Everyone, may our life all bloom like flowers! 🌸

Finally able to watch this series after putting it in my watchlist for years. I picked up this series because of my favorite actress Honda Tsubasa, and also because I always love stories about idols, music and entertainment industry. I’m an idiot that I didn’t know my favorite Fumiya Takahashi was also in this series, and he is a main character!

I’m so glad I picked up this series! It’s such a beautiful, heartwarming, joyful and inspiring series. I really enjoyed it. I also had a hard time in my career and life, so I relate a lot to 8loom boys and the female lead as well. Most of the characters in this series are likable and non-toxic, which I really appreciate.

Every boy in 8loom is so sweet and adorable! They are kind-hearted human beings, and super supportive towards their groupmates and friends. As a 8loomy, they are all my biases! Chayney’s boys are sweet too.

The soundtracks are amazing and they also add a lot of meanings to the story. I love all of the songs. I just wish 8loom debuted for real so that I could really become a 8loomy and keep supporting them and listen to their music!

Another thing I love about this series is how they normalize queer relationships and treat queer people very normally.

There are a few things I didn’t like much about this series in its second half but the last episode really touched my heart and the ending feels satisfying enough.

About the tiny subplot romance, I’m not too bothered by it. I’m okay with age-gap and student-teacher relationships, as it happens in real life all the time, as long as their reality is legal, and the gap isn’t over 20 years (for both younger man/older woman and the opposite), and their maturity is similar. The thing is, the romantic chemistry between the leads feels a little awkward, and the romance isn’t so necessary either. But it’s just a tiny element and not the focus of the series.