Here is the thing... like many others have said, the strong point of this series is the friendship and love between Arisu and Himura. Their chemistry and dynamics are what made this show so enjoyable. Aside from them, their interactions with other characters such as Tokie san and Yasoda san were also great. I'd love to see a picture of Yasoda's kid at this point lol. That being said, the cases are not fantastic (some are better, some are worse), and I felt like there were a lot of missed opportunities with characters and motivations. Among them, Sanae and Apollo are the biggest miss for me. For Apollo, he ended up being such a throwaway despite being foreshadowed from episode one. I thought he will be used to show us a showdown between Himura and what Himura COULD'VE been if he had chosen a different path or perhaps never met Arisu. instead, the boy murdered, admitted, and was quickly thrown to jail without much fanfare and barely had an interaction with Himura. What was the purpose of this storyline? So much wasted potential. I disliked Sanae's storyline, as well. First of all, I felt like they should've based her genius before they made her all obsessed with pretty much committing "murder suicide" with Himura. Show her doing things that are unrelated to Himura, things with a big impact. Instead, she's arrested (unrelated to Himura) from the get go, meets him, gets obsessed, and then throws away all her previous big plans to "release the sleeping monster" within him. What a waste. The woman didn't even commit to killing Arisu even though she is right, that would've probably done the trick. If she really wanted Himura to come at her with murderous intent, that's what she should've done. But a part of me thinks she didn't because that would prove Arisu is always the most important person to Himura and SHE wanted to be it, the catalyst (using language such as "the closest woman to Himura", etc). Compared to all the other Moriarty, she was really such a letdown. They never let her character develop outside of Himura :(
Hello, if I may ask a question~ I haven't seen this drama but someone voted for it in my "best case-of-the-week drama" voting list. I was wondering if this IS such a drama? I may actually watch it if it is haha
The dramas doesn't show this but both are set in the same universe
How does this work if this is never shown/addressed in the drama?... Aside for both being contemporary romances, is there any other link? Or is this just something the production crew stated at some point?
When they make a movie out of a book, like the disaster that was the Percy Jackson movie, the Golden Compass, Narnia... they take a book and then basically only use the names haha
The webtoon is ongoing (or at least the translations are, not sure about the original piece) so I actually have no idea ^_^" It's a very good read, though! Quite different from the drama so far.
Why is "Extraordinary You" marked as an adaptation of this on this page???? they have nothing to do with each other--"Extraordinary" You is based on a webtoon...
OMG, I loved the first episode so much I went to read the webtoon and--it's so emotional and heartbreaking?!?! What exactly am I setting myself up for here, I thought this was supposed to be a comedy T_T
Beautiful movies and a beautiful article. I knew the movies were well shot but I had no idea the director included…
Thank you so much for the kind comment and compliments! I am so happy you enjoyed this article! There are many amazing ways in which directors used visual and auditory techniques to enhance and even manipulate the emotions of their audience, and all of those are insanely fascinating (to me, at least haha). A movie is a work of art, and this particular one was such a joy to watch! :D
Loved this article. The Rurouni Kenshin trilogy is one of my favourite movie-sets and you've given the 1st movie…
Thank you so much for the kind comment! I am so happy I was able to add some depth to an already beautiful movie! I will definitely write more of this type of articles when I find movies like Kenshin that inspire them!
Wow! I hope you do this too with other doramas or movies. :)Great explanation.
I'm glad you enjoyed this! I plan to write more :) I don't know how much demand there is to it, but I do love those things so as long as people give me a platform to talk about it...
That being said, the cases are not fantastic (some are better, some are worse), and I felt like there were a lot of missed opportunities with characters and motivations. Among them, Sanae and Apollo are the biggest miss for me. For Apollo, he ended up being such a throwaway despite being foreshadowed from episode one. I thought he will be used to show us a showdown between Himura and what Himura COULD'VE been if he had chosen a different path or perhaps never met Arisu. instead, the boy murdered, admitted, and was quickly thrown to jail without much fanfare and barely had an interaction with Himura. What was the purpose of this storyline? So much wasted potential.
I disliked Sanae's storyline, as well. First of all, I felt like they should've based her genius before they made her all obsessed with pretty much committing "murder suicide" with Himura. Show her doing things that are unrelated to Himura, things with a big impact. Instead, she's arrested (unrelated to Himura) from the get go, meets him, gets obsessed, and then throws away all her previous big plans to "release the sleeping monster" within him. What a waste. The woman didn't even commit to killing Arisu even though she is right, that would've probably done the trick. If she really wanted Himura to come at her with murderous intent, that's what she should've done. But a part of me thinks she didn't because that would prove Arisu is always the most important person to Himura and SHE wanted to be it, the catalyst (using language such as "the closest woman to Himura", etc). Compared to all the other Moriarty, she was really such a letdown. They never let her character develop outside of Himura :(
There are many amazing ways in which directors used visual and auditory techniques to enhance and even manipulate the emotions of their audience, and all of those are insanely fascinating (to me, at least haha). A movie is a work of art, and this particular one was such a joy to watch! :D
I'm so glad this piece was effective for you!
I plan to write more :) I don't know how much demand there is to it, but I do love those things so as long as people give me a platform to talk about it...