A Little Thing Called First Love

This is a lovely watch for teenager, if you're an adult don't bother

Story wise, the trope of an ordinary girl falling head over heels is kinda old, but depending on the execution it still can be enjoyable to watch. For this drama, the pace is so slow I had to play it at 1.5 x speed or even skip it often.

Now the acting and the character. I can't root for anyone here! Not even the female first lead. The acting is passable, not extraordinary, but the character itself makes me unable to love her. Chasing the most popular guy in school, changing her appearance to be more attractive society standard (fair skin, long straight hair, neat teeth), following the university and student club where he is in... Okay, the part where she studied hard is good, albeit it isn't shown well enough. It feels, everything she does always revolves around the handsome senior. The change in her appearance also betrays my logic, like how come your skin suddenly become fair with just some spray? And her hair suddenly is straightened naturally as if her old curly hair was some kind of wig (which is true I bet, for the sake of the movie).

The male first lead's acting is as versatile as a block of dry wood. Stale, flat, expressionless. I don't know if it is the directing or the script itself, or the actor who isn't capable to be more expressive, but watching him delivering his lines as if he was reading news is excruciating. I don't know that a cool guy is supposed to look stoic and flat all the time, and only smile occasionally. The scenes between him and the female first lead feels so unnatural, I can't get the butterflies or taste the slightest chemistry. It's hard to see if he likes the first female lead too, as it's not shown on his face. Everything about their relationship is like 90% conveyed by the awkwardness of the first female lead whenever she is with him.

I find the second couple more interesting to watch. Although they are mostly silly and both seem to have anger issues, at least there's some clash they present. The second female lead is the same as the first lead in the sense that she too busy chases the second male lead to the point of nagging and stalking at first. But at least she has some personality and finally stand up for herself when the second lead professes his feeling for the first female lead (rather a silly love triangle trope). What I like a bout that part is the second female lead turns cold towards the second male lead but she still keeps her friendship with the first female lead. At least, apart from being too nagging and male-chaser in the first part, she isn't that silly and immature when her feelings isn't reciprocated.

The second male lead is the definition of immaturity. He always seems angry. Still, I'd still prefer him than the deadwood first male lead. The part when he confesses his feeling towards the first female lead in front of everyone is silly and baseless. Even so, I still enjoy his erratic relationship with the first male lead and the second female lead. It's more colorful than the relationship of the main couple.

I picked up this drama, hoping to watch some light melodrama that might remind me of the silly teenage years I had, but I ended up losing some brain cells after some episodes. Still, I should give some credits: the visual of this series is good. Some scenes got weird camera angle, but it's aesthetically pleasant. It's nice to get a glimpse of education in China and see daily life of people there. My last would be: It can be a fun watch for teenagers, I would probably enjoy it 10-15 years ago, but now I can't help but skipping many scenes and just cut straight to some highlighted (unnecessary) conflicts.

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I started this one straight after "Put Your Head on My Shoulder, which was a real gem. I then discovered that the same writer, Zhao Qian Qian, was involved with both of them AND another all-time favourite, A Love So Beautiful. Which made the leaden dullness of this one even more disappointing.

Perhaps it's because this was a remake of other material, while the others are not listed as such. The writer may have been constrained by the source material, I don't know. I do know that the source was a Thai MOVIE, while this is a 36 episode Drama. And that's a big problem right there. The material is far too thin to stretch out from a movie of under 2 hours to a Drama of something like 24 hours runtime. The contrast with PYHOMS was especially painful because that Drama was very short, just 24 40 minute episodes, and felt lively throughout. In this one, the story proper was barely starting by the time I got to episode 10, ugh!.

Also, with both ALSB and PYHOMS, the Dramas hooked me in episode one, especially the female characters. In THIS one, the female lead was uninteresting and unmotivated, the only characters that drew a reaction in the first 4 episodes were her AWFUL little sister and her only slightly less awful mother.

As a fan of romantic Dramas, I have no problem at all with clichés and tropes if they're presented through good acting and good writing. This Drama was 0 for 2 by the end of ten episodes, so I dropped it. I will be interested to see if Ms Zhao's next Drama, not listed as a remake, is a hit like her other two, or a miss like this one.

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I never dislike any main actress in Chinese drama that I have watched so far but seriously, Angel Zhao/Zhao Jinmai is not that pretty in reality even when she's dressing up. So actually there's no point for the production team to make her wearing frizzy wig, ugly teeth, because even when she's tryna look pretty, she's actually just an average looking actress. I think it's okay to only maintain the dark skin. Gosh her character is kinda like a psychotic (I mean [duh] look yourself in the mirror first, try to make yourself prettier, smarter by your ownself rather than making that "ask for sympathy", loser and irritating face. In reality, it won't happen. She's ugly, not smart, no charm, character is like a loser, pathetic, psychotic, silly, not being known.....AT FIRST, so it's sooooo ridiculous for Liang YouNian to easily like her, it's nonsense! Who the hell is she to portray her jealousy, show her cold face when other girls adore Nian, she has no right at all to act like He Xin, XiaoYue and other girl is a threat, I feel like giving a mirror to her. Her best friends should tell her to stop daydreaming and work her ass on improving herself before trying to befriend and get close with Nian - this is a good friend should do. The cast for her best friend should change to someone that is slender and cute/pretty unlike in this drama. This is like a bunch of shameless pathetic loser girls (lin xia and miaomiao), Lin Xia should be the one to motivate miao miao to study harder, improve her appearance and character so that miaomiao deserves to have nian as bf whatsoever. He Xin should do the same too, why on earth she's match making and trying so hard to make her cousin to get close with that nobody at first, pfffttttttt, so nonsense! Xia MiaoMiao looks so sloopy, smelly, and her hair looks like having a flea on it...even after she took off her braces, wore skincare product. I keep on watching this drama only because of im a fan of Lai Kuanlin and i have no problem with other casts, i just hate so much the role of xia miao miao. I believe there are more cuter young chinese actresses. why choose angel zhao, haihhhhhh spoiled my mood. If you have watched Crazy Little Thing Called Love - thailand 2010 movie, the main actress looks wayyyyyyyyyyyy better, you won't get annoyed looking at her but as for this angel zhao, seriously....she's not that pretty so no need to overdo it with frizzy curl dry got flea looking hair, smelly looking, ugly teeth, dark skin... just maintain her original look with the characters of the role, then it logically make sense on why the guy can fall for the girl... and not being a fairytale story. Or maybe maintain the look of xia miao miao in this story but with better attitude (smart, diligent, no time to fall for guys, don't mind cannot make friends because live in her own world blah3) and it make sense too if Nian falls for her. I mean, who the hell will naturally like and adore a human being like Xia Miao Miao. RIDICULOUS!!!! Plus, they don't look compatible and suit to be together at all, and other support roles looks overshadow angel zhao look. Elkie/Zhu Jintong should actually get the role for xia miao miao, they look better.
Hope in future there will be no stupid role like this.

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Apesar do lenga-lenga, eu gostei.

Quando minha amiga me indicou esse drama eu não imaginei que gostaria tanto, gostei bastante porém quando foi chegando os últimos episódios eu já estava cansada do lenga-lenga e tava doidinha pra terminar.

Eu amei o elenco, a química dos atores é perfeita, porém eu achei que a história se estendeu mais do que deveria e alguns personagens não tiveram um bom desenvolvimento, como por exemplo a Lin Xia.

Confesso que shippei muito errado, só consegui shippar o casal principal nos últimos episódios. O casal He Xin e Lin Kai Tuo ao meu ver não teve desenvolvimento algum, foi o drama inteiro a He Xin correndo atrás dele e magicamente depois ele começa a gostar dela faltando menos de 10 episódios para acabar. Não gostei disso.

Recomendo muito este drama, uma história fofinha e é incrível ver como a protagonista cresceu e amadureceu durante toda a história. Apesar de tudo, eu gostei do drama e quero muito assistir outros dramas com esses atores.

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I feel it's underated

It's a very lovely story, I would say it's kinda weary in the last six episodes, they could've handled it better, but to be fair it's so much more than I was expecting from a 2019 cdrama.

Everyone who watches cdramas knows that some years ago, like 2020 and years before, it was unbearable to watch a drama in general, not only cdramas, because there's always an asshole as a male protagonist and it's annoying how they loved to normalize it like it was a love story. This is not the case with A Little Thing Called First Love, Liang You Nian is lovely, respectful, gentle, kind and all of the good things you would search for in a green flag, which surprises me since at that time it was common to see jerks as protagonists.
And don't even get me started on Xia Miao Miao, she's such a bubbly and lovely girl, hope she's always happy because she deserves it.

All I want to say is that it's a fun and lovely cdrama, the weary episodes are not unbearable and it was such a pleasurable experience for me to watch it. Hope to rewatch it in the future.

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Tinha tudo pra ser incrível, mas não deu não

Queria muito de ter gostado mais desse dorama porque ele começa de forma curiosa e interessante. A evolução da personagem principal é fantástica. Adoro como mostram o dia-a-dia nos cursos de moda e arquitetura na China. Contudo, um dorama que retrata a vida dos personagens do colegial até o fim da faculdade sem ter ocorrido um único beijo na boca, não tem o menor sentido. Mesmo a falta de abraços, mãos dadas, qualquer tipo de carinho em um enredo claramente de cunho romântico, é como querer falar de natação sem mostrar piscina. Até entendo que não houve porque os atores eram menores de idade, mas daí ou imaginavam outro tipo de roteiro ou trocassem o elenco. Ficou uma coisa super juvenil pra uma história que tinha todo potencial para ser um pouco mais maduro. Uma pena porque os dois atores principais, em especial a Angel, são excelentes!

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PERDI MEU TEMPO VENDO ESSE

Meu deus do céu, que drama tenebroso!Sou de amar cliches mas esse eu não aguentei. Tudo horrível depois do episódio 10, péssimo cortes das cenas nos episódios, história sem nexo algum!! Dramas desnecessários, assisti 31 episodios para ter uma cena de beijo e depois os protagonistas terminam e só voltam no final?! Absurdo! Nunca vi uma historia de cliche tão horrível igual essa, a prota é muito lerda, esse ml uma porta as vezes, todo mundo querendo estragar a vida dos outros do nada 🫠 Faltou muitas explicações de sequência da história, eu dormi tantas vezes depois do episódio 20, a história ficou muito chata e maçante, eu realmente perdi meu tempo vendo esse drama, se você gosta de cliches recomendo procurar outro, esse é horrivel.

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legal e divertida

Gosto muito de ver drama que acompanha os personagens através de anos, mas esse me decepcionou um pouco. Me incomodei muito com a aparência da Xia Miao Miao no início estava TÃO artificial que parecia extremamente caricata, apesar disso gostei da transformação mais sutil que fizeram nela, nada de banho de loja e nem nada do tipo, o protagonista se interessou pelo jeito dela, não por aparência. Assisti mais pela história que era legal e até divertida, um outro ponto positivo é que o protagonista não é toxico e nem se acha o dono do mundo e só de não puro suco de Chernobyl já trouxe leveza pro drama.

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Esse c-drama tem muitos pontos negativos na história mas algumas coisas salvam bastante, não é muito bom e nem muito ruim, é mediano. Oque mais me incomodou no c-drama inteiro foi a aparência da Miao Miao no início, era tão artificial e forçado que vendo ela entre os outros personagens causava um grande incômodo, não tinha necessidade de fazer a pele dela laranja e muito menos fazer dentes que pareciam ser mastigados, vemos muitos dramas que tem plot de "menina feia" onde eles colocam algumas manchas e espinhas e conseguem fazer uma transformação boa na protagonista, então não acho que era necessário fazer tudo aquilo, mas eu gostei da forma que ela foi mudando por vontade própria e aprendendo a se descobrir, apesar de não ter ganhado muita confiança em si mesma. O Liang Younian foi um protagonista extremamente fofo e não agia com frieza, sempre tratava todos bem e é uma pessoa realmente agradável. Não tenho muito oque falar sobre os outros personagens porque não consegui gostar de verdade de nenhum, todos pareciam bem imaturos pra suas idades e eram um pouco irritantes em alguns momentos. Eu gosto de dramas onde eles acompanham o crescimento dos personagens mas achei que esse foi um pouco lento demais na evolução das coisas, demorou muito para o casal realmente se desenvolver e eles colocaram mal entendidos que geravam um afastamento maior ainda entre o casal, sendo que as coisas poderiam ser resolvidas em uma frase, mas por algum motivo todo mundo decidia ir empurrando e deixando para lá. Senti muita falta também do desenvolvimento de várias coisas, e principalmente do relacionamento do Kaituo e He xin, que não tiveram química alguma e a impressão que ficou foi que o Kaituo só ficou com a He Xin porque não teve outra opção. Mas em geral é um c-drama para se assistir se estiver bem entediado e procurando por algo bobo sem história muito complexa.

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