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My god the way Edwin sighs after Charles hugs him and then kind of drops into it.

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Started watching Dead Boy Detectives. It's as fun and delightful as I anticipated. And it also made me shriek with laughter at this:

Ep 3. The Case of the Devlin House

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Keep stroking my hair.

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Photos from I Feel You Linger In The Air Pilot Filming

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Ep 1 of My Stand-In verdict: I'm into it.

Joe is a character I want to root for - Poom plays his vulnerability and guilt in the present so well. I'm so glad he's got a mom to care for him considering the circumstance. Also how is this man so attractive? I just look at him and my brain seizes.

Anyhoo, I like that we are supposed to be very leery of Ming. Up is a good choice for this, he seems to do well with some sort of internal self-torture happening.

I found myself with all these questions (in the best most compelling way) and really into finding out more about their story and the backstory with Tong (hey Mek!). They are also revealing it in a way that is really interesting and much less confusing than that trailer. The reasons for why Joe would be back into a life so similar to his previous one are acceptable and less huh so that's good too.

Also, Poom and Up's chemistry is on fire. I'm very into this.

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You don't have to be perfect in front of me.

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what if we were (homoerotic) besties in school until you kissed me and disappeared so i searched for you in the depths of the world and waited and yearned for you only to find you making a webtoon not-so-secretly based on me so i secretly cheered you on and schemed to get you to work with me so we could finally be together after seven years and we kissed and i acted drunk out of embarrassment and then acted like a complete lovesick fool in the office the next day. what if i told you I was a mastermind 👉👈

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2023 WATCHLIST

⤷ Our Dating Sim (2023)

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CHAE JONG HYEOP as YOON TAE OH in EYE LOVE YOU アイラブユー (2024)  dir. Fukuda Ryosuke, Okamoto Shingo, Kato Akiko

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EYE LOVE YOU アイラブユー (2024) dir. Fukuda Ryosuke, Okamoto Shingo, Kato Akiko

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I finally watched the jdrama Eye Love You with Chae Jong Hyeop. It was an interesting watch for quite a few reasons, especially as a Cherry Magic fan.

It's an office romance with the lead having mind-reading ability with Omoinotake doing the theme song. The bright colors, the lack of "bad guys," conflict arising basically from everyone caring too much, side characters that are honest, true and lovable and mythology that is hand wavy, but full of heart (although this one could have been a tad bit better lamp-shaded IMO)

Sound familiar?

It's a Japanese drama with a popular Korean drama lead where they indulge and revel in the cultural differences in ways that are silly - like the female lead learning about what noona meant through coworkers kdrama watching and mistakenly thinking he was thinking of her in that way (which he wasn't) and hysterical - like him immediately asking her what her first name is and calling her by it when they first meet outside of the office context and then when finding out she is the CEO continuing to be his charming, familiar self and making her have an emotional meltdown over it because she both was completely embarrassed by it, but also loved everything about how open and disarming he is. (And I did too). I love that she is interested in him from the start because he is the first person she's met since she's gotten her abilities that she actually can't understand his thoughts (he thinks in Korean).

Chae Jong Hyeop is fabulous in it, as he always is when I watch him in something. He stole the show in Nevertheless (sorry, Song Kang) and I loved him in the Witch's Diner. It just reminds me I keep meaning to watch more of his stuff. Also superficially, he's charming and handsome and tall and makes the female lead look tiny and I am not usually into height difference at all but it works for these two a whole bunch. Her fantasy dream sequence really reminds us that he is very capable of being more than a smiley puppy and someone needs to give him a role like that stat. Bonus that it's just fun to me to listen to him speak in Japanese after being used to listening to him speak Korean. He's clearly really good at the language so it's great he got to use his skills for this.

Some of the most touching scenes in this drama are with the female leads father and her best friend. This is a show about her finding love, yes, but all the relationships matter and are heart-warming.

It probably has the best second male lead I've seen (maybe after Chae Jong Hyeop's character in Nevertheless haha). The care and consideration the two supposed rivals show for each other after the comedy of it is played out is nice. The circumstance itself is enough to create conflict so people don't have to be jealous assholes about it. I really enjoyed Hanaoka enough to be interested in seeing something else that actor is in.

The mythology could have been tweaked a little. There's something significant most of the characters believe and it is never clear to me why they all believed it and never questioned it in the first place. But I downed all these in a few days because ultimately it was a really fun watch with lots of good feelings.

If you are a jdrama and a kdrama fan, it's also a delight to see a nice little hybrid of the things I personally enjoy in both being thread together into one story.

It was definitely worth the watch.

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If he finds out... we may never look at each other again. He is the only one... that can never know.

EYE LOVE YOU アイラブユー (2024) EP. 7 dir. Fukuda Ryosuke, Okamoto Shingo, Kato Akiko

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Eye Love You アイラブユー (2024) — 1.01

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It's my first time meeting someone I can enjoy my time with without worrying about anything, even when I look into their eyes and read their mind. Being with this person, whose mind I can't understand, is relaxing and fun.

EYE LOVE YOU アイラブユー (2024) EP. 2 dir. Fukuda Ryosuke, Okamoto Shingo, Kato Akiko

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I can't kiss you - because I don't know if you really want me to.

The sincerity between these two is almost too much to bear.

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not to alarm anyone but there is a fictional man loose in my brain. keep an eye out.