“I really enjoy watching the sunset together with you. Sunset means the end of the day. I love the fact that I can be with you at the end of the day.” – quote at ending of Bagan the Beginning
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“Last Twilight” is a heartfelt romance between Mhok (Jimmy Jitaraphol) and Day (Sea Tawinan) who meet because Mhok lands a position as Day’s caretaker, as Day is going blind due to infectious keratitis. The two take each other on a journey of overcoming adversity, acceptance and personal growth. Throughout the series, Day has to come to terms with his eyesight getting worse and worse, but also getting over this and moving on with his life, forgiving his family, maturing in his worldview and starting a career for himself. While Day’s character develops, and so does Mhok’s the way they handle conflict was supposed to be in line with the growth that their characters experience, however, they do not and this leads to an unsatisfactory conflict plot line that did not make sense for the characters.
Frankly, this is a series that truly spirals into madness about a person who is nearly insentient. Functional, yet lost and absorbed in his own world. His father, Bosse (Peter Haber) is finally going to do something regarding his deadpan son who refuses to live. Tore (William Spetz) exists with his father and works in his father’s funeral business as a mortuary assistant. Suddenly, Tore is given a notice to vacate the house. His dad finally wants Tore to start to experience living his life on his own. Tore’s best and only friend, Linn (Sanna Sundqvist) who literally is part of the family as well, tries to get Tore to see this is for his own good. Feeling and experiencing the world for himself and being on his own will be good for him. She also knows that Tore is gay and needs to explore his sexuality. It does not take long for Tore to also figure out that his father has gotten a girlfriend, and it now seems obvious that he wants him out of the house, so they can live together.
“Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!” anime is based on a manga of the same name and is hands down one of the cutest and most adorable love stories out there. Most of the viewers will be familiar with the plot as live- drama of the manga has already been released in 2020. “Cherry Magic” is this heart-warming love story between Adachi and his colleague Kurosawa. According to urban-tales, people who remain virgin even after the age of 30, become wizards. The same happens to Adachi, who has remained a virgin at 30, thereby he gains the magical power to read people’s mind if he touches them or if they touch him. Confused, Adachi is still adapting to this magical ability when he comes across his office colleague, Kurosawa one day in the lift and accidently reads his mind, gaining the information that Kurosawa had a crush on him.
“Ossan’s Love Returns” continues the adventures of Japanese gay couple Maki and Haruta after the events of the first season and the follow-up movie. Ironically even after years of being together the two 30+ years old men have a thing or two to learn about everything. Luckily the entire cast of the original series is present to offer life lessons to the pair along the way. That being said most lessons are given to Haruta (the man needs all the help he can get) on maintaining a relationship and how to treat his husband.
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All’s fair in love and war; hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. These idioms perfectly capture the essence of the new Japanese GL Chaser Game W: Power Harassment Joshi wa Watashi no Moto Kano.
Romantic love isn’t predictable, making it one of the most exhilarating, heart-pounding emotions to experience. And while it’s generally a beautiful feeling, it’s also scary and vulnerable. Exposing your heart to someone isn’t an easy feat.
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Short and Sweet, Coming of Age Story!!
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After completely watching the series, I only felt one thing, which was what the hell happened in last few episodes because it felt incomplete. Empty plot lines, rushed ending and no character development. Even in romantic sense, there was no development. Sure there was intimacy but it felt too much scripted after certain time because it felt like, instead of creating a solid story line, the writer and director were too focused on repetitive and boring intimate scenes between the couples. Some scenes were good but most of them were bland and boring. The main thing around dancing and singing, since they were trying to create a boyband.
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“Dead Friend Forever” (DFF) is a slasher/horror series, about 8 friends who take a trip to a vacation house as a farewell to their friend who is going to study abroad. While on the trip, in the middle of nowhere, it becomes clear that there is a sinister presence that is attacking the boys, and past secrets seem to be haunting them. The boys now have to play a game of cat and mouse with the killer, while some of them are hiding their secrets, about what really happened to their friend, and a “Lord of the Flies”-esque survival game becomes afoot, as the original crew Top (Jet Bundit), Por (Us Nititorn), Tee (JJay Patiphan), Fluke (Bump Pawat), Jin (Copper Phuriwat) and Tan (Mio Athens) tries to hide their acts, from their partners Phi (Ta Nannakun), White (Fuaiz Thanawat) while the audience try to figure out what really happened and what is causing the killings.
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