Shiro

Dramalands most adorable villains

This drama is just soo cute, making me fall in love with every single one of the cast and having my heart flutter over and over again, The chemistry between the characters is just phenomenal and each character has their own little qwirky. Okay it may be in a lets kil em all type of cute and slightly dark at times. To be perfectly clear this is not a romance or feel good drama but the fluff is there so it can easily be mistaken as one if you ignore all the death, corruption and violence...

This is probably THE fluffiest serial killer investigation drama out there by far, and in someways that bothers me others not ( I am not going to get in to detail) but I find myself conflicted over the overall fluffiness in this female centered plot...

I love about 90%the characters in this drama including villains and side characters they are just so, so sweet and lovable I just want to hug them all, go to an ice cream parlor and eat lots of ice cream with them.

I love the friendships here (some more destructive than others), the gay couple, the little robots, it is just all so cute!

Did I mention this drama is cute?

What I did not enjoy was the over use of trash and about a hand full of just unnecessary silly scenes. There is also an over use of slomo and I some theater like scenes seemed out of place at times. There where also some parts where it is hard to follow where they are (time wise) so if you want everything to make sense and be realistic this is not the right drama for you I found it ok, and I am sure as many as hate it probably love it.

There are also some pretty good lines, great use of trucks and the product placement is very entertaining at times.

Most of the twists are pretty predictable so I would not say I was kept on my toes to, much but I honestly have never wanted the villains to have a happy ending as much as I wanted them too here... The entertainment value is higher than the suspence value.


To sum it up, this is a fun drama, just leave your brain at home.

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Some privileged men with power suck (literally)

Before you watch this check the tags!

If you are here for the pretty faced fuckboys than back away... and go watch something else. If you feel like watching something slightly suspenseful that shows the less flattering side of MANkind, with a side od pretty faces (and nude bodies) this is not a bad place to look for it.

The movie starts off a bit slow and messy, but about half way in to it the darkness takes over and we get to see how one thing leads to another as well as the seemingly never ending circle or dare I say avalanche of blackmail abuse where one thing leads to another and just gets worse and worse... All to satisfy the never ending desire of the predator. This part is actually done pretty well and VERY graphic...

I am not sure I would say this is a great movie, neither was it very entertaining but the acting was pretty good some of the scenery lovely and well the suspense ok and the story may not be revolutionary but it is defiantly one worth watching so all in all a pretty decent movie.

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Cotton candy fun!

This drama was just like eating cotton candy: fluffy story, sweet. fun!

This drama has both high entertainment value and pretty good dialog as well as not only one but two adorable dogs that serve as not only great sources of cuteness but also enhance the feeling in the scenes they are in.

In the beginning there where a few scenes where the female lead had slightly (very slight) annoying tendencies but other than that not a single annoying character! All where fun, lovable had character development and where all round a pleasure to watch as they interacted with each other. Even the second male lead was lovable but without giving (me) SLS. I just loved how they handels issues such as insecurity, jealousy and big life decisions. I also completely fell in crush with Yokohama Ryusei and loved seeing Natsukawa Yui in a lovable role after cursing at her in Chugakusei Nikki.

The co-habitation and found family friendship in this drama is so much family goals that it almost makes me feel like moving in to a big house with a bunch of strangers... especially if one or two of them can cook such foodporn dishes as the ones in this drama... So the food shots here are top notch, there are also some pretty nice scenery shots and a beautiful umbrella scene adding on to the score.


Again this may not be a masterpiece (trust me it is not) but it is fun, beautiful and even if it does have some drama here and there is is an overall feel good fluff drama guaranteed to make you smile at least once.

Bonus: The fansubber for the version I saw added some extra comments and spice that gave it that little extra and made it even better!

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Sweet, fun, lovable, the buddies may not all be good but the main couple is the sweetest

" We can´t change the world, but we can let the world not change us"
(Or something like that)

This drama is su cute, it may have a bunch of cliches but is fun, well paced, easy to binge with mostly lovable characters and just a lot of fun. though I did start this wondering if the guys where students or gangsters and well the testosterone levels seemed a bit high and yes I did want to send half of the cast to anger management or keep them a way from society... the low start for those characters did give way for some pretty good and well written character development. But it was pretty clear that the buddies where the bad ones,..


The main couple here is fun, bickering, competitive, playfull, supportive and is just a blast to watch making it hard not to fall for them as well as root for their love...

There is also a pretty sweet lesbian side couple that may have a bit to little screen time but would make a great spin off...

The cinematography is ok, some of the views are gorgeous and the songs will weele you in and set the mood pretty well.

All in all definitely one of the better romcoms out there...

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A sweet first love story in less then 20 minutes

This is actually pretty impressive how much information, chemistry and cuteness these two can portray in less than 20 minutes. This very, very, very short series? has all you need to know to understand the bond between these two have as well as lets us in to their little heart fluttering first love story, or more of a friends to lovers story, without the pre angst drama.

I could not help but wonder if the army actually served as a matchmaker this time, while most cases the army will serv ad a divider, here it gave them the opportunity to confront their feelings, with slightly less risk of loosing the friendship letting time in th earmy take care of that... But that could just be me over thinkinking. However it was nice to see the army not act as a cause for break up for once...

So if you want a couple of candy sweet episodes to watch between the angst and have about 20 minutes to spare, just go for it!

This is one I actually may visit whenever I need just that...

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Sweet n' easy with lots and lots of fluffely fluff

I started watching this becaus I heard this drama actually lets you see a persons real scar without covering it up, sound like as good a reason as any I know! But well Once I started waching something just because I saw a sweet picture of a cat on feeds. And this drama had both the scar, beutiful, real and even has that all imprtant extra scar for where the thick draining tube used to be during athe oporation thatgave the person the big scar to begin with. But anway, the scar is only a small part of the drama, it also has a cat, a fluffy adorable cat that has a personality and is deffenetly worth a spot in the credits. So it incorparates two things that can get me to start watching.

Then it has this adorable icile lead, with all the fixed ideas, complete lack of comuication skills whol seems to live by why talk when you can set up rules and use your body to get what you want. Mr Icicle is of course in love with mister dimples.
Mr dimpels is the sweetest character ever, loving, cares about his friends and all rownd sweetheart. That just happens to live in a house that mr Icicle just happens to own.... Mr icicle is ofcourse also mr Dimples boss but even so Mr dimples doesis not the least bit threatend by Mr Icicle. So it is a very sweet and easy watch.

The isde characters are just the sweetest most accepting people ever to be seen on screen or maybe not the best but pretty close.

The mother is the nicest mother I have seen in a long time, and did not once bring out my less pacefistic side, she made me rather ok with being part of the grown up community.

The secound couple have amazing chemestry, and share a kiss I would gladly analize from a consent point of view,

The firiends ara adorable, and the slightest following is called out as stalking, yet they actually mention the word stalking and has r consequences!

The secound male lead stands for some pretty good drama and lovoely twists done right. The olnly slightly annoyng character here are some girls in the cafe that seem to only be there to annoy. other then that this drama gave me the idea for my next solo article, but I won´t tell you what it is ha ha.

All in all deffenetly a drama worth watching for all romcom lovers out there.

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So very sad but also so very touching, beautiful and even kind of sweet.

This movie is really powerful, to be honest it is a bit grey and slightly depressing in the cinematography and did start off a bit slow, but the pace picks up as the story uniwines it will keep you on your toes and have you feel a whole range of emotions from anger to being touched, to wanting to fight some one and just utter despair... but you will also feel allot of love and want to just give the kid and his dad a big hug.

The characters in the movie are really well written and well played, the acting is spot on conveying emotions with both dialog and mimics as well as grey and depressing coloring, alongside some beautiful scenery. However the OST is barely present but the few music bits that are included may not be masterpieces but are extremely well fitted. To be completely honest the entertainment value is not very high but the depth, the issues and the story make up for it, life is not always about being entertained.

This movie deals with very deep and hard to handle issues, and has a bunch of potential triggers as well as some sexual content and though it did not make me cry I was pretty damn close to tears so do have some tissues or a good sleeve ready when you watch this.

All in all definitely a movie worth watching when you feel like seeing something sad...

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Powerful statement

I am writing this review because nobody else has, this is a short but powerful drama about the power of ignorance combined with miss representation in media for fueling prejudice among children as well as how easy it is to plant negative ideas and fear in a child about himself.

The movie has one child that stands ous as the voice of reason and education without being to obvious about it, acting as the small shred of hope in an otherwise pretty awful environment.

The movie it self is actually nothing new, maybe not talked or shown enough, but colored children in a white environment are subjected to a whole lot of obstacles. It reminded me of the time I worked with kids in the country side when I got the question when the child was adopted when we got a child from an ethnic minority as well as well as the three year old child I worked with who once counted the white people on the tram and then said she wished she was white. So the way this child thought about himself as well as related to his surroundings was no surprise to me.

The way it is filmed is pretty powerful and it does make a strong statement, without sugarcoating the least bit this kid is thrown out in to the world to fight his own battle. I wish he would not have to fight his own battle, seeing it is a battle the grown ups and our society should be in charge of but I guess knowing how the world works the kid will be forced to do this and it should infuriate us all.

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Allot of drama and dispaisable characters with a side of charm

This was my first Lakorn so when reading this you may want to know that I judge it according to previous dramas watched and have honestly no knowledge of lakorns at all, and am more familiar with c-and k-dramas.

What do you get if you take all the aggravating characters in Go ahead, Suits and Something in the rain along with bits and pieces of the plot to Remember:war of the son and put them together in one drama? Well probably something close to this.

A good thing that is also bad is that most of the characters go thru allot of development and change making non of them truly lovable, some pretty dispisable but even they have some good qualities at times making you feel allot of disappointment.

Though the male lead is very charming most of the time he does not really measure up to Jung Hae In (sorry). He does come off as pretty charming and cool most of the time and is probably the most likable character in this drama but falls short towards the end and feels kind of pathetic.

The female lead, is supposed to be bad ass but is essentially just a selfish scaredy cat, with some fine moments but to be honest she is just not very lovable.

The friends are annoying at times but over all seem to be the voice of reason in this drama, and display some pretty good friendship goals so hats off to them.

The Second female lead kind of gave me sls at times she is pretty cool and actually knows what she wants unlike the female lead who well you will see if you watch it.

The parent bring out my inner anger so much that I had to take a break to look at puppies whenever they came on a sign of me actually caring about the drama enough to get angry.

So all in all if you want a show with big variety that will have you charmed by the male lead and mad at the same time this is most definitely worth watching. But be where you will probably feel a range of emotions including some deep, deep frustration.

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Mr Icicle meets Mr Hot cup of milk

This drama is sweet but also makes me go what... The story is sweet we have the emotionally closed off icicle in desperate need of some one to though his col, cold heart and Mr heart or more fitting Mr Hot cup of milk who is a tad obsessive and in desperate need of a lesson in consent and finding his self worth.... Unlike other obsessive male leads this guy shows persistence without any aggression witch makes it hard to dislike him, This movie (also as a series) shows us the importance of equal footing in a relationship with the added bonus of sweet loan sharks.

All in all an okay watch.

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When life gives you tangerines you get see a whole Pie of life

This is not just one slice of life but a whole pie with cream and what not of life. As it offers us a bunch of glimpses in to several generations of life, struggles, love and more struggles.

Ordinary people, in some extraordinary circumstances showing us that it can be the little choices that define us. And that being loved matters more than being controlled.

The main couple is as sweet as sweet gets. Pure, loving the type that will litterally do anything to protect each other not only physically but mentally too.

"You have six people in your in your house hold, why do you only buy five fish?"

Showing us how to stand op against family oppression, tradition and prejudges. They may have been poor but they gave their children love and tools to stand up for them selfs teaching them not to settle and know their worth. Without skimping on the hardships poverty brings.

I loved the village, and the it truley takes a village feel to this, I loved the family, the aunts, the kids, the pain... the sweetness. The window in to the different decades and society and day to day life as it was, without diving in to politics. Showing common people. I also enjoyed them showing us even more pain and the time skips with the date and time shown like they used to on old photographs.

I did not like the last 30 minutes or so of the drama, it had a bit to much of a preachy tone and did a bad job with making me believe IUS character was over 50. It also has one moment that feels a bit off and over the top in this otherwise pretty down to earth drama. Making me lower the score from a 9,5 to a 9. Then all the yelling crying, and more yelling knocked off another 0,5 stars giving this an 8,5.

A good drama indeed, and apparently there is a lot you can do with tangerines, if it is life or some one else who gives you them is however a different question as the tangerines seem to be the first to go when poverty hits.

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Forgettable....

This is one of those dramas that I am sure to forget watching in about a month or so, it wasn't bad, it wasn't good it just was...

The twists: Either (some times and) unnecessary, unrealistic, predictable, meeh
The Leads 1/2 oh come on, fine I get it it was for the character development but seriously they dindt have to make him that much of a jerk. The other1/2 was cute as a button but also a oh come on, get some self oh anything.

The most interesting character in this whole drama was probably the cat, and the bosses ex girlfriend/photographer, whom I may have a slight crush on at the moment and would love to see more of.

As for the so called villains they were really underdeveloped in every single way , but honestly I would probably not care to watch their development anyway.

As for the chemistry between different leads, I can't deny its there but I can also not deny that instead of getting excited by kisses, and leads getting things hot and what not my focus was rather on them not closing the fridge or getting bitten by mosquitos in the wild...

So even though I do love several of the actors, and this drams tropes I am sad to say this was just not that memorable...

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Snow white and the 6 mobsters

This has a some sweet, some over the top annoying, some adorable, some good and some meeh... But Id say all in all a pretty good balance between them all making it a highly bingable drama for all of those who love their cold meets hot, rich meats poor type pf dramas.

The gagsters gone good are adorable between the moments f over the top annoying, but mostly adorable. The friendships are top, top, top. And they even managed to sneak in some depth and character development between the silly.

Things that really are not my thing was the female leads voice and job, it made great contrast towrds the bigtough mobstes and sure who doesn't like seeng beefy men singing while wearing cute animal suits but other than that there was just to many high notes and. squeakiness for me. But the over all childishness felt really wrong. It could have stayed at playful byt was mostly not really my kind of cute? Seriously why would grown human beings without children watch content ment for small children?

What balanced this up was:

1. Former criminals/mobster in animal clothing (yes I may be contradicting myself here, but there is a fine line between cute/fun/playful/sweet show of caring and the korean Mickey Mouse Club).


2. The male leads extremely sexy voice and overall appearance. dude was a bit to posesive and did have a red flag or two but who cares about that... When he shows up with those muskels and says something in his 5 packs of cigerrate gngster hoarse voice...

3. Found family

4. The second couple

5. Cuteness overkill in the side characters: played by: Park Jae Chan, Moon Ji In, Song Seo Rin, Kim Hyun Jin, Lee Yoo Joon.

6. The female leads characters forwardness and overall coolness (between the annoying that is)

So all in a all a fun binge just mind the silly... and it should be fine

P.S. I will add a comment about the second male lead as comment marked spoiler.

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Some people are just to good for this show...

Never have I ever completed a drama where the acting was this bad without the drama beeing so bad it was hilarious... as this drama was just bad... Though it did have som exceptions that I will get to in a moment but:

The acting 11/14 -Bad
The fighting scenes - Bad
The Blood Splatter- Bad
The Friendships- 4/5 Awkwerd (not in a good way)
The styling- 11/14 bad
The filming- bad
The characters- 11/14 Bad
The lines- 1 good line in 8 episodes the rest cinge, meeh, bad...
The secound couple- unintersting, cringe wtf...
The villain- Annoying awfully stayled and just why?

The lighting- ok

Thg Gangster Male Lead Meen- Adorable, good looking, sweet, but why the hell did he fall for the geeky guy?
The Gangsters lackey- Adorable!
The Biker Gamer Nitta- Way to good for this show, in every way possible! Give this woman a leading role and a good script, stat!

The kisses and kinship where actually pretty ok..

And while there may not have been much substance to this show our gangster was pretty to look at, unfortunalty the pros did not get near to cover for all the flaws...

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The Scared and The Stallkey...

This is a not so cautionary tale, not really warning people to not tie other peoples shoe laces or else they may, just may end up getting more or less stalked by a polar bear. The polar bear is of course the sweetest guy ever, kind, loving, caring... And has luscious lips ,dripping of gloss and with the sweet, sweet taste of soju...

The story seams to be there to tell us that the way to heal a broken heart is by constantly attacking it with fluff, persistency, and following the person both online and IRL... some would call that borderline stalking but in this drama they make sure to show us that this is indeed necessary when love at first knot meets fright at first stare.

Our lipgloss polar bear male lead is very lovable, sweet, romantic, kind, funny, helpful, patient... sometimes the guy is even respectful towards others boundaries (rare but it does happen).

Our scared male lead is also pretty decent, he does seem to have some issues and may need to seek help with his need to control everything around him. He does not come off as bubbley and lovable as mr. lipgloss but there is something about him that I do find myself appreciating. I just can not really put my finger on it.

The pacing in this is pretty odd... and it could have used a few more episodes in the middle to really work with the story.

The chemistry between the leads is decent, the gazes, kisses etc. range from dead fish to somekind flambéed fish.

The acting ranges between bad, really bad, ok and could be better, especially with the side characters.

There are not a lot of conflicts in this, the overall feel to it is fluff and stalking a guy out of his shell.... So the few added twists and spice don't really add much to the story but do not take away much either. So its really an easy binge for those moments you just need fluff (as long as you do not dig in to the whole boundaries issue ).

P.S. There are a lot of shots by a pool and those are just gorgeous, I do not really know their purpose but I love em and would like to encourage more dramas to incorporate pool side shots.

Also: There are those who actually do not seek couple/romantic love without beeing scared of it.

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