Alina Starkov
This review may contain spoilers
For a Boys Love Series, this came as a Heterosexual Romace Series
(Story)
Okay, let's start with this one. The trope about enemy to lovers thing could have been cute if it had been executed properly. Remember from the finale's "plot twist", wherein it was revealed Xavier all along knew Mico was. To me that "plot twist" was more of a "plot hole". It's unnecesary and highly contradicts with episodes 1 or 2 wherein Xavier doesnt have any idea how he got into the Padawan's Quiz Night and their Professor setting them up together.
The series although it only has 8 episodes felt so dragging and slow. Tons of dialogues and monologues HOGS up the whole 20 minute of an episode wherein maybe they could've spent it all on building up the two male protagonists' character as the two of them felt so shallow.
I see Xavier and Mico as 2D characters, Xavier being the jocky type and the latter the shy and conservative one AND NOTHING ELSE. Which I think is a letdown because most of the series' screentime are the both of them yet there's no depth to their character.
The whole Kookai and Seph thing is COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. Instead of putting up with another couple, which again was totally underdeveloped, they could've used that time building up Xavier and Mico's character.
(Acting)
Again with the 2 Dimensional characters, it also doesn't help Xavier and Mico characters to have depth if they keep portraying the same emotions all over again. I get Xavier is a jock and is a confident gay, but is that all he is?
Overall
I had high expectations coming into this series. It's just the way how the story and the dialogues were written that it came as draggy, boring and sluggish. There's little to none character development and the characters were 2 Dimensional which I think should have been a key factor when it comes to producing BLs. It's a shame how it was a BL series yet overall it just fell flat and gave off hetero vibes. They keep throwing off poetic lines/dialogues but it ended up being cringey.
Okay, let's start with this one. The trope about enemy to lovers thing could have been cute if it had been executed properly. Remember from the finale's "plot twist", wherein it was revealed Xavier all along knew Mico was. To me that "plot twist" was more of a "plot hole". It's unnecesary and highly contradicts with episodes 1 or 2 wherein Xavier doesnt have any idea how he got into the Padawan's Quiz Night and their Professor setting them up together.
The series although it only has 8 episodes felt so dragging and slow. Tons of dialogues and monologues HOGS up the whole 20 minute of an episode wherein maybe they could've spent it all on building up the two male protagonists' character as the two of them felt so shallow.
I see Xavier and Mico as 2D characters, Xavier being the jocky type and the latter the shy and conservative one AND NOTHING ELSE. Which I think is a letdown because most of the series' screentime are the both of them yet there's no depth to their character.
The whole Kookai and Seph thing is COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. Instead of putting up with another couple, which again was totally underdeveloped, they could've used that time building up Xavier and Mico's character.
(Acting)
Again with the 2 Dimensional characters, it also doesn't help Xavier and Mico characters to have depth if they keep portraying the same emotions all over again. I get Xavier is a jock and is a confident gay, but is that all he is?
Overall
I had high expectations coming into this series. It's just the way how the story and the dialogues were written that it came as draggy, boring and sluggish. There's little to none character development and the characters were 2 Dimensional which I think should have been a key factor when it comes to producing BLs. It's a shame how it was a BL series yet overall it just fell flat and gave off hetero vibes. They keep throwing off poetic lines/dialogues but it ended up being cringey.
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