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Yeol and Bani are my comfort.
It’s a beautiful and fun love story. I don’t have any issue with love triangles (plus they’re part of the history of Korean dramas and the reason they aren’t just short stories), so I loved it.
Neither was Yeol or Bunny easy to handle, but they were lovely and Yeol's final growth was the best. Yeol carried as the male lead; because he was a rather bold and complicated character, not a "perfect" and soft, almost decorative male lead everyone can easily like such as Ji Won.
It's a cute college romcom, but it’s also a genuinely strong story, something the drama keeps proving right up until the final episode. It’s beautifully directed too, with a fresh soundtrack (that French song at the start—awesome, haha) and really creative visual choices: shifting from simple shots to dynamic collages, full cinematic frames, warmer color palettes, and even black-and-white flashbacks in reduced framing, all used deliberately to serve each scene.
The original webtoon (Bunny and her Oppas, also the drama's Korean title) is a reverse harem - however, there is no endgame and of course I prefer the drama. Here you have a love story with a clear ML, but each of them had a purpose and intervened at some point.
Bani's self-esteem issues, Yeol's vulnerability and trauma from his family and heightened abandonment issues from his ex (contrasting Bani's ex and her other experience), the physical distance between him and Bani compared to Won who worked in the same department as Bani and started his relationship with her more naturally, these are the kind of things that draw me in.
By the end of episode 4, I knew it but I can't reveal it here. This episode ending was one of the most beautiful things I'd seen.
The cast was a great ensemble where everyone felt necessary to the plot - Bani's parents (so rare to see a loving couple like this and get to see their own story), Yeol's friends and especially his best friend Dong Ha (reunion with his brother from Hierarchy), Bani's friends with the funny names, Ji Won and Yeol's growing funny friendship, Won's sister, Yeol's mother and his ex, the male leads, Bani's ex. Honestly, I was a little scared when I saw which webtoon they were adapting, as I thought it was a waste of potential for their romance to make some reverse harem romcom, and I'm not into that. Turns out, their romance more than satisfied me and I loved how the concept was handled.
It wasn't cliché just for the sake of it; it felt nostalgic and it made me appreciate old-school tropes again. (Fantasy scenes too, like in True Beauty.)
The ending montage of them walking past all the leads. Perfect.
One last thing: There were actual parallels to Hierarchy, and the inspiration from Nevertheless was pretty clear (art setting, Bani and Yeol; take the beginning of Episode 4 for example, the opening, and more that's obvious). I don't care that it's a "flop", because what matters is they knew this drama would find its quiet audience. It's obvious that such dramas are necessary, but it's never of help when the international release is so weak (I'm in France and our Viki doesn't have it), since it's a Viu original.
One of my favorite shots: https://i.ibb.co/B2kNGbPj/image.png
Favorite edit: https://www.tiktok.com/@gapthedits/video/7500693967957183750
Neither was Yeol or Bunny easy to handle, but they were lovely and Yeol's final growth was the best. Yeol carried as the male lead; because he was a rather bold and complicated character, not a "perfect" and soft, almost decorative male lead everyone can easily like such as Ji Won.
It's a cute college romcom, but it’s also a genuinely strong story, something the drama keeps proving right up until the final episode. It’s beautifully directed too, with a fresh soundtrack (that French song at the start—awesome, haha) and really creative visual choices: shifting from simple shots to dynamic collages, full cinematic frames, warmer color palettes, and even black-and-white flashbacks in reduced framing, all used deliberately to serve each scene.
The original webtoon (Bunny and her Oppas, also the drama's Korean title) is a reverse harem - however, there is no endgame and of course I prefer the drama. Here you have a love story with a clear ML, but each of them had a purpose and intervened at some point.
Bani's self-esteem issues, Yeol's vulnerability and trauma from his family and heightened abandonment issues from his ex (contrasting Bani's ex and her other experience), the physical distance between him and Bani compared to Won who worked in the same department as Bani and started his relationship with her more naturally, these are the kind of things that draw me in.
By the end of episode 4, I knew it but I can't reveal it here. This episode ending was one of the most beautiful things I'd seen.
The cast was a great ensemble where everyone felt necessary to the plot - Bani's parents (so rare to see a loving couple like this and get to see their own story), Yeol's friends and especially his best friend Dong Ha (reunion with his brother from Hierarchy), Bani's friends with the funny names, Ji Won and Yeol's growing funny friendship, Won's sister, Yeol's mother and his ex, the male leads, Bani's ex. Honestly, I was a little scared when I saw which webtoon they were adapting, as I thought it was a waste of potential for their romance to make some reverse harem romcom, and I'm not into that. Turns out, their romance more than satisfied me and I loved how the concept was handled.
It wasn't cliché just for the sake of it; it felt nostalgic and it made me appreciate old-school tropes again. (Fantasy scenes too, like in True Beauty.)
The ending montage of them walking past all the leads. Perfect.
One last thing: There were actual parallels to Hierarchy, and the inspiration from Nevertheless was pretty clear (art setting, Bani and Yeol; take the beginning of Episode 4 for example, the opening, and more that's obvious). I don't care that it's a "flop", because what matters is they knew this drama would find its quiet audience. It's obvious that such dramas are necessary, but it's never of help when the international release is so weak (I'm in France and our Viki doesn't have it), since it's a Viu original.
One of my favorite shots: https://i.ibb.co/B2kNGbPj/image.png
Favorite edit: https://www.tiktok.com/@gapthedits/video/7500693967957183750
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