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It's adapted from a gay novel though

Huh?? It's the same Jaehyun

Yeah, u are right. I dont think when they made S1 they had an idea of how big it would be, which is why they used up the protagonist card for a throwaway character. CHW would have made an absolutely perfect Ben Park (in fact, when they announced the casts they use Korean names while Manga uses English names, so it took a while for me to connect the dots). Honestly, before I learned that S1 was gonna be a prequel, I was hoping to see CHW as Ben Park lmao.

Thankfully, they cast his son now so it's fine hehhehe

Is there an original novel?

These days, u can't really find short actors lmao, but otherwise he was pretty perfectly cast. Ben Park is supposed to be a comic relief type character who is actually the strongest fighter/boss, so Ryeoun is also a great cast (he can be funny sidekick character as well as a badass Protagonist leader).

Idk anything about Bae Na Ra so I can't really comment but he is apparently playing Donald Na, who is VERY smart like scary good smart (so is Grey, but Donald is more practically oriented) and very powerful. Basically, he is the definition of OP character

Idk how they will change the plot. Read the webtoon if u can. I was super excited when s1 was announced because I have been reading it since Day 1. I was extremely disappointed because s1 is based on barely there flashback. I still haven't seen because it adds nothing to the webtoon plot. But I did encourage my friends and sister who haven't read the webtoon to watch it.

The webtoon is more fight-ranking focused. Grey starts as new kid in an all bully school, fights his way up in ranks to Top 4 and becomes best-bros with the Top 3 (Ben, Alex and Gerard), then it's all about best fighters in other high school ranks. All high school bullies fighting each other.

Donald Na is the eternal #1 and the main antagonist. Grey eventually rises to #8 by the end of the webtoon. The plot arcs are about two characters/gangs who will fight at the end of the arc.

He woke in the last panel of the last chapter. The author promised "an epilogue" but it just turned out to be some generic Q&A and author's notes and stuff. So basically, the story ends with Grey and his Eunjang buddies opening the door to Stephen's new part time job (they don't even meet onscreen).

He started training formally after the Forest Lee/Grape fight (Ben told him to get a training band to increase him muscles and eat more chicken, because OF COURSE HE DID lmao).

He doesn't beat Wolf until Chap 80 (he has to go through Colton, Helmet, Jimmy Bae arc, Teddy, Grape etc etc and increase his stats slowly to get to Wolf).

Lmfao

Alex isnt gay. This is a PURE ACTION High School manga with fighting arcs (fights between characters). No revenge drama, no romance, no nonsense. Think Tekken, but with high school bullies (yes, ALL of them, including Grey, are violent bullies. It's just that Grey is kinda like Dexter, he only bullies other bullies).

Also, Grey is a thin, fragile, girly-looking guy (think pre-serum Steve Rogers) and a VERY violent badass psychotic fighter (in one fight, he uses a pen to tear a hole into his opponent's hand and smashes his head in with a brick) and guys on his team are all 😍😍😍😍

But if u are looking for bromance, Ben Park (some said Ryeon is gonna play him) and Grey have a very strong bromance going on

Ryeon is playing BEN PARK?? He straight up looks like Alex Go's irl version lmao.

But after watching Twinkling Watermelon, I can see him as Ben. He's got that "weird guy comic relief who is actually a badass Boss" personality down pat

Stephen isnt a character in the webtoon. Him and Bryce are just flashback memories of Grey. The new seasons starts with actual webtoon story

Webtoon site/app. It is already completed 3 seasons, 260 chapters.

Just keep in mind that Kdrama is a prequel tangent - i.e. inspired by, but not exactly same - of a simple 10 chapter flashback in middle of S1. The story starts with, and is about, Eunjang High School (Grey's new school in drama) and their gang war with other high school schools. It's NOT a bully revenge plot like the kdrama. Only Grey's flashback origin story has some bully-revenge elements to it.

If u are looking for more of Grey/Stephen bromance, that's just a drama thing, not a webtoon thing.

They should have asked him to grow out his own hair, a bit longer and used nirmal extensions. It's not like he has other projects shooting at the same time

Androgynous aka Gender neutral. That is, men who are girly looking, esp with long hair. Like Heechul from Suju or Hyunjin from Stray Kids.

This guy, Ji hoon, has a very manly looking face... I can't see him as andro even with long hair. He looks boyish because he is young, but he has a very "action hero" face. In a few more years and with a more built body (maybe after his military stint) I see him doing action type or dominating roles, not sweet puppy romances.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/HPaQVGrT9MY?si=S0cM8PBl0p3gpDLm

Since one of the leads is Kang Min, I wonder if they are testing waters for Sanha to do a bl or a mainstream censored bl (a la Devil Judge or Untamed).

Yes, but on the other hand they have been known to bromancify or straight up degayify when they are doing historical dramas on actual gays.

He looks andro in traditional costume, you mean.

Yes, but it wa adapted from bl webtoon and marketed as bl