Overall sweet and watchable, but some big flaws

The story is about the unlucky Kota and lucky Naoya, both seniors at a university, perhaps majoring in psychology. Many small disasters are shown to plague poor Kota in the beginning, and he decides to hang around with the always-lucky Naoya for a cure. Naoya misunderstands Kota's reason for approaching him, and the two start to "date", although they don't go public nor do they have any sexual activity, even proper kissing. The relationship ends not very far from where it started actually, but the characters more open and trusting of each other.

Cons:
1. The shyness of Kota was a pain after a while. For God's sake, all that drama just for a kiss?! They do say that he has never been kissed before, which might be the explanation for the reluctance, but it is still annoying.
2. That weird and unnecessary sub-plot with the hostage taker.
3. Friends not dealt with properly, perhaps because of the shortness of the series (8 episodes x 25 min).
4. Roka's overacting a bit cringey.
5. Relationship doesn't move much, in spite of all sorts of inner revelations they both have. At the end, Roka is still acting frightened + secretly horny, even when he is in the same bed as his professed love.
6. Too much time wasted on flash-backs. But the FF button exists for that.

Pros:
1. Naoya was very charming, especially when he smiles. He was frank about his lust.
2. No toxic exes, temporary breakups, and long drawn-out misunderstandings that are actually resolvable with a short talk.
3. No hint of them living in a society with homophobia. Some of Roka's behavior might stem from internal homophobia, but that was not a given.
4. The psychology lectures were very interesting. Now I want to read the professor's books!
5. The complexity of the concepts of lucky and unlucky handled well. We are reminded how unlucky things can sometimes have very lucky effects also.
6. Pretty much everyone was good-looking.

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Thank God I am done watching this!

Two couples, all four good-looking. The first half focuses on Phayu and Rain, with Phayu being clearly the seme. The second half focuses on a similar-dynamic couple, with Pai being the seme, and Sky being the uke. The ukes are both in university studying architecture, while the semes are both working, and are friends due to being motorcycle racers.nk

Pros:
1. Liked the couples always touching, kissing, etc.
2. Liked that the ukes, while still being coy sometimes about admitting their crush/love, still ask for sex.
3. The second couple is very good-looking.
4. Nice work on the motorcycle racing, the crowds, and the drone shots.
5. Some people did not like the ukes being called wifeys and [the seme's] "my boy", but I loved it.
6. The couples touched a lot, and sex scenes were explicit for Thai BL. I loved those.
7. I liked some of the dub-con and non-con and shady wooing techniques. Examples are mostly with Phayu and Rain, as Rain seems to have ultimately enjoyed them, and was never really against the non-con. I frequently fantasize about such myself, where they both really want it.
8. Loved the spanking scene. Wish there had been more of it. Lots of similarly arousing scenes.

Cons:
1. The second half is full of how Pai is a stalker cum harasser. He cannot take NO for an answer from Sky, and is not above using emotional blackmail, stealing of Sky's room key, bribing of Sky's apartment manager, and using fake phone numbers after his own number got blocked. He went too far.
2. The rape scenes -- both in the present and in the flashback. These were real non-consensual sex, and I dislike those very much. I could not watch them.
3. The kidnapping of the ukes -- Rain's was sort of boring, and Sky's was horrible to watch.
3. Dragging second half that I had to fast-forward through very often. Repetitive scenes at the race track and elsewhere.

Overall, the second half was so bad that I had to give this series a low rating. I don't think I will rewatch it at all. I am a gay man, btw, and not a young het woman. I ff-ed through TharnTypes rape stuff also. I think I had best be careful with Mame's works.

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Watchable once -- but barely

The show is about Haruta, a 33-year old real-estate salesman, and the multiple people chasing him. His boss, his colleague + roommate, his childhood friend, and another colleague.

First of all, I thought this was BL when I started, and did not like the older character's presence (the boss). I understand that old people can of course love, and age doesn't matter, , but, to quote from the show itself, "love is not always pretty" and the director's obsession with his subordinate was not pretty.

I found the 2 leads having severe lack of confidence. To me, if you don't trust your own love to be valuable to the other person (like Maki), your love is not that sincere. Haruta also, with his going along with everyone who courted him and his shouting and screaming, was far from watchable.

The plot dragged a bit here and there, and I am not a fan of suspense until the last 25% of the last episode. The acting was cringy from the director and Haruta, but the others did well.

If you are looking for chemistry, there is none from Haruta towards any of his suitors.
Overall ok, but not re-watchable.
Oh, and I found Maki, the director's wife, the childhood friend, and the tall young man who courted the Director's wife very good-looking.

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Giving hope for new types of BL

Century of Love drew me in right away with its interesting premise. Normally I prefer fluffy GmmTV stuff, but I sometimes watch other kinds. This was somewhat fluffy, but had a different setting. I watched the first 6 episodes on YouTube, but switched to BiliBili for the remaining episodes because BiliBili has English subtitles for episodes 7-10.

What I did not like:

1. Some scenes were repeated over and over, like San getting sick and coughing blood. I fast-forwarded through many of them.
2. Too much graphic violence for me.
3. Kantapon (Vee) was not a good actor in the first few episodes, always smiling too much, partly because his character seemed to want to soothe everyone with smiles and good cheer. (Later he improved and showed a wider range of facial expressions. )
4. Songs were not translated.
5. Production quality was a bit low. They could have shown more outdoor shots, for example.
6. I shouted at the TV a lot because the characters were irritatingly self-sacrificing to the extent that the beneficiary was suffering more because of the "sacrifice". Also too many miscommunications.
7. I did not like some parts of the wife/husband trope -- Vee acting coy about physical affection, San getting down on knees to propose etc.
8. One-dimensional characters.
9. Vee's grandma's wig.
10. Leads' chemistry not enough to make me rewatch snippets.

What I liked:
a. Interesting plot premise.
b. Daou Pittaya Saechua acted well, showing a young-looking person with a grave side to his character. Even the kissing and love scenes were handled well in the later episodes, and were believable and not cringy.
c. Chu was a very good character, and the few het men who might watch it might enjoy her tight clothing.
d. No side couple just for the sake of having one, like some BL's have without adding anything to the story.
e. Everyone (good and bad) got what they deserved. The ending also had a good message presented without cringe.
f. One-dimensional characters -- you might notice that I put it in the dislike list also, because in a way I like simple characters who I can neatly classify into tropes.
g. I cried here and there, because the idea of losing people was presented very well.

Overall I felt that one hour could have been cut by reducing the repetition of coughing blood, feeding each other at the dining table, etc. But well worth watching once. I usually rewatch parts where the chemistry (not necessarily sex) is good, but this one doesn't have any that I want to rewatch.

This is my first review on mydramalist since I started watching BLs a few months ago.

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