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Idiots to lovers, 12 episodes, slow burn.

I mean, excruciatingly slow burn. And tooth-decayingly sweet.

But that's the charm: because the poor kids can't figure themselves out, things take time and a ridiculous amount of doubt and insecurity and obliviousness. That's adolescence for you, most of all for the queer among us.

Stuff that I liked, in no particular order:
- Awareness for pressure and boundaries. Love to see it (even if Sasaki’s paralyzed pining breaks my heart).
- The Chairman’s acknowledgement that, yes, stuff do be different for gay relationships and homophobia exists, but it’s going to be alright.
- The use of repeating sound and visual motifs for ... love-struck moments: bit melodramatic, but if there’s anything that feels melodramatic, it’s being in your teens and in love for the first time.
- Miyano trying to make sense of his experiences by attempting to relate them to fiction. Mood.

A fantastic story of humans, hubris, humility (or lack thereof), self-sacrifice (or lack thereof), well-deserving of its reputation.

The ending in perticular was a highpoint, a heart-wrenching gentle going into that good day.

(I feel like alchemy mechanics could have been better explored: as it is, the characters' plans seem to often to come out of nowhere. You need to understand a magical system in order to be satisfied with narative solutions derived from it.

Also, the uniforms have been an eternal eyesore all throughout. I get what aesthetic and influences they were going for, and their flaws as military uniforms are all greater for it. How are ... those skirts attached to the belts? What happens to those rectangular flaps when unbuttoned - historically those lapels on coats and tunics have started as out as perfectly normal, to be maybe later slightly stylised - but this!? Blergh, I'm ranting about nothing.)