Nice Post, you really did a lot of work there putting up all those OST, lyrics and highlighting some favs for everybody to conviently listen in to the songs.
Tbh.. About 90% of all the asian drama series I've watched had an OST that was nearly unbearable and I had to focus on ignoring certain tracks so it wouldn't affect the overall enjoyment of the show. Let's be honest here.. those ballads... those omnipresent balls... are just so cheesy and cringeworthy and hurtful to the ears :-x
The only drama series where the OST didn't overall suck and even had pretty good tunes where: Goblin, Scarlet Heart, Prison Playbook followed by Its okay thats love and Marriage not dating. For me there, sadly (!), is only one asian drama with a decent OST, that even got it right on the ballads... and thats Mr. Sunshine. Pretty much every Track sounds beautiful (especially the track called mockingbird is a compositional masterpiece!)
musical taste differs widely and is always a topic where opinions collide ;)
It's a shame Eulachacha Waikiki is missing. Best korean comedy drama of alle time! (shortly followed by "marriage not dating", altought this one is probably rather subjective^^)
Lot's of japanese titles int his article, but there is one you forgot.: Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (man who can't get married) where the MC has an obsessive-compulsive disorder (cleaning freak).
Also for Kdramas there were some substantial ones you missed: It's okay that's love (shizo, neurosis) Kill me heal me (shizo) Cheese in the trap (I'd say there were multiple mental health disorders of multiple Chars like megalomania, etc)
I also saw a korean movie about 15 years ago "I'm a cyborg, but thats okay" that takes place in a mental institution. It was rather quircky but you kinda need that when displaying psychosis visually (and don't want a too dark depictation)... I remember the movie to be really good.
edit: nice article though. it is good to adress this topic from time to time because it is something that is always contemporary. some thematics just occur again and again. no matter where or when on this planet human minds are just rather fragile and there are historical and archeological records of mental health poblems since prehistory. So it is nothing that has to do with the time or setting or whatever we live in, but is something more fundamentally human.. :-x and it is always good to present contemporary works, that audiovisually adress this topic, because asian dramas will always show a different approach than f.e. europian, african, american, etc. ones. And we need a variety of opinions and views when dealing with mental health issues.. (sorry this is rather badly written.. but I hope you get the point. hejdå *winkewinke*)
Tbh.. About 90% of all the asian drama series I've watched had an OST that was nearly unbearable and I had to focus on ignoring certain tracks so it wouldn't affect the overall enjoyment of the show. Let's be honest here.. those ballads... those omnipresent balls... are just so cheesy and cringeworthy and hurtful to the ears :-x
The only drama series where the OST didn't overall suck and even had pretty good tunes where: Goblin, Scarlet Heart, Prison Playbook followed by Its okay thats love and Marriage not dating.
For me there, sadly (!), is only one asian drama with a decent OST, that even got it right on the ballads... and thats Mr. Sunshine. Pretty much every Track sounds beautiful (especially the track called mockingbird is a compositional masterpiece!)
musical taste differs widely and is always a topic where opinions collide ;)
Kekkon Dekinai Otoko (man who can't get married) where the MC has an obsessive-compulsive disorder (cleaning freak).
Also for Kdramas there were some substantial ones you missed:
It's okay that's love (shizo, neurosis)
Kill me heal me (shizo)
Cheese in the trap (I'd say there were multiple mental health disorders of multiple Chars like megalomania, etc)
I also saw a korean movie about 15 years ago "I'm a cyborg, but thats okay" that takes place in a mental institution. It was rather quircky but you kinda need that when displaying psychosis visually (and don't want a too dark depictation)... I remember the movie to be really good.
edit: nice article though. it is good to adress this topic from time to time because it is something that is always contemporary. some thematics just occur again and again. no matter where or when on this planet human minds are just rather fragile and there are historical and archeological records of mental health poblems since prehistory. So it is nothing that has to do with the time or setting or whatever we live in, but is something more fundamentally human.. :-x and it is always good to present contemporary works, that audiovisually adress this topic, because asian dramas will always show a different approach than f.e. europian, african, american, etc. ones. And we need a variety of opinions and views when dealing with mental health issues.. (sorry this is rather badly written.. but I hope you get the point. hejdå *winkewinke*)