Without question, I am a living fossil, and undoubtedly, should be the last person on the planet to critique this series. It is as far removed from my world as is humanly relatable to being. I hardly understood anything that was going on between and among these characters. Their idiomatic expressions, the clothes, their strange ways of relating to one another. Conversely, I doubt they would have understood my world growing up. As with all of us who watch BLs, we ‘see’ what we want to see and what I saw in this series was still a masterpiece. Even if its relatability was as far removed from me as conceptual thinking of myself as ever living on the planet Mars. Yet, underneath all the gloss and nails and completely unrecognizable noise that they considered music is a heartfelt story. And the unmistakable diegesis is one, much like it was in the original Gelboys, around redefining/reimagining love. Here, giving it a crisp, new way of defining it. And I loved it.

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