#hic2

[taeminie]

Even after the feeling of liking someone ends, some of it remains as a memory, some is forgotten, and some... become a new heart.

Heesu in Class 2 (2025)

[heretherebedork]

Two tiny gay boys who need to confess so badly but instead are just gonna lie next to each without saying anything because SeungWon is willing to tell everyone and anyone besides HeeSu and HeeSu is still distinctly scared of his own queerness and they are so young and so high school and I just want to save them from themselves.

[ahxiang]

ok, i am loving hic2 so far. as an adaptation i rate it a 6/10, but as its own show it's a 10/10 so far!!

[myroaring30s]

Adolescence really is a Makjang

[stuffnonsenseandotherthings]

Re-reading Heesu in Class 2 and, aside from falling in love with it all over again, I'm increasingly confused about what the show could be about if they really have decided to bromance-ify it rather than keep it as BL.

Like.... (Spoilers under the cut)

Yes it's a coming of age story but it's massively informed by the fact that Heesu is gay and doesn't live in the BL bubble (albeit in a kinder version of reality).

Heesu doesn't feel like he can confess his feelings to Chanyoung not because he was worried about losing his friend (i.e. the usual coming of age romance storyline) but because he didn't even think it was an option for "someone like [him]".

Chanyoung and Heesu's friendship is complicated because Changyoung is aware of Heesu's feelings but can't work out how to help him move on from them without accidentally making Heesu think he's rejecting who he is or forcing him to come out. The thing that makes Chanyoung such a great friend is that, once he finds a solution, be becomes the most enthusiastic match maker ever.

Remove all that (and that's just scratching the surface) and what do you get? Why even bother adapting it?

Jiyu, Heesu's sisters, Seungwon's mothers... They're there to show the value of having supportive and loving peers and elders and, in Seungwon's mothers' case, show how valuable and powerful it is to have role models as a queer youth....

[bengiyo]

Heesu in Class 2 is the Show of the Spring for Me

I’m so relieved to have a show to look forward to again. I was in such despair after Gelboys ended that I haven’t been able to even write my BL Blurb about it; I just haven’t wanted to talk about how many other shows I’ve dropped or been uninterested in starting. However, Heesu in Class 2 has quickly taken over my top slot, and it’s given me a lot of ideas about the ways BL can explore queerness without saying “I am a homosexual,” while also exploring first romance.

It's Easy to Follow

The main source of my initial excitement about this show stems from how clear its narrative goals are from the jump. We have Hee Su, who’s known for giving lots of romantic advice without having much experience, and who is also known for being in the shadow of his popular friend Chan Young. Chan Young is often confessed to by girls, but they often grow tired of his aloof nature and break up. Hee Su is holding a secret crush on Chan Young, and worries he’ll miss his chance.

Meanwhile, the class president, Seung Won, is struggling to confess his own crush to Hee Su; Chan Young is developing a crush on Ji Yu after having a nice interaction in their cram school; and Ji Yu is also developing a crush on Chan Young. Hee Su sees this mutual crush forming, misunderstands Seung Won’s behavior, and decides that the best way for him to keep Chan Young available to him is to meddle in Seung Won’s affairs and pair him with Ji Yu.

Beyond that, Hee Su and Chan Young have another friend in Ho Sik who’s pursuing a relationship with one girl in the knitting club, while another girl leaves his secret admirer gifts. Hee Su also has three older sisters, who seem to be his primary caregivers (it doesn’t seem like their parents are in the picture). His dynamic with Ho Sik feels familiar, and Ahn Ji Ho plays off all three sister-playing actresses with surprising ease. Each sister feels distinct, and the rapport between all of them feels lived-in.

What stands out so far is that each dynamic in this show has been accessible and identifiable immediately. Each interaction in this show feels intentional and contributes to the ongoing development of the narrative or the characters.

Queer Angst Without Identity Declarations

One of the ongoing struggles I’ve had for years with BL is how alien it can feel for people who aren’t naturally drawn to romance stories, especially for many of my queer friends and colleagues. BL feels so alien to them, and many of my people have complained that BL characters don’t feel real to them. Like Our Dating Sim (ODS), Heesu in Class 2 (HIC2) is the kind of BL I enjoy because there aren’t many great heterosexual explanations for what’s happening in this show. In ODS, Lee Wan’s behavior regarding Shin Ki Tae only makes sense if he lives in a world with recognizable homophobia, and I’m feeling a similar pull in HIC2. ODS never had to say the words gay, and I don’t think HIC2 needs to right now.

Hee Su could choose to hide his feelings from Chan Young for valid platonic reasons, but the inherent fear for closeted folks is the rejection of your entire being when your friend can’t reciprocate your feelings. When heterosexuals reject each other, it isn’t inherently laced with the rejection of queerness itself. More than just navigate awkward friendship boundaries when a romance isn’t possible, queer people must navigate whether they can even be friends with a straight person anymore.

Hee Su could have treated the lesbian classmate like her crush on a girl was unremarkable. Instead, he brought up her situation with his sisters in a way that felt a lot like testing the waters on whether his sisters could accept a similar truth from him. His sisters’ serious regard for the issue, and Hee Jin’s response that the confirmation that the crush could like another girl insinuated that the pining lesbian still had a chance, further confirms that this is not a world where everyone is bisexual by default without anyone having to look directly into the camera to declare themselves gay.

Hee Su panicked when Chan Young’s latest suitor (though she might have a crush on Hee Su) asked him if he liked Chan Young. He’s also currently receiving threatening messages from an anonymous sender about what they presume to know about him. I absolutely loved episode 4 ending without resolving that, or confirming the identity of the sender, so the audience can experience a miniscule fraction of what being closeted feels like.

Then there’s Seung Won. Beyond his own crush on Hee Su and admiration for their home life, he had the opportunity to hide a truth about himself from Ji Yu when she brought up how he looks at Hee Su. I like that their friendship is one that’s strong enough that she can laugh at the absurd situation he’s in without him feeling embarrassed about his truth.

All of this gives us a useful framework to use hets.

The Hets

What we gain for placing this story outside of the BL Bubble is the ability to reckon with the presumptions and consequences of expected queer responses to angst. I love that Hee Su has a crush on his straight friend as Seung Won has a crush on Hee Su. In any sort of romantic story, the audience generally sides with the protagonist, and tends to side with their baseline perspective on things.

Hee Su has a nonproductive crush on his best friend. I might grow frustrated with the unspoken impasse in this story if I didn’t have Seung Won’s crush, or the budding romance between Chan Young and Ji Yu as additional complications in this story. Chan Young not noticing what’s going on with Hee Su would prove frustrating if Hee Su wasn’t also actively working against his best friend’s goals.

Moreover, it’s hard to support the inherent validity of Hee Su’s feelings, with the additional demand that Chan Young must pick up on them (or even reciprocate them) without disrespecting Seung Won’s feelings as well. This love rhombus works because Hee Su is not the only sympathetic character in this situation. If Chan Young must respond and reciprocate Hee Su’s gay feelings as our protagonist, where does that leave Seung Won? We must instead focus on what the characters do in pursuit of their goals and the resulting consequences.

Chan Young clearly loves Hee Su, and listens to him closely; but the boy is straight, and he won’t likely reciprocate Hee Su’s feelings. He’s not teasing Hee Su just because they have a physically affectionate friendship, which he also seems to have with Ho Sik. Hee Su himself noted that Chan Young’s response to Ji Yu is new and unlike anything he’s ever seen from him.

As for Ji Yu, I love that she’s been given a full personality. She’s another character being misunderstood by her peers as a snotty rich girl, when we’re shown that she’s a poor girl working a part time job on top of cram school while building a music career. This girl is busy! We see her pick up on Chan Young’s interest, and she responded in kind. That the feelings between them are so easy for them to feel and express serves as a frank comparison to Hee Su’s gay angst (though Hee Su and Seung Won could learn from the Episode 1 Lesbian and confess!)

Ji Yu also didn’t recoil at the possibility that her longtime friend Seung Won might have a crush on her. She was surprised, and respected Seung Won’s avoidance about it for a while before trying to approach him properly about it. Her eventually laughing at him over his situation with Hee Su works for me because she treated him seriously.

I also can’t hate Chan Young for being straight. He clearly values his friends, and he’s got an active sports storyline for me to follow! He’s clearly going to hurt himself over his newfound determination to succeed in tennis now that he’s motivated by his crush on Ji Yu.

In this show, I genuinely like the control Chan Young and Ji Yu offer, along with Ho Sik and Hee Su’s sisters, as a baseline for what heterosexuality looks like in this show’s world.

Wrapping Up

Honestly, I’m having so much fun with this show. It’s been so refreshing to have a show to look forward to on Fridays and Saturdays with the current drought I’m in. Ahn Ji Ho is so great at the physicality of his character, and he’s got excellent control over his facial expressions (I was cackling at his emoji-esque glare at Seung Won). He has consistent scene chemistry with every performer in this show. More than that, it’s just really nice to watch a show that told us exactly what it was about in the first episode before delivering on that experience every single episode. This show is really good, and it’s so rare that I’ve been able to say that lately.

[maumimicheonaba]

Actuly liked the hic2 ep today heesu is as oblivious as a moth seungwon is actually so fucking cute this actor is great at showing the charm of his character because in the manga I only ever focused on heesu seungwon was very forgettable? I did like him for heesu but mainly because of how good he was to heesu and how he was always just there. In the drama his character has more depth and he is still quiet which I really like but we see and focus on alot of the reasons why he would like heesu to this extent now. Because we see him.

Idgaf about chanyoung still don't like him much but jiyuuu I misjudged you she's actually a really good friend to seungwon and now I don't see why she would be so close to seungwon considering he doesn't seem to be a good friend to her at all 😭

Both the besties are progressing in thier relationships and yet jiyu is putting alot more effort into helping seungwon with his and he barely even talks to her about what's up with chanyoung. I actually don't wanna hear more about jiyu and chanyoung the amount of screentime they had this ep was perfect as the side couple but I also don't like seeing uneven friendships.

Which brings us to chanyoung and heesu. The possibility of getting outed is terrifying so I get why heesu did what he did. It's good for him to not fling to chanyoung as much too. But poor chanyoung. He always had heesu by side whenever he needed him and suddenly he just did not. It's unfair for him heesus feelings are not his problem so him losing his best friend a little because of it is sad. I still don't really like him <3

Don't like heesu much either but like him much better than I did in Ep 3.

The moms picture scene had me hitting my bed squealing!!! It made me feel warmer to see it in the manga than in the drama , maybe because heesu seemed much more affected by it in the manga. It was his first time seeing other queers. Here we know it's no issue for his family to accept someone liking the same gender already with the girl in the first ep. That part still I wierds me out a little.

Anyway, good ep. Yay.

[gravity-knight]

Every time I see HiC2 someone is talking about how the straight couple is stealing the show

And I have been so steeped in the queerness for years now that it’s hard for me to watch anything with straight romance

But I do think Chan Young and Ji Yu are cute.

Heesu actually gets me a bit heated but whatever

I’m thinking of putting this one down until it’s completed. I don’t know if people are over reacting, I haven’t gotten to those parts yet but it is making me reconsider.

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[taeminie]

The mind and the heart don't always move in the same direction. Once again... I'm getting an uneasy feeling that something is beginning.

Heesu in Class 2 (2025) dir. Park Kyung Min

[heretherebedork]

I sincerely wish we had gotten a better feeling of HeeSu and ChanYoung's friendship outside of HeeSu's crush on him. I dunno, they never felt like best friends to me and the moments when the show tried to lean on that aspect never felt authentic to me. Not fully, not the way SeungWon and JiYu's friendship felt real.

[ahxiang]

only managed to watch 5 mins before i had to go to lab and i'm stuck here for the whole day, but the quality is so high!!!!!

[myroaring30s]

Just finished ep.6 and I’m living for this show like it had so much heart and intent and the characters are perfectly imperfect in the best way - with the astronomy factor tying it all in just a Wanbyeog Way

[heesulovebot]

WAKE UP NEW CASTING FOR HEESU IN CLASS 2 JUST DROPPED 

[katana-masen]

C5Farmプラン別設置シミュレーション【キャピタルソロ・節約プラン】

　昨日の記事では、Ｃ５W-Spaceでの金策立ち上げについての概略を説明したわけだが、あまりにも内容が適当すぎて、あれを読んだだけでは実際にFarmを立ち上げるのは難しいかもしれない。

　そこで、今日は各シチュエーション毎に具体的なプランを作り、どの程度の初期費用・維持費が現時点のマーケット価格でかかるのか検討していこう。

　具体的にどの程度の費用が必要かどうかわかれば、設置の大まかな見込みが立つだろう。

【キャピタルソロ・節約プラン】

　このプランでは、主にC5初心者ソロ向け （EVE初心者向けではないので注意） に、できるだけ初期支出を抑え、損益分岐点を引き下げながら、最終的にキャピタルFarmで最高レベルの収益を得ることを目指す。

居住地の条件

　まず居住地の条件を決めねばならない。キャピタルソロを前提としているため、Vanilla / Red Giant / Pulsar / Magnetar の４種のうちから選ぶ。このうち、Magnetar はトラッキングにデバフがかかる関係上、初心者向けではないため、除外する。Red Giant / Pulsar は市場取引価格がやや高いため、今回はタンク方式を選ばず初心者向けであるVanillaを選択する。　固定WHについては、キャピタルの搬入出を容易にし、実際の金策立ち上げまでにかかる時間を短縮するため、C5固定を選択する。

W-Spaceの確保

　先ず、多大な労力と資金を必要とするEvictは選択肢から除外する。残る自力発見・設置型と購入型だが、自力発見にはかなり時間がかかることが予想されるため、今回は購入を選択する。

　例えば、この広告（ WTS C5-C5 Vanilla with Astra ）では、Astrahus / コア / 戦闘機 / 1か月分の燃料 がセット��2.3Bとなっており、実際の内容物を見ないと断定はできないが、十分リーズナブルな値段と言える。

　サードパーティに仲介を依頼するとして、10％の仲介手数料込みで、W-Spaceへのアクセス＋Citadel 一式の代金としてまず2.53B必要となる。

追加の建造物

　DreadnoughtおよびCarrierを格納するため、Astrahusに加えてPOSを建造する必要がある。Dreadnoughtの退避場所として使う場合、原則としてLargeCTを用いる。Medium以下ではForceFieldが狭すぎるためだ。

　CTは各4大国および海賊型のバリアントが存在するが、今回はAmarrCTを採用する。AmarrCTを使用する理由は単純で、最もパワーグリッド出力が多いからである。POSモジュールの殆どは莫大なPGを消費し、POSFitのモジュール上限はPGによって左右される。最大限に重武装を施しても、大抵の場合、AMarrCTですらCPUは半分程度しか消費しないのである。

　POSFitはこのようにする。POSGunのDPSなどたかが知れているので、基本的にはE-Warに注力する。このセットアップでは、POSBashに頻繁に用いられるTriglavian艦およびその随伴Logiとして使用頻度が高いGuardianの採用しているRader Sensorを無力化するために、 White Noise Generation Batteryを多めに搭載している。

　これらのFit一式および、1か月分のHelium燃料、Strrontiumの総額は現時点で約1.3B程度となる。

ラッティング艦

　ラッティング艦は、���然Dreadnoughtを用意する。前回紹介したT2FitのNaglfarを用意する場合の初期投資は次のようになる。

　Naglfar Hull ( 4B ) + Fit + Wetu Mobile Depot + MTU + Quad 800mm Repeating Cannon II x 2 = 6.9B

穴潰し船

　穴潰しに必要な船を調達する。Megathron5隻、HIC2隻に加え、Carrier1隻を用意するのが理想だが、最低限のキャラ数である2キャラでFarmを運営すると仮定して、Megathron3隻（1隻は予備）、HIC1隻のみを用意することとする。

Megathron x 3 = 950M

Broadswordx 1 = 350M

　合計 1.3B

その他必要な各種艦船

　スキャナー船

Helios x 2 = 200M

Loki x 1 = 400M

　輸送船

Occator x 1 = 250M

Viator x 1 = 200M

　その他

Zephyr x 1 = 100

Cormorant ( Salvage ) x 1 = 40M

　トータル

　最低限必用な初期投資額の合計　13.30B（時価）

　1ヵ月当たりのPOS及びCitadelの維持燃料費（31000Helium Fuel Block）　600M（時価）

　1ヵ月のOmegaアカウント2キャラ分のPLEX 3B（時価）

　プラン総括

　節約プランでもこの初期投資額はとにかく高い。やはりCapital HullとT2Capitalモジュールの現状の価格は異常なまでに高すぎる。 　このプランでは、Dreadnought Skill Lv.4でも時給1.2B程度は達成できるであろう。したがって、毎週末3時間程度ラッティングした場合、1ヵ月で14.4Bの収入となり、1ヵ月で取得費用の清算は終わることになる。それ以降は、毎月10Bの純利益が出る。もちろんそれまで死ななければの話だが。PIやガス、データサイト等で副収入を得ることもできるので、多少はここから積み増しできるだろう。ちなみに、ラッティングに必要な消耗品等の諸経費はせいぜい1ヵ月当たり～300M程度であり、ラッティングで得られる収入額に比べれば無視できるレベルである。

　なお、本プランで想定しているオメガ2キャラでFarmを運用するというのは本当に必要最低限、ギリギリの運用方法である。もし事故が起こればW-Spaceへのアクセスを失って全資産ロストの憂き目にあう可能性もある。余裕をもって運用するならば、やはり4アカウント程度は必要だろう。