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Did something happen in production during the second half? Were the writers changed last minute?Because I refuse to believe a show with such a promising start fell off THAT hard for no reason. I mean, did the writers not realize that after episode 6 they were writing one-dimensional caricatures with no real problems?

Yeah the dramatic moments in the original (I assume you mean the manga and not the original drama as I havent watched that fully yet) while rare were necessary and always served a purpose. Here, things were toned down a lot and the drama not only felt that it came out of nowhere but it also ended up serving no real narrative purpose or chance for character development... It also lacks emotion and the characters aren't doing really anything for me to root for in the second half as much as I did in the first half...

After the anime + manga I decided to go with the most recent live action and I found this really charming and loyal to the story at first (and really exciting for having a longer runtime) but I'm on ep 10 rn and I feel like everything after episode 6 has started falling apart. I'm going to power through the last two episodes but does it get better? It feels like this version is trying so hard to be overly sweet? Overly positive? And it misses a lot of nuance. It's a bit mind numbing to watch but maybe it's because the story is hard to tell in such a long format...