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A Romance of the Little Forest chinese drama review
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A Romance of the Little Forest
1 people found this review helpful
by Sorakazu
Feb 5, 2023
35 of 35 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 7.0

Chill, bubbly and light-hearted drama

It is a chill, bubbly and feel good drama. Though it's nothing too special in terms of story, it's cliché but nevertheless enjoyable.

Things I enjoyed are:
- Main lead's chemistry is so good, each scene is really enjoyable for me. I love replaying their scenes so much.
- The whole drama OST is really good. Especially the Opening and Outro songs, are really good that I could not skip them. (The main leads also sang the Outro song and also side songs from the drama)
- The location, I'll be honest especially the village was so breathtakingly beautiful.
- Zhuang Yu's (ML) character development is good. You see how much Yu Meiren (FL) had affected his character through the series.
- I love how they touch on different careers, a blogger and a professor in botany. Also how they show the importance of conserving birds (wildlife) and the sacrifices that botanists makes for their research.

Cons are:
- Story is a bit dragging and slow
- 2nd leads took most of the screen time, and I really dislike their story so much as it deals with lying about sickness, it wasn't cute. Screenwriters should have done something much different to the 2nd leads story, so that it could be executed better. I really do watch 2nd leads' stories on other dramas, but this was too much and had to skipped them. (Don't feel bad in skipping the second leads)
- There are some plot holes and wish they fleshed out more several parts of the drama especially for the main leads.
- There are times you have to question the main FL, she's known to be really smart but the way she acts might make you question her doings.
- The story had so much potential due to having so many romance troupes, but drama editing and lack of focus on the main leads did not do them and the story any justice. Tbh, there's so many deleted scenes on the main leads especially their kiss scenes; if you are not aware of the deleted scenes the future scenes might not make any sense to why the characters acted like that.
- Related to the last point, I would understand why the first actual kiss was cut out, since FL was not in the right state of mind. But I still wish they have retained it and executed it in a way that one of them would stop. Because it would make FL's action more understandable on the following episodes.

Some people might find this as a con, but it didn't really bother me so much... the main FL is very childish that it can get cringey, and she actually does have a childish voice that it might be grating to others who may dislike this kind of voice. But since this is the actress' real voice, and it does match Yu Meiren's personality, I didn't mind it so much.

I really stayed for the chemistry between the main leads, they made this drama more interesting and I enjoy every interaction between them. I love how it's 'She fell first, but he fell harder'. I enjoyed it much more on the later episodes. But kudos to the team, they really did a good job in casting the main leads and hoping to see these two do another project together in the future.

Zhang Bin Bin really was so handsome and looked so younger in this drama, he did a good job in portraying Zhuang Yu. Let me just say I absolutely love the micro-expressions he does to his character. You can feel how much his character was changing and falling hard for the FL.

While Yu Shuxin, did a wonderful portrayal as Yu Meiren. A very bubbly and sometimes too over the top cutesy acting. But she really gave the character life.

I heard this might get a Season 2, but honestly I wish they just go for a movie or special episode(s) for the main leads. To be honest I want more airtime from the main leads, but not too much to the point it might become dragging again; unless it'll focus on a different main lead and them becoming the 2nd lead or cameo.

Overall:
The drama is just really adorable and enjoyable when you watch the main leads. I really suggest watching this if you just want a chill or non-heavy plot drama to watch. Just skip the second leads' story line, since they don't really contribute much to the main lead's storyline.
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