Dykumu Ugnis

The screenplay wasn't too brilliant in the first place. But by episode 12 it was so relying on every single character doing stupid things to drive the plot forward that I can no longer. Even as a background noise for my handicrafts.

The cast did a tolerable job with the script they were given, though.

Not everyone lives in the United States, though.

And it’s gone from Viki. Completely gone. Wiped. Not a trace. :(

If by the ultimate act of love you mean letting go the person you love who does not love you back, I agree with you that it's the ultimate act of love. But there was no such thing in this show.

Akana Rika didn't know how to commit and because of this fear tried to pass everything as a game, as a sort of a joke. Not very encouraging for a hesitating person of Nagao Kanji's type

Nagao Kanji didn't know how to chose and was going back and forth too much. Akana Rika's behaviour didn't help him, though he did show a rather clear preference for her on more than one occasion. And no, he did not love Sekiguchi Satomi. Their relationship is not love.

Mikami Kenichi didn't know how to show love though certainly wanted.

Sekiguchi Satomi didn't know what love is.

Overall the show is very good and pretty deep, even though it shows broken love.

From the way FL acts it looks like she is at least 10 years ML’s senior. And then I hear that it’s only one year. A year’s difference is basically nothing.

The female lead tried to look decorous but ended up looking stiff. Not that I expect much from vertical dramas, but it was very jarring. Plus, even in vertical dramas some actors do deliver high-level performances.

The writing was pretty weak, especially some parts, but I still enjoyed the show quite a lot. Episode 11 and some bits of Episodes 10 and 12 around it are supposed to be suspenseful but I admit watching it as pure comedy. My face now probably needs the services of Dr Cha Jeong U because of all the facepalming I couldn't help but do.

It could have been a really good social commentary but focussed too much on sensationalism and gratuitious violence.

@tigermother3, the drama in the link is Confess Your Love (https://kisskh.at/743897-confess-your-love). And the channel that posted the linked video looks shady because it has Xiao Zhan on the thumbnail, which is clearly an attempt to mislead.

The official release is this one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhuj60q_2Rvr4LB19Y-HZGMv2aRJ2BIK2

Nope. But most likely it's related to some copyright issues or something else of the kind. And the version with Spanish subtitles is now also gone.

Pure nonsense. On to the next!

Not really realistic but exciting.

Two minutes per episode dramas shot in vertical aspect ratio. Mostly low budget and low production value. Some awfully bad, some pretty decent for quick consumption.

I have a list on my profile called Microdrama actors where you can click on any of the actors and any drama with 60-100 episodes and these actors in main role wil be a vertical drama.

Painfully slow and not very well written. Relies too much on cliches, so it’s difficult to feel the characters for real. I managed to get halfway before its removal from Netflix and now not sure if to continue on Viki.

The female lead written as a klutz and airhead doesn’t help, as does not help the clueless male lead, though supposedly he is a good analyst and has at least some power of foresight. Also there is something off about the way the scenes are set and the transition between them.

Oh, and too many things spelled out through inner monologue rather than shown for audience to catch from nuanced acting.

Nice cast, crappy writing.
The character of the female lead is annoying. The character of the male lead is annoying. The character of the mayor is double annoying. The character of the second female lead is so one-dimensional that it hardly can be more. All friends and people around are horrible doing anything they can to prolong the misunderstandings. There's no character development: one step forward, two steps back, on an on around the same issue until the end.

Children trying to play love games, it seems.

Kim Hae Sil and Song Jung Geun as a couple are the only saving grace.

I disagree that Rika is the perfect person you want as your girlfriend/wife. She has her own issues and many. One time she says that she did everything for the relationship. From what I saw, though, it seemed she though the relationship with Kanji was doomed from the beginning and was running away from any tough situation or outright pushing her love-interest to another woman. Not a single time did she get serious and was sending lots of mixed signals. You cannot build a relationship on that.

Also she looks like she has an OCD, the version where you try to "preempt" a bad situation by bringing it about yourself. A very destructive thing.

There was not a single drop of love in this show. And never have I hated a character, not even the most evil ones, as much as I hated the goody two shoes Sekiguchi Satomi. What a manipulative character as she is written. The horror!

A bunch of broken people doing weird relationships because of their inability to sit down and talk to each other normally. That Sekiguchi Satomi looks very much like Victoria Ruffo in Simplemente Maria does not help. :)

But it's interesting to go back to early 90s. And in Japan at that.

After my stint of chain-watching vertical dramas this looks like a masterpiece!

Already episode 1 doesn’t make any sense. Not for me. ”Too many shows, too little time”, to paraphrase the song.