Hi, K-watchers. It's Leanne.
Hi, everyone. It's Juliette. Welcome to the K-watch party.
Today, we have the boyfriend episodes 9 and 10.
Two episodes full of tearful goodbyes and last-minute confessions
as the boys graduate from the green room.
Not everyone was successful in love, but as they proved in the show,
life is all about the journey.
Let's wrap things up.
Do you think Shun and Dai wrapped it up?
They are wrapped up. They are.
Yeah, we can talk later about where they are today after the show.
But anyway, good morning.
Good morning.
How are you today?
As usual.
But even more so.
Here we go, guys. You ready?
Even more so.
You know, didn't you love it when people talk about how tired they are,
but damn, I am very tired today.
I had one of those nights where like, it didn't feel like I slept at all.
So I will be talking in sleep.
I will be talking in circles and probably gibberish.
That's cool.
I will be a circus wrangler trying to keep you on track.
Keep me on track.
I also got a very bad haircut this week.
Did you? Let's see it.
Okay.
So I just took my hat off because I've had to cover this thing up.
It's a bang situation.
By the way, did not ask for bangs.
Really?
I said I wanted curtain bangs that end here.
Like close to my ear.
And then she got a razor and I went, oh my, that feels short.
Oh, it'll grow out great.
And I was like, uh, that was no one asked for.
Anyway, so I'm been rocking this thing.
I have to put these clips in every morning to get them flat.
I look kind of like a little Japanese.
Yeah, it looks like an anime character.
Yeah.
So it's just the bangs.
Did you cut the rest?
Well, and the rest, I said, I like long layers.
Just like a regular Asian girl.
Okay.
I got a wolf cut.
Oh boy.
Like it's super shaggy.
Oh, and it's short.
Oh no, it's not short.
She kind of thinned it out.
So it's really kind of poofy at the top.
And then long hair.
Where did you go?
I'm not saying it's a bad haircut, but it's definitely.
I mean, it's a look that works with certain people that want that look.
And this was not what I asked for.
I was going to say this is a hipster, where we live.
It is hipster shag cut.
And a lot of girls walk out with this haircut.
And with this, this bang situation, right?
But I think if you were to just style it, I think it looks, it would look really good.
But here's what I told her.
Here are my requirements.
I don't want to style my hair because I am incredibly low maintenance lazy.
And I want to be able to like wake up in my hair, just kind of fall naturally.
Yeah.
I look over at her hair and it looks exactly like this.
And I'm like, I think she only really knows how to do one haircut.
That has been, that was a real like downer during the week.
She was too hip for, too hip.
Look, I'm in my 40s.
I don't want to look that cool.
I just want to look clean.
Bad haircut is just part of life though, you know, and so they're going to come and go.
It is.
But all hair goes out.
I think if I was younger, I would have been more devastated.
But I, it is what it is.
I'm glad a new look.
I've had a lot of people stop me, including my kids preschool teacher who I saw yesterday.
We were at a, a back to school night.
She pulls me out of the classroom.
What, what, what did you do to your hair?
No.
It was, you know, bangs are quite shocking.
You know, it's like a drastic change.
So even the preschool teachers like, what, what, what midlife crisis are you going through
right now?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
What have you been up to?
I'm also tired because I, we have a good friend who's here staying with us.
And so, you know, this friend and I can just talk all night long.
And so she, my husband and I were up till one in the morning.
You know, you just talking and you look up and it's one in the morning.
Um, and then yesterday was like a day of best friends.
My, my best friend who lives in LA was up here for a work thing.
She works with our other best friend from college.
So like the three of us had beers like on campus where at school, where we, you know,
used to have beers 20 some years ago.
And it was really nice to catch up.
The other thing about this week is I'm prepping for this weekend where I'm taking my daughter
with her Girl Scout troop.
We're going overnight backpacking.
We're like hiking in, bringing our packs, setting up camp and then coming back out.
Oh my gosh.
I've never done this before.
You alone?
No, there's a few of us.
But I didn't realize like I just like forgot the Pee Poo situation.
So apparently you've got to bring a shovel in with you.
Stop.
Dig a six inch hole.
You're just going out into the mountain.
This is not like a designated campsite.
There's no shower.
There's no, there's not even potable water.
So you got to hike in all your water, which else all fine.
I'll take all the water I can carry.
But this like, you know, to take a shovel with you, dig a six inch hole, poop in the hole
and then cover it back up.
And one of the other parents was like, there's some abandoned fox holes.
You could just poop in the abandoned fox hole.
I was like, what if it's not abandoned and a fox comes out?
Fox just comes in, bites your ass.
It's my butt.
Smell.
Yeah.
Anyways, I'm like super nervous about that.
Well, and it's all women, right?
Is are all of the chaperones women?
There are two men chaperones.
You can have an, an, a ratio for Girl Scouts.
Cause I was going to say like how empowering for you and for all the girls to see like,
Hey, look, our moms can do all of this on their own.
I also have one of those little toddler potties.
Oh no, I'm not going to carry it in.
No, it's, it's, um, it's a little contraption with legs that you flip out and then you put
a little baggy in there.
So, you know, I'm not going to lie.
I've peed in one of those before.
Yeah.
On the side of a road.
No, I'm going to rough it.
I was also, and again, men can close their ears, but I was supposed to be on my period
this week and I was like, I can't go into the forest.
No, that is just disgusting.
Terrible.
And I know it's also like these animals are going to think I'm in heat and come at me
in the middle of the night.
Oh my gosh, they're going to attack you.
Like fresh meat.
Oh, who's out there to meet with me today?
But actually what I'm, why I'm bringing this up is that there are, I guess I just didn't
know that because our friend had just done this over the summer for her trip, but there's
basically pills you can take to kind of just stop and delay your period.
And you can do it with birth control, but there's another pill that you can just get.
There's like a company online and they call it the vacation bundle.
What?
And you can just get it online.
Yeah.
And just skip your period.
So luckily we have an OB friend.
So I just texted her.
I was like, Hey, can I get this pill?
And she's like, yeah, she's just like gave me 20 days of it.
Wow.
That's awesome.
I know, but it feels so powerful to just be like, this is when I want it to start.
And this is when I want to push it off until so this pill is called norathendrone acetate.
And it stops your period from starting by just, you know, I don't know, modern medicine.
But anyway, wish me luck this weekend.
So this weekend might be a hot mess for me.
The other place where we saw a hot mess was in the green room on the boyfriend episodes
nine and 10.
So these are our final episodes of the show, which is really sad.
Very heartbroken.
I crammed them in last night and my husband looked over through these glass doors that
we have and he's like, wow, I feel like I haven't seen you smiling and laughing like that in
a long time.
I just have not from him.
Yeah.
I just have so much fun watching this show and they're, they're just such a sweet bunch.
They really are.
And I'm like, sad to see them go, but it definitely feels like there wasn't much left to do.
You know, like it felt like it was time.
It was time.
It was so much time that Gen Z was just like, I can't stay three more days.
Like this is three days too long for me.
I was going to say, let's just start with the guys in the house that did not end up leaving
with anybody and kind of like what their dreams are.
And so I think Taehyun is an easy place to start.
He just like, you know, beautiful soul.
Yeah.
His journey there is all about self discovery and courage.
Yeah.
And friendship.
And I think it was telling that when he was living, everybody was sobbing granted.
He was the first one to leave.
So I think the emotion was high, but I think people really appreciated him.
He was pivotal in many of their relationships and helping people on their journey.
So real appreciation for Taehyun.
And it's not often on these shows that you get to watch somebody really like change their life.
There's love and relationships and all that, but this man is changing his relationship with his family.
He's basically coming out on television.
And so that is a big forward movement in his life and we get to see him come to terms with it.
You know, and a lot of times we saw him as therapist in this, in these episodes, finally him and Gensei are talking
and finally somebody asked Taehyun how he's doing.
And so it was also just nice to actually see him get some attention from people.
Not just be wallpaper.
So that was Taehyun.
But did you notice when Da, so there was a little tiff with Da and Shun, which we will have to talk about in depth soon.
But at some point, Da comes over to talk to Taehyun and say, Hey, I don't know what's going on with Shun.
He's like trying to get his advice and then shouldn't walk by and then it's like, you know, trying to like let him know.
Hey, he's right behind him. And I was like, you know, the thing about Koreans, this whole thing, this idea about Nunchi,
which you explained Nunchi.
Nunchi in the most in the easiest way to explain it is to say it's common sense or like an awareness of your surroundings.
So there's a podcast out there called Fun with Dumb and the comedian Dumb founded.
He is talking about Nunchi and he's Korean.
He's like, Nunchi gets you into the door, but it doesn't elevate you up the ladder.
Do you find that to be true?
Because like when you're so like, you're very conscious of scenarios and situations and like people's feelings,
then like it opens a door to things.
But then, you know, for people who don't have that kind of that awareness, they, their bulldozer way in and that's how you climb the ladder.
That's how like you make your way up in the world.
Like you can't be too polite and mindful of everybody's feelings in the room.
Right. No, I totally see that, especially at work, especially at work, especially in the corporate world.
But even here at Tehan, maybe because he was so aware of how everybody was feeling about each other,
he wasn't like an equal who's like, I don't give a fuck.
Yeah, I'm gonna confess myself feelings.
We never see Tehan ever telling anyone he likes that.
And I wondered if that was his barrier.
He doesn't take a forceful stand about anything really, right?
Yeah.
Even in his therapy positioning, he's very like, what does this person want to hear from me versus like,
what do I actually think I need to tell this person?
You don't have to be a bully and you don't have to always be elbows out, but you do have to speak your mind.
Yes.
I think if you want to get ahead.
Yeah.
Or if you want to find love on a reality show, you know.
So that was Tehan.
The other person that we wanted to talk about was Gense.
Gense gets a little action in these two episodes.
He has basically him and Ryota had an overnight date in the last episode,
but they didn't get to go anywhere.
They stayed at the house and they ate dinner in the house and had like a very lovely calm date.
And so we actually start episode nine the next morning after all of the overnight dates.
And they're already there with all the other guys eating breakfast.
They don't get to have the like coming home walk.
They don't get to like download everybody on their situation.
Right.
So it just felt like they were short changed a little bit on their date.
Gense gets to be in charge of one of the last truck shifts chooses Ryota.
And then he's like, you look pale today.
Should I do your makeup?
Also, Ryota definitely looked as though he did not want to be picked.
I know Ryota definitely when Alan and Kazuto come back from their date,
he definitely looked down.
He looked like a lizard.
Slinky lizard man.
And Gense really notices, you know, Gense has his Nunchi radar up and he notices
that Ryota is definitely demeanor changed when those two came back.
So I think Gense rightly so senses that Ryota still likes Kazuto.
So Gense does his makeup and he looks so good.
He does.
Gense does a really good job.
Yes.
He does a good job.
He's a pro.
They go on their coffee truck date after their shift.
Gense full on kind of confesses.
He confesses and he's like, you know, I thought that first letter that first night was you.
And I went back to look and they never tell us who it was, but I did some reddit sleuthing
and it seems like people have deduced it was should.
Really?
Just as like a, Hey, I didn't get a chance to talk to you.
Not, not any romantic interest.
Gense mistakenly thought it was Ryota basically the entire 10 episodes or nine episodes.
And Ryota looks as uncomfortable as Kazuto does when Ryota confesses to Kazuto.
And I think it's also because I think Ryota wants to like Gense, right?
Like he's like, he can see how earnest and sincere Gense is and what a great guy he is.
He just sometimes you just can't get it up for some people, you know?
Can't get it up.
That's right.
And it's just also so interesting what influences who we think we like.
Like if Gense didn't think Ryota wrote him that message.
Would he have ever even given Ryota a second glance?
Right.
Maybe not.
Yeah.
Like how much of who you like is based on how you think they think about you.
Oh yeah.
Right?
Unless you're equal.
You don't care.
He just walks around the world like an ogre with just no sense.
Anyway, so yeah, Gense full on confesses.
It's really cute.
So yeah, after the confession, Gense tells Ryota his little bombshell that he's leaving
with literally two or three days left at the green room.
He was so over it.
He was over it.
Gense knew this was done for him.
Right.
Like he's like, and I think when you actually see the final goodbyes, you're like, oh, this
was so smart of Gense to leave.
You don't have to deal with the tears, but you also don't have to watch the couples.
Yeah.
Walk away together and you have to walk away yourself.
Yes.
He's just like, I'm doing it on my own terms.
Yeah.
Peace out.
So a strong goodbye from Gense.
Except Ryota says that Gense encouraged him to tell Kazuto his feelings.
I'm like Ryota full.
You've already told him four times and you've been rejected every single time.
Yeah.
We could talk about Ryota now.
This guy, slinky lizard man, you know, you can't help who you love, I think.
He really so badly wants to like Gense.
Yeah.
On one hand, I think I was, I wrote, you're such a creep.
But also this is his chance to shoot his shot.
So I don't blame him, but I think his demeanor is there's something about him that's not
very likable because he is slouchy.
And he always seems a little down and he's very pale.
Hey, what do you have against pale people?
He's like pale in an unhealthy way.
You're pale in a, I can tell you've been doing SK2 brightening.
A lot of SPF.
But he just does things in a way also that there's no charm.
Yeah.
It's like he's slinking around.
You know, like at one point Kazuto has to go to the coffee truck and then Ryota packs
him a lunch, which is very sweet, but it's also like you didn't get the message.
No.
It feels desperate.
Yeah.
That's right.
That's what it is.
Yeah.
That scene Kazuto has been given an opportunity to pick somebody to go on a coffee truck day
and he picks Alan.
So still Ryota packs them both a lunch and it's raining.
And so he's kind of just waiting on the front porch after he's given them their packed lunch
with his umbrella.
Right.
Even that is so sad.
Like it's of course raining on the day that he wants to give him his lunch.
Yeah, it all just feels very melancholy when things are around him.
I wrote down, he looked like, you know, a 50s housewife and her husband is driving away
in the Chevrolet.
With the mistress.
Yeah.
With the mistress.
Are you going to eat the lunch I packed for you?
Yeah.
And just sat in the rain.
So Ryota to the end couldn't get over Kazuto and they're all leaving.
It's the last day.
They're all saying their goodbyes.
Ryota asks Kazuto one more time to go outside and have a conversation.
Kazuto is probably just like, thank God, this is the last time.
The 17th, the 10th.
I know.
But he's also just like, isn't your cab waiting?
Like, you know, don't you don't want to keep your cab waiting?
Ryota tells him, I still have feelings for you.
Even now I had to say it.
I'd be happy if we left the house at the same time together.
What was he trying to accomplish here?
It's such a desperate move to like drag somebody away from the person that they actually like.
Right.
And like, why make him say it?
Right?
Poor Kazuto is like, he's like, I'm going to get my own ride.
Thanks.
And I, no matter what, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't like you.
Yeah.
He's like, my Uber's coming.
It's already called.
I can't cancel it.
My ratings and trouble.
But Kazuto lets him down very nicely for the nth time.
And then Ryota as he's leaving to the camera is just sobbing.
That was heartbreaking to watch.
But it's also like, you did this to yourself.
Like, why would you put yourself through that?
You know, I guess there's just two ways of looking at this experience.
It's like, you got to give it everything.
Yeah.
Walk away with no regrets.
Yes.
You've got to try.
Go rag reds.
So that's his point of view.
My point of view is like, can you have some dignity to the end?
You know, walk away with your head held high like Gense.
Gense and Ryota took very different approaches.
Gense is like, I'm walking away with my self dignity intact.
Ryota slinked away like a lizard in shame.
So that was Ryota.
We have Ikuo.
I think Ikuo got the short end of the stick.
Yeah.
He showed up late.
So whatever attractions were there were already established.
And so he had a really hard time breaking into it.
I also think he's just a young kid.
Yeah.
He's like willing to give his attraction or his attention to anything that's floating
by.
So he like originally was into Kazuto and then changed his mind to die.
It was similar to the Ryota approach.
He knew that Diane Schoon were pretty much an established couple, but he inserted himself
and he confessed to die, how he had been feeling.
And I saw this on Reddit.
So I can't claim it for myself, but his letter to die was essentially Shawn Mendes' treat
you better song.
Here are some of the lyrics from that song.
And I'm gonna treat you better than he can, than any girl can deserve.
I mean, anyway, Ikuo is not wrong.
Ikuo, right?
Yes.
Like Ikuo is right.
His letter is right.
Shawn treats die shitty.
And we'll talk about it in their section.
But Ikuo is 100% right.
And I believe him when he's like, I wouldn't treat you like that.
Yes.
Nobody should.
Yeah, you don't deserve that.
I think he's just young still.
And I think he learned, I'm sure, a lot from being in this house and learned how to interject
in people's relationships or not to.
But he also like Ryota gave it his last shot, wrote a letter, read it out loud.
And you know, we call him young, but actually he's the one with the best advice for die.
Actually, everybody else is kind of still pushing them together.
But even despite what they're seeing in terms of like the toxicity of what's happening.
And Ikuo is the only one that's like, no, man.
Yeah.
And it's not me.
It doesn't have to be me.
Yeah.
It's just shouldn't be Shawn.
There was a scene where Shun got upset at die about something dumb, dumb.
But it was making the atmosphere in the green room really uncomfortable and everybody was
feeling the tension.
Shun was refusing to talk to die.
Everyone's conversations had to be around them.
Yeah.
Die was taking everybody outside talking about what was going on.
And Ikuo went to Shun and was like, you need to resolve this.
I think where he went wrong was you need to resolve this in front of everyone.
I was like, in what world would that be normal?
That's like, if you had an argument with your husband, it's like, let's gather the
masses and we're all going to judge.
Our closest friends are going to come over and stay in a room.
Yeah.
And we're going to judge who is right here.
Yes.
That'd be so uncomfortable.
And die gets upset about that.
And I think they were using, die was almost using Ikuo as a scapegoat in this situation
because he really should be mad at Shun.
But he was upset because he's like, don't interfere in our relationship.
But Ikuo was like, I'm doing this for us.
Like it's, we're all uncomfortable around you guys.
Let's release attention.
He really got the short end of the stick.
Like, yeah, maybe he didn't do it the best way, but all of a sudden like Shun's not
the bad guy anymore.
It's Ikuo was the bad guy.
Like what the heck?
So yeah, Ikuo shot his shot with die, made some good points to die, but die tells him.
I'm all in for Shun.
Die said to Ikuo though that if in the beginning he was quite attracted to Ikuo.
So it makes me wonder if Ikuo was there from the beginning, would that have been the relationship
that lasted?
I do think that they're good for each other.
They have really positive energy.
Yeah.
I feel like when they do this thing, when they bring in the late member, it never works
out.
Right.
Nobody, everything's already too set.
I wonder why they do that.
Yeah.
And there's something about like bringing in this outsider later that makes them, you
know, as like this kind of mom mentality, you treat that person as sort of the outsider,
the enemy, you know, and so it's easy to ostracize and villainize this person.
Right.
I think he leaned into it a little bit because he was trying so hard, but it was unfair to
him.
So goodbye to Ikuo.
So let's talk about the two end game couples that ended up leaving the house together.
Kazuto with three days left in the house, he gets the truck shift and he picks Alan
again.
They do their shift and they are at like a restaurant after the shift and they're talking
and Kazuto kind of almost has like a goodbye breakup.
I actually held up my translator app to the computer because I was like, is this being
translated in the right way?
Because the words that were being said versus the way he was saying it didn't jive for me.
Yeah.
Was it being translated properly?
It said, I'm so hungry.
So I was like, okay, this translator app is no good.
But it did basically say what was being said.
So I don't know.
I don't know if it's demeanor.
He looked like very down.
Yeah.
So he was saying it like a guy who's breaking up.
Yeah.
Alan seemed to be taking it like a guy who's getting broken up with.
Yeah.
Kazuto says he's thinking about life after the house.
He's still not sure what to do, but he's still processing it all.
And he's like, I'm very slow to fall in love.
Also one point I'd like to make.
I am not Japanese and I studied Japanese like over 20 years ago.
So I'm not the expert on this, but I have seen some things where in Japanese saying
I love you is like a huge thing.
Like it's not said really ever.
And so when they translate to I love you, that's actually not what it is.
It's just like, oh, I really like you.
You know, but it comes off so strong to say I love the translation is I love you, but
that's actually not what they're saying.
I see.
They're the last and the house to say goodbye.
And so the two of them are remaining.
And at this point, Kazuto has already been confessed to again.
He's just ready to leave this house.
He's like, my cab is getting charged.
Double time.
What did you think?
You think he was going to leave with Alan?
I thought he was going to leave with Alan for the sake of Alan's feelings.
But I wasn't confident that they, their relationship would continue.
So they do leave the house together.
The way that he's talking to Alan makes it seem like he's not a hundred percent confident,
but he's like, but I want to do all of these things with you.
I want to go and make memories and like live our daily life together, but he doesn't seem
sure that there's much more for them.
So they get to leave together.
Kazuto says to Alan, everyone's gone, but if we leave together, we won't be lonely.
It was just like a very nice way to end the show.
Like those are very lovely words.
And they're holding hands, interlocking fingers.
That was, that was a moment when I thought, oh, maybe they will last because Kazuto looks
so happy.
So we know now after the show, they are not together.
They are not.
There is a reunion episode on YouTube.
Yes.
It's like 11 minutes long.
It's very fast.
It's like all the guys, I watched it.
Oh, you did.
It's all the guys that are just watching the first three episodes together.
And it's very cute because there's some shocking moments like when Ryota like says he like
shun and like, I can't say can't believe it.
Oh my gosh, I have to watch that.
And Usak's back and it's nice to see Usak.
Okay.
So then I saw the theory on Reddit is that Kazuto and Yusuke.
Yusuke may have gotten together because the sleuths, the internet sleuths have found them
posting pictures separately on their Instagram of them in front of Tower Records.
Oh yeah.
Multiple places.
We're in the same bracelet.
Yeah.
It's like very chunky metal interlocking kind of chain.
So it's very noticeable.
And the dates.
Yes.
Like they post it within one or two days of each other.
And then apparently Kazuto went in and deleted all of those pictures.
If you go in Instagram now, they're not there anymore because so many people are speculating.
But it was suspicious because they were like in Bali or some tropical place.
Oh yeah.
Paris.
They're in Paris.
That's right.
They were in Paris.
There's no way it's a coincidence.
So either they're very good friends, but I think the bracelet makes it feel like they're
a couple.
Gosh, that would make me so happy.
So then on Reddit, I did a lot of Reddit trolling last night and somebody was doing what you
do, the fanfic.
Imagine Usak walking in at breakfast next week, just oversized t-shirt and his little
shorts, freshly shaved and showered while Kazuto is making eggs in the kitchen, drops
his bag and says, baby, daddy needs his chicky smoothie.
I know the blender at their house must be on overdrive because actually if you so Kazuto
comes out on the reunion, he's definitely gained weight.
But I think he's bulked up.
So it feels like maybe.
Oh, I think he's been drinking some chicky smoothies.
Yeah.
And working out with Usak, his face is definitely filled out and he looks great.
So hopefully he's found happiness with somebody.
It sounds like it might be Usak.
Just a very cool ending.
They're just like good friends hanging out.
That would make me very happy.
Yeah.
But then why would you have to delete your posts?
Maybe they broke up.
I don't know.
I do have a co-worker who watched Kazuto's gay porn.
Oh, what was the review?
He said it was awkward because Kazuto looked so young.
He was like, he must have been maybe 18.
Yes.
That was what I saw on Reddit where he looked like he just freshly came from the farm.
From the rice paddy.
Yeah.
So he was like, it was actually kind of uncomfortable to watch.
He was just like, it was just tough to watch because he was so young looking.
So that's hard.
That's hard for Kazuto that is like now out there.
But we get a nice ending for him both on the show and hopefully in real life.
Okay.
Now we got to talk about the real hot mess here.
Shun and Die.
You know, I was like, okay, episodes nine and 10, we're going to wrap it up.
What more can happen?
Of course, just when we thought he could be loved, just when we thought he could be tolerated.
He just shows us still he's the worst.
Shun and Die had an overnight.
They come back.
The boys are all eating.
And now it's their usual post date night Q&A.
They're peppering them with questions.
What do I do?
Did you do it?
And then Shun goes, we slept.
Yeah.
I need a translation for that.
Yeah.
And Alan's like, no, we had sex and he's like, yeah, we had sex.
I mean, do you think they did?
Oh, 100% right?
There's no way they went from that passionate kiss to go back to your separate bed.
Yeah.
This isn't a K drama.
Right.
You can passion a kiss and then just leave.
But he's so open about it and Die is kind of blushing a little bit.
He's very embarrassed.
It's so funny because Alan's like, no, they didn't.
He's lying.
There's no way.
I was like, are you trying to stay face here?
I don't understand why Alan wouldn't believe they slept together, especially because Alan
has slept with Die.
So Alan knows that Die is a pretty and easy lay.
Let's just say, right?
Maybe he was just trying to preserve their image for them.
Yes.
So it seems like, you know, everyone's happy and smiling.
They seem so happy.
Maybe literally the next scene.
It was all of a sudden you see Shun and Die eating in separate places.
This is when Die comes to Tehyeon and is like, I don't know what he did.
I don't know what's going on.
He's upset about something.
Everybody, you know, is sitting in that seated area and they're all planning out their day.
Kazuto, of course, wants to go sauna.
And Shun, he says, can I be on my own?
And then the other guys are like from us.
And he's like, no, just that one pointing to Die.
And they're like, me?
What the heck did I do?
Alan says, if you have something upsetting you, you can say it in front of all of us.
Shun says, it's a hassle.
It's a hassle.
That's his line.
That's his thing.
If it's a hassle, he cannot be bothered.
I mean, this is somebody who has deep trauma.
Has no emotional ability to like deal with hardship, hardship, any conflict.
We find out later in some ways as a test.
It is so tiring.
It's so tiring to be around somebody like that.
Even Ikuo's face, literally he was drinking a cup of water and his face, the camera catches
him like, oh my God.
He like basically rolls his eyes.
Does he?
I have to rewind to see that.
Oh my God.
He's so just over this guy.
Even Die is like, I'm over this.
Yeah.
Like you can come tell me when you're ready.
But of course later.
Well, and then Die, he tells, tells the rest of the group.
He's like, I know it's an easy thing to go over me like what is wrong, you know, he, he
has kind of figured out why Shun is upset because Die refused to wear a t-shirt that
Shun asked him to wear.
So he's telling the guys this.
And he's like, I know that's why he's upset, but also why am I always the one that has
to go and apologize?
It's never him.
Yeah.
And I think he's, that's a valid point.
Yeah.
No.
Cause Shun is insufferable.
All of it is just like stupid.
Ikuo tries to get in the middle of it.
We've kind of talked about it already.
He's now become the bad guy.
Shun now is like somehow take the heat taken off of Shun, even though he's just completely
exhausting and ruining the last few days for everybody else.
I mean, like Taehyun is so bored.
There's a scene of him just napping on the floor.
Yeah.
I saw Kaseito and Taehyun just passed out on the floor.
I was like, Taehyun is us.
Yeah.
You know, cause it's so boring.
Die just again comes crawling back to him and says, I want to know why you have an attitude
with me.
He goes, my ex wore my shirts.
You should wear my shirts.
That is a sign of love.
Okay.
Rule number one, don't compare your current relationship with your ex.
And obviously you have no idea what signs of love really are.
Like if you think wear a T-shirt, T-shirt is the ultimate sign of someone's affection
for you.
You've got a lot of lessons to learn.
Die just looks at him with rose colored glasses.
I worry for Die.
I worry for him because he is so gentle and sweet with him.
And you know, to his credit, he tries very hard to meet Shun where he is.
I think he recognizes that Shun is broken.
And he's like, Oh, I have to remember you're very delicate.
Like die, you are a hero.
He's just going to be his babysitter.
But yes, this is going to harm you in the long run.
Yeah.
He's just going to have to take care of this person and their ups and downs forever.
And it's going to tire him out eventually.
Doesn't bode well.
But we do know that they're still together.
They have a YouTube channel.
Oh, they do.
Like million views.
Of course.
I mean, they are a great looking couple to look at.
I mean, the vlog I watched was subbing.
And I mean, if you're a fan of them, I just hate Shun so much.
I don't care.
But you know, they're like vlogging.
They're like going and traveling and stuff.
And it's lovely.
But and they seem very happy actually.
And Shun has kind of like gotten a haircut.
He looks maybe a little healthier.
I don't know.
He seems to be in a better place.
But yeah.
But what I have noticed, I haven't seen that, but I've seen clip.
I guess what I've seen on TikTok are clips of that.
But I was thinking Shun is so clingy to die.
He's on like physically on him in every shot.
And I was like, it makes me uncomfortable.
So those two leave the house happily ever after onto YouTube influencer income.
They go.
The ultimate golden ticket right from these reality shows is you find love and you get
a YouTube channel.
Yes.
So that was it.
That was the end of the show.
We had a lot of people find themselves people making friendships.
They definitely all hang out.
There's a lot of Instagrams and TikToks of them hanging out.
I saw one Alan, Gensai, Ryota were hanging out.
Gensai welcomed Ryota to Taiwan.
I saw that too.
So they definitely seemingly are still good friends.
It did seem like they established some strong friendships when it was Shun's turn to do
the coffee truck and him and die where it was a last coffee run and the entire house
comes to meet them and help them sell coffee.
I cried because they're such a sweet friendship.
Gaining a lot of courage to be able to tell people how they really felt, which I'm sure
is tough not only as being Japanese and part of that culture, but also being gay in Japan.
So they don't feel as open to be telling people how they're feeling.
Yeah, I feel like felt like a lot of them were like, Oh, I finally had the courage to
say what I really feel.
Yeah.
So that was beautiful.
I also really loved the music.
The music was so good.
Have you seen to all the boys I've loved before?
I've not that that synthy music is very to all the boys and I love to all the boys.
And it just very reminds you of like youth and friendship and love.
Right?
Yeah, there's that ending song that they always end with that like makes me feel like
I'm on the beach.
They did a great job with the music.
Yeah, there were lyrics that came up that I actually wrote down.
It was when Ryota was crying, but it said from painted eyeballs, we gain new sight.
And I feel like a lot of them that was very fitting for a lot of them.
They left the house very different than when they entered it.
Yeah.
And it was fun to watch.
So that's it for us on The Boyfriend.
Do we do a one last Mary?
One last.
I mean, look, these last two episodes, I think there were some different sides that we saw.
So maybe we have something new to say.
Who would you marry?
I would marry Alan.
I think I've said that before, but Alan was very wise.
I know.
Actually, that was one thing I had meant to say.
When the shouldn't die conflict came about, Alan was actually the one who brought them
together.
Because being kind is a magical power.
Don't forget your kindness.
And that's amazing of yourself.
And be kind to die.
And that was such good advice because a lot of times in conflict with your romantic partner,
you're like, no, F you, you're the one that should come apologize or why should I do
that?
But when you take it, when you take the approach of being, seeing your partner with kind eyes
and you're like trying to be empathetic to what they're going through, then it softens
your heart a lot of times.
And I feel like Alan has just this beautiful spirit about him.
He's so empathetic.
And he was also so kind to equal.
I think there was this, this again, villainizing of equal in that moment.
But Alan went up to him and he said, you are kind.
I know you had good intentions.
He's the most.
You know, he's just kind of like the most, but I like the way he showed up for everybody
in the last two episodes.
In a similar way, I think I would marry Taehyung.
Also very keep it in the Korean bloodline.
Exactly, I want to keep it pure.
But he was so mature, you know, and very well grounded.
So I love that he was such a good friend to everyone and I love seeing that.
Yeah.
He has good vibes.
F.
I don't, yeah, I don't know.
I think sometimes when you see too much of people, you just like come over them.
And then kill.
It has to be slinky lizard again.
I'm sorry.
He was too much.
He's not redeemable.
If he had fallen for Gensae, yes, that would, I could have seen it differently.
It would have turned his character around.
So we wrap up the boyfriend.
What's next?
What do you want to do next?
There's a drama.
I am super into the reality show genre.
This is my vibe.
I know we've done a few dramas and it's like almost like a refreshing drink of water to
have a little reality show.
So I think we should do another one.
So our two choices are there is a drama called Love Next Door.
It's on Netflix.
It is our favorite guy.
Junghain?
Yes.
Just looking cute.
Feels very just like romance drama.
I don't know if I have the stomach for it right now.
I don't.
I need time travel.
I need, you know, death.
I need a table of family.
So I don't know if just like girl next door loves.
Yes.
Does not excite me.
So there is a reality show called Popstar Academy.
Yes.
Oh, you know what?
This is actually interesting because it's about the girl group that HYBE is creating.
International girl group.
And there is so much controversy right now with HYBE.
Did you see the recent thing with New Genes?
Yeah.
And they came out on a press or like a YouTube channel.
Yes.
They're like reading from handwritten notes.
Yeah.
And they keep looking at the corner of their eye at somebody.
I don't know what's going on.
But they were telling HYBE you better reinstate our previous CEO by the 25th, making all these
threats.
So but it's been taken down, I think.
Has it?
I think it's been deleted.
That video.
Yeah.
But that adding that layer to this reality show will also make it very interesting.
Yeah.
I've heard it's good.
Okay.
It's called Popstar Academy cat's eye.
And it's on Netflix.
It is on Netflix.
Yeah.
So we'll start that.
Okay.
All right.
Next week.
We're going to be doing a second episode.
That means we've been doing this for one year.
That is crazy.
Isn't that crazy?
You don't look a day older than when we started this.
Your hair is different.
I mean, my, I don't know about you, but I tend to be like, well, I'm kind of over this.
I'm moving on.
Right.
So I'm proud of us for sticking it out.
Yeah.
For me, it's like a way to just have a creative outlet every week, like even just doing these
write ups, structuring a thought out essay.
Basically, I get to see your face and talk to you every week and definitely think it's
fun and I am proud of us for sticking with it.
So we'll, we'll celebrate more next week, but until then be watching some cat's eye.
Yeah.
Have a great week.
Be well and we'll talk to you next week.
Bye.