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The colour purple in Yoh's relationship with Pun

@respectthepetty suggested I write up my theory concerning purple in 1000 Years Old.

The first time they meet the big purple umbrella is in every frame they can be both seen in.

Sequences that are about their relationship developing have Yoh wearing purple clothing.

The light turns him purple in scenes concerning their relationship.

Two times he goes into Pun's room and his clothes turn purple as he feels close to him and when he gets upset with Pun the lighting switches his clothes from purple.

In this very colourful show the colour purple seems to be about Yoh getting closer to Pun.

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LitBC Part I - German and English translations my observations

Having read Part 1 Jaehee of the German version two times since last Saturday and the English version once today, i feel like I have read the same story.

To me there is a bit of a tonal difference where the German version feels a bit more colloquial than the English version. Although that could be because I am a native speaker of German and therefore the indicators for that in English might not be as obvious to me.

Both translation have the English title 'Love in the Big City' they both number the Parts as opposed to being only titled in the original. English uses quotation dashes like in Korean while German uses guillemets.

Some differences in the translations stood out to me, in particular:

The drinking rule "I had a funny drinking rule back then—I would do anything I was told by whoever bought me a drink" (p. 3) "Es war die Zeit, als ich die Gewohnheit hatte, jeden Gefallen zu erfüllen, solange man mir einen ausgab" (S. 10) 'It was at the time when I had the habit to fullfill any favour as long as I was treated to a drink'

Why did they develop a relationship "After my defense of her sort of outed me" (p. 5) "Nun, wo wir so unvorhergesehenerweise ein Geheimnis miteinander teilten" (S. 13) 'Now that we unexpectedly shared a secret with each other'

How close they were when they moved in together "which meant the closest person we had at the time was each other" (p. 13) "war unser Verhältnis so unkompliziert und vertrauensvoll, wie man es sich nur denken kann" (S. 21) 'our relationship was as uncomplicated and trusting as one can imagine'

The Olympic sport "Since I hated losing, and since I was into booze and men to begin with ..." (p.14) "[W]eil ich von Natur aus nicht gern den Kürzeren zog, beziehungsweise besser gesagt, weil mir einfach der Sinn danach stand" (S. 22) '[B]ecause by nature I didn't like to lose, or rather in other words, because I just felt like it, ...'

The finishing sentence "that Jaehee didn't live here anymore" (p. 48) "Diese Jaehee war nun nicht mehr da. (S.58) 'That Jaehee was not there anymore now.'

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I hear the sunspot - Episode 11

This was too small of a step forward for the penultimate episode pushing all the resolution and any outward acknowledgement of reciprocity into the last episode with a timeskip on top. This would have been a good episode if it had come earlier in the series, then we could have seen them develop from there.

I dont even really know what Taichi's hang up is .

This would have been better if I could believe that Taichi only had subconcious feelings for Kohei.

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gaga sending me e-mails with recommendations all of which i have watched on gaga is silly enough.

but "based on watching ep 3 you should watch ep1"

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For future reference Only Boo is a 9 episode drama full of fluff.

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Just finished first two episodes of the Love in the Big City and I can see all the changes they made to make it flow as a series.

But the big change is of course the softened entry into the story that took all the "hard" feelings out of the first episode.

The chronological approach took alot of the bleakness and loneliness out of the first part by focusing it in the second episode.

I am curious how this changes the overall message because it seemed to make these first episodes more agreeable/easily watchable.

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Peak repeatedly declining the calls was an effective signalling devise that something was going to happen regarding his familly.

But at the same time I do not believe that someone who looks at his phone for every call they get would not have seen a text message.

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Someone who is more dialled into the production process of Thai BLs should look into how much the Production of Wandee Goodday and The Rebound overlap because based on the shared creative team that would explain at least some things.