I always have reservations when it comes to live-action adaptations of anime because the adaptations tend to be bland in comparison due to several factors - one being that anime language vastly differs from everyday usage. The over-the-top interactions don't translate well into live-action.
To date, the only adaptation I ever enjoyed is the Rurouni Kenshin live action. But what can I do, anime has such a stigma for being a "show for kids" even in this day and age.
I think they cast the actors who fit the bill right up to Takagi's large solar panel of a forehead 😂. I wish they used more instrumental background - I really enjoyed When the weather is fine - and all that the characters did was talk and stare into the distance while great music played. This adaptation could have been better - so far it felt like an indie with the actors just ad libbing and they used the sounds from the shooting location slapping a few musical scores in the process.
TLDR: Dropped at ep 8. A story about the relationship between the disgusting ML in his late 30's throwing tantrums left and right and a long-suffering FL who obdurately refuses to recognize the MLs toxic traits and keeps on entering his lair. No character development even as late as episode 8.
The nitty gritty. The Story The series is another take on that classic nobody and somebody pairing plus a few jealous, money-hungry foils on the side. The nobody who has been through a lot and the somebody who has lived a sheltered life resulting in a stunted emotional development. A love quadrangle.
Execution The comedy in this drama are of its time - Gen Z and Alpha may not appreciate unless they have a really good knowledge of what was considered funny and cute in 2011. The visuals are also from that era when the Hallyu Wave was just peaking with worthwhile stories and passable acting before the public started to obsess with good looks resulting in the current compositions in kdramas.
Characters The characters in this drama takes after the templates of the time: - An ML with the emotional and intelligence quotient of a toddler - all the rage back then. There's something disgusting with a guy in his late 30's sulking and bratting around. - An FL who carried the earth in a quiet long suffering way - a really absorbent character to all the tantrum of the ML and the spite around her. - The antagonist rival whose character will reappear played by the same actress in My Love from the Star - The usual 2ML whose character and fate has not changed much until now.
this is so good!! the rate is really biased, cause during the time of release (aka 2016~17 the golden time of…
😂 You must be new to kdramas. Everything you saw in 2016-2017 already appeared in one form or another during the actual kdrama golden age of lateu1990's to early 2000s. Shin Min Ah being amongst the pioneers of the Hallyu Wave in early 2000's
Can someone explain to me the dad part and him gifting Yu Hyuk to her with the blue heart on his upper chest,…
Let's just think of it as them having unfinished business and being given a second chance to finish that business. They use that opportunity to commit revenge. Remember, if they didn't figure out the mechanics (passing the "curse" to someone else), they were still going to die.
At the beginning it was very good, in the middle it was like they lost the thread of the story, like there was…
🤔 This was based on a Web novel of the same title. Your problem is only possible if they deviated from the source material. The Web novel was written by only one person.
Where can I watch it for free?kissasian and other sites aren't working.
I wish people don't just drop bootleg sites out of nowhere. This name dropping triggers monitors against bootleg which then forces the sites to shutdown or change domains. 🤦♂️
Dropped for 4 reasons: 1. His coworkers pestering him if they have already done the deed - not because their questions were part of the job - but just for sh_ts and giggles. Like is his marriage a source of erotic fantasies for them? 2. The same co-worker questioning his decisions to remain in the program (which required invasive detailed reports of their time together) and getting physical - even if you are my friend, try to hit me and see how many of your eyeballs remain in their sockets😂. 3. The series tried so hard to peddle "love before marriage" disgusting coming from a culture who perpetuated the most marriages for the sake of family honor and duty to society - and yet here we have characters actively trying to promote "love before marriage" when their entire culture spent most of its existence in a "marriage before feelings" set up. 4. The pacing was so fast even in a draggy series like this.
Watching this on viki and had to recheck the year this show came out and I was appalled. The graphic quality looks…
Typical JDramas have these dated quality to them especially in this genre. I feel like JDramas focus more on the story than the visuals unlike their contemporary Kdramas. Japanese entertainment export is primarily their anime not JDramas vs Korea whose primary entertainment exports are KDramas and KPop hence the difference in visual quality.
Although, the youngest I saw of Kim Yoo-jung was in Moon Embracing the Sun along with Kim So-hyun as princesses. Interestingly Kim Soo-hyun was the led.
In-law families helping each other out in this series has got to be one of the most positive application of Confucianism shown in kdrama.
Sure it started out with a flipped scenario - usually it's the guys' family giving hell to the daughter-in-law and milking filial piety out of her for all it's worth.
Aigoo! Oh Eun Seo is here too. The number of really good projects she had this year is amazing. I feel like she is the spiritual successor of Park So Yi.
May their careers continue to grow as they grow up.
Aigoo! Oh Eun Seo is here too. The number of really good projects she had this year is amazing. I feel like she is the spiritual successor of Park So Yi.
May their careers continue to grow as they grow up.
To date, the only adaptation I ever enjoyed is the Rurouni Kenshin live action. But what can I do, anime has such a stigma for being a "show for kids" even in this day and age.
I think they cast the actors who fit the bill right up to Takagi's large solar panel of a forehead 😂. I wish they used more instrumental background - I really enjoyed When the weather is fine - and all that the characters did was talk and stare into the distance while great music played. This adaptation could have been better - so far it felt like an indie with the actors just ad libbing and they used the sounds from the shooting location slapping a few musical scores in the process.
Dropped at ep 8.
A story about the relationship between the disgusting ML in his late 30's throwing tantrums left and right and a long-suffering FL who obdurately refuses to recognize the MLs toxic traits and keeps on entering his lair. No character development even as late as episode 8.
The nitty gritty.
The Story
The series is another take on that classic nobody and somebody pairing plus a few jealous, money-hungry foils on the side. The nobody who has been through a lot and the somebody who has lived a sheltered life resulting in a stunted emotional development. A love quadrangle.
Execution
The comedy in this drama are of its time - Gen Z and Alpha may not appreciate unless they have a really good knowledge of what was considered funny and cute in 2011. The visuals are also from that era when the Hallyu Wave was just peaking with worthwhile stories and passable acting before the public started to obsess with good looks resulting in the current compositions in kdramas.
Characters
The characters in this drama takes after the templates of the time:
- An ML with the emotional and intelligence quotient of a toddler - all the rage back then. There's something disgusting with a guy in his late 30's sulking and bratting around.
- An FL who carried the earth in a quiet long suffering way - a really absorbent character to all the tantrum of the ML and the spite around her.
- The antagonist rival whose character will reappear played by the same actress in My Love from the Star
- The usual 2ML whose character and fate has not changed much until now.
Overhyped.
1. His coworkers pestering him if they have already done the deed - not because their questions were part of the job - but just for sh_ts and giggles. Like is his marriage a source of erotic fantasies for them?
2. The same co-worker questioning his decisions to remain in the program (which required invasive detailed reports of their time together) and getting physical - even if you are my friend, try to hit me and see how many of your eyeballs remain in their sockets😂.
3. The series tried so hard to peddle "love before marriage" disgusting coming from a culture who perpetuated the most marriages for the sake of family honor and duty to society - and yet here we have characters actively trying to promote "love before marriage" when their entire culture spent most of its existence in a "marriage before feelings" set up.
4. The pacing was so fast even in a draggy series like this.
Same here!!!! 😅
Japanese entertainment export is primarily their anime not JDramas vs Korea whose primary entertainment exports are KDramas and KPop hence the difference in visual quality.
Although, the youngest I saw of Kim Yoo-jung was in Moon Embracing the Sun along with Kim So-hyun as princesses. Interestingly Kim Soo-hyun was the led.
I know now she started at 4. (5 in Korean age).
Sure it started out with a flipped scenario - usually it's the guys' family giving hell to the daughter-in-law and milking filial piety out of her for all it's worth.
May their careers continue to grow as they grow up.
May their careers continue to grow as they grow up.