BL or bromance? Who cares! It's just good and I am not surprised it was banned in China

Ok... Now, few hours after finishing, I think I'm ready to write this review. When I heard it was banned but Chinese fans were smart enough to download all episodes, I was really excited to watch this. In the end, not dissapointed.

I totally loved all main characters, even tho I was kinda lost in their names, but that is fault of not official subtitles, which I truly hope will get better. LJS and RZM were amazing and their chemistry really did spark. To be honest, I'm not surprised Chinese government had to ban this drama, but it's pitty, because the story was just perfect. In the first place, this is drama about dangoerous deadly game and few people trying to survive. BL aspect was just part of it. I'm about to read novel, so I 'm looking forward the scenes which didn't make it up the drama.

I don't really like horrors so I was asking myself: "Am I really watch this just bcs is censored BL?" The answer was clear, to be honest... But I really loved the story. Sometimes it was really scary, sometimes not. Sometimes I felt butterflies in my belly, sometimes I fet like I'm about cry the whole night.

Every single doors containes different story and characters have to find clues and find our what's goin on. It's not easy, but when they work together, it's not even hard. The story is full of tension which made me watch whole drama in few days and I really recommend this one.

But I have some reservations towards the ending. I mean, I can't say I didn't like, but neither that I did. The last scene just doesn't make sense to me. Overall. I really enjoy this. If you are afraid it's just bromance and you want BL, don't care. Yes, it is bromance, but as I said before, I'm not surprised China bannes it.

SPOILER ALERT >>> I haven't read novel yet, so maybe I just didn't get it correctly, but why did he have to make whole new world? Why not just new NPC? I mean, it was possible for his friend to create NPC which is able to come out of game, so why not do it again? I know it's not easy, but this is supernatural or rather kind of scifi show and it was possible one time. Why not again? And I would like to know who was that friend from high school.

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Just a recap

I am sorry for the low rating in acting and music, but to be honest, why woud I give more, sice they did nothing here? This special ep was made of some scenes from drama and put together as a movie. If they wanted to make a movie, then it could be at least 90 minutes long and it could be called: "Deep night: The movie".

If you've seen drama, there is no need for you to watch this. I mean, yeah, if you are not over them and want to see them again, then it should be ok for you I guess, but I'm pretty sure youtube, instagram, facebook, tiktok ect are full of recaps like this. Maybe not this long, but they exist and you can put them together.

There is really no need to make "special episode" like this. Please, don't do it again. When it says special episode, we expect something new. We want to know what had happened after the end. Did they fight? Did they go on some trip? Did they ovecome something serious? There are things we want to see in special episode.

There is another option which could be done. Khemid and Wela are happy together ever after, we all know that. But what about Japan, Seiji and Ken? Those three are something new in the world of BL (at least for me), so I personally, want to know hoe they actually work out. Yes, we saw they are happy and this and that, but how? I feel like their story is not complete and I would like to know more about their relationship.

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I was more then surprised

Well, this was really something. The very first time I've read the synopis, I had no expectations and basicly I didn't even want to watch it. But my friend did and she liked so I gave it a chance and... I was really rusprised how good it actually is!

The chemistry between all of them is amazing and I totally fell in love with all couples. Even that the most surprising one. Like... What? The? Hell?... I was screaming, not sure of it was out of happiness or frustration, probably both, but I still love the way they were put together, even tho I think it would be better if there was something with Japan a Ken.

Anyway, I enjoyed Wela and Khem's performance and generally the plot. Setting was surprisingly good choice.

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Great sim of mutual chemistry

Our dating sim is officially the best BL k-drama I've ever seen. The short story, which can be watched as one longer film, brought a subject that I personally have not yet encountered. High school graduation didn't go as planned, but Shin Ki Tae and Lee Wan met again after seven years and explained everything to each other after a long time. I am not a fan of mobile games of this type, that's why I was a little hesitant to start this at all, but luckily I quickly realized that it's not a game, but a series. The chemistry between the actors is amazing and the supporting characters also prove themselves. The always tired Sunny was definitely the best of the group of colleagues we could meet.

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Best BL of 2024 so far

Wow. So this was something amazing. A while ago I sent a friend this message: "It's amazing, amazing amazing amazing perfect great wonderful and I've run out of synonyms for the word amazing." And I stand by my words. The interesting thing is that the series is filmed in Taiwan, but according to a Chinese book by a very famous author called Priest, One Chinese series based on a book by this author has already been banned in China, so I'm glad that Taiwan took the initiative to create such a wonderful work. It will be very difficult for me to say goodbye to this couple. I think this is the first time I'm sorry that it's not common outside of Thailand for couples to stay together and star in multiple series because Chris and Kurt are the stars. They played the roles of Qian and Yuan perfectly and put their best into both characters. Chemistry begets chemistry, tension builds, and sparks fly exactly when they're supposed to. AWESOME.

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Could be so good

I don't even know what to say about this... At first it was so meh, then the story picked up a bit, then it slowed down again, and the ending could have been forgiven for the last scene, because I think it would have been much better without it.

When it comes to the topic of a romantic relationship between a human and a robot, something interesting can come out of it, but that doesn't automatically mean something good. Something like this needs to be worked on really well, and for the story to work, it would need something more. If someone wants to watch an ordinary and slightly strange love story, they might like it, but I personally expected a little more from this concept. The main characters had a lot of nice scenes, but they are not enough to offer a good story. The chemistry was good, the actors were likeable, the performances are hard to say...

I think that if they put more into this project, in terms of script and overall production, it could have been much better. The last scene... Oh my, I'd really like to pretend it doesn't exist, but unfortunately, those few seconds ruined my otherwise good impression of the whole series. He could have had a pretty deep point, but instead the creators put it at the end, who assumed we wanted to see. Many certainly do, this is how it lost the meaning it could have had.

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Well... Someone is really dead

Hah… What to say about this? I went into it completely blind, with my only reason for watching it was Barcode. And I think this definitely convinced me that I don't need to see everything that the actors I like are in.

To be clear, DFF was definitely not bad. On the contrary, I enjoyed the series. People who know me know that I don't like horror things, but this was probably the most horrory horror thing I've ever seen. The best part was when I was alone in the evening in my dorm room and watching this... Before I could take it off, I was already too curious about what was going to happen next.

For the entire first four episodes, I asked myself: "Wila, are you really going to watch something like this just because it's BL?" I'm not proud of it, but in part it really was. I told myself that I would drop after fifth episode, because Barcode was supposed to appear in the fifth, and then I would see. However, with the fifth episode, a flashback started, which lasted for several more episodes, and this flashback was no longer quite horror.

The first four episodes are really scary (at least for someone like me), but after the fifth episode, it slows down a bit. Horror turns into a psychological genre centered around high school kids. They want to make a movie and they need the help of the class weirdo, whom they like to bully.

I'm writing this review with quite a distance, but I still remember how I felt watching each new episode. I started watching when there were five of them and I looked forward to the rest every week.

I'm not going to go into the details of the plot so as not to reveal spoilers. I dare say that the story itself was really well written and the actors also did an amazing job. Most of them were just rookies and these were their first acting roles, but they did a really amazing job.

I apreciate Barcode the most. Partly because I already know him, but also largely because his character was full of all kinds of emotions and Barcode managed them all in one piece. He was able to play love, pain, fear, despair, frustration, madness... And everything was believable.

Overall, I don't have a problem watching something like this (BL and everything that belongs here) in public, but I watched DFF exclusively when I was alone because I'm too expressive a person and things like bulging eyes, gasping for breath, gasping for breath at certain moments and sometimes screaming into a pillow are not for me nothing special.

I've read various comments on facebook, instagram or MyDramaList, and I came across opinions that some people don't like any of the characters. I totally understand them. This really isn't the type of story where you can say the characters are cuties because they're not at all.

But once I got into an argument about one character that I don't want to say is a villain, because everyone in DFF is a villain in a way. It just depends on who you think did the worst thing, because it all ties together in some way, and I think if even one event hadn't happened, the story would have gone in a completely different direction.

One character was probably hated the most by everyone, but I liked him for some reason. I did not justify his actions, but when I got to know his background, I perceived him completely differently. To say that I liked him is perhaps too much, let's say rather that I didn't hate him.

If I remember correctly, the flashback ended in the ninth or tenth episode, and then we brought the ss back to the present again, where new facts are revealed.

All the time, I was consumed by the question, is there something supernatural behind all the bad things that are happening there or is everything the work of man. I was leaning towards the first option, but to be honest, I would be much more pleased with the second one. Not because I wanted fantasy, but because it was all really twisted and I was sick of the idea that a living person could do such a thing.

The end... Um... I really don't know what to write about this without giving something away. I'll just say that I never expected a happy ending and I didn't get one. However, not a happy ending does not mean a bad ending in the sense that it was not handled well. I have some reservations about it, and maybe someone who loves horror movies would have a lot more, but I liked the ending. I noticed a long time ago that the last episode is sometimes completely unnecessary in Thai BLs, and here I was of the same opinion for about half of the episode, but the last scenes made up for it all.

Overall, even though this is far from something I would willingly watch if I knew what it was about, I have to say that I really enjoyed the show. As far as possible, of course. I know there are people who enjoy horror movies, but I'm not one of them. I rather enjoyed the psychological part, which really made my stomach growl, but it was also full of deep themes such as bullying and its possible consequences on the psyche or the fact that the truth always comes out, no matter how long it takes.

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Mix of variable genres with really good outcome

I'm writing this review really late, because there was no time when I finished watching the series, and then I completely forgot about it. At first I initially avoided The Sign because I wasn't in the mood for anything action-packed with a police setting, but the internet was full of edits with the main characters, so I thought I'd give it a chance. The high rating just confirmed that I should check it out.

I found out very quickly that it is not just a police story, but that it is full of fantasy elements that are very unusual for BLs (at least the ones I have seen up to that point). Overall, I haven't come across anything like this in Thai art so far, but that's probably only because I watch only a fraction of what they create.

We can meet fantasy elements in several series, but mostly it's about ghosts, time travel, and then there are a few exceptions like soul mates or a talking teddy bear, and in the new ones, the creators like to play with parallel worlds. The sign brought something completely new (for me). Not only with the story, but also with visual effects, which are not necessary for the mentioned types of fantasy.

A little research confirmed that the fantasy part was a part of Thai mythology, which really interested me. The combination of action, mystery plot, love and urban fantasy is very dangerous. It can burn really well, but also end up being very, very bad. Here, unfortunately, it was the first option.

The amazing story was made even better by the actors and their characters. Billy and Babe starred in the main roles, and sometimes Khem stole my attention. All the actors did a great job, they put exactly what was needed into their characters, enriched each scene exactly what it required and I'm not even talking about the chemistry. Billy and Babe went their separate ways, but so did the others. Friendship, devotion and on the one hand psychopathic obsession were shown as they should have been.

I liked how it all fit together. Everything was connected and together formed one big puzzle. When combining as many elements as were mixed here, it can turn out differently, but it can be seen that the creators paid attention to every detail.

However, I have some reservations about the ending. The following text may contain spoilers, so I warn you to read at your own risk. Despite what I will say now, I find the story really perfectly thought out. I didn't like Chalothon just letting Tharn go, though. Tharn appeared out of nowhere and said that someone who was downright obsessed with him and just wanted to be with him the whole time just said he was going to heal him and let him go? It does not make sense. Chalothorn would never behave like this. I have a theory (unconfirmed yet, but I hope the special won't disprove it) that Tharn killed him and told Phaya something completely different. It's the only explanation for the ending that comes to mind in my eyes.

As I said before, regardless of this small detail, for which there is an explanation, it is just doubtful whether the explanation will be part of the plot, it is really well done. The first trailers for the new projects have already been published, so I'm very excited because I saw something similar between them and I'm glad that BL production decided to work with such a type. I hope that they will not overdo it and that they will choose only good projects.

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Not an ordinary love BL

Originally, I didn't want to watch this series at all. Sixteen ninety-minute episodes didn't particularly appeal to me, but since my pen pal friend was convicing me about a year that I should watch it, I thought I'd give it a chance. Partly also to give me a break with this XD.


The first episodes didn't excite me in any way, in large part because of Nut, who was really not easy to find my way to and like him. But then the flashbacks came and the more his past was revealed, the more I understood his behavior. Nut seems like an complicated character at first, but his past gives meaning to every bad word that comes out of his mouth. Tofu, on the other hand, is a total cutie. They are like yin and yang with Nut.

Teddy bear differs from other romantic BLs in that it is not just about a romantic line. In addition to love, various other topics such as domestic violence, parental homophobia, toxic family relationships, separation and many others are dealt with. Things were happening in the background all the time, which at first seemed to be unimportant, but eventually fit perfectly into the main storyline. Finding out that Song is actually Nueng's brother, that Prim knows Tarn, the assault investigation, the extremely annoying neighbor whose eyes I'd rather gouge out... All of this was directly related to Nut and somehow fit into his story. If even one detail were missing, the whole story would change from the ground up.

I knew how the story would end, so some things weren't that shocking to me. It made certain things make sense to me before their meaning was revealed, and what some people feared, I looked forward to.

Despite all that, the last two episodes got me. During them, all the emotions in me alternated, but in the end it still ended with joy. The ending was exactly what this story called for.

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Rollercoaster

This is called a roller coaster... I'm not a big fan of the omegaverse, but I was curious to see how the story would unfold and I was really pleasantly surprised. It was already clear from the first episode that there would be a lot of action in the story, but I did not expect that the plot would take such a turn. I was ready for something like Love in the air, but although these two series have something in common, there is not much at all.

The chemistry between Babe and Charlie sparkled so much that it blinded everything else around. Their scenes were simply unforgettable and whether they were acting like lovebirds, helping each other, trying to protect each other or fighting, the actors always gave it their all. Behind the scenes videos and fanmeetings are just proof that Pavel and Pooh are a perfect duo and I firmly believe that I will see them in another project soon.

The side couples were also great, but the "side couple steals the show" rule didn't apply here. Babe and Charlie starred in all circumstances. But Way completely won me over. I know what the vast majority feel about him, especially after THAT event, but I stand by the fact that he wouldn't be able to do it anyway.

S P O I L E R >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Way Baba loved sincerely and from his heart. He wouldn't be able to hurt him, and if it went that far by accident, he would never forgive himself and would blame himself for the rest of his life. I don't know anyone who liked him and everyone hated him after THAT event, but I knew he would get his redemption arch and win everyone's hearts in the end. The same goes for Kenta. Kent completely surprised me. A few hours ago I read somewhere the theory that Tony will be stabbed in the back. He did it Literally. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< <<<<<<<<<< END OF SPOILER

I had an inkling of what would come at the end, but it still broke me. The best experience associated with Pit babe was watching episode 8 or 9 on a tablet on the bus.

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Kinda agree with all the low rating, but...

In the beginning, let me tell you this one could be really good and I feel like one episode more would be enough for this to be really perfect. By really, I mean really.

The chemistry was good. I totally loves both main characters. But I would like to know the meaning of that third one. Of curse, he was there to make love triagle, it was obvious he had crush on Min Jae, everybody knew except him and that's good. There is nothing wrong with that. But I feel like it could be made in a better way. Something was odd and I can't tell what exactly, but there was something about him that really bothered me. And it was't the fact he was there to make love triangle.

Next. title. Blossom campus. What campus, exactly? It was set in school, but I would rather call it Blossom library, if you really need "blossom" word there. Or Blossom friendship. So many options and you chose this one? Really?

The story... It wasn't far from perfect actually. As I mentioned before, the chemistry was great, but that's not enough. There were some holes and things that didn't make sense but it would't take much to cover all of those.

You may ask, why did I give so high rating? Well, let me explain.

It's very possible I'll repreat myself. It was not bad. Actors were perfect and I love not just their chemistry but also their interactions and parts from bts where we could see they are good friends and comfortable with each other. They are good match for BL couple. The thing which wasn't thought through was the scenario. Sorry not sorry, but there were stupid plotholes which could fi filed and cover just with one episode. Once they were acting like couple, touching each other, even holding hands... And then one of them was surprised that people assumed they are dating? Really?

Overall, I enjoyed this and I'm not going to lower my rating. I feel like 9.5 is ok even tho my review might seems much worse. I can see the potentional and I feel like it wouln't be fair to rate this lower just because of not perfect script.

You know, Sount Korean BL with chemistry like this? I'm sorry, but it deserves high rating even tho it's not enough to make good storyline.

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