What transphobia are you talking about? Your statement is misleading. In fact, the male lead actually encourages…
The only issue I saw is you denying a lesbian's right to be afraid and feel betrayed upon finding out that the person they feel in love with, who they thought was a woman, actually has a penis. A lesbian or a woman, who are sexually attracted to other women, has the right to be afraid of dicks even if it is attached to someone who identifies as a woman. Don't just cry about your side of the community.
Yes it's fiction. Imagine trying to kill someone just to check if that person can actually revive. The disregard for human life is up there with the Mengele experiments. Disgusting.
I got to watch the original anime when it came out and when I heard that a live action was in the works I had a "not again" kind of reaction. To date, the only Japanese live action remake I've ever enjoyed is Rouroni Kenshin (One Piece doesn't count - it's not a Japanese production so argue with a wall).
Expect over the top quirks and acting from the lead - a common pitfall for live action remakes - I think they put in too much effort to capture the comedy of the anime so it comes off as unserious. Bear in mind also that anime seldom uses standard Japanese so it doesn't carry over well to live action version.
I'm glad that out of all the anime episodes, they only chose to remake 2 stories. The rest are different and can be enjoyable.
If you are looking for romance, look somewhere else.
Parents who meddle with their son's relationships are DISGUSTING. That poor woman didn't have to die but a thoughtless granny just can't accept her son loves another woman now.
The main character: ML is a sad excuse for a man - he snoops around, looks into other people's rooms, thinks others are just inconvenience to him. Carries baggage from the past.
It's no surprise he is going through hell.
Now the girlfriend: I know she was busy with work but the dismissive, nonchalant and unsympathetic way she handled the situation was what led to all of this. And instead of hearing him out first, talking it over with him, she seemed to have more time to spend with another man who obviously was interested in her. In the end, she never did try to understand him. She was just there but her heart was not in it.
The first few episodes were frustrating given the antics and just overall failure to speak up in spite of the FL being such a motormouth. But then I remembered the American teen movies they used to pump out decades ago: - nerdy FL, - handsome ML, - 4th wall breaks, - ridiculous school events that propel the narrative - prolonged poses with shocked faces as everything else happens around them.
The internal monologue serving as the narration is such an old device that seeing it here was jarring. My home country had its fair share of school-teenage movies that had all these ridiculous happenings. One thing I can say is that this is a nice break from the usual bullying and depression they often portray in Kdramas but bring no changes to Korean society.
I only watched this while waiting for newer episodes for other kdramas.
For people who only watch kdramas because the actors they are simping are in it, this "review" is NOT for you. So keep scrolling. --
Itaewon Class has been touted as a KDrama which "tackles" prejudice towards transgender, foreign parentage and ex-convict discrimination. But apart from several repetitive lines about the difficulty of getting employment as an ex-convict, a half episode about a transgender being outed in social media and a "redemption" arc for an American actor presented as someone with Guinean mother, the entire drama hardly focused on these touted topics. It's safe to say that kdramas have a long way to go before it can confidently incorporate these themes in Kdramas. I just hope we don't see the same bullying porn so rampant in Kdramas.
At its core, this is a revenge porn dressed as a pub KDrama but with less drinking.
The premise was promising and I loved the potentially "doomed" pairing trope. Then there's the music, the winter feel, contemplative narration - it was great and atmospheric.
I liked the investigation portion of the series and it reminded me a bit of "Another" and "Final Destination".
The ending seemed forced, though - like he guiltripped her into liking him. That's the part I hated. Sure they inserted how she was intrigued about him even when they were still at school, but there was no real sense of development. All we got is a scene at the last few minutes of the last episode that looked like "love me back or I die".
😂 People should stop this as a manwha reader BS. Manwha and TV are different media. How dare you react like it's the end of the world when even the author is not throwing a tantrum just because the adaptation did not match the manwha 😂
Filipino movie industry regressing to their old habit of imitating, parodying or remaking foreign titles. Reminds one of the old saying "Filipinos are great imitators".
Does this show have/tease infidelity or a love triangle?
First 2 episodes show a revenge plot so no. If anything, it shows a man desperate to ensure no one finds out who is actually married to him while he waits for his fiancée to show up.
The first 2 episodes makes you remember the old Mills&Boone and Barbara Cartland novels pocketbooks of the 90s. Stockholm Syndrome romance seems to be the latest bread and butter in kdramas and it works well because it is sought after with some media posts even positively giddy about how the husband treats his "things" because women with selective mutism are things now it seems.
And FYI, she has a diagnosed medical condition. There's no transgender character in this series - nobody underwent surgery to change genders.
Expect over the top quirks and acting from the lead - a common pitfall for live action remakes - I think they put in too much effort to capture the comedy of the anime so it comes off as unserious. Bear in mind also that anime seldom uses standard Japanese so it doesn't carry over well to live action version.
I'm glad that out of all the anime episodes, they only chose to remake 2 stories. The rest are different and can be enjoyable.
If you are looking for romance, look somewhere else.
I thought kdrama directors have moved on from this style of presenting stories.
ML is just inviting trouble - snoops in other people's rooms, no sense of communal living, thinks he's tough.
ML is a sad excuse for a man - he snoops around, looks into other people's rooms, thinks others are just inconvenience to him. Carries baggage from the past.
It's no surprise he is going through hell.
Now the girlfriend:
I know she was busy with work but the dismissive, nonchalant and unsympathetic way she handled the situation was what led to all of this. And instead of hearing him out first, talking it over with him, she seemed to have more time to spend with another man who obviously was interested in her.
In the end, she never did try to understand him. She was just there but her heart was not in it.
- nerdy FL,
- handsome ML,
- 4th wall breaks,
- ridiculous school events that propel the narrative
- prolonged poses with shocked faces as everything else happens around them.
The internal monologue serving as the narration is such an old device that seeing it here was jarring. My home country had its fair share of school-teenage movies that had all these ridiculous happenings. One thing I can say is that this is a nice break from the usual bullying and depression they often portray in Kdramas but bring no changes to Korean society.
For people who only watch kdramas because the actors they are simping are in it, this "review" is NOT for you. So keep scrolling.
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Itaewon Class has been touted as a KDrama which "tackles" prejudice towards transgender, foreign parentage and ex-convict discrimination. But apart from several repetitive lines about the difficulty of getting employment as an ex-convict, a half episode about a transgender being outed in social media and a "redemption" arc for an American actor presented as someone with Guinean mother, the entire drama hardly focused on these touted topics.
It's safe to say that kdramas have a long way to go before it can confidently incorporate these themes in Kdramas. I just hope we don't see the same bullying porn so rampant in Kdramas.
At its core, this is a revenge porn dressed as a pub KDrama but with less drinking.
I liked the investigation portion of the series and it reminded me a bit of "Another" and "Final Destination".
The ending seemed forced, though - like he guiltripped her into liking him. That's the part I hated. Sure they inserted how she was intrigued about him even when they were still at school, but there was no real sense of development. All we got is a scene at the last few minutes of the last episode that looked like "love me back or I die".