Sebastian Joseph

The original Japanese drama was superb and is probably going to be superior considering that this is a Korean remake. Most Korean remakes of Japanese dramas tend to be inferior to their original Japanese counterparts. Still, I'm curious to see how they drag the plot for 16 episodes.

When were pedophilia trash shows like these between a student and a teacher ever deep? But I do admit that I was bored when I stumbled into this topic and just copied n pasted my opinion to various comments to really talk about this obssession Japan has with glorifying an age gap relationship between an underage kid and a teacher. Gotta wonder what Kasumi Arimura thought before taking on this role. "Oh boy! I can't wait to pretend to be in love with a 14 year old kid!" Lmao

No subs? Premise seems interesting.

Gotta wonder what goes through the mind of an actress when she chooses to be the lead in one of those student/teacher trashy dramas which glorify pedophilia. An example of this being Chugakusei Nikki.
Probably something like "Oh boy! I can't wait to pretend being in love with a 14 year old boy! I'm going to give it my best!" (since the Japanese are always obssessed with giving it their best in everything lol)

I have no problem with age gaps between ADULTS. Within reason. The tendency to pair older men with younger women, while generally frowning on older women/younger men pairings is blatantly misogynistic. We get it, women have an expiration date, so the younger the better, whereas men are allowed to lust after young women even when they’re old and frail. (Sure, a lot of people recognize those old men are creeps, but there's no real stigma involved.) Regardless of gender, I’ll take an age gap between a 30yo and 45yo. But an 18yo and a 30yo? No.

Meanwhile, student/teacher stories are invariably garbage, and, yes, that includes student/teacher stories where the student is 17 or 18! Because there’s a big difference between a 17/18-year-old brain and the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. That, and there’s an inherent power imbalance that will always, ALWAYS translate to the older teacher taking advantage of the younger student. It’s predatory by nature.

If you (general you) want forbidden love between students and teachers, then go with college. If that isn't forbidden enough, then maybe what you want is just, you know, pedophilia...

Trash at its finest! -_-

I have no problem with age gaps between ADULTS. Within reason. The tendency to pair older men with younger women, while generally frowning on older women/younger men pairings is blatantly misogynistic. We get it, women have an expiration date, so the younger the better, whereas men are allowed to lust after young women even when they’re old and frail. (Sure, a lot of people recognize those old men are creeps, but there's no real stigma involved.) Regardless of gender, I’ll take an age gap between a 30yo and 45yo. But an 18yo and a 30yo? No.

Meanwhile, student/teacher stories are invariably garbage, and, yes, that includes student/teacher stories where the student is 17 or 18! Because there’s a big difference between a 17/18-year-old brain and the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. That, and there’s an inherent power imbalance that will always, ALWAYS translate to the older teacher taking advantage of the younger student. It’s predatory by nature.

If you (general you) want forbidden love between students and teachers, then go with college. If that isn't forbidden enough, then maybe what you want is just, you know, pedophilia...

I have no problem with age gaps between ADULTS. Within reason. The tendency to pair older men with younger women, while generally frowning on older women/younger men pairings is blatantly misogynistic. We get it, women have an expiration date, so the younger the better, whereas men are allowed to lust after young women even when they’re old and frail. (Sure, a lot of people recognize those old men are creeps, but there's no real stigma involved.) Regardless of gender, I’ll take an age gap between a 30yo and 45yo. But an 18yo and a 30yo? No.

Meanwhile, student/teacher stories are invariably garbage, and, yes, that includes student/teacher stories where the student is 17 or 18! Because there’s a big difference between a 17/18-year-old brain and the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. That, and there’s an inherent power imbalance that will always, ALWAYS translate to the older teacher taking advantage of the younger student. It’s predatory by nature.

If you (general you) want forbidden love between students and teachers, then go with college. If that isn't forbidden enough, then maybe what you want is just, you know, pedophilia...

I have no problem with age gaps between ADULTS. Within reason. The tendency to pair older men with younger women, while generally frowning on older women/younger men pairings is blatantly misogynistic. We get it, women have an expiration date, so the younger the better, whereas men are allowed to lust after young women even when they’re old and frail. (Sure, a lot of people recognize those old men are creeps, but there's no real stigma involved.) Regardless of gender, I’ll take an age gap between a 30yo and 45yo. But an 18yo and a 30yo? No.

Meanwhile, student/teacher stories are invariably garbage, and, yes, that includes student/teacher stories where the student is 17 or 18! Because there’s a big difference between a 17/18-year-old brain and the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. That, and there’s an inherent power imbalance that will always, ALWAYS translate to the older teacher taking advantage of the younger student. It’s predatory by nature.

If you (general you) want forbidden love between students and teachers, then go with college. If that isn't forbidden enough, then maybe what you want is just, you know, pedophilia...

I have no problem with age gaps between ADULTS. Within reason. The tendency to pair older men with younger women, while generally frowning on older women/younger men pairings is blatantly misogynistic. We get it, women have an expiration date, so the younger the better, whereas men are allowed to lust after young women even when they’re old and frail. (Sure, a lot of people recognize those old men are creeps, but there's no real stigma involved.) Regardless of gender, I’ll take an age gap between a 30yo and 45yo. But an 18yo and a 30yo? No.

Meanwhile, student/teacher stories are invariably garbage, and, yes, that includes student/teacher stories where the student is 17 or 18! Because there’s a big difference between a 17/18-year-old brain and the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. That, and there’s an inherent power imbalance that will always, ALWAYS translate to the older teacher taking advantage of the younger student. It’s predatory by nature.

If you (general you) want forbidden love between students and teachers, then go with college. If that isn't forbidden enough, then maybe what you want is just, you know, pedophilia...

I have no problem with age gaps between ADULTS. Within reason. The tendency to pair older men with younger women, while generally frowning on older women/younger men pairings is blatantly misogynistic. We get it, women have an expiration date, so the younger the better, whereas men are allowed to lust after young women even when they’re old and frail. (Sure, a lot of people recognize those old men are creeps, but there's no real stigma involved.) Regardless of gender, I’ll take an age gap between a 30yo and 45yo. But an 18yo and a 30yo? No.

Meanwhile, student/teacher stories are invariably garbage, and, yes, that includes student/teacher stories where the student is 17 or 18! Because there’s a big difference between a 17/18-year-old brain and the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. That, and there’s an inherent power imbalance that will always, ALWAYS translate to the older teacher taking advantage of the younger student. It’s predatory by nature.

If you (general you) want forbidden love between students and teachers, then go with college. If that isn't forbidden enough, then maybe what you want is just, you know, pedophilia...

I have no problem with age gaps between ADULTS. Within reason. The tendency to pair older men with younger women, while generally frowning on older women/younger men pairings is blatantly misogynistic. We get it, women have an expiration date, so the younger the better, whereas men are allowed to lust after young women even when they’re old and frail. (Sure, a lot of people recognize those old men are creeps, but there's no real stigma involved.) Regardless of gender, I’ll take an age gap between a 30yo and 45yo. But an 18yo and a 30yo? No.

Meanwhile, student/teacher stories are invariably garbage, and, yes, that includes student/teacher stories where the student is 17 or 18! Because there’s a big difference between a 17/18-year-old brain and the brain of someone in their mid-twenties. That, and there’s an inherent power imbalance that will always, ALWAYS translate to the older teacher taking advantage of the younger student. It’s predatory by nature.

If you (general you) want forbidden love between students and teachers, then go with college. If that isn't forbidden enough, then maybe what you want is just, you know, pedophilia...

PREACH! Your comment should be awarded the best comment among all these mindless fans of this drama that enjoy watching this glorified student/teacher romance garbage.

Frankly, I can't stand the Japanese's obsession with glorifying forbidden love between underage kids and teachers. Its uncomfortable af to watch something like this, for me personally that is. Not to mention the unrealism and cringe involved. I would never condone such a relationship in real life. Did you know the real life story of a 12 year old and his married 30 something teacher? They eventually married after she served her jail sentence. And the current French president married his former teacher.....they even thought he liked her daughter. Lol So yeah, there's real "realism" for ya! XD

Frankly, I can't stand the Japanese's obsession with glorifying forbidden love between underage kids and teachers. Its uncomfortable af to watch something like this, for me personally that is. Not to mention the unrealism and cringe involved. I would never condone such a relationship in real life. Did you know the real life story of a 12 year old and his married 30 something teacher? They eventually married after she served her jail sentence. And the current French president married his former teacher.....they even thought he liked her daughter. Lol So yeah, there's real "realism" for ya! XD

Frankly, I can't stand the Japanese's obsession with glorifying forbidden love between underage kids and teachers. Its uncomfortable af to watch something like this, for me personally that is. Not to mention the unrealism and cringe involved. I would never condone such a relationship in real life. Did you know the real life story of a 12 year old and his married 30 something teacher? They eventually married after she served her jail sentence. And the current French president married his former teacher.....they even thought he liked her daughter. Lol So yeah, there's real "realism" for ya! XD

Frankly, I can't stand the Japanese's obsession with glorifying forbidden love between underage kids and teachers. Its uncomfortable af to watch something like this, for me personally that is. Not to mention the unrealism and cringe involved. I would never condone such a relationship in real life. Did you know the real life story of a 12 year old and his married 30 something teacher? They eventually married after she served her jail sentence. And the current French president married his former teacher.....they even thought he liked her daughter. Lol So yeah, there's real "realism" for ya! XD

Frankly, I can't stand the Japanese's obsession with glorifying forbidden love between underage kids and teachers. Its uncomfortable af to watch something like this, for me personally that is. Not to mention the unrealism and cringe involved. I would never condone such a relationship in real life. Did you know the real life story of a 12 year old and his married 30 something teacher? They eventually married after she served her jail sentence. And the current French president married his former teacher.....they even thought he liked her daughter. Lol So yeah, there's real "realism" for ya! XD

Frankly, I can't stand the Japanese's obsession with glorifying forbidden love between underage kids and teachers. Its uncomfortable af to watch something like this, for me personally that is. Not to mention the unrealism and cringe involved. I would never condone such a relationship in real life. Did you know the real life story of a 12 year old and his married 30 something teacher? They eventually married after she served her jail sentence. And the current French president married his former teacher.....they even thought he liked her daughter. Lol So yeah, there's real "realism" for ya! XD

No offense but this isn't realistic at all. Watch Love and Fortune, thats more realistic and mature than this J-drama altho the age gap is bigger in that drama. Frankly, I can't stand the Japanese's obsession with glorifying forbidden love between underage kids and teachers. Its uncomfortable af to watch something like this, for me personally that is. Not to mention the unrealism and cringe involved. I would never condone such a relationship in real life (did you know the real life story of a 12 year old and his married 30 something teacher? They eventually married after she served her jail sentence. And the current French president married his former teacher.....they even thought he liked her daughter. Lol So yeah, there's real "realism" for ya! XD

This show is the perfect example of not sh*tting where you eat ie. to not date people aka the roommates you live with. Anyway, just got done watching the entire 10 episodes and here's are my thoughts. First of all, the opening song is great and Morikawa Aoi looks kawaii af in this. Now with that out of the way, I can ramble on about the show. What started out to be an interesting premise only turned out to be shallow love triangle. I mean, Moriakawa's character Terada is the epitome of your typical reserved and shy Japanese girl who's a pushover. Then you have Nakao Masaki's character Hongyo who's her childhood friend and is dense af to the point that he has literally no character development throughtout the course of these 10 episodes. All we know about Hongyo is that he's dense and emotionless for some reason and had sex with Terada in high school. Then we have the second male lead in Yuki Kousei's character Hase who wants to make Terada his wife because he sees something different in Terada from the girls he dated. The reason for why he wanted to be with Terada was left unexplored. Not to mention his mommy issues. Then we have Nakamura Risa's somewhat retarded-like character Akari who's weird to say the least. First she acts as if she liked Hongyo, then when Terada asked her whether she liked Hongyo, she acts as if she just discovered the very act of hugging or kissing someone out of affection. Someone get this chick to a sex ed class!

Anyway, Hongyo and Terada run into each other after she ends up living in a sharehouse thanks to her friend and due to some reason, Hongyo can only get hard when he's rubbing against Terada. The plot seemed intriguing at first but then they added Hase as a second love interest for Terada even though you as a viewer know that Terada is gonna somehow predictably end up with Hongyo in the end. (They're both even on the cover of the drama for God's sake lol) Throughout the entirity of the show, we had minimal character developments for both Terada and Hase as they narrate about their childhood and tell a bit about themselves. Hongyo being the first male lead has literally no character development since we know nothing about him other than being a dense and emotionless writer who can't get hard and who had sex with Terada in high school.

Throught the show, Hase persues Terada to marry him despite being okay with Terada and Hongyo sleeping together and even having sex. Hell, he was okay with her having Hongyo's baby when Terada thought she was pregnant. That dude has some weird psychology and the reason for him liking Terada is unclear and unexplored. The best reason he gave on the show when asked why he liked her was because her hand felt warm as she was taking care of him while he was puking. Like I said, that dude has a messed up psychology.

Then there's the second female lead Akari who has the least amount of character development since unlike Hongyo, who slept with Terada in high school, we don't really get to know much about her other than the fact that she's crazy for Hongyo and thats it! She thinks she likes Hongyo (people on the show like each other for the most bizarre reasons on this show btw) and was just okay when Terada reveals that she liked her and that her and Hongyo have been sleeping together all this time. I honestly don't know what her whole admiration with Hongyo was all about since that was left unexplored as well. Her character was just there for the sake of it contributing nothing much to the plot.

Then last but not least, we have Terada who starts liking Hongyo after having a sleeping arrangement with him and eventually having sex with him. The one thing I just didn't understand was why she liked him in the first place and what about him does she even like? Even on the show, when Hongyo asks her what she likes about him, we never got an answer to that boggling question coz here's a dense dude (Hongyo) who's emotionless to the core having a sleeping arrangement with you and thats it. They don't have the sort of chemistry you'd expect in a romcom. Neither do they have anything in common. Its like Teraada's character was written to like Hongyo just for the sake of it. On top of being a shy and fragile pushover, she deceives Akari by not telling about her about sleeping with Hongyo when she knew that Akari liked Hongyo. And then, she sleeps and has sex with Hongyo anyway despite being proposed to by Hase. And she lies to Hase in the 9th episode about her not kissing Hongyo during their sleepover time when infact she did. In that way, I found Terada's charaacter to be all sorts of messed up and I doubt a metamorphical expensive price tag is gonna solve her problems.

I kinda felt sorry for Hase when we learnt that this was gonna be a love triangle since I already knew that the second male lead was gonna get rejected . But I knew he manipulated Hongyo when they don't show what him and Hase talked about in the 9th episode due to which Hongyo was cold to Terada which caused them to break up. And on top of that, the characters lack development and progression. Not to mention how they never talk it out with each other about what they have in mind. I guess that this is a good example of how reserved the Japanese can be in general. Either way, Terada sure does get around, having dated both male roommates of hers. I can honestly say that this show despite its shallow predictablitity and lack of character development teaches us to never sh*t where you eat ie. never date the people aka the roommates you live with coz things can become awkward as hell if things don't work out. Also, Terada is the kind of girl that would stay in a shitty relationship just because of a nostalgic high school connection. If I were the writer of this show, I'd make Terada leave the house and find a better relationship than an dense dude or a manipulative dude with mommy issues. That would be a better ending than the predictable ending we got in the end.