update - less than 24 hours from when it aired, iQIYI removed the 4 episodes that were available. Apparently the creators are trying to make it available but TBD as Justice in the Dark & Addicted have never aired their remaining episodes...

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Overall: although I'm bracing myself for angst later on, the first four episodes were very well done. 12 episodes about 30 minutes each. Airing on iQIYI https://www.iq.com/play/blue-canvas-of-youthful-days-episode-1-13q46jpfxvc?lang=en_us

Content Warnings: there are several, I'll put them under a spoiler comment

What I Liked
- characters and their dynamics
- sweet moments
- a hard of hearing character (though some things related to this didn't make sense to me)
- clear premise

Room For Improvement
- some nonsense plot things
- not sure the ages of two characters
- a character should have first asked/talked to another character about what he wanted
- not a fan of a flash forward and then going back to the past to start a series
- too much blur effect in scenes