My Only 12% (2022)

Everything is great except a couple things that make me wanna punt myself from the 8th story

This is a cute, predictable, childhood friendship turned romantic type story. The acting was impeccable, the chemistry between the boys (like all of them, even the friendships that are just friendships) was great. There are a lot of rough moments they have to get through, but they're handled really believably, there werent many moments where I felt kicked out of the story byecause something was farfetched and some of the conflicts gave me some heart squeezes, no tears for this one though.

I think I could rewatch it if I really wanted, maybe in some years, but I'm also not big on rewatching anything, so take that as you will.

Cute as it is, I dont think I wouldve reviewed at all if I wasn't bursting at the seams to say:
wtf is the child + adult storyline???? A fifteen year old thirsts after a 20-sumn yr old and she ISNT immediately like no, absolutely not. And then her FRIEND (debatable, maybe her cellmate) is like, "i just dont want you to regret rejecting him like???? Babe??????? W h a t
And then shes going thru something traumatic and terrifying and this motherfucker is like "HI YES EXCUSE ME, I SEE YOURE GOING THROUGH A LOT RIGHT NOW BUT IM ALL GROWED UP HAHA plsdatemethx" i am flabbergasted because everything else was sooo good
Including that character until she failed to not fall for an actual child, the bar is in hell, how did you trip under it???

And Eiw's voice bro 🥲🥲
It didnt bother me until literally the second to last episode where theres an event he really has to get emotional for. I had to mute it until he was done which, considering the scene, REALLY took me out of the story. Up until that point, I think the whining wasn't the worst? Idk, ive watched things that have made me want to extract and pulverize my eardrums and this wasn't that for the most part.

Anyway, i would still recommend this because it's cute, the adult mentioned above has no sense but doesnt commit a felony (again, this is hell, would you like to meet the bar?), and the relationships between all the other characters are so fun to see play out.



(It would literally be a 9.5 without that one effing storyline.)

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Simple, pure and touching

Ok i just finished my only 12pc and HEAR ME OUT. This series is just perfect.
But first, let me do what i always do: i really love Earth and their acting. When i watched uwma, i fell in love with his expressions, his so natural way of expressing feelings and his acting, so seeing him as a protagonist makes me so happy, and even more when he doesn't get bullied in the whole drama. He simply deserves the crown.
However, I have to admit that I didn't really know Santa, but he won my heart with this drama.
I've been waiting for this drama for so long and I really can't believe that I actually get to enjoy it. I've been following since they announced it, so I was just living off tiktok videos and promises.

Okay, now I can start.

THIS DRAMA IS PERFECT. For real. Everything about this is impeccable. The way they explore Eiw and Cake's youth in such a natural way, fears, friendship, complicity, and everything else.
When Cake starts to get interested in his girlfriend and pushes Eiw away, and Eiw doesn't know how to name what he's feeling but he knows he's feeling bad. When Eiw watched that movie with his sister and how he felt about and then when he told his sister that he felt the same way about Cake. These are some of my favorite moments just for the way they put it all together. Just real and natural.
I also loved how Eiw used the word "gay" BECAUSE HE'S GAY, he's not just interested in men, HE'S GAY. I swear, when he said that for the first time I cried.
I also love his friends especially Kung, Fee and Tah. The way Eiw could TALK to Kung and Fee and not be judged, the way they support Eiw all the time, even in university. They are my little angels.
Even when Cake goes to the US, everything happened so naturally, so real and so touching. The farewell scene and the homecoming, just tears in my eyes.
The only things I have to say that I really didn't like was the relationship between Eiw's sister and Cake's friend (disgusting) and Eiw's father after the funeral, I found it weak and totally emotionless. Nope, I just hated it.
Anyway, if I'm going to say everything I loved about this series I'll be here forever, so in conclusion this is my new favorite bl and drama, it's just clean, pure, sentimental and amazing. I just loved every second I spent watching it.

PS: I haven't cried so much in a long time ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

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I cried. A lot

How great to watch Earth and Santa again. Earth is an amazing actor who does very well in emotional roles. In this production he hit the jackpot. How to process the realization that not only are you gay, but also in love with your best friend? This was the best part of this series. How sad and wholesome at the same time. We don't get an insight to when Santa's character Cake falls in love or realises this, at least I didn't notice. He tells his friends after he has been away for years (a time walk instead of a time jump. Well done!). I would have liked to see more exploring of feelings.
What I liked: The wholesomeness. Great families, siblings and friends.
Good chemistry but little sexual tension. Just love. Loads of butterflies. The emotion is not too much although it's a lot. Earth is a beautiful cryer. Great side roles and an adorable side couple. Peak does not give up but is so sweet and respectful.
What I liked less: The lessons in disease and their causes. And how the father is to blame. Besides being blamed, he has not been in his kids life for decades but is welcomed back quite easily. That doesn't fly with me coming from a broken home. Santa/Cakes hair after he returns. Bleach gone bad.

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Drama of the first gay young love. Does it hurt?

I've followed this BL closely. I had no idea about the time setting until episode 4, where they watched Love of Siam (2007). So this series setting could be in 2007-2008. Love of Siam was popular at that time in Thailand, baiting straight audiences into thinking they went to the cinema to watch straight romance. The movie marketing techniques focused on showing boy-girl couples, but then boom, it was boy love. Love of Siam, indeed, is one of the best BL movies Thai ever had.

Back to My Only 12%. In ep 5, Eiw shared his feeling with his sister Hom. This scene would be powerful, noting Earth was really trying hard to pull it through to make this scene believable. But, his co-actor, Hom, was not at the same level; she was a bit flat. Hom failed to show the deepness of her sympathy and cares for her brother. Maybe because she is still new in the industry, I hope she gets better.

Rin is still being kept. We have not seen her, only one or two scenes so far. But she already created conflict by indirectly affecting Eiw and Cake relationship. Rin made Eiw realize that one way or another, there will be people coming to their small happy relationship. Rin is new to Cake, and Cake seems hard to manage his priority. But, I don't blame Cake because I think for Cake, Eiw is just a really close friend or like a little brother. Most teenagers will go for his/her love interest over their friends, and most friends will understand if their friends bail on them because they are catching a girl/boy. This is a long series (14 eps), so, I think we will see Rin more in the future to contest Cake and Eiw's relationship.

We just knew Sand from ep 4. Sand is still a mysterious guy. So far, he seems to be a perfect boy in terms of his attitude. There are two routes for Sand. One, the director and writer play dirty on him by twisting his behavior to turn to be a bad boy. And somehow, Cake will be a savior for Eiw from Sand. If this route will be chosen, the implication of Cake and Eiw's relationship will be Cake, the boy who stays with Eiw because Eiw is too vulnerable to be alone in this cruel world. The second route is, Sand stays a good boy with very clear about what he wants by showing his love interest to Eiw. We've seen this route from Bas (ITSAY). In this story, Sand's job is to challenge Cake to win Eiw over. Even though (from the title) he won't win, he needs to complete his purpose. I think Sand is a perfect opponent for Cake. If they choose Sand to be a good boy, it will be interesting to see how far Sand can go and how his presence can impact Cake's emotions.

Lastly from my note, while the story keeps intriguing and developing, the production seems backward. The color tone becomes inconsistent and visual assets for the location become too redundant. I hope they will manage to up their production quality game like the earliest eps because we still have like 9 eps. Overall, I am happy with this series. Keep up the good work, guys.

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a mais linda história de amor

quando eu decidi assistir a esse BL, confesso que foi 100% por causa do casal protagonista.
eu sou extremamente apaixonada pela química entre earth e santa e sei que onde tem dedo deles, dificilmente irei me decepcionar e assim foi.
my only 12% é uma experiência.
é delicadamente bem escrita, bem dirigida e bem cuidada em todos os sentidos.
o peso dos sentimentos vem como um todo, seja os bons quanto os ruins.
o roteiro soube equilibrar nossas emoções de forma que a jornada fosse leve e emocionante, com díalogos bem estruturados, densos e cenas tocantes.
uma linguagem de expressão que pra bom entendor, bastava.
a química do casal cake e eiw pôde ser sentida à léguas de distância e a forma como o amor foi naturalmente construído e inevitavelmente descoberto foi de nos prender na cadeira e ansiar pelo próximo episódio.
pra mim, foi a mais bela história de amor, sem a necessidade de recorrer a trágicos acontecimentos ou intrigas mirabolantes.
felizmente a história se seguiu sem usar de ganchos clichês para aumentar a tensão.
não era necessário.
foi lindo de ver eiw se apaixonando primeiro, enquanto cake se apaixonou mais intensamente.
a energia dos casal secudário que apesar do pouco tempo de tela entregou muito, foi bem gostosa de assistir.
as atuações foram além do meu esperado.
eu simplesmente sentirei tanta saudade assim como senti satisfação ao assistir esse BL.
recomendo 100%.

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Listen, I know the series is still ongoing, but I am already a fan!

Without any spoilers, to start with, I love the whole finding yourself journey or coming out story, and this series depicts the reality of so many people(it's not always a smooth ride or a fairytale).
I love the plot, the first few lines in ep1 give you an insight into the foundation or background of the story (PS: it made me so excited), and how earth brings out EWI'S character, he makes ewi's experiences and emotions feel so real and relatable, which creates an amazing rapport with the viewers, I also admire ewi's restraint, and I like the tension and relationship between the main leads or characters,(by this I mean it was easy to see them as good friends/brothers and also easy to see them as something more "kind of like the seamless duality of emotions")
the intro music gives a nostalgic feeling that builds the plot. I look forward to the upcoming episodes.

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DROPPED
It's basically a BL in 2022 trying so hard to bring back all disgusting and superficial representation about gays and gays relationships which we fought for so long to get changed . There's no plot, it's poor writing. All we see for 9 episodes is the gay "Seeiw ", fragile like a flower, giving all of his live to his confused straight friend "Cake", who said on episode 12 that he is going be gay for him" lol, having it said, there's no need to watch 2 left episodes to know that's going be a mess. Honestly, a love of siam wannabe in 2022.

Only good point : Earth and Santa acting skills, it's just a shame that it was all wasted.

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It is so exaggerated that it is becoming exhausting

We have here a story of ordinary high school students who discover love and who, as they grow up, come to have different desires and paths. It's not very innovative but why not.
The problem is that everything in this series is exaggerated. The main characters, first of all, are too much: one is ultra whiny and childish, the other is stuck in a stereotype of an unrefined teenager but with a tender heart. The story then, which lingers too long on their umpteenth existential questions. The secondary characters too, totally inconsistent. Finally, the acting, really exaggerated, especially from Earth, who got us used to better. It's probably not helpful to cast 25 year olds as 15 year old teenagers.

In the end, it doesn't move forward, it's too predictable and I find it badly constructed. I ended up giving up.

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I only gave this drama a 12% chance

As the title says " i only gave this drama a 12% chance". Let me be honest with you i watched this up to a certain point and then i dropped it because i just cant take it anymore!!
I tried watching this thing out but i just cant!!!
I am accustomed to watching bls where by time episode 3, 4 or 5 the mcs already kissed or already fall for each other, but this beats all bls i have ever watched. I saw some reviews on this bl saying that its so good, and definitely a 10/10 and stuff but u must learn never to take what others say seriously and i am a 100% sure that most of us who watched this bl only endured all this just for santa 😏😏😏 ( i know he is so finnnnne!!!!XD) but all that aside what i dont like about the series is that it was too slow, like i thought before cake left he would have fallen for seeiew or at least kissed him but damn the things i had to endure and my patience was wearing thin !! I cant understand how before cake left he only treated seeiew as a brother even when he left not knowing seeiew had feelings for him and cake finally came back after how much years and suddenly fall for seeiew 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
Someone should explain that to me ??!!!
They took like about 8-9 episodes before they even kissed
Second i heard alot of good things about earth but damn is behaving like a child one of them??? I find it hard to believe he is like 27 or 28 and behaving like that !!
And plus i heard ppl talking about the last two to three episodes there was a no smoking campaign advertisement
Lucky thing i didnt watch it till to the end

In conclusion if some of you bl lovers like a slow burning, soft bl this is it for you but this is just not my cup of tea!!

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Just comforting but not much happens

I personally enjoyed watching for the most part but it did have some issues.

Nothing much happens, everything that does happen is very much predictable. Nothing necessarily bad about this, it had great potential to become one of my comfort Dramas. The beginning was super slow but both characters acting really made most of it worth while.

My biggest issue was what was supposed to be the climax/breaking point of the series. Everything leads up to this one moment and to me they kind of underdelivered? Everything afterwards was sort of unnecessary too and didn’t really add anything much to the story overall… before the last couple of episodes I would have likely given an 8. But the way it turned out that just wouldn’t sit right.

Overall I still enjoyed watching this and I did actually cry actual tears which was nice. I don’t know if I‘ll ever rewatch though.

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I love Santa so much! so I'm definitely not unhappy I watched it but this one is I guess not to my taste.

You know I love Earth too, especially in UWMA and I m following them as a couple on it IG and watching them all the time but this series itself is severely lacking.

I mean I can handle a little bit of cringe lol but showing a grown man act like a teenager, namely Earth in Eiw's role is just cringe on another level as his completely uninteresting character.

I just don't like the whole anti smoking bs either.
it becomes too much.

The thing is putting Earth in this role was just a bad idea. It's not that his acting was bad, but the direction and writing was not great and just didn't make an impact on me apart from a few scenes.

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