Nothing new, but important to Korea.

Gonna review it through the optic of a fujoshi whos in the BL world for almost 9 years.
I know the storyline is not like the thai recent bl's where they're trying to not make the relationship itself the plot, but I can't help but take it easy on this series.

It's a Korean show, with the classic professional Korean filming and acting, this alone already wins over other countries' bl in terms of production quality. They are relatively new in the bl industry, so I do understand that they're having baby steps with the storylines. It was produced by Wavve which is one of the biggest and most important streaming platforms in Korea, it's almost like "their Netflix". So I'm going to consider this more than just a cliche, but actually, a kick start to more and more Korean boys love stories with this level of production, and maybe one day we gonna have a Korean BL like Not me and Kinnporsche.

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It's entertaining, but looks like a fanfiction.

You know I remember when the first teasers started to get out, around December 2020, it was almost 1 year and a half to be released and it took me months to finish because it was so... weird. The main storyline around the end started to look so confusing like they tried so hard to make a plot twist that end up being pathetic.
My personal opinion is that VegasPeat could have been bigger, their story was so interesting but was very hushed, in 3 episodes everything happened, just seemed off. And talking about VegasPeat I can't help but pinpoint that Bible and Build acting most of the time were better than Mile and Apo, especially Mile's.
But I have to say, Be On Cloud did an amazing job at the promotion, the cast is very attractive as a whole and that helped, the absorb time of teasers and pré release promotion and now the KinnPorsche World Tour makes it so fun being in this as a fandom. So yeah I can easily tell 3 thai BLs from the last 2 years that's better than Kinnporsche, but none of them is as fun to follow as a fandom as Kinnporsche is.

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For people who watched the prequel

So basically it tells us James' story, a boy that came from a wealthy family and were pressured by his mom to study harder and harder, as he pretend to be exactly what she wanted he was, in reality, sinking and drugs and starting to engage in prostitution.
In this one, we can see how James turns out, probably in a couple of years of difference. As someone who watched Bittersweet Chocolate, I knew not to expect a clear movie.
The actors are not bad, not bad at all. BTW cheers to the little boy in chains he made an amazing job performing torture and fear is not easy.
The only thing I didn't like tho was how explicit was the sex scenes, that weird-looking childish ladyboy, whose only scream time was to be fingered, really shocked me off. But clearly, the whole intention of this movie is to be shocking.
So no, I don't think this movie is that bad for people used to cult cinema but do have A LOT of flaws.

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Probably the most important BL GMM has ever made.

You know is rare when you can pinpoint the bad things in a Thai bl in only one hand, but this one I definitely can. Most of my questions were responded. Even tho I'd like to know what made Black become an activist, seeing that he came from the privileged side just like White. But I can bare not knowing that.
Kudos to Gun's acting, like for real, he completely changed his whole aura, you can feel how obscure and bitter Black is in comparison to White's almost naive flavour. Also Off(Sean) did an amazing job too, let's not forget about him! Some of the secondary cast left a little to desire, but not First(yok) the last 3 episodes he gave us everything.
About the couple itself don't even need to say anything is OffGun after all, of course it was good.

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Was not expecting that.

To be honest I really thought it would be a light and cute story because I've got into it completely blind only with the synopsis saying "A closeted gay senior finds out his classmate is a BL fan" and mate! was I surprised? How deep and hard to watch this story is.
Andou e Miura relationship is so pure. And Ryohei and Andou mother loves him so much, it is beautiful.
It's kinda obvious that both him and Jun were groomed, and unlike some comments I've seen I don't think it was romanticised, I think it was plain shown and we got to the conclusion, it's a very "Japanese way" to show this kinda relationship actually.
This series deserves more recognition, It's from 2019 and I've never heard of it before.

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