Strobe Edge (2025)

ストロボ・エッジ ‧ Drama ‧ 2025
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Carra
3 people found this review helpful
Nov 27, 2025
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed 2
Overall 9.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 9.5

Puppy Love In A Guilty Pleasure

A teenromance drama. Following girl who has a crush on a boy that she met on a train. Guess what? Sometimes, the fate seems funny, and has its own way to make them interact by only unimportant event, he stepped on her keychain. The story goes long between those two high-schooler.

The tale of guilty pleasure-romance. Yes, the fact that they normalizing the topic of loving someone's man is diabolical. Despite the story is around high-schooler which is a puppy love, but don't give an excuse to a cheating one, please. As long as the show runs, I keep feel guilty, but the other hand, I enjoying this lovey dovey story, not gonna lie tho.

The coming of age touch that light, cherish, and inspiring. Also, felt realistic and natural, clearly seems like any other Japanese craft. Japan and their realistic story, as always.

The performance of both heroine were good. I love their dynamic chemistry. How they portraying the clumsiness, the forbidden love, even their innocence have delivered well enough. Their subtle acting at its finest. Nothing exaggerate.

The cinematography was beauty. Also, I'm beyond loving the lighting, utterly magnificent, so aesthetic and warmth. I love that the color grading was perfectly fit with the lighting. Not too yellowish, but success to depict the warmth vibes. The Japanese scenery that always calming and greenish. The visual design that eyegasm. Also, I love the scoring. The piano tinkling that enhance the ambience.

Overall, if you craving for teenlit with quadrangle love, you might love this one. Every scene looks pretty aesthetic that I could capturing every piece of it. So good, but guilty pleasure.

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MLJH
2 people found this review helpful
Jan 9, 2026
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10

Lets go!!!

Everything I love about jdramas is in this show, but where oh where is season TWO!!! Fast paced, all the cinematography with this one is on point. Casting is perfect, I need more STAT!!!!

After being stuck with some angsty k and c dramas that get sucked into dumb plots 2/3 of the way in, and ruin the momentum of a great show, I love coming back to a jdrama because they plain don’t mess around. And I love them for that.

This is it!!!

I’m just hoping season two is everything we hope for because its certainly leading that way with season one.

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Nyy010
0 people found this review helpful
Jan 23, 2026
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 7.0

Mixed up teenage love

This drama is an extremely innocent story about first love crushes and how a group of teenagers deal with it. The problem is, everyone seems to have crushes on the wrong person. There's so much unrequited love in this drama, it gets extremely annoying to watch.
I'm not a fan at all of the lead male protagonist, Ren. Nothing against the actor, Kyohei Takahashi, but his character is so cold, boring and has zero personality ... and yet everyone seems to confess their love to him. I just don't get it. He's not a bad looking guy, but nothing else seems to play in his favor. To me, the only "normal" character is this series appears to be Takumi. He has a sense of humor, great personality and seems to show emotion better than anyone. Coki Yamashita does a great job at making him extremely likable.
The last episode left much to be desired as it ends. I see that a second season is coming out, so I'm hoping to see an overall improvement on the story, as well as the maturity of the characters.

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Marina
1 people found this review helpful
Jan 28, 2026
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 8.0

"Fico feliz que alguém como Ren... seja meu primeiro amor. "

Primeiro de tudo, Strobe Edge é um romance adolescente. Vejo as pessoas reclamando que a protagonista é bobinha, que o jeito deles é irritante, que eles são imaturos e pasmem, é assim que devem ser porque são adolescentes. Os personagens tem por volta de quinze/dezesseis anos, então é sem sentido assistir esperando maturidade deles. Ainda mais se você for adulto.

Eu li Strobe Edge durante a minha adolescência, agora que sou adulta esperava estranhar muito ou até descobrir que a história envelheceu muito mal. Surpreendentemente a experiência foi melhor do que eu esperava. Na verdade, tem coisas que eu entendo até melhor agora que sou mais velha.

Eu gosto muito da protagonista apesar das reclamações sobre ela. Ela se apaixona pelo Ren e é isso. Em nenhum momento ela tenta estragar o relacionamento dele, nem usa nenhum dos meninos que gostam dela porque não pode ter o Ren (ela poderia dar uma lição para a protagonista de desejo da escória ). Ela só quer aproveitar a sensação de estar apaixonada e de ter o seu primeiro amor. É tão doce e bonitinho acompanhar a primeira paixão dela.

Também não quero defender traição aqui. Porém nesse mérito eu acho o Ren muito mais culpado. Ele aceitou ser amigo dela mesmo depois de rejeitar a confissão dela, manteve segredos da própria namorada e, quando viu que estava se apaixonando pela protagonista, deveria ter sido sincero e terminado o relacionamento. Mas é aquilo, são adolescentes, imaturos e consigo entender eles melhor agora. E acho ele uma pessoa gentil e que combina com a protagonista.

Não consigo entender quem fala que o Andou é melhor para a protagonista. Ele me irritou horrores enquanto eu assistia. Brinca com ela, sabe que ela gosta do Ren e coloca ela em situações desconfortáveis (como levar ela para sair com o Ren e a namorada), ver que ela está sofrendo por causa que o Ren se afastou ela e beijar ela do nada sem permissão. E pelo modo que ele tratava as garotas com quem ficava antes de conhecer a kinoshita não tem nem metade da gentileza do Ren.

A cinematografia é linda, achei muito doce e delicada, bem como você imagina que deve ser a adaptação de um mangá de romance adolescente. Vale muito a pena assistir.

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