✒Popsicle Debacle ⛸️ Captain Korea & Buck'em Keep it Cool °4.9° °poor°
“Cryopreservation experimentation can no longer be considered something for the distant future.
The USA, Russia, & SK are estimated to have preserved about 600 people in capsules all around the world. As long as human beings exist, there is no limit to what scientific technology can do… Eternal life is no longer a future fantasy.” Thus, MMS starts. Once they put it onscreen, it's old news; they're already far beyond that point. People who don't think the rich and powerful are feverishly working on all methods of immortality, including cryogenics, should consider whether they've really studied human nature.
It opens dark, mysterious, and in the last millennium. It's 1999. Ma “Dong” Chan's fresh face is in stark contrast to the sickly greens and greys. He's offering to help. Next, we see him in a chamber made of super-hard polycarbonate glass and special alloy metals. He's about to become a human popsicle along with 5 others. Very few directors are willing to get their hands dirty, but Dong is willing to put his body where his vision is. He's the director of infinite Experiment Paradise, an immensely popular science /entertainment/ show. “I'm considering something others won't do,“ he announces when a reporter asks. He's still at room temperature, but headed for sub-zero. “But you can't stand the cold! You never even put on the AC,” his gf protested vehemently. Dong had already decided, though. He's beyond arguments. He just needs 1 more test subject. A female.
“20 years from now you'll meet your true love,” Go “Mi” Ran's fortune-teller blurts out. She's there for advice as to whether she should take the cryo job or not - she's thinking “not”. “20 YEARS! I'LL BE 44!” Mi doesn't consider this good news. She won't be with her current boyfriend for 20 more minutes, though. She caught him cheating. (Dong witnesses Mi take down her (now) ex-bf. He's impressed. He actually dreams of her that night). This isn't love at first sight, though. She's been in practically every one of Dong's shows, yet he still doesn't know her name.
Mi starts the following day with a phone call. She didn't get the job she wanted. She's been doing all kinds of crazy stuff for money, and it looks like that won't stop any time soon. But there's no FREAKIN way she's going to let them freeze her! Well, ‘the director, himself, is participating,‘ she's told. Flat refusal. ‘We'll pay you 5M won.’ ‘Okay.’ It went sumpin like that… Eh, close enough.
MMS is a 2019 release that is rated 90 on AWiki / 7.6 on MDL / 6.9 on IMDB. It is 1 season consisting of 16 65-minute episodes. Prime auto-started it after another show ended. It didn't seem promising, but I gave it a shot, and by ep10 I was still undecided. It's a pleasant but empty watch through ep10. It's quite silly, but the two leads are compelling enough. It proceeded to decline and became unwatchable by ep12. The plot never did get off of the ground. What MMS offers is below avg escapism and an extended look at 2 beautiful leads.
These 2 beautiful leads are to be frozen for a brief time and it's all going to be on TV. Just as things are underway, a shadowy figure attacks the lead scientist, and he's the only one capable of waking them up. He secretly developed his own method by using protein found in Arctic fish. The assistant shoves doc into a cryo-chamber and everything goes black. Dong and Mi are going to have to chill for a while. The show's title, Melting Me Softly… well, it isn't true. Out of fear, Dong's coworkers keep the whole thing a secret. These two will get a pretty rude awakening.
Ji Chang Wook is Dong. He's a perfectly good ML. I've seen him in Lovestruck in the City-7.3 & The K2-8, which I loved, The Worst of Evil-7.7, which I liked, and Backstreet Rookie-6.4 which was more miss than hit. He can sing! He does a karaoke scene and he's really good. Won Jin A (Just Between Lovers) is Mi. Her voice is a gorgeous alto. Bangs took away years of her life. She looks 10 yrs older in She Would Never Know-7.3. Some of her outfits are adorable with a classic retro vibe in navy & white stripes or starched bright white cotton. She would look cute in anything.
Mi's mother is portrayed by Kil Hae Yeon, who is fabulous in Something in the Rain-8.6, One Spring Night-7.8, and Beyond Evil-7.4. Yoon Na Moo is Go Nam Tae, Mi Ran's special needs little brother as he was in 1999. This kid was fantastic in When My Love Blooms-7. As a grown up he's played by Yoon Na Moo from Dr. Romantic. Yoon Se Ah, who is marvelous in My Sassy Girl-8.5 and SKY Castle-9, portrays Na Ha Young, Dong's gf since 1999. In 2019, she's 20 years older than him and has 20 more years of information and experience. It is a huge gap, & too much to overcome. I like this actress, but I may not have if this was my first look at her. They do up her hair and makeup dreadfully. She seems faded and colorless, like an old photo. She only looks at Dong with a face full of pain, and it's tiresome. She starts to come back to life, though, toward the end of the show. Her looks improve and she does the most to crack the case. Her character is smart. Kim Bup Rae plays the CEO of Unsung group. He's a bad guy in the show, but his rich dark velvety voice is always good. Director, Shin Woo Cheol, brought us Gu Family Book & Secret Garden, while Screenwriter, Baek Mi Kyung, penned Mine-8 & the enormously popular Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (one of the main reasons I'm about to get a Viki pass).
Eventually, the leads are reanimated. Dong finds out his supposed “friends” from work left him to rot. In ep5 he has a talk with his old gf that's quite striking. He's the one who's been through it, but she turns it all around back onto herself. Obviously, it wasn't easy for her, but when he tries to ask her about the effect her actions and inactions had on HIM, all she wants to talk about is the toll it took on HER. They are making the break-up easy. Given the lack of information, everyone thought Dong was missing all this time. Same for Mi. Dong feels very guilty about what happened to Mi, so he takes her under his wing. They don't like e/o. She's got a lot of energy, and right now she's putting it into anger. When her old bf (he's OLD now!) starts coming onto her strong, Dong will defend her. “Maybe you shouldn't smile at guys. They might think you're cute 〰 not that I do🙄” As she slurps her noodles we see him smirk at her. They are thawing out rather quickly.
‘Don't do anything that'll get your heart rate going,’ Dong cautions Mi. “You have to maintain a 31.6° body temperature.” (88.88° F). Getting overheated for these two can be deadly. The doctor also made it out alive, but he is ill and forgetful. He hasn't been able to complete their treatments. Therefore, they are in danger of dying if they become overheated, so they probably have no business hanging around together. Their attraction must have grown invisible roots underground while they were thoroughly unaware of it, being focused on so many other things. When they're out scouting locations, she gets overheated and passes out. He's tending to her frantically when it starts to pour. They're drenched. Suddenly, she 💋smacks one on him. Boy, did it get awkward, later. The car ride back was extended, uncomfortable silence. Radio? Only Love songs were playing that day. When they got to her driveway, he wanted to talk, but she absolutely did NOT. She bolted. Eventually, she calls him and apologizes, explaining that she thought she was going to die and wanted to kiss /somebody-ANYbody/ before she did. Well, that made him feel special. “What man could be kissed against his will?” Back at work, the manager is talking to the group about sexual harassment and bats away that silly question. His response was so immediate and forceful that both our leads are taken aback.
“If you keep this up, I will… I'll fall for you, that's what.” Mi stands there, Frozen. Her telemetry is burring and blaring, though. More than a confession, Dong was issuing a warning… to himself. From the time of that utterance, he's in a fight with himself. He pushes Mi away. Then, he relapses and tries to draw her in. He'll brag about himself or try to make himself more attractive to her. He both wants her and he wants to push her away. Next, he picks a fight with her when she sets up view-blocking books up between their opposing desks. One thing is obvious: He's hyper-focused on her. It's a little unnerving for Mi. These are 2 great leads. Their interaction is good, and the attraction is tangible. They keep it (sort of) rolling for 11ish episodes but no more.
What's wrong with MMS? MMS is shallow and low IQ. The writing is sloppy. The cast are all fantastic, but they can only do so much with these substandard lines. The villain is a bit of an eye-roller. Dong’s family is too nonsensical. It's actually uncomfortable. Mi's ex is just icky. Not only do they not have enough content for 16 episodes, but the plot hardly goes anywhere to begin with. Halfway through I was thinking it might be a 6 or 7, but then it started a freefall. Prime may have the best Chinese catalog, but I'm beginning to question the caliber of their Korean selections.
What's good about the show? Too little. When he wakes up his family is called to the hospital. The reunion is pretty funny. They've all aged, but he hasn't. The family & healthcare workers are completely flabbergasted. Mi gets right back into school. On the bus, she whips out her Walkman and headphones. A kid looks at her incredulously, and she shoots him flashing eyes and an aggressive “What?” gesture. It's all non-verbal, which makes it better. Being frozen for 20 years really messes up Asia's rigid status system. They technically maintain status over their younger siblings even though they're still really kids.
My favorite scene is when friends are at church together. The one friend is married to Mi's ex, and he ain't acting right. The shaman is in between the other women (yes, Ms Shaman attends services), and she has a talent for inspiring people as displayed by her prayer, which is quite poignant. “This poor child, dear Lord… her husband has been out of his mind….. The love between a couple comes to an end, but the temperature they reach is different for each person. One of them might still feel the warmth, but the other might be cold as ice…” Solemn piano music strikes up in the background. We see the wife crying and praying in church and the husband checking into a motel room. He's left her. The scene is beautiful sadness.
While everything else is going on, shady figures have been trying to kill the doctor. The doc, suffering from memory lapses, is trying to replicate the formula to normalize their body temps, but not before our 2 popsicles start to mutate and fall apart. The last few episodes deal with the race to save their lives and expose the bad guys that caused this popsicle debacle.
Eventually, Dong will kiss Mi. When they both heat up, the shower remedies that issue. They make us wait until ep11, but they reward our wait with an epic kiss. It doesn't have enough heat to prevent the show from being tepid, though. I'd have to recommend “pass” for this one. Even for romantiholics. The only reason to watch MMS is if one is a particularly ardent fan of the leads. For everyone else, MMS is as appealing as room temperature ice cream.
QUOTE🗣
We define our own psychological age.
IMHO〰🖍
📣5.5 📝4 🎭7.5 💓5 🦋6 🎨7 🎵/🔊7 🔚5 🤗2 ▪ 🌞4.5 ⚡5 😅3.5 😭2 😱3 😯2 🤢2 🤔3 💤4
Shazams:
Ice Doll by Parc Jae Jung, Drip-Drip, by Yu Na
Age 11+ Language: one or two occurrences of $h!+; Rated: TV-15. This is more on a lid level than an adult level.
Re-📺? Not gonna happen. The better question is: Is it worth watching once? Not at all.
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
🌐💘 -
My Only Love Song-8.7 ~ excellent comedy,
Crazy Love-7.8,
99 days with the Superstar-7,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
A Witch's Love-7.9, My First First Love-8,
A Love So Beautiful-7,
Playful kiss-7.3,
Racket Boys-8.3,
The Legend of the Blue Sea-7.2 (But for eps 20 &21 it's an 8+)Marry My Husband-7.5,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.2,
Familiar Wife-8.5,
Reply 1988-8.6,
Oh My Venus-7.4K,
Love to Hate You 8.9, Touch your heart-8.2,
Romance is a bonus book-7.9,
Our Blues-8.5,
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Oh My Ghost 10,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Be Melodramatic-8.7,Because This Is My First Life-7.7,
When the Camellia Blooms-8,
Cheese in the Trap-7.7,
Call It Love-8.4,
(I'll See You) When the Weather is Fine-9,
That Winter, The Wind Blows-7,
Misaeng-9.1,
Hospital Playlist 9 (give it 3 episodes to get warmed up),
Itaewon Class-8.9, More Than Friends-8,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
Something in the Rain-8.6,
My Mister 9.5,
Wonderful World-7.8,
Parasite-9,
Mother-8.8
Romance junkies only -
My Secret Romance-7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks),
Boys Over Flowers-8 ~ melodrama to the max,
The Bride of Habaek-7,
Heirs-7.3,
That Winter, The Wind Blows-7,
Something in them Rain-9,
C🇨🇳: Well-Intended Love-7.5 Rom-porn - extra points for the dopamine,
When I Fly Towards You-7.8,
Wait, My Youth-8.4,
A Little Thing Called First Love-8.5,
Find Yourself-8.9,
Hidden Love-7.8
Consider a 🇨🇳Chinese 🎎/🔮 fantasyfeature: The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8, Love Between Fairy and Devil 8.9, Love and Redemption 10 or 🇯🇵Japanese romcoms: Maid Sama 10, Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo 7.8, Love, Chunibyo And Other Delusions 8.4, or Toradora 8.5
💘 Anime
Ouran High School Host Club-8,,
Ao-chan Can't Study-7.8,
Special A Class 💓8.2,
Maid Sama-10,
Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion-8.4,
Mischievous Kiss,
True Beauty-7.5
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun-7.7,
Colourcloud Palace-7.5,
Hakkenden,
7th Time Loop-7.9,
Honey & Clover,
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU,
Princess Principal 8.6,
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale-7.5
Real Girl-7.5,
My Happy Marriage-8.3,
Nina the Starry Bride-8.4,
Your Lie In April-9,
Violet Evergarden-9.5
The USA, Russia, & SK are estimated to have preserved about 600 people in capsules all around the world. As long as human beings exist, there is no limit to what scientific technology can do… Eternal life is no longer a future fantasy.” Thus, MMS starts. Once they put it onscreen, it's old news; they're already far beyond that point. People who don't think the rich and powerful are feverishly working on all methods of immortality, including cryogenics, should consider whether they've really studied human nature.
It opens dark, mysterious, and in the last millennium. It's 1999. Ma “Dong” Chan's fresh face is in stark contrast to the sickly greens and greys. He's offering to help. Next, we see him in a chamber made of super-hard polycarbonate glass and special alloy metals. He's about to become a human popsicle along with 5 others. Very few directors are willing to get their hands dirty, but Dong is willing to put his body where his vision is. He's the director of infinite Experiment Paradise, an immensely popular science /entertainment/ show. “I'm considering something others won't do,“ he announces when a reporter asks. He's still at room temperature, but headed for sub-zero. “But you can't stand the cold! You never even put on the AC,” his gf protested vehemently. Dong had already decided, though. He's beyond arguments. He just needs 1 more test subject. A female.
“20 years from now you'll meet your true love,” Go “Mi” Ran's fortune-teller blurts out. She's there for advice as to whether she should take the cryo job or not - she's thinking “not”. “20 YEARS! I'LL BE 44!” Mi doesn't consider this good news. She won't be with her current boyfriend for 20 more minutes, though. She caught him cheating. (Dong witnesses Mi take down her (now) ex-bf. He's impressed. He actually dreams of her that night). This isn't love at first sight, though. She's been in practically every one of Dong's shows, yet he still doesn't know her name.
Mi starts the following day with a phone call. She didn't get the job she wanted. She's been doing all kinds of crazy stuff for money, and it looks like that won't stop any time soon. But there's no FREAKIN way she's going to let them freeze her! Well, ‘the director, himself, is participating,‘ she's told. Flat refusal. ‘We'll pay you 5M won.’ ‘Okay.’ It went sumpin like that… Eh, close enough.
MMS is a 2019 release that is rated 90 on AWiki / 7.6 on MDL / 6.9 on IMDB. It is 1 season consisting of 16 65-minute episodes. Prime auto-started it after another show ended. It didn't seem promising, but I gave it a shot, and by ep10 I was still undecided. It's a pleasant but empty watch through ep10. It's quite silly, but the two leads are compelling enough. It proceeded to decline and became unwatchable by ep12. The plot never did get off of the ground. What MMS offers is below avg escapism and an extended look at 2 beautiful leads.
These 2 beautiful leads are to be frozen for a brief time and it's all going to be on TV. Just as things are underway, a shadowy figure attacks the lead scientist, and he's the only one capable of waking them up. He secretly developed his own method by using protein found in Arctic fish. The assistant shoves doc into a cryo-chamber and everything goes black. Dong and Mi are going to have to chill for a while. The show's title, Melting Me Softly… well, it isn't true. Out of fear, Dong's coworkers keep the whole thing a secret. These two will get a pretty rude awakening.
Ji Chang Wook is Dong. He's a perfectly good ML. I've seen him in Lovestruck in the City-7.3 & The K2-8, which I loved, The Worst of Evil-7.7, which I liked, and Backstreet Rookie-6.4 which was more miss than hit. He can sing! He does a karaoke scene and he's really good. Won Jin A (Just Between Lovers) is Mi. Her voice is a gorgeous alto. Bangs took away years of her life. She looks 10 yrs older in She Would Never Know-7.3. Some of her outfits are adorable with a classic retro vibe in navy & white stripes or starched bright white cotton. She would look cute in anything.
Mi's mother is portrayed by Kil Hae Yeon, who is fabulous in Something in the Rain-8.6, One Spring Night-7.8, and Beyond Evil-7.4. Yoon Na Moo is Go Nam Tae, Mi Ran's special needs little brother as he was in 1999. This kid was fantastic in When My Love Blooms-7. As a grown up he's played by Yoon Na Moo from Dr. Romantic. Yoon Se Ah, who is marvelous in My Sassy Girl-8.5 and SKY Castle-9, portrays Na Ha Young, Dong's gf since 1999. In 2019, she's 20 years older than him and has 20 more years of information and experience. It is a huge gap, & too much to overcome. I like this actress, but I may not have if this was my first look at her. They do up her hair and makeup dreadfully. She seems faded and colorless, like an old photo. She only looks at Dong with a face full of pain, and it's tiresome. She starts to come back to life, though, toward the end of the show. Her looks improve and she does the most to crack the case. Her character is smart. Kim Bup Rae plays the CEO of Unsung group. He's a bad guy in the show, but his rich dark velvety voice is always good. Director, Shin Woo Cheol, brought us Gu Family Book & Secret Garden, while Screenwriter, Baek Mi Kyung, penned Mine-8 & the enormously popular Strong Woman Do Bong Soon (one of the main reasons I'm about to get a Viki pass).
Eventually, the leads are reanimated. Dong finds out his supposed “friends” from work left him to rot. In ep5 he has a talk with his old gf that's quite striking. He's the one who's been through it, but she turns it all around back onto herself. Obviously, it wasn't easy for her, but when he tries to ask her about the effect her actions and inactions had on HIM, all she wants to talk about is the toll it took on HER. They are making the break-up easy. Given the lack of information, everyone thought Dong was missing all this time. Same for Mi. Dong feels very guilty about what happened to Mi, so he takes her under his wing. They don't like e/o. She's got a lot of energy, and right now she's putting it into anger. When her old bf (he's OLD now!) starts coming onto her strong, Dong will defend her. “Maybe you shouldn't smile at guys. They might think you're cute 〰 not that I do🙄” As she slurps her noodles we see him smirk at her. They are thawing out rather quickly.
‘Don't do anything that'll get your heart rate going,’ Dong cautions Mi. “You have to maintain a 31.6° body temperature.” (88.88° F). Getting overheated for these two can be deadly. The doctor also made it out alive, but he is ill and forgetful. He hasn't been able to complete their treatments. Therefore, they are in danger of dying if they become overheated, so they probably have no business hanging around together. Their attraction must have grown invisible roots underground while they were thoroughly unaware of it, being focused on so many other things. When they're out scouting locations, she gets overheated and passes out. He's tending to her frantically when it starts to pour. They're drenched. Suddenly, she 💋smacks one on him. Boy, did it get awkward, later. The car ride back was extended, uncomfortable silence. Radio? Only Love songs were playing that day. When they got to her driveway, he wanted to talk, but she absolutely did NOT. She bolted. Eventually, she calls him and apologizes, explaining that she thought she was going to die and wanted to kiss /somebody-ANYbody/ before she did. Well, that made him feel special. “What man could be kissed against his will?” Back at work, the manager is talking to the group about sexual harassment and bats away that silly question. His response was so immediate and forceful that both our leads are taken aback.
“If you keep this up, I will… I'll fall for you, that's what.” Mi stands there, Frozen. Her telemetry is burring and blaring, though. More than a confession, Dong was issuing a warning… to himself. From the time of that utterance, he's in a fight with himself. He pushes Mi away. Then, he relapses and tries to draw her in. He'll brag about himself or try to make himself more attractive to her. He both wants her and he wants to push her away. Next, he picks a fight with her when she sets up view-blocking books up between their opposing desks. One thing is obvious: He's hyper-focused on her. It's a little unnerving for Mi. These are 2 great leads. Their interaction is good, and the attraction is tangible. They keep it (sort of) rolling for 11ish episodes but no more.
What's wrong with MMS? MMS is shallow and low IQ. The writing is sloppy. The cast are all fantastic, but they can only do so much with these substandard lines. The villain is a bit of an eye-roller. Dong’s family is too nonsensical. It's actually uncomfortable. Mi's ex is just icky. Not only do they not have enough content for 16 episodes, but the plot hardly goes anywhere to begin with. Halfway through I was thinking it might be a 6 or 7, but then it started a freefall. Prime may have the best Chinese catalog, but I'm beginning to question the caliber of their Korean selections.
What's good about the show? Too little. When he wakes up his family is called to the hospital. The reunion is pretty funny. They've all aged, but he hasn't. The family & healthcare workers are completely flabbergasted. Mi gets right back into school. On the bus, she whips out her Walkman and headphones. A kid looks at her incredulously, and she shoots him flashing eyes and an aggressive “What?” gesture. It's all non-verbal, which makes it better. Being frozen for 20 years really messes up Asia's rigid status system. They technically maintain status over their younger siblings even though they're still really kids.
My favorite scene is when friends are at church together. The one friend is married to Mi's ex, and he ain't acting right. The shaman is in between the other women (yes, Ms Shaman attends services), and she has a talent for inspiring people as displayed by her prayer, which is quite poignant. “This poor child, dear Lord… her husband has been out of his mind….. The love between a couple comes to an end, but the temperature they reach is different for each person. One of them might still feel the warmth, but the other might be cold as ice…” Solemn piano music strikes up in the background. We see the wife crying and praying in church and the husband checking into a motel room. He's left her. The scene is beautiful sadness.
While everything else is going on, shady figures have been trying to kill the doctor. The doc, suffering from memory lapses, is trying to replicate the formula to normalize their body temps, but not before our 2 popsicles start to mutate and fall apart. The last few episodes deal with the race to save their lives and expose the bad guys that caused this popsicle debacle.
Eventually, Dong will kiss Mi. When they both heat up, the shower remedies that issue. They make us wait until ep11, but they reward our wait with an epic kiss. It doesn't have enough heat to prevent the show from being tepid, though. I'd have to recommend “pass” for this one. Even for romantiholics. The only reason to watch MMS is if one is a particularly ardent fan of the leads. For everyone else, MMS is as appealing as room temperature ice cream.
QUOTE🗣
We define our own psychological age.
IMHO〰🖍
📣5.5 📝4 🎭7.5 💓5 🦋6 🎨7 🎵/🔊7 🔚5 🤗2 ▪ 🌞4.5 ⚡5 😅3.5 😭2 😱3 😯2 🤢2 🤔3 💤4
Shazams:
Ice Doll by Parc Jae Jung, Drip-Drip, by Yu Na
Age 11+ Language: one or two occurrences of $h!+; Rated: TV-15. This is more on a lid level than an adult level.
Re-📺? Not gonna happen. The better question is: Is it worth watching once? Not at all.
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
🌐💘 -
My Only Love Song-8.7 ~ excellent comedy,
Crazy Love-7.8,
99 days with the Superstar-7,
Live Up To Your Name-7.6;
A Witch's Love-7.9, My First First Love-8,
A Love So Beautiful-7,
Playful kiss-7.3,
Racket Boys-8.3,
The Legend of the Blue Sea-7.2 (But for eps 20 &21 it's an 8+)Marry My Husband-7.5,
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha-8.2,
Familiar Wife-8.5,
Reply 1988-8.6,
Oh My Venus-7.4K,
Love to Hate You 8.9, Touch your heart-8.2,
Romance is a bonus book-7.9,
Our Blues-8.5,
Crash Landing On You 9.1,
Oh My Ghost 10,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
Love Struck in the City 7.3,
Be Melodramatic-8.7,Because This Is My First Life-7.7,
When the Camellia Blooms-8,
Cheese in the Trap-7.7,
Call It Love-8.4,
(I'll See You) When the Weather is Fine-9,
That Winter, The Wind Blows-7,
Misaeng-9.1,
Hospital Playlist 9 (give it 3 episodes to get warmed up),
Itaewon Class-8.9, More Than Friends-8,
My Liberation Diary-8.9,
Something in the Rain-8.6,
My Mister 9.5,
Wonderful World-7.8,
Parasite-9,
Mother-8.8
Romance junkies only -
My Secret Romance-7 (if you ff thru overdone flashbacks),
Boys Over Flowers-8 ~ melodrama to the max,
The Bride of Habaek-7,
Heirs-7.3,
That Winter, The Wind Blows-7,
Something in them Rain-9,
C🇨🇳: Well-Intended Love-7.5 Rom-porn - extra points for the dopamine,
When I Fly Towards You-7.8,
Wait, My Youth-8.4,
A Little Thing Called First Love-8.5,
Find Yourself-8.9,
Hidden Love-7.8
Consider a 🇨🇳Chinese 🎎/🔮 fantasyfeature: The Romance of Tiger and Rose 9.8, Love Between Fairy and Devil 8.9, Love and Redemption 10 or 🇯🇵Japanese romcoms: Maid Sama 10, Mischievous Kiss Love in Tokyo 7.8, Love, Chunibyo And Other Delusions 8.4, or Toradora 8.5
💘 Anime
Ouran High School Host Club-8,,
Ao-chan Can't Study-7.8,
Special A Class 💓8.2,
Maid Sama-10,
Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion-8.4,
Mischievous Kiss,
True Beauty-7.5
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun-7.7,
Colourcloud Palace-7.5,
Hakkenden,
7th Time Loop-7.9,
Honey & Clover,
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU,
Princess Principal 8.6,
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale-7.5
Real Girl-7.5,
My Happy Marriage-8.3,
Nina the Starry Bride-8.4,
Your Lie In April-9,
Violet Evergarden-9.5
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