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Journey With You (Chinese Series)

By Golu
I've always had kind of a love hate relationship with Chinese historical BLs. Some are genuinely excellent, but then there are others that cram in so much plot that keeping track of all the layers of betrayal and scheming gets exhausting, and I end up checking out mentally. Part of the issue is also just how much content is out there in this space, so something really has to stand out to keep me hooked. In this case, the production value is genuinely impressive, top tier stuff, but story wise, I just couldn't bring myself to actually care about these characters. There's a ton of political scheming and backstage manipulation running throughout. Somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, a hostage ends up falling for his own Prince Charming. The show runs eight episodes, each around 50 to 60 minutes long. After spending three years guarding the border, Fifth Prince Yin Qi gets called back to the capital because of a secret letter, only to end up walking straight into a deadly...
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Ai no Kotodama (Japanese) [Words Of Devotion]

By Golu
This film is about friendship, love and sometimes jealousy that comes with all these things. Thankfully the film is just about 75 minutes long, so an easy watch, but. The transitions between scenes and emotions are so quick, that I found it hard to keep myself connected and emotionally invested in either the characters or their bonding and relationship with one another.

Shinya and Miyako are friends from high school. Now in college, they live together in a small rented flat and their relationship a secret to avoid any drama. Things take a turn when a girl from their high school comes back in their life. Miyako welcomes her with open arms but Shinya is not so keen, since he is also jealous about the fact that in school there were rumors about his boyfriend and this girl dating. Slowly Shinya becomes unfriendly and even hostile towards his boyfriend leading to misunderstandings and the duo deciding to take a short break from one another. Meanwhile, a common friend of theirs who is gay and has a long distance relationship with an American tries to help them patch up. Meanwhile, the girl uses this as an opportunity to confess her feelings to Shinya that it was actually him that she was interested in and not Miyako but Shinya tells her that it's only his boyfriend who he loves. The duo clear their misunderstandings and the film ends with them being happy together again.

The film is really simple and straight forward. An interesting twist does come when the girl confesses that it was the other guy she was always interested in. I actually did not see that coming, but besides that, the film was strictly ok in my view. I see most people went crazy and loved this film, but I thought its just average at best. Maybe it was a big deal when it came out. On a positive side, the two guys share a great chemistry with each other, even though both their hairstyles were over the top and quite annoying, but I guess the makers tried to do a faithful manga adaptation. They seem very believable both as best friends and lovers and I believed in their love. The girl seemed docile and rather opportunistic. Its amusing how most friends would always joke about how the two boys are always together even if only one of them gets invited to any event and yet no one saw itchy were actually a couple and not just friends. Other than this, the film was simple, straight forward and average at best. (4.5/10)
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