Amazing opening Episode 1 for this Japanese BL Series... 🤗😍 Toranosuke Kobayashi is really fantastic acting as TAICHI...! I always felt the movie was lacking in so many ways compare to the manga series, and now I can confirm why I felt that way after watching this opening Episode in the Series version. THIS is so much real, and keeps so well the original feeling from the manga Series. I think that I finally found my TOP Japanese BL Series favorite for 2024. This EP 1 was a delight to watch... with a beautiful mix of longing, and tender, and hope, and wondering: Just perfect. In this scene highlight is upsetting to see how anyone would isolate himself from sharing a social life just for feeling different to the people around him. Having those self-prejudices and making himself a sort of alien despite of the few people trying to invite KOHEI to join some circles is something this Series version should try to explain and illustrate for us to understand more his character development. That is one of my expectations for the following Episodes. His aversion to the sign language club is one of the many examples. For someone who is about to lose completely his hearing abilities learning sign language should be one of his top priorities before is too late. We know how important this is from the Korean TV Series "Twinkling Watermelon" from 2023. And considering that he is studying LAW getting rid of all sorts of prejudices should be also on the top of things to accomplish. And yet his development leads into the opposite direction, weren't TAICHI persistent enough to pull him back into the right track. Well... Now I will have to deal with the agony of waiting each week for the new Episodes the entire summer long... Until then... Cheers...!