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Koi to Dangan japanese drama review
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Koi to Dangan
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by Lea Estiller
Jan 3, 2023
9 of 9 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
This review may contain spoilers

Cringey with some good scenes

I have read the manga and like other series which was adapted, I do not expect much on this series given that it is a josei (a shojo genre for women who are 26+ yrs old). Aside from that, you cannot expect some intimate scenes to be done by the series since many Japanese actors and actresses are still conservative. I still like the way they interpret it and kind of mix some of the events on the series.

As this is a low budget series (scenes are happening on certain areas only from time to time or could be because of Covid restrictions in Japan), they try to add some catchy effects on the edits to emphasize the mood of the characters like when Toshiomi and Yuri are always doing the intimates scenes in a bed surrounded by fake cherry blossom trees, conflict are shown in red light and other stuff. There's also a lot of smoothening filters on the series which I think is a little off (sorry for being technical here) on some scenes.

The actors also tried their best to act on this one but you can definitely feel that many times the timing is off or a very typical animated or stiff acting from the characters. I dunno... Semilio is intimidating on the manga but here, they seem to be a theater actors trying to kill each other.

Again, I did not put too much expectations on this series since the genre involves too much intimacy that Japanese actors will not be able to perform. I recommend that you read the manga to feel how crazy they are for each other especially on their sexy moments. Do not worry, the manga is not hentai, there's a lot of silhouette, shadow, blurred parts when they Toshiomi and Yuri do it.
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