I adore slice of life, especially if its mixed with some romance. It always feels so warm and fuzzy, like you are hanging out with real people, making new friends, hearing their troubles and watching their work and then you are happy for them when they achieve success and love. I also learned about a lot of places and jobs with slice of life. Thanks for posting, I have some great new recommendations.
I am really enjoying "Dear Missy" right now, which is about a friendship and working life for women, with some romance. It's realistic and gorgeous at the same time.
I read the news about this bullying things but I don't get it, more than 10 person get bully by her? One of them…
That is not how bullying works, and not everywhere has CCTV. Plus, CCTV footage only gets stored for a few days and deleted if no one comes forward to demand it, it's not like there is someone permanently sitting in front of each computer screen and watching. What middle-schooler, most of whom don't even tell their parents about the bullying, because it seems quite normal and possibly deserved to them, would go to the police and get CCTV footage? These kids are 11-14 years old, and bullies always search for victims that already have low self-esteem, few friends and possibly absentee parents. Bullies don't walk up to someone who can slap them back and get their friends and parents to stand up for them. Trust me, I was a bully-nightmare in school, I saw how they wear their victims down over time, often managing to include the whole classroom with their little remarks and jokes and making everyone think the victim is ugly, fat or whatever and deserving of being mocked.
On the one hand one hopes that this might deter current bullies, seeing that their actions have consequences even as adults, but really, more should be done against bullying is as such. This behaviour has been part of school culture for as long as schools existed, how is this still happening?
I found Go Back Couple was a very realistic and still romantic take on "Married with small children".
I think it is a good shorthand for the feelings of people in average, not particularly melodramatic but also stale AF marriages. They usually look back to their younger selves, what did they hope and wish back then. Did they choose the wrong person etc. I mean, there are also the melo ones, where one is gravely ill or a cheater and liar or divorce dramas. I do wonder what a romantic married couple drama would look like, that wouldn't also be mundane and boring.
"Love is not like in Dramas", they say "My love story is basically the forced proximity/cohabitation, including second lead-trope", says OAL. "We look like a drama-couple, he is really tall and I am very short", Hwayi says, "He also looks like a muscular giant, but is really a Carebear." That's not good evidence that Drama and Reality are not the same thing, Ladies!
Wow, this is a super comprehensive list, so many genres and tropes, my Romance loving heart is happy! I already found someone to read tonight. Thankyou for including my article!
Used to with all the media, now I have a life. Lol. No, seriously my trick is to just watch the rest as some MV on YouTube. Life is too short to watch and then store in my memory some tropey, no chemistry, boring plot.
Thanks for this List, I will listen to them while making dinner tomorrow. :-) Four songs on soundtracks that really stuck with me were : "Loveless" by Ann, which was part of the Chinese You Are My Destiny soundtrack (you might like it, it has a Cranberries vibe. I also love everything else she does. "Wheat Field" by 蓝心羽 (Lán xīn yǔ), part of the Girlfriend soundtrack, which includes some Chinese opera elements. "Love Light" on the Dance Of The Sky Empire Soundtrack and "Mr. Perfect and Miss Almost" by Hua Zhou from Casual And Perfect.
Honorable mention the "They were childhood friends all along ?" plot twist? Or the "I/member of my family were part of your life changing accident?"? I feel like if you can see the plot twist come from a mile away or it just derails the story, maybe just leave it out?
I only watched The Eternal Love 1 & 2 and they were my first ever dramas. Absolutely adore it still, even though the magic has worn off a bit with watching more dramas. Thank you for translating the original titles, somehow I am not sure which ones are more fitting. Chinese titles are really long too and so descriptive, but in this case I think Eternal Love fits all of them too... Did you see AvenueX's song about all the Love in the title?
Haha, I love the "Rated Horribly", though in my case it would be "Dramas that I kind of love, but never recommend to anyone". I also tried to watch "Boys over Flowers" because Viki was advertising it and it's some sort of classic, but I really just couldn't, so no defense from me.
I just realised that my choosing to watch a drama is a three step process: Watch Trailer and one fanmade MV. It gives me an overview about chemistry of the leads and a bit of the feel. Read Synopsis. Read a rave review and a "bad" review. Usually this gives me a pretty good idea, if it has things in it that bug me. But most importantly, I have learned that it's okay to stop watching something after two episodes if I don't like it, even if it is hyped to the sky.
Hi, I have a question. Did you write this article only based on what you learned from dramas? Because as someone…
Hi! I appreciate the input a lot. As I wrote in my disclaimer, I indeed don't speak Korean. I did ask a Korean friend, who agreed that calling someone Oppa would mean you feel close to them, but not as if he was a brother. This one sentence may be misleading, but I stated above it that it can be used for any older boy/man. The dramas inspired me to do research on this, because I thought I am missing some subtext here. Though I have barely ever seen Oppa used as anything other than as a pet name in dramas. Real life may be different. I posted the links to my sources below the article, they are both Korean women living in Korea. So I assumed they know what they are talking about. I am sorry if I upset you, I am glad you corrected any misconceptions that might arise.
I love this article, previously I also had a bit of confusion abt this but I just took this for granted. "Or you…
Way back when I did the same thing in my Indian school, it was advise I got from a "Didi", because one boy was very persistent and constantly tried to flirt with me in class.
This helped me a lot. I couldn't understand at first why they kept calling their crush "Brother", when I first…
Thankyou for the in depth explanation, I love learning social customs from other countries. Does Catty come from cat? In Italy boys often make "miaow" noises when they find a girl attractive. "Catcalling" came from this. In China they also call the owner of an establishment, like a restaurant, "Laobei", which means Boss. This in itself is funny to me, because in most of Europe it is considered impolite to call over the waiter or owner at all. You wait for them to make eye-contact with you. It's not used a lot but in German-speaking countries people also use "Daddy" without translating it, I don't know how people who call their actual fathers Daddy can bear it. Don't know if "Oppa", if you call your actual brother that, is any better though. I mean, in India calling someone "Brother" can also be used to make them protect you, so in a way it's better?
I also learned about a lot of places and jobs with slice of life. Thanks for posting, I have some great new recommendations.
I mean, there are also the melo ones, where one is gravely ill or a cheater and liar or divorce dramas. I do wonder what a romantic married couple drama would look like, that wouldn't also be mundane and boring.
"My love story is basically the forced proximity/cohabitation, including second lead-trope", says OAL.
"We look like a drama-couple, he is really tall and I am very short", Hwayi says, "He also looks like a muscular giant, but is really a Carebear."
That's not good evidence that Drama and Reality are not the same thing, Ladies!
No, seriously my trick is to just watch the rest as some MV on YouTube. Life is too short to watch and then store in my memory some tropey, no chemistry, boring plot.
Four songs on soundtracks that really stuck with me were :
"Loveless" by Ann, which was part of the Chinese You Are My Destiny soundtrack (you might like it, it has a Cranberries vibe. I also love everything else she does.
"Wheat Field" by 蓝心羽 (Lán xīn yǔ), part of the Girlfriend soundtrack, which includes some Chinese opera elements.
"Love Light" on the Dance Of The Sky Empire Soundtrack
and
"Mr. Perfect and Miss Almost" by Hua Zhou from Casual And Perfect.
Also loved Don't Panic by Shi Shi. ;-)
were part of your life changing accident?"?
I feel like if you can see the plot twist come from a mile away or it just derails the story, maybe just leave it out?
Thank you for translating the original titles, somehow I am not sure which ones are more fitting. Chinese titles are really long too and so descriptive, but in this case I think Eternal Love fits all of them too...
Did you see AvenueX's song about all the Love in the title?
Watch Trailer and one fanmade MV. It gives me an overview about chemistry of the leads and a bit of the feel.
Read Synopsis.
Read a rave review and a "bad" review.
Usually this gives me a pretty good idea, if it has things in it that bug me.
But most importantly, I have learned that it's okay to stop watching something after two episodes if I don't like it, even if it is hyped to the sky.
I appreciate the input a lot.
As I wrote in my disclaimer, I indeed don't speak Korean. I did ask a Korean friend, who agreed that calling someone Oppa would mean you feel close to them, but not as if he was a brother. This one sentence may be misleading, but I stated above it that it can be used for any older boy/man.
The dramas inspired me to do research on this, because I thought I am missing some subtext here. Though I have barely ever seen Oppa used as anything other than as a pet name in dramas. Real life may be different.
I posted the links to my sources below the article, they are both Korean women living in Korea. So I assumed they know what they are talking about.
I am sorry if I upset you, I am glad you corrected any misconceptions that might arise.
In China they also call the owner of an establishment, like a restaurant, "Laobei", which means Boss. This in itself is funny to me, because in most of Europe it is considered impolite to call over the waiter or owner at all. You wait for them to make eye-contact with you.
It's not used a lot but in German-speaking countries people also use "Daddy" without translating it, I don't know how people who call their actual fathers Daddy can bear it. Don't know if "Oppa", if you call your actual brother that, is any better though. I mean, in India calling someone "Brother" can also be used to make them protect you, so in a way it's better?