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Japanese Reviews

“10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40” Series Review (Ep.3 to 12)

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Age has a tendency to make people more afraid of choices. I think a lot of that has to do with overthinking everything that could go wrong when you’ve already been through years of trying to figure life out day by day. As a woman in my forties, I certainly overthink things way more than I used to in my twenties. And the same goes for Suzume in the Japanese BL 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40 (adapted from the manga 40 Made ni Shitai 10 no Koto by Mamita).

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Filipino Reviews

“Hermoso” Series Review (Ep.1 to 10)

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The best way to describe this series is to define it in terms of a psychological disorder. It is schizophrenic. It has all the symptoms of this condition. It is befuddling, full of mood swings, capricious, shows severe personality changes, weird periods of agitation with obvious emotional disorders as well, and psychological instability throughout. I could go on, but you get the point. It is not tethered to thinking, operating, or behaving clearly. The story is an incoherent mess yet sometimes just a lot of fun to watch. It was entertaining for some time but then lost its direction in the end as it did not seem to know how to conclude the story.

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Thai Reviews

“Love in the Moonlight” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)

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The human heart is much like a locked vault. The only person who truly has access is the person holding the key.

That’s what the Thai BL Love in the Moonlight feels like from the very first moment: keys and locks, duty and desire, masks and truths. Set in 1963, after political shifts in Sariangkham, Prince Saenkaew (Peak Peemapol Panichtamrong) is sent to Bangkok under the weight of an arranged marriage. His bride-to-be, Pinanong (Perth Veerinsara Tangkitsuvanich), has adored him since childhood, seeing in him not just a prince, but the man she has always wanted. For her, the match feels like a dream. For him, it’s another link in the chain of expectation, duty, and guilt that has followed him since birth.

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Korean Reviews

“The Killer Next Door” Series Review (Ep.1 to 60)

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Yet again, this is another example of a potentially good BL series that went awry. There is a lot of good acting in this series. The issue is, it was wasted in a noxious story. I want to cry over the content (or lack thereof) that is being used to construct BL stories. While I know there ought to be no topics off limits, I do wish more positive representations of ‘Boys Love’ could be portrayed. Or at least ones that are not always so pessimistic in nature and content and/or surrounded by such ugly and negative dimensions. Generally speaking, Korean BL tend to be dark and broody; this one was exceptionally morose and despairing, sprinkled with a mixture of odd personas that sometimes worked. And sometimes not.

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Taiwanese Reviews

“The Promise of the Soul” Series Review (Ep.5 to 12)

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Soulful yet entertaining, there was a literal soul transaction happening here!

I often pondered while watching this show- “If the person you hate to the core suddenly starts changing, will you start falling in love with them?”

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