If you're planning to watch this, read my opinion on this drama below if you don't mind some very light spoilers.…
Pros: - high production quality; seriously, this is some of the best cinematography and video quality I've seen in a jdrama. the budget must have been really high - *extremely* attractive cast; every single actor and actress are absolutely beautiful. special shoutout to whoever played Morisaki and the king Teratani. - story that you cannot stop watching, bc you need to know what happens next - really good OST Cons: - the worst, most slow and frustrating romance in television history. so many needless misunderstandings, angst and fakeouts, it made me scream in anger. - the most annoying main characters in drama history. the ml is a spineless, inconsiderate coward who can't even speak to girls but somehow still manages to treat them like garbage. the fl is a passive character who never fights for what she wants and does her best to misunderstand ml or give mixed signals and then get angry at him. - this drama must be written and produced entirely by men because the amount of male gaze and fanservice is off the charts - I've never seen this much in a jdrama before and I don't want to. the characters are in school or college and they're played by really young actresses; the sheer amount that their bodies are sexualized and fetishized for the pleasure of the audience made even me, a man, feel uncomfortable. - this ml is straight up garbage but even he doesn't deserve the fl. you can see that in the absolute dumpster fire of a finale. this man literally fought a psycho with a knife and ended up in a coma.... and she didn't even bother showing up to the hospital... and never once said thank you or I love you... - so much unnecessary angst.
If you're planning to watch this, read my opinion on this drama below if you don't mind some very light spoilers. If you have already watched this, please share you what you think as well or if you disagree with me. I would sincerely like to know other people's opinions.
Can someone tell me the ending? I dropped it after realizing he didn't end up with who I thought he fit best with.
Right? He should have ended up with anyone BUT Yoshizuki. But yeah, after nearly dying for her, he ends up with her after she basically spaced him out and left him alone in a coma after saving her.
Hey, quick question, does Yukiho arrange for the young daughter of her second husband to get raped in this version?…
I dropped the drama after the first or second episode because I felt really bored and demotivated to finish, so I don't know if Byakuyako follows the book exactly. What I *can* say is that the novel was one of the best crime, mystery, suspense stories I have ever read and it made me an instant Keigo Higashino and mystery genre fan :)
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- high production quality; seriously, this is some of the best cinematography and video quality I've seen in a jdrama. the budget must have been really high
- *extremely* attractive cast; every single actor and actress are absolutely beautiful. special shoutout to whoever played Morisaki and the king Teratani.
- story that you cannot stop watching, bc you need to know what happens next
- really good OST
Cons:
- the worst, most slow and frustrating romance in television history. so many needless misunderstandings, angst and fakeouts, it made me scream in anger.
- the most annoying main characters in drama history. the ml is a spineless, inconsiderate coward who can't even speak to girls but somehow still manages to treat them like garbage. the fl is a passive character who never fights for what she wants and does her best to misunderstand ml or give mixed signals and then get angry at him.
- this drama must be written and produced entirely by men because the amount of male gaze and fanservice is off the charts - I've never seen this much in a jdrama before and I don't want to. the characters are in school or college and they're played by really young actresses; the sheer amount that their bodies are sexualized and fetishized for the pleasure of the audience made even me, a man, feel uncomfortable.
- this ml is straight up garbage but even he doesn't deserve the fl. you can see that in the absolute dumpster fire of a finale. this man literally fought a psycho with a knife and ended up in a coma.... and she didn't even bother showing up to the hospital... and never once said thank you or I love you...
- so much unnecessary angst.