Can you guys recommend anything that is the same genre of the untamed and heaven official blessing something like…
Well, since HOB liveaction isn't going to come too soon, I'm going to assume you've watched the donghua and aren't adverse to donghua recs. In that case, try MXTX's other story, Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (SVSSS). It's hilarious. Only the first season is out though - the novel is already licensed and completely relased, just as the other two MXTX novels.
Other than that, in terms of donghua - maybe try A Thousand Autumns. It's a bit more dark than MDZS and HOB (as in, the gong seriously is fighting it... until he can't fight it any more LOL). The novel is also licensed, but they just started releasing it, up to volume 3 currently. I guess the fan TL still exists somewhere.
Maybe FeiTian's Dinghai Fusheng Records, too. I haven't watched the donghua, but the novel is solid :D
In terms of actual danmei adaptations to cdrama... The definite danmei-based drama trio is TU, WOH and The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (missing from your list, unless I missed it myself, LOL). It's lighter, but they did allow some hints to escape into the story (and the novel itself isn't that PDA-prone either, LOL). Take a look.
It's the story of a cute glutton who also acts as a judge and writes purple prose for extra money, LOL. And how he, one day, gets tangled with a guy who can cook and then some, and also with an Imperial Eunuch set on the path to success, no matter how many bodies he might leave behind. You know what they say... the road to a man's heart goes through his stomach :D
Guardian (based on a novel by Priest) has a lot of the story told in flashbacks to an ancient China setting, so at least in that it kind of fits the idea of ancient China danmei-based story.
If you only want some really strong bromance, with the same kind of setting - maybe Mysterious Lotus Casebook would fit in, too.
You know what... this isn't half-bad at all. I thought it was going to be a snooze fest (I stalled a lot on the…
The plot could've used some more work, though. I mean okay - Daddy Tawara wants out of the business, Mommy Tawara is being bored to become a SAHM (Tae Kimura played her as if she was Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies LOL, just that she was already trained), the youngest kid doesn't even know the family's business until he's put in the middle of it, the only daughter is idolising her lost brother, who, obviously, isn't as dead as previously thought LOL (I mean, what else is a missing body in a drama FOR if not for a surprise resurrection when the guy/girl has been seduced to the other side, right?)
And then we have tall, dark and broody Kiddo Tawara, who just wants to love somebody. For a shinobi, he's still pretty naive (and a virgin, LOL, though even if this is NF, we didn't get to see but some kissing, who knows if he lost his v-card that night) and a romantic, hahaha~ But hey, he's handsome and can fight. He gets a pass (or more passes, I don't care, I'm shallow like that.)
Darth Tawara is going to be seduced back into the family fold in the sequel, if any (because why not be completely tropey if we're going to use tropes anyway LOL). And maybe he'll bring his own Darth assistant with him (the only girl sporting an actual medieval haircut, LOL. I'm not sure if Kiddo Tawara ever met a professional hair cutter, and Darth Tawara obviously never even imagined hair could be cut until his mom did it LOL. These boys are so lacking in the hair care dep't.)
And then there's Grandma Tawara who is also in the girls' shinobi club, looks like, and can solve things even if she's addicted to soft drinks and burgers. And it looks like she's feeding some of that to the cat, too, that cat is on the way to becoming a oh-lawd-he-coming chonker.
Princess Karen, wait, I mean Kiddo Tawara's love interest (and current possessor of his v-card, who knows LOL) is still un-backstoried much (so she survived some fire as a kid and that's all. I guess it's left for the sequel if any). If there's a sequel, I hope the main cast remains the same, they really have some chemistry together (and trust me... that's pretty hard to come by in some j-doramas, unless they're BL, or very recent.) I almost wanted her to be a double agent for ANYone (the other clan of the gov't, or even the shinobi girls' surprise book club LOL, I don't care, as long as Kiddo Tawara got his heart officially broken by her betrayal and moved on. Now he's caught in a web and if NF never does the sequel, that's where he'll stay forever. I'd like him to go knock some heads together in that BNM agency. Just for the giggles.
So, in the end, everybody got manipulated into doing whatever the freak the enemies wanted done, and here we are - from the officials to the shinobi, everyone's going to dance to the tune of their enemies, LOL. That can't remain like that. Oh well.
I enjoyed it, TBH, and that's all that matters. But it needs a sequel, for the redemption of Darth Tawara, some (a lot) more screen time for Eguchi Yosuke, more lovey-dovey shyness from Kiddo Tawara (those are some seriously dangeous dark looks, and I like shy&quiet VERY much LOL), and yes, some head-banging for the BNM (of which I totally LOVED the newbie, LOL, he was hilarious!!! I want to see him bond with Kiddo Tawara and be his trusty sidekick!!)
Though a more tight plot definitely wouldn't hurt it, if it gets made. Hear me, NF? Also, if you make it... leave off s*x scenes, you perverts, okay? kthxbye.
You know what... this isn't half-bad at all. I thought it was going to be a snooze fest (I stalled a lot on the first two-three eps), but then it got into a groove, and while I could totally see the twists coming... can't help it. Even if Eguchi Yosuke wasn't that much in focus as I'd have wanted, I'd have still watched it for him. And then I found more reasons (it sure doesn't hurt AT ALL that Kaku Kento is tall, dark and so damn fine.)
The plot follows more Western lines than I'd expected, too, and the music kind of fits that. Overall... If you decide to watch this as if it was a low-grade superheroes story, it totally works. Don't put too much importance on shinobi lore and the like, though, LOL. And dammit, NF, learn that every season of any drama ever NEEDS a freaking complete-feeling ending, even if you leave some doors open for a possible sequel!
Well, at least there's no sudden s*x scene in the middle of nothing, like the other series that shall remain un-named here. And yeah - Kaku Kento. Definitely worth it :D
PS Eguchi Yosuke will forever remain the perfect Saito Hajime for me, though, Daddy Tawara won't cut it after all :D
It's like we watched two completely different dramas, LOL. So, JJM did train her to save herself, but he's a VERY…
Again, what I saw is that he does NOT make any decisions for her, exactly because he's not her father. And maybe he does feel guilty for taking her family away indirectly.
He lets her decide what she wants at every step and never pushes her in any direction she didn't already choose. And when she does choose he's always in the shadow to help her if it goes into extreme... but otherwise he lets her find her own way to survive.
I have no idea what his own childhood might have been like, for him to get involved into a merc company and eventually turn into an arms' dealer. It might be something he finds perfectly normal and so it's the only way he knows to prepare JiAn - throw her in the water and let her teach herself to swim.
TBH I don't like stories where parents or found family do absolutely everything for their children/people they're responsible for, up to and including sacrificing themselves. I mean, we all live for ourselves before everybody else. I can understand JinMan's POV in giving her complete freedom, as much as he's able, to do whatever she wants to do. He's treating her as an independent adult and that's just that.
Automatically awarded one star for having zero romance, one star for lovely bloody violence, and three stars for…
It's like we watched two completely different dramas, LOL.
So, JJM did train her to save herself, but he's a VERY hands-off kind of teacher. Pasin DID teach her Muay Thai and knife work, JJM taught her how to shoot (good enough to almost take a sniper from across a field, on a diagonal upwards angle), through a reflecting car window and very little visibility. And they both never wanted her to become a mercenary, so she didn't NEED complete immersive training, like MinHye.
And I guess it also involved a lot of WANTING to learn and train. MinHye wanted to be trained and became a well-known name that other killers fear a lot. JiAn wanted to move to the city, go to school and have a normal life. JinMan presented her with a choice for herself, too, when he left the offer of having her walking away from it all or stay and inherit murthehelp. She chose, in the end. And was well-enough trained to take over anyway, despite not going through merc school of continuos fighting.
In the end, logically speaking, if JinMan would have died (because of Bale or Babylon or simply struck by a car when walking pass the crossroad), JiAn would have HAD to manage everything by herself. He (and Pasin) gave her the tools to survive and let her survive on her own.
And JiAn, for all her training and eventual decision to accept the job, is still almost a teen, who just (supposedly) lost the only family member she had left, who isn't USED to think in terms of advantages and disadvantages and not trusting anyone, and who, considering the very short timeframe (a few hours one evening), manages to adapt as well as it can be expected to a terribly new situation in her life.
The alternative would've been for JinMan to train his young niece as an assassin (which she maybe never wanted to be), and have her afraid of all shadows throughout her whole life, whether the shadows come alive or not, and maybe break her off from all possible friendships and other relationships of all kinds.
PS And there might be a moment after she sees him coming back bruised but alive, when the relief passes and she shoots him in the kneecaps anyway, LOL.
Well, the ending to the 7th ep made up for everything that went before (the whole series so far, LOL). That drunk…
Seriously, it "just" came out that the patient's father had DIED and she was taking over the business, with rivals in play, and NOBODY thought to look at them before?!
And then they just waltzed in, placed the heparin in the bag, and set prints on the bottle... and then the anesthetist never went to the police? Or mail them the video, incognito? Or why the hell would he put MORE cameras in JeongWoo's HOME? Did they all have the same recording?
But it made no sense - the anesthetist's OCD involves secretly filming everything? And so, what's the glasses doctor's thing? Why was he shown as potentially a suspect? Is he going to matter in the rest of the drama? Yeesh.
Then again - JeongWoo's analogies were FINALLY some salt and pepper for this drama. And his repeated drunken confessions, which I BET he forgets next ep, because it's that kind of drama.
Anyway... I like the jobless brother, I like the second pairing (S)ML, and I hope the drama doesn't drown in "sweet" moments only from now on, I'd like to see some comback for both of them and getting some "sweet revenge" and recognition, too. So I guess I'll keep watching for now. Just not immediately, in case they lose the plot again.
This is still so damn slow, but it's watchable in 2x speed. If there's going to be some progress on the whodunit side of the story, it should be happening already, it's like watching paint dry. (By ep 6 btw).
We spent 8 eps wondering if JINMAN is dead or not... now they've left us with another conundrum - is MINHYE dead or not?!
Pasin is good with meds, she wasn't necessarily dead when he went to get her - though she was unconscious.
The thumb rule of dramas and movies is this though: eyes closed = mostly alive, good chance to resurrect later; eyes open = cold dead, long gone, so long and thanks for all the fish! (might come over for flashbacks).
I mean, even JinMan used the trope LOL, to fool JeongMin - he just laid there, eyes open, sooooo dead LOL. MinHye didn't have anyone to fool though, so I think she lives.
Exactly... this system is quite inhumane, especially since rich sons from Chaebols and influential politicians…
Either world history gets taught differently in the States, or there is some very serious confusion over who, what, when, how regional wars started AND continued.
To make it short (as much as it can be done with such a complex history), the freaking CIA of the US has had its dirty fingers in so many pies all over the world, it's not even remotely funny. I mean, they undermined ANY kind of social democracies in the South and Latin America just based on the fear that "commies" are going to come too close to the US borders (oh and even before that, there's that "delicious" destruction of any political systems in Honduras that started because the freaking country wouldn't beg on its knees to some banana company to allow it to continue its existence! - and not once, but SEVEN times over, up tp the middle of the 20th century. That's just Honduras, though, they got involved in a lot of other South and Latin American small countries. Where did you think the term "banana republic" came from?!) And then there's the whole Iran Shah issue, which also involved American CIA and led to the present situation where freaking Iran is one of the worst theocracies around, just because BP wanted to keep its oil sources and make money, and the US decided they wanted an in, too. And there are so many other mishaps - people are a fighting and irrational species, we like war, but most wars happen and end on their own... not so when they're used for proxy fighting among world superpowers with vested interest in resources and power projection zones. I can't believe you seriously do think the US ONLY became involved in all its wars by accident, because they like to help and the like!
The US had a freaking red scare period that took WAY too long to even ammeliorate, and it's still going on at a level of irrational fear of anything sounding "social"-inclined, up to and including its own public health system. The whole period of the Cold War they DID start OR encouraged a lot of troubles everywhere they imagined Russians or Chinese were trying to influence into getting in their own zone of projected power (and maybe that was warranted, but the WAY they did go about it is atrocious. And no, the end doesn't justify the means, even if they were really, really scared the commies were coming to get them.)
The Korean War would've remained a regional war that would have been solved eventually if BOTH sides didn't ally themselves with whoever they could - the Chinese and Russians did provide support to the present NK, and the US and their allies supported SK. It was by all definitions a proxy war, except it did include American soldiers who, by all means, should not have even been there if it wasn't for the fear Americans already had of the USSR and China. And it may be presumed that they actually wanted to keep a foothold in Asia just to make sure nothing would come from there by surprise. That makes sense, in a way, but it doesn't actually excuse 3 million victims among Koreans on both sides of the lines (more than in the Vietman war), some of which SK executed directly just because they were suspected NK communists, completely destroyed cities and infrastructure, and created a completely messed up political system IN BOTH COUNTRIES. The NK got loaded with the Kim family of dictators, and SK was a military dictatorship, TOO, up til the beginning of the 1990s. That is 40 years of military dictatorship that was inflicted on them AFTER the armistice. And it was supported by the allies who had fought on their side or supported them in different ways.
There are no freaking angels in an inter-ethnic war, no matter who started it.
And leaving that aside - again, the discussion started with why does SK HAVE to make its young men go to mandatory army training - THIS IS WHY. The war has been going on for nigh on 74 years now, and it's only been put on the back burner, not concluded. And NK starved its population until it got its nuclear weapons, which means it's under a MAD shield right about now. But SK DOESN'T have it own MAD shield, it's under the US' shield, and the US has already proven it can elect actual idiots in its highest place of power, and keep supporting them - wildly cheering them on - as they promise to dismantle every promise the US has made to its allies.
SK men do NOT have the luxury of voluntary army, if it wants to have some chance of survival. If it's left on its own, you can bet NK will come knocking. And THEN we'll see what happens.
That is the whole problem, though - SOME of them CAN find means of evading mandatory miliary service, and it's definitely unfair for the rest of them. Getting rid of the mandatory military service is not on the table - the country is still, officially, at war! - but people do not take it well when someone even SEEMS to try to get out of it. If the freaking war resumes, those who didn't go would have to hide behind those who did go, and that's not acceptable. I can freaking understand their POV, and I'm not even Korean, or in Asia right now. It's not so hard to understand, the heck!
My sister watched the drama as her first chinese drama ever to watch and she became obsessed ,, she watched it…
Give her Wonderland of Love - great chemistry, Xu Kai acting his best role ever, and an hour-long HEA episode. She'll learn to appreciate cdramas even more :D
I was really stupid to mark this drama as "not interested" (it was bcoz I hate SE) , yesterday I saw someone's…
No, he only has eyes for the FL, and the SFL is just trying to survive by any means necessary (which makes her a b*tch) because she has some serious trauma and there were no psychologists to help her in fantasy ancient China LOL.
But be warned this is an abusive love story, so there WILL be some push and pull of playing jealousy games, too, from both sides.
Exactly... this system is quite inhumane, especially since rich sons from Chaebols and influential politicians…
You can't even begin to compare the US' situation with that of SK. First, the US have only ONCE been attacked by another COUNTRY on their territory (and that was in Hawaii, not the mainland). I repeat, once. Then, in the modern era (because they were never NOT involved in some minor war or skirmish where they didn't actually belong) for geopolitical reasons and to project power, also to restrict their real or imagined enemies, also for the exploitation of resources, as they did in the Latin America, the US went to war almost continuosly somewhere ELSE. (In process, generally destroying infrastructure, killing or causing to be killed hundreds of thousands of people, creating an arms' race - not by themselves, obviously, it takes two, or more, to tango in this issue - but never, ever coming at total peace since WWII). But they were never FORCED to do so, they CHOSE to do so and that's why their soldiers are always signing up on their own choice.
The Korean War is another proxy war between the communist nations and the US and its allies, just like the Vietnam war (or the 80s Afghanistan war). The war never ended, it stopped because both sides reached an armistice and that's the way it remained til today. It could start NOW, if the crazy dictator in the North decides so. In the border regions, they keep having incidents. NK deflectors keep risking their lives - and those of their families - to escape that hellhole. SK is treating it as the most dangerous and current threat to peace. And every once in a while, NK is "testing" yet another rocket or conducting nuclear tests. Seoul is but hours away from nuclear anihilation, if NK decides to go to hot war yet again. Maintaining a population trained for war, if it should happen, is extremely important to SK. They cannot risk relaxing. Would you, if a close neighbour country would have nuclear weapons and you were already in a tense situation with them? Even if their reasoning doesn't make sense to YOU, it won't stop them from attacking if they so decide. You HAVE to prepare. And SK does.
The problem with the system is that it's supposed to be uniform for all men between certain ages, and there are too many (of pretty specific socio-economic backgrounds) that never serve their mandatory military service, while the unprivileged never get exempt (unless some specific conditions, mainly health-related, are met). It's so serious to the regular people and they keep attacking those they see as flaunting or ignoring the rules exactly because it IS supposed to be the same for everybody, not just the poor or unconnected.
And then there's obviously the actual danger (soldiers do die in border skirmishes, from time to time), the abuse (plenty of stories about that), the boredom even (and it goes on and on for around 2 years, when you're basically stuck there, under some power-drunk superior, and life passes you by). I can totally understand their frustration. Can you?
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Other than that, in terms of donghua - maybe try A Thousand Autumns. It's a bit more dark than MDZS and HOB (as in, the gong seriously is fighting it... until he can't fight it any more LOL). The novel is also licensed, but they just started releasing it, up to volume 3 currently. I guess the fan TL still exists somewhere.
Maybe FeiTian's Dinghai Fusheng Records, too. I haven't watched the donghua, but the novel is solid :D
In terms of actual danmei adaptations to cdrama... The definite danmei-based drama trio is TU, WOH and The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty (missing from your list, unless I missed it myself, LOL). It's lighter, but they did allow some hints to escape into the story (and the novel itself isn't that PDA-prone either, LOL). Take a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCEJd5EI5rc
It's the story of a cute glutton who also acts as a judge and writes purple prose for extra money, LOL. And how he, one day, gets tangled with a guy who can cook and then some, and also with an Imperial Eunuch set on the path to success, no matter how many bodies he might leave behind. You know what they say... the road to a man's heart goes through his stomach :D
Guardian (based on a novel by Priest) has a lot of the story told in flashbacks to an ancient China setting, so at least in that it kind of fits the idea of ancient China danmei-based story.
If you only want some really strong bromance, with the same kind of setting - maybe Mysterious Lotus Casebook would fit in, too.
And then we have tall, dark and broody Kiddo Tawara, who just wants to love somebody. For a shinobi, he's still pretty naive (and a virgin, LOL, though even if this is NF, we didn't get to see but some kissing, who knows if he lost his v-card that night) and a romantic, hahaha~ But hey, he's handsome and can fight. He gets a pass (or more passes, I don't care, I'm shallow like that.)
Darth Tawara is going to be seduced back into the family fold in the sequel, if any (because why not be completely tropey if we're going to use tropes anyway LOL). And maybe he'll bring his own Darth assistant with him (the only girl sporting an actual medieval haircut, LOL. I'm not sure if Kiddo Tawara ever met a professional hair cutter, and Darth Tawara obviously never even imagined hair could be cut until his mom did it LOL. These boys are so lacking in the hair care dep't.)
And then there's Grandma Tawara who is also in the girls' shinobi club, looks like, and can solve things even if she's addicted to soft drinks and burgers. And it looks like she's feeding some of that to the cat, too, that cat is on the way to becoming a oh-lawd-he-coming chonker.
Princess Karen, wait, I mean Kiddo Tawara's love interest (and current possessor of his v-card, who knows LOL) is still un-backstoried much (so she survived some fire as a kid and that's all. I guess it's left for the sequel if any). If there's a sequel, I hope the main cast remains the same, they really have some chemistry together (and trust me... that's pretty hard to come by in some j-doramas, unless they're BL, or very recent.) I almost wanted her to be a double agent for ANYone (the other clan of the gov't, or even the shinobi girls' surprise book club LOL, I don't care, as long as Kiddo Tawara got his heart officially broken by her betrayal and moved on. Now he's caught in a web and if NF never does the sequel, that's where he'll stay forever. I'd like him to go knock some heads together in that BNM agency. Just for the giggles.
So, in the end, everybody got manipulated into doing whatever the freak the enemies wanted done, and here we are - from the officials to the shinobi, everyone's going to dance to the tune of their enemies, LOL. That can't remain like that. Oh well.
I enjoyed it, TBH, and that's all that matters. But it needs a sequel, for the redemption of Darth Tawara, some (a lot) more screen time for Eguchi Yosuke, more lovey-dovey shyness from Kiddo Tawara (those are some seriously dangeous dark looks, and I like shy&quiet VERY much LOL), and yes, some head-banging for the BNM (of which I totally LOVED the newbie, LOL, he was hilarious!!! I want to see him bond with Kiddo Tawara and be his trusty sidekick!!)
Though a more tight plot definitely wouldn't hurt it, if it gets made. Hear me, NF? Also, if you make it... leave off s*x scenes, you perverts, okay? kthxbye.
The plot follows more Western lines than I'd expected, too, and the music kind of fits that. Overall... If you decide to watch this as if it was a low-grade superheroes story, it totally works. Don't put too much importance on shinobi lore and the like, though, LOL. And dammit, NF, learn that every season of any drama ever NEEDS a freaking complete-feeling ending, even if you leave some doors open for a possible sequel!
Well, at least there's no sudden s*x scene in the middle of nothing, like the other series that shall remain un-named here. And yeah - Kaku Kento. Definitely worth it :D
PS Eguchi Yosuke will forever remain the perfect Saito Hajime for me, though, Daddy Tawara won't cut it after all :D
He lets her decide what she wants at every step and never pushes her in any direction she didn't already choose. And when she does choose he's always in the shadow to help her if it goes into extreme... but otherwise he lets her find her own way to survive.
I have no idea what his own childhood might have been like, for him to get involved into a merc company and eventually turn into an arms' dealer. It might be something he finds perfectly normal and so it's the only way he knows to prepare JiAn - throw her in the water and let her teach herself to swim.
TBH I don't like stories where parents or found family do absolutely everything for their children/people they're responsible for, up to and including sacrificing themselves. I mean, we all live for ourselves before everybody else. I can understand JinMan's POV in giving her complete freedom, as much as he's able, to do whatever she wants to do. He's treating her as an independent adult and that's just that.
So, JJM did train her to save herself, but he's a VERY hands-off kind of teacher. Pasin DID teach her Muay Thai and knife work, JJM taught her how to shoot (good enough to almost take a sniper from across a field, on a diagonal upwards angle), through a reflecting car window and very little visibility. And they both never wanted her to become a mercenary, so she didn't NEED complete immersive training, like MinHye.
And I guess it also involved a lot of WANTING to learn and train. MinHye wanted to be trained and became a well-known name that other killers fear a lot. JiAn wanted to move to the city, go to school and have a normal life. JinMan presented her with a choice for herself, too, when he left the offer of having her walking away from it all or stay and inherit murthehelp. She chose, in the end. And was well-enough trained to take over anyway, despite not going through merc school of continuos fighting.
In the end, logically speaking, if JinMan would have died (because of Bale or Babylon or simply struck by a car when walking pass the crossroad), JiAn would have HAD to manage everything by herself. He (and Pasin) gave her the tools to survive and let her survive on her own.
And JiAn, for all her training and eventual decision to accept the job, is still almost a teen, who just (supposedly) lost the only family member she had left, who isn't USED to think in terms of advantages and disadvantages and not trusting anyone, and who, considering the very short timeframe (a few hours one evening), manages to adapt as well as it can be expected to a terribly new situation in her life.
The alternative would've been for JinMan to train his young niece as an assassin (which she maybe never wanted to be), and have her afraid of all shadows throughout her whole life, whether the shadows come alive or not, and maybe break her off from all possible friendships and other relationships of all kinds.
PS And there might be a moment after she sees him coming back bruised but alive, when the relief passes and she shoots him in the kneecaps anyway, LOL.
And then they just waltzed in, placed the heparin in the bag, and set prints on the bottle... and then the anesthetist never went to the police? Or mail them the video, incognito? Or why the hell would he put MORE cameras in JeongWoo's HOME? Did they all have the same recording?
But it made no sense - the anesthetist's OCD involves secretly filming everything? And so, what's the glasses doctor's thing? Why was he shown as potentially a suspect? Is he going to matter in the rest of the drama? Yeesh.
Then again - JeongWoo's analogies were FINALLY some salt and pepper for this drama. And his repeated drunken confessions, which I BET he forgets next ep, because it's that kind of drama.
Anyway... I like the jobless brother, I like the second pairing (S)ML, and I hope the drama doesn't drown in "sweet" moments only from now on, I'd like to see some comback for both of them and getting some "sweet revenge" and recognition, too. So I guess I'll keep watching for now. Just not immediately, in case they lose the plot again.
Though the way they solved the whodunit really is lame.
Totally worth it :D
Pasin is good with meds, she wasn't necessarily dead when he went to get her - though she was unconscious.
The thumb rule of dramas and movies is this though: eyes closed = mostly alive, good chance to resurrect later; eyes open = cold dead, long gone, so long and thanks for all the fish! (might come over for flashbacks).
I mean, even JinMan used the trope LOL, to fool JeongMin - he just laid there, eyes open, sooooo dead LOL. MinHye didn't have anyone to fool though, so I think she lives.
So far, only How Can I Be Late was released (song at the end of ep7): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St2EG9v3UMo
Can't wait to hear the rest of it :D
ETA: here it is!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St2EG9v3UMo&list=OLAK5uy_mo-7s2nE-Ezmrom2rE_fAqQ4dvahuCBNg
To make it short (as much as it can be done with such a complex history), the freaking CIA of the US has had its dirty fingers in so many pies all over the world, it's not even remotely funny. I mean, they undermined ANY kind of social democracies in the South and Latin America just based on the fear that "commies" are going to come too close to the US borders (oh and even before that, there's that "delicious" destruction of any political systems in Honduras that started because the freaking country wouldn't beg on its knees to some banana company to allow it to continue its existence! - and not once, but SEVEN times over, up tp the middle of the 20th century. That's just Honduras, though, they got involved in a lot of other South and Latin American small countries. Where did you think the term "banana republic" came from?!) And then there's the whole Iran Shah issue, which also involved American CIA and led to the present situation where freaking Iran is one of the worst theocracies around, just because BP wanted to keep its oil sources and make money, and the US decided they wanted an in, too. And there are so many other mishaps - people are a fighting and irrational species, we like war, but most wars happen and end on their own... not so when they're used for proxy fighting among world superpowers with vested interest in resources and power projection zones. I can't believe you seriously do think the US ONLY became involved in all its wars by accident, because they like to help and the like!
The US had a freaking red scare period that took WAY too long to even ammeliorate, and it's still going on at a level of irrational fear of anything sounding "social"-inclined, up to and including its own public health system. The whole period of the Cold War they DID start OR encouraged a lot of troubles everywhere they imagined Russians or Chinese were trying to influence into getting in their own zone of projected power (and maybe that was warranted, but the WAY they did go about it is atrocious. And no, the end doesn't justify the means, even if they were really, really scared the commies were coming to get them.)
The Korean War would've remained a regional war that would have been solved eventually if BOTH sides didn't ally themselves with whoever they could - the Chinese and Russians did provide support to the present NK, and the US and their allies supported SK. It was by all definitions a proxy war, except it did include American soldiers who, by all means, should not have even been there if it wasn't for the fear Americans already had of the USSR and China. And it may be presumed that they actually wanted to keep a foothold in Asia just to make sure nothing would come from there by surprise. That makes sense, in a way, but it doesn't actually excuse 3 million victims among Koreans on both sides of the lines (more than in the Vietman war), some of which SK executed directly just because they were suspected NK communists, completely destroyed cities and infrastructure, and created a completely messed up political system IN BOTH COUNTRIES. The NK got loaded with the Kim family of dictators, and SK was a military dictatorship, TOO, up til the beginning of the 1990s. That is 40 years of military dictatorship that was inflicted on them AFTER the armistice. And it was supported by the allies who had fought on their side or supported them in different ways.
There are no freaking angels in an inter-ethnic war, no matter who started it.
And leaving that aside - again, the discussion started with why does SK HAVE to make its young men go to mandatory army training - THIS IS WHY. The war has been going on for nigh on 74 years now, and it's only been put on the back burner, not concluded. And NK starved its population until it got its nuclear weapons, which means it's under a MAD shield right about now. But SK DOESN'T have it own MAD shield, it's under the US' shield, and the US has already proven it can elect actual idiots in its highest place of power, and keep supporting them - wildly cheering them on - as they promise to dismantle every promise the US has made to its allies.
SK men do NOT have the luxury of voluntary army, if it wants to have some chance of survival. If it's left on its own, you can bet NK will come knocking. And THEN we'll see what happens.
That is the whole problem, though - SOME of them CAN find means of evading mandatory miliary service, and it's definitely unfair for the rest of them. Getting rid of the mandatory military service is not on the table - the country is still, officially, at war! - but people do not take it well when someone even SEEMS to try to get out of it. If the freaking war resumes, those who didn't go would have to hide behind those who did go, and that's not acceptable. I can freaking understand their POV, and I'm not even Korean, or in Asia right now. It's not so hard to understand, the heck!
Wait, wrong drama LOL
But be warned this is an abusive love story, so there WILL be some push and pull of playing jealousy games, too, from both sides.
The Korean War is another proxy war between the communist nations and the US and its allies, just like the Vietnam war (or the 80s Afghanistan war). The war never ended, it stopped because both sides reached an armistice and that's the way it remained til today. It could start NOW, if the crazy dictator in the North decides so. In the border regions, they keep having incidents. NK deflectors keep risking their lives - and those of their families - to escape that hellhole. SK is treating it as the most dangerous and current threat to peace. And every once in a while, NK is "testing" yet another rocket or conducting nuclear tests. Seoul is but hours away from nuclear anihilation, if NK decides to go to hot war yet again. Maintaining a population trained for war, if it should happen, is extremely important to SK. They cannot risk relaxing. Would you, if a close neighbour country would have nuclear weapons and you were already in a tense situation with them? Even if their reasoning doesn't make sense to YOU, it won't stop them from attacking if they so decide. You HAVE to prepare. And SK does.
The problem with the system is that it's supposed to be uniform for all men between certain ages, and there are too many (of pretty specific socio-economic backgrounds) that never serve their mandatory military service, while the unprivileged never get exempt (unless some specific conditions, mainly health-related, are met). It's so serious to the regular people and they keep attacking those they see as flaunting or ignoring the rules exactly because it IS supposed to be the same for everybody, not just the poor or unconnected.
And then there's obviously the actual danger (soldiers do die in border skirmishes, from time to time), the abuse (plenty of stories about that), the boredom even (and it goes on and on for around 2 years, when you're basically stuck there, under some power-drunk superior, and life passes you by). I can totally understand their frustration. Can you?