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Tomoya I agree with, they tried to humanize him a bit. But I don't think Reina was actually making it emotional and humanizing. She realized she was done for, regardless if she lived or not and decided to blame Misa and jump, essentially doing the exact same thing her mother did to her that made her so sociopathic. It was like a last ditch effort to make sure Misa was never happy

I loved both versions. I don't see how liking the Korean version would make you dislike this one

Aylin is cute, and it's hilarious how she's like completely oblivious to everything on one hand, but ridiculously perceptive and helpful to Ongsa on the other

The director needs to teach a class on how to pick good scripts or something. He hasn't missed once in like 10 years

The ex fiancee plot was in the novel but not the webtoon. This version was inspired by the novel and the j version was inspired by the webtoon, so the stories are largely the same but there are also major differences in the plot due to being adaptations of different works. That plot line did suck though

yes, they released at 12am in Japan

Because it did end on the 25th, in Japan.

I feel the opposite really. It felt like Misa was more in control of her revenge and was able to force them together and continue the momentum to their ends. In the KDrama, a lot of times it felt like the revenge was just happening with Ji Won basically being a bystander. There was more satisfaction in a way at the end of the Su Min arc, since it was Ji Won that took her down; and yeah Misa didn't kill or stop Reina, but the Ferris Wheel scene was pretty powerful

When Wataru was crashing, the screen went to black then showed a doctor calling time of death. Then the camera zoomed out and it was Tomoya. That was the scene where his mom collapsed on top of him crying

I dont' agree with it being anti-Catholic, can see how some might take it that way. The main villain is Catholic, the school is Catholic, the principal that SAed SoMi is Catholic, etc.

That never happens lol. IMDb is always lower on Asian shows than MDL is

I love that they actually went to watch Your Name in theaters and went to see Ohtani play in LA, like he said he wanted to do while she was sleeping. Nice little added touch

I haven't watched ep 10 yet, but nobody has to go to jail. The only fate that has to happen is Wataru and Misa's, since they are the ones that came back. Reina and Tomoyo didn't go to jail until after she died, so it's not part of the fate. And Sumiyoshi got cheated on and got the cancer, which is the original fate of Misa, so that did happen in the show

Tomoya thinking Misa came for him with his stupid grin on his face and she's just like "Get the f out of the car, you, let's go" and strands him LMAO

They are the same story, so it doesn't matter. There isn't any context you get from one that will help in the other, other than knowing the main plot. I like both a lot, and both are going to be 9.5, but I give the nod to the J version as being better

I'm only up to ep 5 on 23.5, so I can't tell you for sure, but I'm liking it so far. IMO, this one is the better drama out of the 2 though. The story is flowing at a better pace in Whale Store. There's also a lot less main Supporting Characters that helps a lot. Like 23.5 follows a bunch of the kids, whereas Whale Store really only focuses on like 5 people

I believe it is globally. Amazon bought the rights to the story, so all versions will be Prime exclusives

It does, but IIRC it wasn't as extreme as in this one. Like, he started distancing himself and Ji Won was having none of it, then they decided to just tackle fate together. Even with the BoA coming back thing, she was mad and confused for like 30 minutes screen time but believed his explanation as soon as she got the courage to ask about her

Oh there's for sure a lot of both in both. I'm talking it's like a 60:40 split maybe even 55:45, J going revenge and K going romance

Yeah I thought I hated Min Hwan and Su Min, but Tomoya and Reina are honestly next level evil. Especially the scenes where Reina is furious, Sei legitimately looks scary, like I wouldn't want to be anywhere near her wrath lol