Can someone spoil the webtoon for me. Who end ups surviving at the end? I want Na ra and Chi Yeol to survive somehow…
We can't spoiler this because the Kdrama may change this, they're already changed so much focusing more on the action than on characters. The manhua actually has a very good ending, and again I say that you should just go and read it, it's short and you can read it all in a hour and half.
One thing that I dislike about this adaptation is how it makes light of depleted uranium. Even if they win the consequences would be disastrous for the whole country with depleted uranium fragments everywhere, but in no moment anyone questions this because they made the story so that "it's the only way". Many people will watch and think there's no danger using it, a useful disinformation for NATO and NATO allied countries that love to use cancerous weapons against non-aligned "enemies".
Erm are we really watching the same thing ??? I just finished 3 eps and im like rolling my eyes the ENTTIRE TIME…
You stopped at episode 3? Oh man, just try to watch episode 4! What bothers me is the disappointment, I loved the original manhua! In the original there are a few scenes where the kids act a bit hysterical, but only inside what it's acceptable and believable, not all of them. Also, the "action" scenes are fast as they should be, they don't drag out. Also, the situation as much simpler. The Kdrama tried to made some situations a bit more complex, maybe to be "more" than the original, but didn't worked.
The original manhua is very short, you can read it in the tame that takes to watch one and a half, two episodes, and it's excellent. I bet you'll like but also maybe will make you even more annoyed by the Kdrama for having ruined it?
After 3 episodes I'm divided about this adaptation. Because the way the manhua is, it's style of narrative, it was natural and expected that the kdrama would expand the history and setting, but when I first see that episode length, 1 hour and 10 minutes, it thought I was excessive.
They're not using all this time wisely. At the same time they expanded things they excluded some other things (suicide is expected because of TV regulations). I'm missing the character moments, more intimate moments that develop and give depth for the characters. Instead they expanded the bullies and made them much more caricatures and unidimensional than the original, why?! Overall it's all a bit too hysterical and I feel the characters are also behaving a too irrational in that situation. There's a difference between having difficulty adaptation like in the manhua and just denying reality like in the kdrama.
edit: in any case I recommend reading the original, it's short.
Wanted to like this better, but it's "ruined" by something very common in Jdramas. That is, the characters don't thing and do things that should be obvious. How do you explain the total lack of action against Risa's brother. It's absurd, the character is a declared bandit and no one does nothing, anything, to stop ruin. "Please leave us alone", don't they realize that they could easily turn tables against him? In the end when the goes to the press it was so easy to discredit him, they could just tell the press, "but did you also investigated him?". The reporter should had noticed herself how he was trying to see a very specific interpretation of the story and suspect that he was scamming her.
This inaction against the obstacles really hurts the story. And why should always be someone meddling in the central drama?Can't they just concentrate on the core drama? Would be much better.
One reason why I was liking this movie was because it was about a pedophile/lolicon.Fumi may be and still be one…
"Each case is different, but for most true pedophiles, "restraint" is not an effective or realistic means of confronting the condition. It's the equivalent of an alcoholic using "restraint" to stay sober. Rarely works."
Understand that the movie was getting a bit long, but IMO the director "ruined" it on the montage floor with his cuts. If the production company re-releases this movie on a "Director's Cut" with just 4 extra minutes including two essential and fundamental scenes to make the story more clear (still ambiguous enough, you still have to think to figure out) this movie would be perfect.
About that ketchup scene,i thought at first maybe he was also sexually abused by someone thats why he doesn't…
He felt a bit of sexual attraction to her on that moment, "nothing wrong" with that happening if he is a pedo/lolicon, but he has restraint because "his pedophilia" comes from this deformity, right? But yes, this scene should exist alone, it exists in parallel with the ending scene. Fumi actually is not 100% pedo/lolicon, he also feels attraction and desire towards adults, one of the cut scenes that happens before the ketchup scene shows this when he is looking at the woman at his university. That's probably why he left Tani get close to him. I think the ending scene that was cut shows that now Fumi feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa. The problem was not that she and others were adults, it was that he was scared they would reject him.
And again, like I commented above, in the end this isn't really a movie about a pedophile/lolicon and this may make some people dislike the movie in the end.
It's an excellent movie, good story and fabulous acting, HOWEVER!!The end may make or brake the movie for you.A…
One reason why I was liking this movie was because it was about a pedophile/lolicon. Fumi may be and still be one by the end, but actually 99% of his behavior and feeling as because of his physical deformity, NOT because he was a pedophile, so the story of the movie changes completely when this is reveled.
It was an interesting history about a pedophile that had restraint and a girl/woman victim of abuse that genuinely cared about each other... until the revelation. I didn't like that. The cut scenes, specially the ending scene that was cut reinforces that, that Fumi is not actually a pedophile/lolicon, he was just very afraid of being rejected by adult woman. But the ketchup scene that is mirrored in the cut ending suggests that now he feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa, as an adult.
(if you're wondering, yes, I think that is a real thing that may happen, I remember when I was younger seeing a person like that, I wonder how that person is now...)
The manhua actually has a very good ending, and again I say that you should just go and read it, it's short and you can read it all in a hour and half.
Many people will watch and think there's no danger using it, a useful disinformation for NATO and NATO allied countries that love to use cancerous weapons against non-aligned "enemies".
What bothers me is the disappointment, I loved the original manhua!
In the original there are a few scenes where the kids act a bit hysterical, but only inside what it's acceptable and believable, not all of them.
Also, the "action" scenes are fast as they should be, they don't drag out.
Also, the situation as much simpler. The Kdrama tried to made some situations a bit more complex, maybe to be "more" than the original, but didn't worked.
The original manhua is very short, you can read it in the tame that takes to watch one and a half, two episodes, and it's excellent.
I bet you'll like but also maybe will make you even more annoyed by the Kdrama for having ruined it?
Because the way the manhua is, it's style of narrative, it was natural and expected that the kdrama would expand the history and setting, but when I first see that episode length, 1 hour and 10 minutes, it thought I was excessive.
They're not using all this time wisely.
At the same time they expanded things they excluded some other things (suicide is expected because of TV regulations). I'm missing the character moments, more intimate moments that develop and give depth for the characters. Instead they expanded the bullies and made them much more caricatures and unidimensional than the original, why?!
Overall it's all a bit too hysterical and I feel the characters are also behaving a too irrational in that situation. There's a difference between having difficulty adaptation like in the manhua and just denying reality like in the kdrama.
edit: in any case I recommend reading the original, it's short.
I really like this character, is there any change of a spin off staring Yodonna?
How do you explain the total lack of action against Risa's brother. It's absurd, the character is a declared bandit and no one does nothing, anything, to stop ruin. "Please leave us alone", don't they realize that they could easily turn tables against him? In the end when the goes to the press it was so easy to discredit him, they could just tell the press, "but did you also investigated him?". The reporter should had noticed herself how he was trying to see a very specific interpretation of the story and suspect that he was scamming her.
This inaction against the obstacles really hurts the story.
And why should always be someone meddling in the central drama?Can't they just concentrate on the core drama? Would be much better.
What is the effective and realistic means?
If the production company re-releases this movie on a "Director's Cut" with just 4 extra minutes including two essential and fundamental scenes to make the story more clear (still ambiguous enough, you still have to think to figure out) this movie would be perfect.
But yes, this scene should exist alone, it exists in parallel with the ending scene. Fumi actually is not 100% pedo/lolicon, he also feels attraction and desire towards adults, one of the cut scenes that happens before the ketchup scene shows this when he is looking at the woman at his university. That's probably why he left Tani get close to him. I think the ending scene that was cut shows that now Fumi feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa. The problem was not that she and others were adults, it was that he was scared they would reject him.
And again, like I commented above, in the end this isn't really a movie about a pedophile/lolicon and this may make some people dislike the movie in the end.
Fumi may be and still be one by the end, but actually 99% of his behavior and feeling as because of his physical deformity, NOT because he was a pedophile, so the story of the movie changes completely when this is reveled.
It was an interesting history about a pedophile that had restraint and a girl/woman victim of abuse that genuinely cared about each other... until the revelation. I didn't like that.
The cut scenes, specially the ending scene that was cut reinforces that, that Fumi is not actually a pedophile/lolicon, he was just very afraid of being rejected by adult woman. But the ketchup scene that is mirrored in the cut ending suggests that now he feels safe and ready to open himself to Sarasa, as an adult.
(if you're wondering, yes, I think that is a real thing that may happen, I remember when I was younger seeing a person like that, I wonder how that person is now...)