My favorite moment in this drama is when she is drunk and keeps trying to enter her password into his door lock and he just standing there watching her on his security camera going wtf. I was dying so hard!!! :p
I love this article, however, I have to point out an error you made. In all adaptions of Itazura na Kiss, Playful Kiss and It Started With a Kiss included, there is no proof that Irie is autistic at all. As a parent of an autistic kid, I have commented before that the character shows some traits of a person on the spectrum, but nowhere is it mentioned that he actually is.
Put it this way. When I hear a person with a super heavy accent speaking English, I still find it impossible to understand what they are saying. It's why I couldn't watch Sukiyaki Western Django. Everything was spoken in English, but the actors had such heavy Japanese accents that I couldn't understand at all.
I would have appriciated it more, I think, if the actors had spoken slower. The important part, for most people, is understanding the pronounciation.
A lot of English speaking actors have to talk like that for non English speakers to understand them. It is super distracting for us, though. Agree with everything you wrote!
I have only fallen into a slump once or twice. It's usually because of #4. If I get too busy for a few days and can't watch an ep, It's hard to get back into it. I have ended up developing a complicated system for choosing and watching dramas, which works for me. (I am not telling because it's very OCD and therefore makes me look crazy rofl! :p) I have also started #2. I dropdropdrop those dramas that I can't get into with no regret! I give them a fair chance, though. If by eps 3-5 they have failed to hook me, I drop. It works great.
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I would have appriciated it more, I think, if the actors had spoken slower. The important part, for most people, is understanding the pronounciation.