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He isn't 18-19 yr old, he is acting like one. He is a grown-up NIS agent pretending to be a student.

Is that a challenge?

They look like they are Squid Games uniforms. Is this gonna end with one or both of them signing up for Squid Games 3??

oh..ok

Yeah, I know. I honestly only care about the romance aspect, since forcing romance into a plot can make or break a show. Another thing is how most writers write their FLs, ESPECIALLY when it comes to romance, and how a drama treats its female characters is extremely important for me. I am kinda loving how the FL atm, and her ML/Neo "make sense" in a way. Everything else, I'll just let it play out as I watch the show.

Respecting is one thing, healthy critique is another. OP wasn't even being critical, just saying that a trope is tired and overdone, which, is a fact

Just because it's not a netflix drama, doesn't mean there was no influence. Netflixation, bascially pandering asian dramas to Western audience, is not a new concept (Indian OTT shows are also a vicitm to the trend), and while it leads to some decent experiments with the story, most of the it's just absurd nonsense plots, with unnecessary soft-porn added in.

why? female cross-dressing has been staple trope in c-dramas.

I would add Guardians of Dafeng to the list

it probably after Dashing Youth but before TBoY since there's like 15-16yrs gap between the two.

All the heroes of Dashing Youth are old and retired in TBoY, and their kids are just former shadows of their parents. Kinda like nepo-actors trying to one up their superstar parents. After we've been there, done that with some of the best in land, the new kids just don't hit the same.

That's why I hate it when the prequels come out later than the original, because you already know the spoilers and it just kills the story.

watch DY first, because if u watch the sequel (this is sequel about the next generation).

I started it today, and this is just Wuxia version of Assassination Classroom. ZYZ is Koro sensei, and ZYC is Nagisa+Karma.

He was on hiatus earlier, but he officially left SF9 in 2023 when everybody renewed their contracts.

How do you know I don't

If it's hurting, it means the drama worked.

*shrug*

Hana. She will probably leave the industry and get married to Chris, and they will open that hotel thing like he wants.

a little too late, but if it means some respite for YJW, I'll take it for now. She is still trash, imo, but JHC is seriously deranged.

Exactly. This drama doesn't trivialize mental illness. It says that yes, it's a very serious issue, but nobody is paying attention to the people who suffer and need help, because they all their own agendas and calculations. FL didn't think twice about abandoning a kid she herself gave hope to, the new company blame Jinwoo for things that are not his fault and beyond his control, people blame Hana for the vote manipulation...etc. The kids are desperate and crying for help, but shit just keeps piling, until one day someone breaks and does something that can never be taken back.

Which is the sad reality of today's k-pop/k-ent industry. Fans will blame idols for anything from dating and having a life before they became idols (need I remind you of Riize) , for being bullies or rumours of them being bullies (Garam scandal?) to being born to wrong parents (my former bias, Kyoungyoon of DKZ, was forced to apologize and leave the group because he was born in a cult, like we get to chose our parents smh).