There is no main storyline and the characters are one dimensional at best, with Ueas main trait being a gratuitous trauma dumpster.

The first part of the show mostly consists of strung together, cheap, gratuitously long, softcore porny looking scenes with some random office moments thrown in between and some random blackflashes to Uea being assaulted and abused by his family members. Overall a strange concoction but let’s move on.

We have King, who is apparently a player, and Uea, who’s hates King bc he is apparently a player. This could work as the most basic concept idea but not as a finished script. There’s so much information that’s lacking. When did King and Uea meet the first time? Was it at the bar when King tried to hit on him or was it at the office? Ueas hatred towards Kings doesn’t make much sense either. It’s not like King cheated on him or promised him something, hell I don’t think he even managed to ask Uea a question at the bar, before Kings apparent date or one night stand showed up and Uea took offense to it like a scorned, betrayed and cheated on wife.

Kings obsession with Uea also comes off as random and nonsensical. Why is he so hellbent on getting someone who holds nothing but disdain for him for no good reason? It would make more sense if King actually had some sinister ulterior motives in mind but that’s not the case at all and therefore his actions and decisions come off as incomprehensible and random.

At some point Uea drinks himself unconscious and King takes him home and takes advantage of him but I guess that’s not his fault bc Uea asked him too lol. I actually don’t mind non consensual situations if they get addressed later on, at least to some degree, but I don’t think it happened here. Anyway, Uea gets angry the next day but still decides to become fuck buddies with King later on, for no good reason. Maybe it’s bc King gave some money to Ueas mother but I’m not sure. It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when and why Ues decided to keep banging King, especially knowing his random hatred towards playboys.

The latter half of episodes concentrate on the cartoonishly evil Boss, who randomly wants to get into Ueas pants and King being jealous bc of it. The boss gets fired and the last two episodes are pretty much unnecessary, endless, boring fluff and sex with no semblance of a plot whatsoever.

I don’t even understand why King and Uea decided to become fuck buddies in the first place bc their dynamic never reflected it, even from the start. They acted and behaved like they’re in a perfect, monogamous relationship right away. There was no tension and no conflicts that one would expect to see from such concept idea. Even the sex scenes were always portrayed in the same way, which became very boring very quickly.

The trauma aspect wasn’t addressed properly either. It’s like Uea didn’t have a personality apart from being a victim. Everything evolved around his trauma and how it was magically fixed by him dating King. It’s like the trauma was a romantic trope instead of an actual serious issue for Uea to get through. There was no logical build up to Ueas decsions at all. He let himself be abused by his irredeemably evil mother for years and just suddenly broke off their contact, seemingly at random. I know that the rapey Boss came by but it didn’t reveal any new information for Uea to suddenly be able to stand up for himself.

The acting wasn’t good either. James isn’t someone who is ready for a main role yet. All of his emotional scenes were laughable at best bc he wasn’t skilled enough to pull them off. He needs a lot more workshops and practice. I can’t really say much about Net bc his role wasn’t as demanding as James‘ but I didn’t cringe as much when he was on screen in comparison to James. I’m sure they’ll get other projects to work on and I hope that they, especially James, will acquire more acting skills till then.

I guess Dimundi‘s works aren’t really clicking with me but I have to give them some serious credit though bc while their works might not be for me, they certainly are popular enough. They isolate a specific audience and appeal to them, which I think are mainly very young, straight girls in their late teens to early/mid twenties that are mostly looking for fluff and sexual content with a typical cookie cutter Uke as a self insert and a perfect, hot seme to take care of him/them.

Good for Domundi though.