It all depends on age and how much mature and adult is the viewer. Besides, who write these dramas? males or females?…
Beside, Is this kind of drama really "so popular"? I don't see any Thia drama in the top ten and none of my friends watch it. I would say rather than promoting violence this kind of drama promote stupidity. Young girls should watch more meaningful things than romance and relationships.
It all depends on age and how much mature and adult is the viewer. Besides, who write these dramas? males or females? and what about yaoi manga? why girls enjoy it when it's between boys and have most of that slap and kiss elements?
I loved drama ending more than manga and anime endings because Light didn't give up until the last moment unlike in anime he seemed to regret his choices or in manga where he seemed very pathetic.
How about KDrama fans who complain about a non-Korean drama being boring or basically bad while all they watched from it is like 10 minutes or just one episode and they go judging all the drama or all that non-Korean country's drama are bad. Honestly, after noticing that so many Kdrama fans watch drama by speed watching and skipping so many scenes I started not to trust most of their opinions about drama so I just ignore those kind of comments.
in my opinion it's not the matter of comparisons that make this drama a target for bashing. have this remake been…
Well, I'm not trying to blame the actors, actually they seem lovely. but what I'm trying to say is that the writer and the producers are trying to bite off more than they can chew.
in my opinion it's not the matter of comparisons that make this drama a target for bashing. have this remake been decent it wouldn't get so much conflicted ideas about it. The main obvious thing about this drama is that it's not an honest adaption of the manga, although they tried to capitalize on the manga fame. you don't make comics and manga adaptations by ripping its selling points in the name of being more realistic. i mean lets say if they should try to remake Harry Potter again some time in the future and try to americanize it by casting american actors and change the setting, would the fans keep quite about it? why manga adaption should suffer from "oh it's mangaish and cartoonish so it's silly". a manga adaption should remain close to its source just like in comics. i know Nodame isn't a superhero story but the "unusual" parts in it is like the cape and mask in batman which even in trying to make it realistic they didn't take it away from him.
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