Linno

Damn, I like Paruru but her acting was seriously terrible. I enjoyed the stories but she's really bad as a narrator, her acting ruined it for me because it's really distracting to see.

Ah yeah the C-dramas and their blurry skin effects and overexposed colour correcting, at some points you can't even see the actors' nose bridge because the contrast is too high LOL.
I watched Ikebukuro West Gate Park right after finishing Informa and of course it's a different type of production (rougher, life in the slum kind of setup), it's hilarious to me to see actors having really bad skin with acne and skin damage. I didn't pay attention to this back in the day but after years of watching K&C dramas, somehow I come to appreciate the normalisation of nature skin on television. When the character is poor and has a rough life, they don't need to look perfect. If the character is a teenager, it's okay for them to have breakouts and acne scars. If a character is an older woman, it's okay to have crow's feet. You are right, natural skin is part of life, nothing shameful about it.

The Glory was okay, binge-worthy but there are a lot of questionable events, the chemistry between characters also seem forced. I wasn't so impressed with the revenge plot since it's quite similar to a manga I used to read called Ijimeru Aitsu ga Waruinoka, but the manga focused more on the teacher's involvement with what happened to the child of his bully. I hope it won't be called plagiarism if they make a LA of that manga haha.

K-drama and C-drama both use a lot of skin-blur filters and colour code their dramas with higher brightness to make the actor skin appear even softer. It's okay for some romcom dramas but when it comes to dramas with darker theme, it's weird to see the same effect. To me it's distracting and lessen the effects of the serious and dark story. K-movies are better in this aspect though.

Totally agree with your last point. I was watching The Glory and was pretty distracted by the thick layer of foundation on the actors and actresses. At some point, the foundation just looks really cakey. Jumped into Informa and it feels very normal to see skin texture again, acne, scars, freckles, moles or wrinkles. I don't know if they make the characters more relatable or not but it just feels like a breath of fresh air.

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