of the worst actors in the business, whether in Hollywood or in Seoul, get lots of awards because the awards are highly political and they are all about business and who's hot and who the industry benefits the most from promoting, and if you think awards like this are directly tied to the quality of the acting that earns them, you are exceedingly naive.

Furthermore, I've been around a lot longer than little IU and I've done a lot of acting myself, though it's all stage work, and yeah I am confident I know a lot more about acting then IU does. She is a K-pop Star who her handlers and marketers turned into a sure thing at the box office. Many, many live action movie and drama stars are made that way. People like you are so invested in needing to believe that such pop stars are suddenly great actors, that you believe it to be so despite anything that is seen on the screen.

But by all means go ahead and enjoy the amazing, award-winning, fabulous acting of the terrible actress IU. Meanwhile, I will be appreciating the talents and skills of actual good actors from Korea and all over Asia instead.

In My Mister, IU walks around with a drugged out pout on her face in every scene, regardless of what was going on around her character at any given time. Most boring actor I've seen. Your mileage may differ of course.

Worst actress in all of Asia.

Excellent.

I didn't tell you that to express offense. I told you that to make my point, that sexuality is fluid. I may be mostly gay, but I am not 100% gay. Same for the captain here. Get it?

One sure sign of a top-tier BL
Is that rather than sobbing through one or two climactic scenes, I find myself welling up and having to wipe my eyes multiple times through scenes that are more subtle, but which cause feels and emotions to come spilling over my keyboard and into my lap. And I'm one of those people whose tear ducts have minds of their own; if something is deeply touching, sad or extremely happy, they turn themselves on and there's nothing I can do about it.

This is most definitely a top-tier BL. The finale was sensational. The best acting from both leads that I've seen yet, and leaving the best
to the last is exactly the way to
play it. Good heavens, hayakawa
knocked it out of the park in the
final scene at night in his
apartment. He wasn't faking those
emotions, as an actor he was in
the character and feeling them.
Same goes for Konno, though his
feelings are a few layers deeper
and less openly expressed.

Nonetheless, his performance was
excellent and deeply affecting. Konno seemed to remain he who he was to begin with and it makes sense that he would be the more fully - formed stable one. But I was repeatedly struck by how well the actor portrayed someone I could only think of as a stud, but a stud who had no need whatsoever to act like one, if you know what I mean. The actor has incredible presence.

Wonderful character development in seeing hayakawa go from zoned-out Playboy to sensitive artist eager to live as he truly is.

To sum up, my welling up and slight mistiness began about halfway through the last episode, and I remained in that state until the morning - after scene, when I moved into a full stage crying Jag. Seeing them laying there together like that is a beautiful thing to behold.

On edit: just remembered that it was the site of Konno asleep on the floor at Hayakawa's apartment door that really turned on the water works.

The smooching near the end, topped off by the morning after scene, more than made the fish kisses leading up to that worth bearing. :) during this last episode, I was reminded of what may be a key, general difference between male/female responses to such scenes. For me, they bring on tears. AND wood, if you know what I mean and I think you do. ;)

I didn't even mind all the tropes here, for two reasons: they were well-done, plus I haven't seen a decent BL in at least 6 months, maybe longer, so I didn't mind. Hair and makeup note: Hawakaya needed a grown up hairstyle for the post-time jump scenes.

Second season please!

8.5/10

P.S. to the reviewer above and one or two commenters here, thank you for describing a couple of stolen kisses as "sexual assault." The reviewer even goes so far as to recommend skipping those stolen kisses to avoid the sight of the violent rapes she apparently equates with a peck on the lips, and being "triggered," otherwise known as experiencing human feelings in response to something seen / heard / red in a piece of art. We can't have that now, can we?

To both of you, I needed a good laugh today and you provided more than a few of them. Thanks again.

Good for you.

And I agree right back at you, with your comment here. Thank you for mentioning the glorious view of the sea from the rooftop. I had meant to mention that but forgot. At first I assumed it was a green screen, fake background but then as it was shown more and more I determined it's an actual location. If that is the case, it seems that school is perched right on the edge of a cliff. :)

I haven't wished for more episodes of a BL in a long time, but I'm with you on this one. I wish there was more. But that is another thing jbl's get right, it's always best to leave the audience wanting more, rather than driving them to boredom with too many episodes packed with filler as we so often see out of Thailand. I'm about to watch episode 6, assuming it's out. I'm both excited and sad to see what they have in store for us. Maybe we will get a second season?

God Complex.
Google it.

Never before have two sets of more gorgeous pillow lips come together in a smooch. I just wish we had gotten a lot more of that.

Wow.

This show is far, far better than it has any right to be. It is an excellent example of a series that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Obviously, there was no budget here, and yet to me, even though I certainly noticed that, it did not dampen my enjoyment of the drama at all.

This is due primarily to the generally excellent acting from the two leads as well as from the supporting character of the coach's son. He too is a good actor, but I take issue with the fact that he looks like he's one of the judo team members uncle more than he looks like one of their peers.

But as we all know, good acting isn't all it takes to make a successful show, it also requires chemistry among the actors particularly between two romantic characters. And here we have chemistry out the ass and spilling all over my keyboard. These two were a delight to watch play off each other as their relationship grew and changed.

The writing was really good in parts though I would have made some changes, but most of the dialogue was good. Of course, we had the usual trope of people doing bad things to good people because they think they're being Noble or something, also the ever- present trope of massive misunderstandings. Oh well, I enjoyed myself. I even forgot about the damn vertical orientation

This thing was pretty fluffy too, and I normally loathe such fluffy things. But the fluff was mixed in with enough anger and drama here in there too weaken it all, and some of the fluff, especially after they cleared things up and got together, was so damn cute I just gave up and surrendered to it. When the junior judo kid hit his head in his pillow and squealed because he was so happy over them being together, I loved it. Another sign of good acting, that he was able to pull off such dorky behaviors without it seeming stupid.

I ended up watching this thing in one go, with all the episodes stitched together by some anonymous, wonderful person on YouTube. I'm glad I did. I highly recommend it. I'm reading it considering what it is, and not against feature films or big budget bad bl's like so many we see out of Thailand.

Bravo!

8.5/10

I agree that he is a good actor, both of them are. I will check his bio. Are any of the other shows he is in worth watching?

Yep, you are nuts. You have contradicted yourself countless times in your comments and replies. Often as in this one, you contradict yourself within the same reply. So get back to me after you watch it for more times. Of course I suppose you'll put on a different pair of "lenses" for each watch, which means you'll come away from each one having seen a completely different movie, right? Wait, don't answer that.

I didn't even bother reading past your second paragraph. I don't think I've ever corresponded with another commenter who just makes s*** up out of thin air. Clearly, you do not even understand the meaning of the word harem. As I said the king's not sleeping with anyone but HR. Of course the penalty is death, he ran away with the girl without getting permission. Please tell me one incident in the movie that indicates he's sleeping with anyone else. The purpose of the harem is to provide sex for a king or ruler. What am I doing I'm starting to argue with you again and you're clearly out of touch with reality. It would be very hot if indeed the King was having sex with all of the guards. I would
love that. But unlike you, just because I want something to happen in a movie that would be hot, I don't go ahead and pretend to see it on the screen. LOL wow you are a piece of work. I agree that you need to rewatch this movie. Why don't you rewatch it four more times and catch up with
Me, and then we can have a nice long chat about it. Man, you are something else.

Platinum, you seem to have forgotten that near the end when she is becoming desperate, it is the queen who begs HR to take her away. She did not choose to stay, she would have gladly given up her status on the throne and as the Royal mother of the Future King to be with HR. Did you even watch this movie?

The only thing more annoying than a fool is an arrogant fool. Have you never heard of bisexuality? Have you never heard of the Continuum of sexual identity and preference? For instance, you may be interested to know that I consider myself a gay man, and yet I was married to a woman for 12 years and had three children with her. And I didn't fantasize about the king or any other man while I was sowing my seed. You sound very immature and ignorant.