Hello ABL! The Future series has peaked my interest since you've been talking about it, but do I need to watch the other Love mechanic installments to understand it?
Hum.
Yesss....?
I mean, I have watched them all, so it's hard to judge what it would feel like not having watched... so to speak.
Anytime there are groups of friends Future might not make sense.
HOWEVER, I would say you are totally safe just watching:
The En Of Love: Tossera (main characters will be on screen in Future but played by different actors)
The En of Love: Love Mechanics (main characters will be off screen referenced, so probably not vital, but it's my favorite installment, so watch it for YinWar's amazing chemistry anyway)
Both these are super short for Thai BL. And if you don't watch at least Tossera you'll find all the extra characters in Future confusing.
But if you just want Fuse & Ana's love story, you'll be fine. The additional characters (and their backstories) don't impact that part of the plot (such as it is) at all. Not so far, anyway.
No need to watch The En of Love: This is Love Story or Love Mechanics (the full series).
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Is he…. you know…… on the university swim team?
(I am so sorry)
NO BECAUSE LITERALLY ALL THE SWIM TEAM MEMBERS!
lmaoo this is all I can do.
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how many en of love / love mechanics shows are there? I thought it was just one thing but there's more? and do I need to watch all of them?
The En of Love: Tossera
The En of Love: Love Mechanics
The En of Love: This is Love Story
You need to watch the first two in that order. The 3rd one isn't worth it. But these are short, only 4 eps each? Something like that.
Then Love Mechanics is a full length ret-con re-treatment of TEoL: Love Mechanics with the same main couple but different rest of cast.
You can watch that as well, if you love YinWar.
Or you can watch it instead of TEOL, if you’d rather just tuck into one long series.
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I'll start this off by saying that I'm a woman who's studied ballet for pretty much her entire life. When I was a child, I had teachers who wanted to train me professionally with the goal of training at Canada's National Ballet School in mind, so I think I know what I'm talking about.
I recently learned about the Sophie Rebecca controversy, and it's absolutely disgusting. The transphobes who are screeching and clutching their pearls over Sophie taking syllabus classes with the RAD are absolutely ridiculous. They're the only ones who are embarrassing themselves by speaking on something they know nothing about (from what I've read, they can't even spell "pointe" properly).
I'll clear a few things up regarding ballet that transphobes are consistently getting wrong.
Ballet is not a single-sex space, so stop clutching your pearls. It may be XX female-dominated, but danseurs have been integral to the discipline since its creation. Believe it or not, danseurs can and do teach female students (and vice versa). Members of the male sex have even danced female roles (Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, for example, is an all-male drag troupe that performs parodies of romantic and classical ballets).
Sophie is taking RAD syllabus classes. These are simply classes that build skill in ballet (as well as other forms of dance, such as character). While syllabus classes and exams are part of professional training, most syllabus students are recreational dancers. Sophie is too old to pursue a conventional career as a danseuse, and many dancers retire at her age. The amount of schools that would accept her into a professional program that feeds into a major company are close to, if not zero. Nobody "lost a spot" to her. As long as they can pay the fees, anybody can take RAD syllabus classes and exams. They give you a sense of achievement and track measurable progress. The RAD has defended Sophie Rebecca and stated publicly that she is NOT a professional danseuse. As far as I'm aware, her highest level of completion is Intermediate Foundation. If I remember correctly, Intermediate Foundation exams don't even include pointework (since ballet is, you know, far more than pointework). No serious company is going to hire a student who's only reached Intermediate-level classes, and very, very, very few will a hire a danseuse who's not proficient in pointework. All she's doing is showing a love for adult recreational ballet. That's it. She's not taking anything away from XX girls. Ballet is open to EVERYONE, not just pale, skinny XX women.
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I like this universe thing BLs are doing where the side characters of one story get their own full series as opposed to multiple seasons focusing on one couple. It's nice.
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