After a couple of years off, the creators finally dropped a third season of this show, oddly titled with 2024 in it for some reason I genuinely can't figure out. The story basically picks up right where things left off, following our lead Mobu as he keeps trying to survive inside this whole BL universe, just another character desperately trying not to fall for another guy. Season two left us with his relationship with Kikuchi, and this season kicks off right as Kikuchi heads off to university, which means Mobu's single again and honestly couldn't be happier about it. With six episodes, each running about 23 minutes, this is a quick, easy watch. Now that Mobu's back to being single, he's got to stay alert for every signal or trope that could end up pulling him into another relationship with a guy if he's not careful. So across these episodes, we watch him run into two of these signals per episode through the people around him and how they end up falling for each ...
There are some students in a university and they have a love class, where they are taught basics of love, dating, relationship etc. (yeah beats me!. Feel free to roll your eyes). The class is divided in pairs. JiWoo wants to pair up with a girl Yoona who he has had a crush on for the longest time, but she says she prefers to be paired with a girl. We are later told that she has been stalked by a man for. Along. Time now an is scared of men. This leads JiWoo to be paired with another guy Ro-A, who is his senior. Ro-A has also been secretly crushing on JiWoo. We then have Ro-A's roommate who likes him but ever since this love class, Ro-A can only think of JiWoo. Yoona eventually becomes friendly with JiWoo which leads to the stalker beating up Jiwoo and in the process Ro-A gets hurt too. This incident forces the two men to get closer. The two come up with a plan to expose the identity of the stalke, in which they succeed. Yoona now suddenly has feelings for JiWoo and expresses that but he politely declines her feelings because now he likes Ro-A. But now Ro-A decline this feelings because he thinks that his presence will only create trouble for JiWoo, and he leaves the university. A month later two men meet and fall in love.
Yes, the story is al over the place , as mentioned above. A likes B, B likes C, D also likes A. What is most funny fo rme is that every single person likes someone else, but when some other person confesses there feeling for them, they get a lecture on how they should take no for an answer, But meanwhile, they themselves are doing the exact same thing for this other person. Its funny, how rules are different for different people. The main actors in the show are two boys and two girls and not 4 men as depicted in the poster (so lame). Also the whole buildup of the stalker, you feel maybe its the teacher, maybe its other girl or maybe its Ro-A's roommate, but it turns out its a totally random guy in the class. Such an anticlimax to all the hype and buildup. And if you think that at least we get some cute, romantic scene out of it. Not really, I mean sure, there are quite some cute moments, but there aren't nearly enough to outweigh the sheer frustration. And it's funny how suddenly JiWoo falls out of love with a girl and falls fir. Boy with absolutely no context or build up. This is example of a show where you feel they were trying to cram up so much in a short time, that they barely do any rustic to anyone at all. Acting from lead actors was all just average, but its the story thats the biggest let down here. Barely an average show IMO. (4.5/10)
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There is one thing that striked me though: when they are outed on social media, a student behind said something like "I see them (gays) in drama but never for real". Had me wondering if homosexuality is that well accepted in Korea. I mean, I never expected it to be as "common" as it is in dramas, but as they made so many BL I though maybe it was more banalized. Sorry, it was just a random though.
The second season is probably going to be just as disconnected as this one and with just as large gaps between events since it's going to have to squeeze three main couples' stories in about the same time (10 episodes, 25 min each). The trailer looked pretty good though.
Run!!