TimiZero

If I remember correctly, the mother never appeared in Jdrama. It must be "Kdrama magic"...lol

That Kwon PD is much more logical if it's done right. People like Kwon PD are all over the place in real life, but obviously Dae Ryuk recovered in 5 minutes is more of a fairy tale.

Yeah they kind of copy pasting the style of Kwon PD backstory, but that one was from the original so it was less ridiculous. Although the writers missed the point of this Kwon PD episode as the redemption of his wrong doing. That's why they did another redemption for Dae Ryuk's mother...lol
Just pray they won't do the same trick for Director Heo in next episodes.

Yes...12 episodes seems reasonable. And I think they should have concentrate more on the webtoon aspect. Yeah the romcom fans will leave/drop the show, but the true fans will stay. What they have now is half-baked. It's not even good slice of life, very bad at portraying webtoon production, and at the same time disappoint romcom fans by giving false hope...LoL

So many people questioning about Sin Dae Ryuk.....lol these writers just thrown out bullshit to extend the story....from preview of next week we can assume everything will be resolved at the end magically...so just take whatever bullshit before that ending as a mere parody...don't take things too seriously as no logic writing ever existed since the very beginning.

I thought they were going to cover more chapters of the manga than what Jdrama have covered since the manga is still ongoing...but it looks like it will end roughly the same. But there's 2 more episodes so we wouldn't know.

As far as EP13

I wonder if these guys do not know what is marketing? Most of their plans are to write new webtoons instead of empower the promotion. This is very bad move as the artist won't be able to come up wit many ideas if they have to publish new chapter of every new titles every week. Having a studio like Artist Mo (the one who had conflict with Kwon PD in the past) is more bullshit. Why you want to subcontracting another company to produce more works when a webtoon company can handle all these artists directly.

Ohh...

About the Japan value VS West value. Yeah there's some disparity between the first half and the second in terms of the feel and acting direction a bit, but the writing was still consistent in my opinion.

About seeing Japan as the country who made Godzilla. Well...that's the stereotype people see on anyone who like Japan's Pop Culture. Usually the film fans. I don't see it as them disrespecting or whatsoever. Maybe the writer used this stereotype to write characters like Woody in the drama. And most probably this is the stereotype the Japanese came up with. I remember watching Nodame in Europe. There's one French Otaku character in that drama which obsessed with anything Japan and Anime.

Don't worry man!! I am not in favor with most of the US foreign policies too, and of course I do respect your opinion that's why I wrote my own review there. At least people will have the options and not be scared of watching. when they see 1/10 review

What you said about medical waiver is right, but I don't take it that deep that it was the propaganda. Most other countries will do the same depending on the case. As you can see Takeshi is given one way passport to return to Japan. If they want to highlight how cool the US they could have given him the Green Card.

Another thing to note is the story is based on Matsuo Satoru real-life memoir or whatsoever they call it, so we wouldn't know if his brother was indeed had been in that situation or not....or whether or not he has a brother that's passed away.

I guess if you don't like J-version, this one is 100 times more worst.

This is a workplace drama but unfortunately we rarely see them working other than drinking coffee, chatting, eating...LoL I wish for no romance too but it seems like the writers don't know how to do work drama properly, they give hints of romance to cover their weaknesses.

Since you say you like Bakuman, have you read Juhan Shuttai too, the manga this drama is based on? There's J adaptation that makes more sense if manga industries is what you're looking for. This drama technicality on the work aspect is simply bad full of bullshit like you said they make bad guy just for the sake of being bad guy. LoL

I have no problem with the American Arc. I think it's important for the story and it was the premise from the start as we can see from the synopsis. But I agree the American Arc was a bit lacking in terms of overall watching experience. Kusanagi looked a bit struggle with the dialogues although he did his best in giving the emotion.

He is such a great actor but unfortunately been overlooked by fans outside Japan. In my opinion he has the same acting vibe as Suda Masaki. He can go all over the top like in Yutori desu ga or Kyou Kara, but at the same time he can give you a heartwarming character like in this one.

There are many reference of anime, manga and artists in this one and I was like Yamaga, "Who's that"...haha

This is not just comedy. The story has essence and deep meaning behinds it. Honno's inner thought is basically the exaggeration version of how most of us think...but, we just don't want to admit it because it's embarrassing.

I see many people asking if the webtoons featured are exist in real life.

If you're not yet aware, this drama is adapted from a Japanese manga (read synopsis above). Most of the plots are from this manga and so do most of the "manga title" appear in the story. Maybe they do include some real-life webtoon, but as far as I notice all the webtoons the editorial team manage in this drama are the conversion from "fictional titles" that appeared in J-original.

Peeve Weapon --> same
Princess Gumiho (Kor) --> Princess Horn (Jap)
Please Time Machine (Kor) --> Onegai Time Machine (Jap)
Women Baseball Webtoon (Kor) --> Shoot (Jap) soccer manga
Mr. Baek Historical Webtoon --> Dragon something I don't remember the name (Jap)

However, those titles are typical enough in terms of the plotline that you may find the same story in the existing real-life webtoons and mangas, but with different name.

Disclaimer: I haven't read the original manga but I have watched the 2016 Japanese adaptation

Hi thanks for subbing this drama. I wonder if I need to join the discord to get the sub? Sorry for the noob question.

Not sure what is your preferred genre but even for slice of life the pace is a bit slow in my opinion. With this kind of pace it's either you make a movie or 30 minutes drama with more essence in the writing. One hour plus is really too much considering most of the time they are either eating, gossiping or drinking. I only able to watch this because I have watched the Jdrama version so I already know most of the plot (except some that this remake have made changes).

Sorry for replying on your old comment, but I wonder if anyone has subbed this SP drama? I saw Arabic sub on subscene but couldn't find the Eng sub.

I guess what they did in Jdrama is sufficient for this character because he was the side character and they wanted to portray him as the stereotypical genius artist who has that peculiar behavior. The main focus was not on his mental state although they did show his past trauma. As usual from Jdrama it is very straight to the point without over-dramatizing the situation. And not getting medical attention is sadly more realistic in real-life case too. Not everybody keen to seek medical help.