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Even so, even if it is I guess the other comments were refering to the fact it's exaggerated. Some of the elements ARE exaggerated and put into a fictional perspective. Of course there are tons of couples of who get married early, or the guy doesn't like her at first or vice versa. Despite that, the way it's portrayed here might not be totally slice of life-y, but it doesn't mean the story couldn't have been real ^^

Yes, it is :)

No.

Here: http://www.darksmurfsub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/8776-rosy-lovers-2014/

For better/proper subs, wait until the green part - Fans Edited - reaches around 85%.

Darksmurfsubs are working on the subs: http://www.darksmurfsub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/8776-rosy-lovers-2014/

The first two episodes have computer generated subtitles, so they're 'weird'. But they convey the gist of the conversations, so it's good to go more or less. For better subs, we can wait for the Fans Edited part to reach around 85%.

Solid cast of younger stars with the experience of awesome veterans. I'm pretty excited for this, since it stars one of my top favourites Baek Jin Hee. She's playing a different character yet again - it seems she does love to break out of her comfort zones everytime. I'm rooting for her first gig as a female lead.

And maybe this is where I totally and finally warm up to Choi Jin Hyuk, since Jin Hee has this magical power of making me a fan of her leading men. Also nice to see rookie Jeong Hye Seong here.

It's been more than a year since this premiered :( Time flies and I miss this drama.

This story has many, many charms but 'realism' and 'real world', in my opinion, are not one of them. We have to put this all into context. It's adapted from a shojo manga; like Shirubia said so well, it's from the 90s, where mentalities and ways of writting stories for teens were different (would this story work nowadays? Probably not. I guess it would be outdated, considered cliché); Naoki's behaviour might be everything and anything, but looking deep down into it, there are moments where we know how much he cares for Kotoko. He's not 'black and white', he's not a bad guy or a nice guy. He's just him. He's just a dude who happened to be pretty insecure, inside of his own world, that slowly grew and understood how much she mattered to him. We've seen this thousands of times in other stories, and this one is another take on it, objectively speaking.

This relationship is not perfect nor it was ever portrayed as so. Was it foolish to get married so early? Totally. But sometimes they realize it the hard way and adjust to it without giving up, because they do want to be together, work on their problems.

For more depth on this - especially Naoki's development, I'd say nothing beats It Started with a Kiss.

I was a little wordy, sorry about that :D but this story does mean a lot to me and I love to share some perspective on it :) nobody has to agree, it's just an opinion/taste.

The only thing that bothers me in this whole remake is that it's just terribly done in certain aspects. I have no issues with Shim Eun Kyung (maybe with how Nae Il's written) nor with Joo Won, but I do have a problem with: why doesn't it look like Nae Il's struggling financially? Her house is HUGE. The building/interiors don't look like a music school either. The secondary characters feel like fillers. In only two episodes why did they give so much focus to Yoo Jin's ex. This one is arguable, but it annoyed me. It's the same old kdrama formula that we need a bitchy female character to put our main romance into perspective. But this story does not need it. And I assure you I'll be pissed if they make Il Rak a love interested for Nae Il. That's just the biggest bullsh*t they could pull.

TL;DR: the editing/scene transition is not very good; the art direction is misplaced, lacks more depth and understanding of the story itself. Maybe this is all a matter of directing, maybe I'm just picky. IMO, this one fails in the details such as lack of depth in general, the build ups, the lack of music (it should BREATHE classical music, man) more than anything else.

Yes, but there's no subs yet.

Not really. It's been around for a few years now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Cinema_Network

Not yet. There's no word on Viki, at least. But they usually get last minute licenses for weekend dramas so there's still some hope.

You're welcome! ^^

It's being subbed, in case you want to watch :) http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_158935.htm

Here: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_158935.htm

Thank you for the heads up, Hanasa :)

Kdramas are far more popular internationally than jdramas, right now. Adding to that, several subbing websites such as Dramafever and Viki have licenses for korean dramas and provide the subtitles super fast. Ocasionally they also have japanese dramas, but the subbing a) takes a couple of days or b) the dramas are already finished. Either way, the subs are never as quick as with kdramas and even twdramas.

We'll have to wait for independent fansubbers/fansubbing groups over at d-addicts to pick this up. It's usually what happens with jdramas these days.

For those interested, you can find the subs here: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_158935.htm

Yes. I'm not too sure if MJ's ending fit all the evil things she did for so many episodes, but that stupid idea of having Moony falling in love with her 'twin' was just cruel to his character. Talk about an unhealthy ending.

A very informative post. I'm not familiar with his work, so this will be a good start.

Thank you so much :)