Reviews

Cute and Heartwarming??

My Love Mix-Up! is such a cute drama! 😍 I really loved watching the bonding and growth of the main couple, Ida and Aoki. Their relationship felt so natural and sweet, and honestly, their moments together gave me all the feels. 🥺💕 Even the side couple, Aida and Hashimoto-san, were so adorable! 🥰 They were like a little bonus to the story!

Overall, it's a lighthearted and fun show, but I think it could have used more episodes. The ending felt a bit rushed, and I was left wanting more! 😅 But still, it's definitely worth a watch if you're into cute and heartwarming BL dramas! 🌟

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A Fictional Story with a Real-Life Lesson About Suicide and the Value of Life

Death’s Game is fictional; it powerfully reflects real emotions and thoughts about suicide. It shows that suicide might seem like a way to end personal struggles, but in reality, it leaves behind permanent scars on the loved ones who work hard their whole lives to make our lives better. As shown in the final episode, ending one's life doesn’t just end pain — it shatters the hopes and hearts of families and friends who may not even fully understand our silent battles.

The drama teaches a crucial life lesson: we do not get multiple lives like the character Yi-jae does. In real life, we have only one chance. Even when times are unbearably hard, there is always another way to move forward. Taking one’s own life is not the solution to pain; it prevents the possibility of healing and growth.

Death’s Game is a reminder that although our struggles may feel invisible, we are not alone. Others are fighting to give us hope, even if they don't always understand exactly what we need. Suicide is not a way to express our pain — living on, even in hardship, and seeking help are the ways to truly honor ourselves and the people who love us.

The drama’s message is clear and deeply moving we should strive to live our one and only life to its fullest, no matter how hard the journey becomes.

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Love Again

You never fell out of love. It’s just that your significant other had passed. So, you honor your love together by living alone, raising your two children. Until….

As someone in this situation without the until, maybe that’s why I am enjoying the unfolding of the leads story. In my mind and heart like the lead guy, absolutely no. Of course it can happen and seeing theirs is a delightful watch.

Not a new plot line, but these are reasons this is gluing. First, leads are middle aged. Refreshing. Second, because of it, there’s not a lot of cliches. I mean the overused, abused tropes are barely there. The stages of male lead falling in love again is so adorable. As for female lead, she’s the heart of the show, and all the male stars. She’s spontaneous, funny, kind, and lovely. She too has her own story so this unlikely pair coming together is the cutest thing.

The additional casts and their own stories makes this long drama wholesome, to me. The creations of build ups of relationships are great. No nonsense misunderstandings, push and pulls. Instead, the directors gives us these characters that are totally relatable to any of us. How they manage is straightforward.

It might not be for everyone but it can be for anyone. Mind you this review is mid point of this ongoing show, but that’s the flow of it. Will follow with afterthoughts upon conclusion hoping upon hoping it remains good and not fall on kdrama curse of mid point fall apart.

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The premise is much more interesting than what we got. It feels like most of the drama was the same thing, Yuan trying to get closer to Su Yan and her being wary of him. The ending was alright but the flashback to before the story started at the very end felt like it was added to the wrong place. It felt like they had this footage, forgot about it and then tried to stick it in at the end. While it does contribute to the story, the place it's added to feels weird. The footage could've been added in a better place, especially since we just saw Yuan and Su Yan both die. They should've put the past footage in somewhere else and just left the ending where Su Yan poisons herself and the emperor.

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The serie is interesting but it's weak about love between leads so far as I watched

Well as I already said in title its definitely not giving any fluttery in love between leads for the 20 and maybe the whole drama is not giving any fluttery in love at all but I am only on 23th episode lol because I postponed it due to it not very much catching my investment into watching it so eagerly but I do love Ren Jialun in this one and love that he uses his own voice to act this time and loved this act with painting demon...it was somehow so much more interesting more than a puppet act but also gave some strong vibe where it actually felt like a real struggle and like a actual misery which are the kind of feelings in these series that I personally like to have a feeling about if that feeling really appear because it didn't appear in the mirror or the puppet act because the first two acts felt kinda still grounded and had less fear of dying and trapping lol but painting world felt like a doom for leads except female lead did not always appeared affected but even when she regained memories still she wasn't afraid and was not even made a weak character in this painting nor Ren Jialun was a weak character but he could there not fight like FL because FL in painting world was a trained fighter

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Tell me were you sent by my dad to take care of me.....No.....I volunteered.

The First Frost has some of the best lines that will just stick with you. There are so many that I am just going with one. I have never read the novel so I didn't really know what to expect for Sang Yan's story. Even though I do think this focused on more of Wen Yifan's story then his but like I said I have never read the novel. For me this show kept me hooked from the first episode I wanted to know what happened between these two, and what all had she been through that she felt like she had to do everything on her own. Also with the second couple I would of love to see more of their story with less of his grandparents being in it. I loved the best friend of Wen Yifan and would of loved her love story but it felt like it just turned into his grandparents story more than anything.

SANG YAN-
Is probably one of the best male leads to ever be seen. He is just way to good to be true. He never gave up on Wen Yifan and never moved on from her. Even when he believed she had just dropped him because he had a one sided love for her. Sang Yan was never mad at her for her doing this to him either just devastated and still try to find some ways to be involved in her life. (Even though some people may find this a be a bit of a stalker like behavior). He even blames himself for not seeing everything she had been through when he was still in her life.

WEN YIFAN-
This poor girl has just been through so much and even didn't have her family on her side. Her whole world came crumbling down when her dad dies granted she got to stay with her grandmother for a little bit but she couldn't take care of her for very long. Sang Yan was her only light through everything she had been through but to get away from her family she ran from everyone including him. I don't see how anyone couldn't feel for this girl through her story. She did what she thought was best for her at such a young age when her mother wouldn't even help her. She does love Sang Yan and doesn't move on from him either.

ZHONG SI QIAO-
I have to mention this girl through my review cause I really liked her and believe everyone should have a best friend like her in their lives. She is always there for her friends even when the tend to forget about her and she always wants whats best for them and that they are always happy. She doesn't act like other friends in dramas when a boy she likes actually likes her best friend and not her. She doesn't get mad at Wen Yifan doesn't blame her or even turn on her. She will not let a boy stand in the way of their friendship. Like how can you not like this girl through this drama. Even though I thought the whole grandparent story could of been shorter still really enjoyed watching this girl.

The First Frost is definitely going to be a top modern drama for me. I have such trouble with modern dramas so when I do get ones I really do enjoy it does mean something. I have very few modern dramas I have actually loved. Sang Yan and Wen Yifan's story is one that will definitely stay with me for awhile, but as I always say everyone is different and you may not agree but give it a chance and see.

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its chen fieyu?

its a light student to real world struggles..quite slow phase story but keep holding on because its worthy..🥰👌😍🙌🏻😊🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

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Masterpiece like an old handwritten letter

One of the best kdrama that I watch and felt with all my being. It’s about resilience, survival, and the kind of love that doesn’t need to be shouted from the rooftops. Loved everything, from writing, acting, that is beyond words, how they developed the characters, an wonderful real life put on screen for inspiration of true partnership, hardworking, love, family, courage story about breaking generational trauma and the cinematography is like a poetry. At the beginning it was not my cup of tea, but somehow I felt to continue watching and yes, I am so grateful to watch this precious, beautiful love life masterpiece. It's a blessing to have a love, a partnership like this in these times. Truly profound and deep, to have this determination to choose, each decision made to move forward, to live on many times and to be happy and grateful at the end. After a week since I finished the story staid with me, has change some things inside me. Even if I cried at every episode I felt so much support to move forward even if life is hard and to trust God and Life and to act on my dreams. I don't have my own family, yet, but hope I will meet my own Gwan Sik to grow and to create together. So beautiful. So real. So painful. So full of joy.

I give it an 8 for rewatch as I think I don't want to be a witness second time. Maybe just if life puts me down, this is a good story to help me, to inspire to fight for my life, for my dreams, to be there for love. in that case it will be a 10.

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One of Taichi Yamada's masterpieces

In Taichi Yamada's works, there are no people who are totally good or absolutely bad. What all people do and say is more or less reasonable and makes sense in a way, but at the same time, sometimes ridiculous and disgusting. They don't easily change their attitude, even though others tell them to. In many movies or dramas, people understand what others say in a heartbeat, deeply reflect on what they did, realize that it was wrong, and change their whole behavior. Then, they get all happy. In fact, however, the real world is not like that. The boundary between good and bad is blurry. Things can be good from one point of view, but can be bad from another. In his dramas, people don't know what they really want. They do what they know is not good to do, and do not do what they believe they should do.

The theme of this drama is not cheap, cliche one: like "truly important thing is not money or any materials, but love" .

Yamada's themes are the contrasts between hope and failure, pride and disgrace, envy and desire, discipline and freedom, shame and curse, interfering and attentiveness. They torn between the two different and opposite feelings.

The characters here have a complex about their failure, environment, and appearance, and always try to blame others for them.
They always feel they need to change something about themselves, but they can't change, and try to think it is because of others or the environment, not themselves.

He also often shows confrontation between a woman who wants to escape the ordinary world and a man who tries to stick to an average life.

Like, a woman looks down on a man who is satisfied with just a decent but ordinary life. The woman urges the man to change and jump into something new, but the guy doesn't. The guy says something back—that they have to keep their life and they think it's fine. But for them, at the bottom of his heart, he knows he has to do that but feels scared and doesn't want to accept it, so they try to believe they don't want to change.

When Yamada wrote this, Japan was going through the period from its biggest economic growth to the bubble economy period, decades after the war. People had started to seek new lifestyles and concepts, pursuing more meaningful and cultural ways of life.

Characters in this take time and put effort into making decisions and never get perfectly satisfied with their decisions after all, getting torn between whether the decision was good or a mistake. What they do are different from what they say. There are obvious inconsistencies between their beliefs and behaviors. Some people laugh over the same thing right after they got furious over something they said couldn't stand. Also, there are others who get really frustrated when they see those kinds of people. They can't stand their contradiction. That is what people in the real world are like.

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Lacks depth. Si Eun not enough screen time. Muscle instead of brain:(

Extremely disappointed. Weak Hero 2 lacked everything that made season one AMAZING. There are a lot of things wrong.

Weak Hero 1, a gut wrenching gem that made you sit at the edge of your seat, anticipating the next scene. The characters were developed, and all of them had their own motives to act the way they did. The friendship was developed at a natural pace, and the trust between them felt real. Yeon Si Eun used his intelligence to fight against the bullies, which was unique and interesting. His desperation showed through, and the effects of the bullying was very distressing.

Weak Hero 2: The new characters, including the villains didn't have character depth and fights were not heartbreaking. It didn't make me care enough about them, and didn`t leave an emotional impact like season 1. Unrealistic: they kept getting blows to the head, and continued their day like nothing happened. Baku wasn't intimidating enough, and I couldn't really take his character seriously. Lots of the high schoolers looked like adults, which pulled you out of the story.

Yeon Si Eun fought more with his muscles than with his mind. The pen deserves an award for making the fight scenes more interesting, thank you. I missed his calculative brain.

Overall, Great performances, especially Park Ji Hoon who nailed his characters expressions and intense eyes. (I LOVE HIS EYES.) If you enjoy fighting kdrama like Study Group, then this is for you.

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Opposites Definitely Attract

I think when you start watching this series, you need to give it a chance to grab you. It starts out funny and unrealistic, but along the way it gets series and loving later on, so just be patient, you'll b be glad you did.
Four extremely different people, all facing different issues, but eventually help and bring out the best in each other.
I think the character of Ki Sub, played by Shi An was just great. So well performed. It was fun watching him mature to such a responsible and caring person in such a short period of time.
Great series to watch if you just want to relax and enjoy

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The Power Of Music

There's so many people to have sympathy for in this series, whether is was for the loss of a family member, a lost love or a forbidden love that was not allowed to be expressed.
There's an enormous transformation in characters from start to finish in these episodes, all for the good.
All the actors were great in this, but I felt an extra special performance from Han Gyeom. What he brought out in his character of Do Yun was really above and beyond. The scene with him and Jung Ha as Ju Ha late in the series in the locker room was such well performed and special written part of the drama. Just fantastic.
The way the writers brought all the story plots together with all the characters at the very end was perfect.
Very enjoyable and a really feel good series to watch again.

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A good time

I felt like writing this review because of all the very negative comments, which I think are exaggerated. This series is actually quite realistic. Yes, there are gay men who have crushes on straight guys. Yes, teenage gays aren’t always as open about their love lives as straight teens, but that’s completely understandable in religiously conservative countries like Korea. Let me remind you that, until recently, the army there used to imprison gay soldiers, and Pride march participants would get spat on.

If you prefer completely unrealistic series like We Are, where heterosexuality doesn’t exist and guys spend 25 episodes just staring intensely at each other, good for you — but that doesn’t give you the right to post vicious comments about series that aren’t exactly to your taste. It’s absolutely possible to have both a straight couple and a gay couple in the same story, and it’s totally fine for a series not to follow the original novel to the letter. What matters is the story being told and whether it’s interesting.

As for the kissing scenes, they’re not mandatory...

If there’s one criticism to make about this series, it’s that it tends to drag a little — some scenes feel a bit repetitive. That’s unfortunate.

All in all, even if it’s not unforgettable, it’s a good series that deserves to be watched.

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