About Youth

This is what a good high school BL series should be like - it shows in a very sensitive and loving way the coming of age and coming out of 4 young men, with all the smaller and bigger disasters people at that age have to face. Directed by the same director as "Make Our Days Count", it avoids most of the annoying tropes of the genre, and all the four leads (Shen Jyun as Xu Qi Zhang, Li Zhen as Ye Guang, Andy Huang as Jian, and my very extra special Hsu Shuo as Ray Ray, who looks great as a crossdresser) are talented actors and super cute. The OST is the best of any BL series of 2022. I have watched this series 4 times already, and I'll watch it again.

I had seen only the first two chapters and While the four leads are cute, it feels like a 90's mexican soap opera, the meet cute are a little forced and the timing is not very good.

One of them is super popular in the school but I do not have a clue why, the other one is almost unknown to his classmates and he is the singer of a pop band (nice music by the way) it should be the other way around IMHO.

The ilumination is very harsh and while you can see the actors very clearly, it is always the same in differents scenes and it does not have any nuance, in a club, in the streets at night, in a convenience store is the same, and it seems like you're watching an old soap opera in video, but it is recorded in high definition but any way you do not feel that.