Taishi Miwa

Interesting premise and art direction, but the pilot they make it seems like it will be a nothingburger procedural slop. hopefully i'll be proven wrong.

On the other side, UTA is such a revelation. Hopefully we'll see more of him in doramaland.

The OG revealed the human vapor midway into the story.

That's exactly what happen in the source material.

Classic korean writer 101!

If it is a must, they should've let a Japanese write this while Koreans direct. Lots of filler and useless yet unappealing side characters.

This is not technically a sequel since the first 5 minutes of episode 1 is taking place right after the end of Kyojo 2.

Btw this reasoning got rejected by the admin lol.

Big fan of the decision to choose "The light we cast" as the localized title rather than having "a vote from galaxy".

What I love about this drama is that almost every major characters in this drama are suicidal, yet both leads really "cast the light" onto their life despite bearing the same pain too. The social issue that writer-san brought up to this drama is a lot more realistic compared to Jerk salaryman. This is my sleeper hit of the season.

Also shout out to Noro Kayo, hopefully they don't typecast her as comedic relief after this. Really suitable for human drama.

almost the same, just re-edited a bit.

There are 3 possibilities:

-Haru is killed, the brothers committed suicide (most popular, and my preference too)
-Haru is killed, the brothers turned themself in. The dinner scene is obviously a dream (closure) and the scene involving Haru and the brothers in the harbor are flashback. Since black cinematic bar in the drama means flashback.
-Haru is shot, not killed considering the amount of blood shown, and life goes on.

WHAT AN ENDING

Shame that they didn't make this with a Sunday drama budget.

I feel like they wanted to give Ryo an ashita no joe/the wrestler treatment during creative process, but since Fumito is the main lead the went with this instead.

The writing feels like it was meant to be centered around Ryo with Hitoka as the second lead.

from recent updates Blue Walker and Jamin going to be replaced by new actress. Iinuma Ai due to agency change, while Jamin actress is getting older and prolly the character will have Japanese dialogue.

While Miyashita Kyoko and Tanapak Jongjaiphar is the key new addition. Most likely their character is exclusive for the first cours.

Agreed. If anything, they should've pull "The Wrestler" ending (cliffhanger) in the final episode. But probably due to Gotetsu (Shinichi) being the main lead, they can't.

That Final arc is insane though

Jun was dating Yukie until they wrapped up the first season, it seems that they broken up in a bad terms.

So if that's Eito on Neo's body, why a such kindhearted person become a much more ruthless person like that?

This is so damn good for a HTB production, man wish they have a budget to make it on a bigger scale. Both leads and the script have so much potential.

The plot hole in the drama is the point they're trying to sell, to get people to buy the game. But I agree that this is a bad form of marketing lol.

PSA: Watch in production order (1-2-0-Reunion-Requiem) to avoid some major spoiler. For some reason MDL have policy to put it on canonical order.