Rich or poor, good or bad, all lives lived have something people struggle with. It’s easy to relate to those who fight each day to survive, but money doesn’t decide how much a life is worth or how much a person can love. That’s the fascinating contrast at the heart of Me and Who, a new Thai BL adapted from the web novel by wickedwish_.
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“School Trip: Joined a Group I’m Not Close To” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
High school can be a difficult time or a great one, depending on the personal journey of each student. It’s either a time you never want to forget, or one you wish you could bury and never think about again.
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“Love in the Moonlight” Series Review (Ep.3 to 12)
The fight to love who we want to love, and to entrust our hearts to the person we choose, has always been a long, difficult battle. To win it often means getting hurt along the way.
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“Love Sea: The Home for Lovers” Series Review (Ep.3 to 10+ 2 Special Episodes)
The thing with remakes is that they aren’t necessarily on par with the original!
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“Punks Triangle” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Love is multi-faceted, but we often tend to show our best sides to the people we are attracted to rather than the depths of who we are. The new Japanese BL Punks Triangle takes two young men and one mistaken identity to reveal not only a blooming romance, but two sides of who each of them are.
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“You Don’t Know” Series Review (Ep.1 to 4)
This is such a story of contrasts that when you watch, it will no doubt make your head spin. It is not a BL yet has such a deep undertone of attraction between two male figures that you cannot miss its elucidation. It also is a story of ornamented family ties that at the same time their underlying behaviors upgrade the definition of dysfunctional family – they go from a ‘loving’ unit to sociopaths capable of committing unspeakable evil acts as well as treat each other with contempt. We see a ‘bad’ person accomplish acts of kindness yet be interpreted as evil actions. At the same time, ‘good’ people executing exploits of atrocities and interpreting them as justifiable acts. The whole series has example after example of oxymoronic tableaux. In the end, however, despite the conflicting messages, its arc is quite clear.
“Mandate” Series Review (Ep.1 to 8)
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed”- Mao Zedong
“The Wicked Game” First Impressions (Ep.1 to 3)
Revenge. Betrayal. Greed. Passion. All of it collides in The Wicked Game, a Thai BL that wastes no time throwing viewers into its tangled web of family power struggles, danger, and undeniable attraction.
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“At 25:00 in Akasaka Season Two” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
The true test of a relationship is remaining in a relationship despite any obstacles. And that’s precisely the test Shirasaki and Hayama face in the second season of At 25:00 in Akasaka.
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“Mission to the Moon” Series Review (Ep.1 to 30)
This was a hard series to dislike. Conversely, it was also a difficult series TO like as well. Overall, what brought this series down was its production value and the way it was presented. A comprehensive story cannot be told proficiently in 30 episodes of 8 minutes or so stretched over 3 months. No one’s attention span can last that long or retain details or nuances of a story in that sporadic of a time frame. Especially, this series as several episodes were tedious, repetitive, and lackluster. While the concept was great, it simply droned on too long with the same mundane storylines going nowhere which caused one to lose interest. What was entertaining was the fact that, at times, the main protagonists were quite good and surprisingly effective, given the fantasy nature of the story. Then unfortunately they too slipped into banality and repetitiveness.
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