Kannadin

Good for its length...
Too many overhyped dramas on MDL so I no longer trust neither hype nor ratings on this website.

I'm surprised about the complaints about the budget... Sure it's not A-tier level, but it looks decent enough. I prefer a small budget and a good story than the opposite... Something that happens a lot in the Thai BL world.


Given its based on a webnovel, I wasn't expecting anything miraculous in terms of adaptation. Korean webnovels usually consists of several volumes... When they're adapted to webtoons... which happens A LOT, at least a third of the story is already butchered but BLs are another level of butchery... especially with their drama adaptations.

If fans of the genre knew how much they're missing out by not being able to read Korean they'd be scandalized. The world of webnovels whether in Chinese, Korean or Japanese is filled with terrific stories which will sadly never be translated... Webtoons are often translated since they're easier to translate and shorter but novels? Not that much.

Anyway, I was intrigued enough to check if the novel was available on MyRidi which is the main Korean reading app I personally use:

https://ridibooks.com/books/4830000005?_rdt_sid=myridi_recents&_rdt_idx=3

Overall ratings there is 4.8/5 with over 5000 ratings... which is for this website pretty solid... You can basically trust that anything above 4.5 with over 2000 ratings is pretty good... though one has to be careful since they often do "events" during which you can earn extra "Ridi Cash" by leaving a review after buying the books... So you get lots of people leaving a 5 ratings when they haven't even read the novels...

I've done it, we've all done it because MyRidi doesn't given small change... Sometimes you can earn up to 3000 Ridi Cash, which allows you to buy a small book set when they're on sale in one go. I even participated in an event in which I earned up to 15000 Ridi Cash (that's a 6 to 8 book set at normal price and up to 20 or more when they're on sale... about 3 to 4 times a year).

Anyway there's no set available to buy it for cheap now, so I'm gonna wait but it's a full 5 volumes + 1 volume for the extra story ( my favorite thing about these Korean web novels is that you often get 1 to 3 extra volumes as a long epilogue to spend more times with your favorite characters, such a treat).

Back to the drama though, the acting is solid... It suffers from its short length especially regarding the evolution of the relationship between the two mains but honestly, compared to ALL the K-BL I was unlucky enough to waste time on, this is one of the few that I don't regret watching...

ALSO, the NC scenes are good, the actors are commited. The kisses look like REAL kisses for once. I just can't with the fish kisses personally, that's a pet peeve of mine. I'm French, if there's no tongue, that's not a kiss, don't bother arguing with me on that point. Kiss = tongue. If it's to show me two straight guys who obviously don't want to kiss on camera, just don't bother with it, play with the angle and zoom out, otherwise it is just freakin' annoying. Takes me out of the moment.

It's not the drama of the year but it's good to pass the time...