I have no words I'm afraid I have no words to say how much I love this series, but I'll try my best. Saying that this is the most beautiful BL series I've ever watched is true, but still sounds like it isn't enough. So in this review I won't even try to be objective, because you can't be objective about someone or something you're head over heels with. I wonder if the series can be categorized as ”BL” at all, as the main characters are 23 years old, so not really ”boys”, and in this series you won't find even a single of the numerous ”BL-tropes”. What does make it ”BL” is the fact that the main characters experience – as far as we learn in the series - their first love, and especially their first gay love. I won't elaborate on the plot here – just so much: ”Our Dining Table” tells the story of two 23-year-old men who are utterly unhappy. Yutaka (Inukai Atsuhiro) is an outsider and isn't able to enjoy a meal with other persons as he suffers from a childhood trauma which was caused by his misconception that he wasn't welcomed in the family who adopted him after his parents' death. Minoru (Iijima Hiroki) stopped attending college after his mother's death and took up a part time job at a ramen restaurant to be there for his little brother Tane (Maeyama Kuuga) as their father doesn't have enough time for the little boy. The series displays the way how Yutaka and Minoru help each…

This is a sweet, relaxed and feel-good series about two guys who meet when one's younger brother wonders off and starts talking to a stranger in a park. While both have some trauma in their pasts, they find peace and growth in each other and they come together first as a really deep friendship and then it grows into something more. There is no real outside conflict, it is just a really peaceful romance. When one confesses his feelings the other is taken by surprise and that does cause a minor bit of awkwardness between them, but they over come it. If you're looking for just a happy, loving story, this is a good one to watch. At only 11 parts, I really wish it were longer.

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