the older i've gotten the more i've realised that now as an adult its less of me wanting to watch queer high school/college romance set in high school/college (stay with me and kieta hatsukoi perhaps being the Exceptions) but rather wanting to watch queer adults who reminisce in their nostalgia over their high school/college romance or who they were when they were younger. in their yearning of it. in the innocence of it. in the simplicity of it. in the carefree nature of it. before all the responsibilites that adulthood brings hits you and you're compelled to let go of all those things and being all of those things and life just becomes about work eat sleep work eat sleep work eat sleep. and then as queer adults they realise that life simply can't just go on like this and love somehow finds its way in between work eat sleep and makes a room, and then, a home for itself in their lives. idk maybe thats why inho and balgeum's high school flashback scene - hell, their entire storyline - just hit me so hard like a tonne of bricks ig. same goes with taikan yohou. even the end of the world with you and gray shelter and perfect propose and cherry magic in some sense.
