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A Man Who Defies the World of BL Final (Japanese Series)

By Golu
This final season keeps leaning on the same old formula, and once again never actually gives its main character any real sense of closure. Quick refresher, our lead is a university student who spends all his time frantically trying to dodge romance. No matter what he does though, the universe just keeps shoving him into one intimate situation after another. A lot of these setups are lifted straight from classic love story cliches. The whole point is watching him come up with creative ways to escape his fate and avoid falling for another guy. This season's still got six episodes, each around 23 minutes, and every episode features two of these tropey flags that could tip him into a BL storyline. Season three left off with Mob possibly caught in a love triangle between his ex Kikuchi and Hatano, the younger guy who's still a minor. Turns out that was all a dream sequence, but what hasn't changed is that Hatano is still into him. The first four episodes basically run through ev...
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Your Sky Of Us (Thai Mini-Series)

By Golu
There was a time some of the popular BL series would come with a special episode of sorts to show what happens after the couple gets together. This show takes it forward by actually creating a 3 part mini-series as a continuation of "Your Sky". These three episodes are just fluffy fillers, which pretty much is in the same zone as its parents show. The episodes are about 40 minutes each.

Teerak (Rak) and Fah are a very happy couple, now that they have declared their relationship with friends and their families as well. Teerak's birthday is approaching and Fah wants to surprise him. All the friends get involved in planning this surprise, needlessly complicating things for additional run-time and comedy. and eventually Rak gets a wonderful surprise. Then Teerak wants to get Fah a present for his graduation but he wants to do with some of his own earned money and not from his dad, so he tries his best while again keeping it a secret from Fah. But Fah wants to get more and bigger presents for Rak because he likes him so much. We also get brief moments of jealousy when an old friend of Teerak's shows up who also confesses his love for him. Thankfully Fah and Ran are shown as a couple who believe inc communication, so that goes out of the window pretty quick. Our second and third couple have a few sweet moments, but insignificant overall.

Clearly the plot here is loose and maybe the makers have tried to cat in the popularity of the show. (Although I honestly don't know if this was really popular in the local turf). The mini-series was almost like 3 special episodes, which were made likely to just bring a smile on your face and keeping the mush factor. The original series had a small amount of conflict, but here there’s nearly none. Sometimes, Fah and Rak don’t immediately get what they want, which is hard. But they have each other and their friends to help them survive these minuscule road bumps. If you wanted more, then you will be disappointed. This was designed just to celebrate the main couple, especially since it ends in almost a proposal kind of romantic environment. I would recommend to watch this, if you enjoyed the original show and are so invested in it that you would love to know what happens next, but other than that, it is easily avoidable. (4/10)
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