Kannadin

6.5
But I watched it until the end. Also from what I've seen you don't watch BLs.

I never knew how BAD a show could be until I watched BLs (especially Thai ones). Most of them are Meh, the majority is just terrible and a minority stands out.

Once you truly see how bad a show they can be, I can assure you, you'll find yourself a bit harsh, not regarding what you wrote ( because my God do I agree with everything 1000%) but regarding your overall rating.

Also unpopular opinion: The kisses sucked. Here, I said it.

Can't believe I found somebody else who had the same opinion as me here ^^ Though my rating was higher.

I'm currently at episode 28 and find her way less irritating now. The issue for me was more the fact that she was silly and lying which ultimately did more harm than good to others around her.

Her not being book smart is not really the issue, her being a nuisance to others because she wants to play in the same field was the biggest problem.

This being said, once she gives up the idea of competing with her sister and just becomes her own person, she's much more endearing.

I still don't ship her though, because I just don't like romance in this show, but as a character, it took a while, but she did grow on me.

😭😭😭 Glad to see OffGun in another project...

BUUUUUUUUUT This trailer screams "sad ending".

Ah well. It's OffGun... I guess I'll make and exception to my personal rule.

You know that's pretty weird. I've seen interviews with foreigners who were Japanese fluent and who were asked to lower their Japanese level when acting in a J drama because they had to fit the stereotype of basically sucking at the language...
(Personally I find that really insulting after all the hard work you've put to be able to talk well and nail down that accent but I a disgress).

But here you're saying a westerner is was asked to lower his level? That's weird as fudge...

Lol you're probably right... but google Translate does use AI, just the cheap version.

Watched it. It's in my Okayish list.

Nah as I wrote, I've yet to watch the show. Apart from Study Group this year, I've been mostly disappointed by most 2025 K dramas I watched. There was a couple that I found OKish, but nothing exceptional apart from Study Group.

I've been in a K drama slump for months and it's my theory that there's a 2025 Kdrama curse, at least for me, so I initially decided I was going to watch any 2025 K drama in 2026 to be sure these dramas turned out to be good... Because if I watched them now, they'd probably suck.

Dynamite Kiss is the exception to the rule... I saw the long spoiler-filled trailer and I just couldn't resist.
Doesn't break my curse theory though... I just think this one is an exception (so far) to the rule. 😂

Same. Stopped coming on the thread because of the negative comments of the last... though I think it was well deserved.

The drama with Suzy was also a joke. I personally haven't seen the drama yet... But I checked the first reviews and comments that came out. Back then, the first review that was posted and considered "relevant" was posted by some person who couldn't humanly have watched all episodes when they posted their review ( I think it was less than 5 or 6 hours after it was made available on Netflix)... But the thing is, they claimed they had. After a couple of back and forth with other members, they admitted they had only seen one episode but that it was enough to post their opinion ( while lying about watching 13 episodes but I disgress).

Then you had the comments of people who watched the whole thing at 2x speed... which to me is also completely useless since you're not watching it as it was intended to be watched... And to be honest I really wonder what is the point in watching that way. We're already asked to be fast and effective at work, can't you just relax and enjoy things at a more leisurely pace in your free time?

And then of course, there was the whole religion polemics born out of thin air. This one I don't even want to talk about, seeing how stupid it was...

If anything it made me want to watch it more since you obviously couldn't rely on comments and reviews back then ( haven't revisited the thread since).

Nah the rating dropped because the last arc was utterly stupid and pointless, that's why. I personally really enjoyed the WATPAD aspect of the series at its beginning but then it lost a bit of steam once we realized the ML had always been a green flag disguising himself as a red flag for reasons I still fell to understand... Still I thoroughly enjoyed it... UNTIL the whole nonsense at the end.

BUT, the kisses were among the best in K dramaland for sure.

Lol ^^ As if anybody is romanticizing bad behavior here. Twisting people's words as usual.
Also coming from somebody who creates an empty account just to insult people 😁 Well good day to you anyway.

PS: Btw when I'm not upset since you're not blocked (yet). When I say "triggered", it's just me being annoyed at having answered to you. I shouldn't have bothered.

Well that's called DRAMA, character growth and so on. If all characters behaved exactly the proper way and/or the same way, where would be the drama?

Dramas are here to create emotions in people. If there was no such situations, the drama would ultimately be completely boring.

Also I wonder exactly anyone can judge somebody for their shitty behavior when the person in question has been wronged.

If anybody has never behaved poorly when being angry raise your hand! I'm curious to see how many hands are up esp. coming from those saying all these BS about the supposed misogyny of the ML.

But I disgress.
I honestly don't care if people disagree. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion .

What bothers me is the judgmental attitude that comes with such opinions as if you have the moral high ground.

But again I disgress. After all we're all just randos online, whether you're judgmental or not, should be none of my concern. I want to have fun having discussions about the drama with other people who are enjoying it, not people who are hate-watching it.

This is me being triggered for no valid reasons. I fall into that trap too often.

I don't remember exactly when I checked the comment section, but it must have been during that time...

I disagree with this comment.

It depends on how the character is portrayed. If he's just a Korean who speak different languages, having an accent in these scenes is ok in my opinion. The fact that your accent sucks doesn't mean you're bad at the language in question...

HOWEVER!

I have more problems with characters such as the ML in Love Next Door. In that drama, the ML and his mother are supposed to be FLUENT French speakers, having lived there for a couple of years...
And I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, the French was HO-RREN-DOUS.

As a native French speaker, it's not only the accents which were just terrible - for the life of me I couldn't understand a single thing they were saying - but even the way the sentences were made were terrible. It was like bad AI translations.

One expression that stood out for instance was the ML saying " heart-broken" in French... which he said as " Coeur cassé" except there's an idiomatic expression in French that is ALWAYS used WITHOUT exception which is "cœur brisé".

"Cassé" which means "broken" can only be used for objects and is more colloquial whereas "brisé" which also means "broken" is more literary and can be used for anything but is the only word that can be used when someone is going through heartbreak.
And that was not the most shocking, it's just one of the few things I remember but the bottom line is, it sounded like people speaking French at a beginner's level.

I went on a full rant back then saying what you just wrote, and all the fandom got on my back as being a hater and all the usual jazz...

But the problem wasn't here nor there. These characters were supposed to be FLUENT. The mother was this diplomat who had worked in France for years, and the ML had moved with her when he was very young.

In that case, just dub them if they can't do the job... And hire a proper translator as well not somebody who clearly has less than a year of practice of the French language.

I kid you not, I had to turn on the French subs for the French parts ( I usually watch with English subs) but the FUNNIEST thing was, there was 1 SINGLE TIME when I could understand what one of the character was saying in French.

1 SINGLE TIME!

AND THE SUBS WERE WRONG!!!!! 🤦🤦🤦

I wouldn't have said these people are boring necessarily but you do have a point. I always get caught up in stupid debates with people who tend to overanalyze things when some shows are just here to be fun.

Serious shows regarding these issues exist. But this is a Cinderella story. Completely unrealistic and thank GOD for that, because real life sucks, and we have the right to believe in Prince Charming at least in fiction.

Given what's happening in the world, a good dose of silliness and unrealistic heart-racing situations is what we all need.

Geeeeeeeeeeeez. Ep 01 to 5 were mostly cute but episode6 was a cringe-fest...
The good type though...
But honestly I was suffering from second hand embarrassment SO BAD at all the cringy situations poor Hioki was put in, I took literally over one hour to finish the episode given how much I had to just pause.

That is sadly the only negative thing regarding this drama imho.

I already LOVED Dylan Wang since Love Between Fairy and Devil but my God he's SO GOOD in this role, it almost makes me want to see him only act in a goofy way - and I'm a sucker for dark and brooding characters.

The only thing that I don't like is Princess Lin An. I know she's supposed to be funny... But honestly her lack of brain cells and overall childish behavior is really off-putting. I don't want her to be the main love interest. In fact, I don't want Qi An to have ANY love interest for that matter.

Hopefully she gets a bit more mature by the end of the series but for now, not gonna lie, I'd rather he ended up with her older sister EVEN if I really can't picture them together.
Both are highly intelligent but one is outwardly very dignified while the other acts like a goofball most of the time... This could turn out to be an interesting match instead of him being with an outward idiot who is indeed a complete doofus.

Sadly this show has decided otherwise.

Let these female characters all fall for him if you need to, but please no romance. I love it usually but this show really doesn't need any.

Some of the points you make are not necessarily wrong but one can also argue that the beauty of fiction is indulging in what is also not OK in real life. That might not be your cup of tea, but the idea of a person changing thanks to the power of love is a trope that is literally timeless.
I can't entirely agree with it though because you are infantilizing viewers. Your point might make sense for young teenage girls, but it doesn't work with full grown women.

In any case, the above comment doesn't apply to the ML and I strongly disagree with the whole comment you've written regarding him. No amount of discussion is gonna make you change your mind though, so I won't bother arguing.

The whole comment regarding marital abuse is oversimplifying things , seriously lacks empathy as well as being pretty rude as far as I'm concerned. And I'm too lazy to argue with a random person online on a subject that would require 4 hours of debate so I'll leave it as that.

At the end of the day, this is a romantic comedy with a variety of tropes that have proven to hit the right spot for most viewers. If you think the drama is toxic, I personally don't understand why you're sticking with it.

I don't agree with most of what you've written... doesn't mean I think your opinion is not valid... But I find most of your comment pretty judgmental and rude toward viewers who don't hold the same opinion as yours.

It's fine if this drama doesn't click with you... Butif that's the case, I suggest you move on and just drop that one.

Lol Ok. That makes more sense 😂