This is what happens when a fan-fic becomes a drama or whatever ball of crazy-go-nuts this turned out to be. Honestly I cannot blame the actors the writing was just too insane to follow unless you were medicated. Watch if your bored or feel like watching a drama where you go "WTflip" did I just sit thru lol watch at your own risk of insanity.

The music was not really worth mentioning I do think the two leads in this have much potential once they move on to work on other projects this story line just really let them down is all.

The clothes were nice but thats probably the best I can say over all about this drama which is sad really.

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Jerry Yan's performance is this is truly outstanding. It took me a while to get a grip on how he chose to convey this role, his reserved logical character in that he always had to remain strong to protect his family.
How his mothers role in his life made him jaded to relationships and how only after learning he is a father himself and witnessing a different perspective of motherhood over his own child does he begin to change in his dealings / relationship with Wu Tong.
After growing up in the shadow of the stigma of being a illegitimate child and not wanting the same for his own son to suffer the same loneliness he slowly develops a relationship with the child's mother.
I would say this is more of a adult drama it's not a giddy little romance it's more about mending relationships and finding happiness. I would recommend this drama it does have a happy ending. I tend to prefer stories where in each episode you get to learn the makeup of why the characters are they way they are and that no one is without redemption or forgiveness.

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This was a completely fun Thai drama I've become a avid fan of Puttichai Put's growing body of work and his performance in this will not let you down. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the dramas in this four part series. Fun storyline and fun casting are poured into this. I was able to find it translated on youtube I hope at some point Viki will add this into their line up for I really hope they expand soon on their collection of dramas / lakorns from Thailand.

The music in this pretty much had like it's main theme song that carried through it. But as far as rewatch value goes it's one of those fun and short dramas you could watch again and again for it didn't have annoying crazy girls or overly evil mother or any of that it was just a fun watch on young relationships and friendships I'd give it a 10 on it being a current view on Thailand dating.

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I just finished watching Blood so I figured it was a good time as any to jump and leave a review. That being said this is one of those dramas you watch where it's a cross between a art film and a what did I just watch??? lol. So if you're investing 20 hours into this drama go in with your eyes open to the fact it's almost like visiting a parallel universe where evil just gets more evil and anyone remotely interesting is going to die and anyone not even remotely interesting is going to die too.

I'm a fan of Ahn Jae Hyeon's developing body of work so I took the time to watch this role where he finally got to be the leading man. The atmosphere of this drama is like watching a retro film trying to go for horror only with a slow building mild romance and a few touches of humor weaved into the stark Hospital sterile setting. And maybe that's the key to watching this drama it's over all sterile feel to all the deaths and logical viewpoint of the horrors of what's going on. Then throw in some welfare patients and do long winded experiments on them and watch some comical high-breed comical insanity facial features unfold.

You sort of have to remove your own logic from your mind while watching this. That little voice in your head that says "Just quit that Hospital it's wiggie!" and "Why do people just keep going to work here???" and " Isn't it time for a makeover shopping spree Goo Hye Sun can't wear that pony tail forever!" But alas... You just have to pretend your the male lead in your own personal drama and stand strong and silent while making a fist.

Now there is some comedy to this and cute moments between Jung Hae In's and Ahn Jae Hyeon research / roommate friendship. Also too there is some small moments of humor between the lead couple but their romance is like a soft wind where no matter how long you wait your fan-girl giddy heart kite is just never gonna soar in the sky. Although given the script to this story I think the actors did the best they could with what they were given.

Goo Hye Sun... Now a lot of people hate on her and her acting and I think she's made some progress. It's strange in small scenes she sort of falls out of character and then in others she really does well. Like in ep 18 she really pulled off the heart breaking ugly cry but then in earlier episodes it's like she didn't know what to do with her eyes and seems sort of lost in discussion scenes. I would have liked to have seen more of her budding relationship with Ahn Jae Hyeon cause there was times you saw a spark of something there it's a shame their relationship wasn't given more time to develop.

I really liked the four cast as the evil vamp minion guys I hope to see more work of those four actors cause they really a great job in this it would have been nice to see more of their personal stories then just what we were given. I hope to see more of these four actors soon for they all individually did really a good job.

The welfare ward patients now I realize they are suppose to be going through some horrible medical transition phase but... I laughed myself to tears over some of their scenes. The only one person I truly found could carry off creepy was the girl with special needs. She gave a good performance but the rest I just found overly cheesy and badly played out scenes.

Now the ending...
You really have to pay close attention to the blood / virus / heart translation in the last 2 episodes. Die to live / live to die / blood virus / virus cure / jargon. You have to also assume the rest of the team solves the issues remaining in the welfare ward and just resolve yourself to the fact something's will never get answered and the inevitable question of why didn't anyone wear black leather sooner? Will haunt you for a long time.

Overall I'd never rewatch it and the music was nothing to scream about but I've sat through worse and it's a shame this drama didn't stick with the fire it had for the first 5 episodes for if it had I think it would have been a really good show if it would have concentrated more on acting out scenes and not relying so much on long winded medical explanations.

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This started out so fun but the prolonged misery and endless lies just dragged on too long.
Kwon Oh Bok character started out so fun and then just became the family's kicked dog and the kid had like I swear 12 crying jag outbursts one too many. I don't mind family dramas I don't mind the 100 episode ones if the story carries but this series let me down in the fact if lost all humor to it and just wasted so much time on lies and cups of coffee to discuss the lies. I just really lost interest in what happened to them all but stuck through it. By the time the end came I was like thank God that's over which is a shame cause I had so wanted to enjoy this one. Even the main couples romance never really had any spark to it once they got together it just fizzled before it began. The music did not stand out in any way and there aren't any ep's I loved enough with a cuteness factor to ever really watch again. I feel this is a harsh review but for 170 plus episodes it was just overly bland.

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I'm thinking how in the world do you write a review on this lakorn given the storyline / subject material. I think if you want to watch this story have in mind the lead in this story does horrific deeds and slowly crawls back on a broken road to redemption.
I am new to watching anything from Thailand mostly I've hung out with Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese dramas so it's kinda a mind flip on what your accustom to watching when it comes to dramas.
I am a fan to both Ken and Ann's acting and if you watch this what makes the story worth watching is the phenomenal acting and where these two are able to take this tragic script and make you care about the characters and want them to find happiness at the end. The only reason I would review this drama and stuck with it to the end is because of how well acted and talented the two leads are in this story to keep you going. Ken is able to make you feel sympathy where none should be thought to be given.

If you decide to hunt this lakorn down know you will find Kawee actions are beyond forgiveness but he's a child of abuse, extreme wealth and neglect and has no personal growth in his emotions and sympathy of others until he sees what his own actions have cost him and only then does he learn from what he has done and only it shows how only love can change him. You will hate him ten fold in what he does to Narin. You will find yourself disgusted by both his father and his new wife / Narin's sister's marriage and you will see how Leela and Kawee's fighting nearly destroys Narin.

This lakorn was on Viki but it no longer is available. The original translator of this drama had uploaded the episodes on Youtube but then canceled their account. Only 7 of the 12 episodes are available online with translation and its a blurry copy and the rest of the episodes are listed by another person there. If you want to hunt this down there is one seller on Ebay who has it available for around 12.50 with the english translation. It is a story worth watching but its not for the faint of heart and it has graphic subject material.

I give the acting on this a 10. By far the best acted lakorn period.
There is some slight comedy worked into it in from the coworkers at the floral shop but I would by no means call this a romantic comedy.

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I had watched the anime of this story and then read the manga I do think you need the back history of this stroyline for all the bits in the movie to make sense. Honestly I wished this film were a drama do you had a bunch of episodes to go through. Film is very well done and the casting is good and it's one of those coming of age sort of tales.
Overall I think it's worth watching if your a fan of the comic or anime just knoe going into it a lot of the scenes from the anime are sort of left out in this due to the time frame.

It's a rather cute film though the lead guy in this sort of loses out to the anime version of this telling.

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The casting great.
The set exceptional.
The filming beautiful.
The opening track to this drama is gripping.
With that being said this is the most chucked up drama I have ever watched and I've watched He Was Cool ---as you can see the bar was not set high lol.

The stroyline is brutal emotionally abusive and unbelievable to the point you cringe through it and I would never recommend anyone to watch this. I think rolling your eyes in glass is easier to take then sitting through the 9 ep's of this ball of crazy.

I never leave a bad review on anything I always try to point out the good in anything I watch but this was a box of crazy to the point I felt bad for the actors involved.

Would I watch it again? Nope. Not with a goat under a boat under the sea...
Save yourself and go watch something happy.

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I really loved this drama and the unexpected yet delightful turns the characters took. The music throughout and how it pertains to each scene is really well selected and pivotal to whats taking places. You pretty much fall in love with all the students in each episode. The only downside to this drama is that it shoulda been at least 16 episodes long. There were so many interesting lines in the water storyline wise that it seemed to me a thrown together mess in the final episode 12. I was shocked to find it was only 12 episodes and I was like how are they gonna wrap this up and honestly it was too much thrown in the last hour.

There was just not enough time to resolve any if all of the storyline issues. I was HUGELY disappointed in Sun Woo / Kim NaNa relationship never getting a chance to start after such a build up. I found once started Yoon Sul Chan / Min Se Yi were kinda the secondary characters for me I really wanted Sun Woo and NaNa to get together they had huge chemisty and their story of the girl from the wrong side of the tracks falling for the class Pres should have been developed more. Heck I woulda watched a complete drama of just those two's romance.

And what was the point of bringing back Se Yi's mother and starting her storyline of the past with Han Ji Woong so late in the game? All it did was raise too many last minute questions about Se Yi and if he was her real father. And the Aunt who was always battling with the Gym teacher I thought more would come of them and their past together.
There was so much greatness in this drama between the casting the music and the writing so as a fan / follower of the series you felt you got huge unresolved whiplash in how episode 12 was thrown at you and none of the storyline gave you any answers at all. This had such potential to be so more greater then what you ended up with and I find that truly sad.

I feel this drama and cast demand for a second season and I doubt in drama style we were ever get one. I was hopeful with MNet and this being their first drama series that they would maybe surprise me and bring this cast back for a second season.

I'd probably rewatch certain scenes for the music but over all I find it father sad and I'll mourn the loss of what might have been in the story.
I so wanted the kid "Radio" to face off with his bully.
I so wanted Sun Woo and Kim NaNa to get together.
I would have liked to see what the whole real attraction was for every guy in that school to chase Se Yi cause that sheep girl only had outbursts in bullying situations but never really said ANYTHING other then "Huh" and "What" every time Sun Woo or Sul Chan spoke to her. Honestly what was her appeal??? lol.
And No Min Woo ~ STEALS the show in the last 10 minutes you so wanted to see more of him in any way shape or form. I was watching this and was like "Ahhhhh!!! That's No Min Woo!!!"

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Normally I know before even going in Taiwanese dramas are filled with both a lot of heart and a lot of crazy so I know what to expect. And given the synopsis / outline of this drama you can tell it's going to be a doozy lol trying to convince yourself the plot line is plausible. I am always a stickler for not fast forwarding through a drama cause I like to study all the scenes and come up with my own conclusions but even I gave up on the other characters and just watched the scenes after episode 10 of the lead couple cause I had lost all interest in everyone else. On the ending and for this drama with the ending you gotta base a lot of it on fate and where it takes and leads you so if you aren't satisfied with vague sort of endings this probably would not be something you wanna sit through.
For the most part Wu Chris carries this drama and kinda is the only reason you'd put yourself through this given the follow up of the cast is just sort of bland plot filler. I can't say as the viewer there are any memorable scenes for me and the music is just sort of there in the background. I did find it hard to forgive the overly blatant product placement in like every episode and thought if they spent more time on the plot line and less time on the flashbacks and advertising of brands in scenes this might* not have failed so bad in my book. I think my quote for this drama is "Who the heck cause about your facial scrubber!"
I give this drama a 4 and wouldn't rewatch any of it. Well maybe Wu Chris smiling scenes but thats about it.

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As a person who's watched the Itazura na Kiss anime then, the first 90's Japanese version drama of Itazura na Kiss, then It Started with a Kiss, then They Kissed Again, then Playful Kiss and now this recent adaptation I have to say this is the best version of this manga once you minus the over the top cartoon like antics they give Kotoko in all the other versions which makes her borderline annoying and make you cringe in pity for her character when you just want someone to step in and save her from herself and the coldness of Irie / Zhi Shu / Baek Seung Jo as she faces endless rejection over and over again.

There is a refreshing open emotion in his facial expressions to this Irie that the other versions do not touch on. There is a real sweetness to this version that should not be over looked. I'm only on episode 9 but I love how they gave a cameo appearance to the 90's original Japanese versions actress as playing the nurse if you ever sat through the old crazy 90's version you know that woman's ears a mile away lol. It too is also comical given how the character eventually becomes a nurse so it's a strange little full circle moment there between the past and present actresses and how she stumbles as if to say Irie and then flees the room lol.
I find it unique how the writers in this are combining scenes from both the Taiwanese version and the Japanese versions together and meshing them together. I dunno how this version is going to end but I'm really looking forward to the coming ep.'s to see any of the more changes they have made.

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