Honey Lemon Soda (2021)

Al principio da un poco de cringe, pero lo cute te termina comprando.

¡Hola a todos! Hoy me paso por acá para hablarles de "Honey lemon soda" en nombre de Aldi y mío porque las dos opinamos lo mismo jaja.

La historia sigue a Uka, una chica a la que le cuesta hacer amigos, en su camino hacia superar la timidez gracias a la ayuda de Kai, un chico con el pelo color limón que se ofrece a ayudarla.

Empezamos a ver esta película solo porque amamos a Raul, sí, el actor se llama Raul, y nos terminamos encontrando con una historia de amor súper disfrutable a pesar de lo cliché... Bueno, eso una vez que superamos el cringe inicial que fue bastante grande.

Lo bueno de la protagonista es que, aunque al principio puede pecar de ingenua y sumisa, con el tiempo va ganando confianza hasta convertirse en un personaje muy bonito (su evolución se da muy rápido, pero de vez en cuando no viene mal). Kai, en cambio, es más complicado porque, aunque lo amamos mucho, aceptamos que está muy alejado de la realidad (nos negamos a creer que personas así existen), por eso el cringe del principio. Eso sí, Raul actuando superó nuestras expectativas (fue rarísimo confirmar que puede no actuar como una diva y solo como una diva*). Y Ai (Uka) es muy buena as always.

Pasando al resto del cast, todos están súper bien y los personajes que interpretan nos gustaron mucho, sobre todo porque se escapan de lo esperable en este tipo de historias (que la mayoría no sean unos bullies o unos tsunderes es decir mucho).

Y volviendo a la historia, hay un conflicto central en toda la trama que termina por explotar al final y, aunque no sé bien como expresarlo, digamos que es medio una boludez y lo exageran mucho, pero le agarramos tanto cariño a los protagonistas que no nos importó. En esta cuenta creemos en la Kai Supremacy (o es que nos gusta mucho Raul y aceptamos cualquier cosa que haga, quién sabe).

En fin, una peli muy cute con vibes súper veraniegas (es que él es el verano) y un ritmo bastante dinámico que no aburre en ningún momento.

¿La vieron? ¿Tienen ganas de verla? ¿Conocen a Raul? ¿Escuchan Snow Man? ¿Conocen a Meguro Ren? ¿Lo aman? ¿Sakuma no es una cosita muy tierna? ¿Acaso nos volvimos fans de una banda de Jpop? Ampliaremos.

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Not *that* bad, but not *that* good either...

I admit I was a little scared to watch this movie, as many of the comments I saw talking about this criticized it saying it wasn't good and that people dropped it like a hot pocket... BUT, being a reader of the original manga and knowing of Raul from Snow Man, I decided to give it a try. TL;DR: it wasn't good, but definitely not as bad some others made it out to be, as I've seen farrrr worse before in the shoujo genre. Let me explain:

STORY: If you're a fan of the genre, this will be nothing new, nor groundbreaking. If you're not a fan of the clichés and heart-pounding moments, I'd suggest you skip this one. The pacing of the story is very fast at the beginning, and then somehow towards the middle to 3/4 in, it gets a little slow and draggy. It follows the formula of a typical high school shoujo romance - ML protects the "weak" FL, both start dating, they break up for some random forced reason, and insert slow-mo chase scene with inspiring music and the FL/ML having an epiphany to tell the other person that WAIT they actually DO love them! But instead of one running scene, there's a whopping total of two. The director seemed to compile scenes from the manga that seemed a bit disjointed and forced, like one second there's a serious thing going on, and it hard cuts to the characters at the beach. There wasn't much of a solid flow or transition of the storyline, which is probably what turned a lot of viewers off.

ACTING: Raul definitely didn't suit the image of Kai for me, and same with Yoshikawa Ai for Uka. However, by the end of the film, they seemed more well-adjusted to the roles. Yoshikawa definitely outshined Raul with her acting as she was more natural in her role. The character of Kai isn't supposed to be greasy or cheesy, but it definitely felt like Raul was overdoing the "cool" factor, making his line delivery pretty greasy (which also wasn't his usual tone of voice, so it seemed forced).

MUSIC: I laughed a lot at the soundtrack (and that's not a good thing). I actually expected more Snow Man or Johnny's songs in general, but there was just the one at the very end, and instead we got a bunch of poorly made English songs that sounded like random royalty-free songs you'd find on Google. Especially the intro song.... iykyk. I thought they got some random, already-made song and just stuck it in, but then the singer proceeds to croon "Honey Lemon Soda" in the lyrics and I died inside. I was super confused and slightly awed that they actually made this song for the movie. And why English? Is this a trend now??

REWATCH VALUE: Hmm.. I probably won't rewatch this as there are plenty of shoujo movies that are better. But I won't judge if you do watch this because honestly it wasn't as bad as many others. Just be a little patient, let it take some time, and watch the credits til the end because that stuff was cute, man.

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