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The IQIYI (~= Amazon) and Netflix versions are missing at least some music, like a Chuck Berry song near the end of episode 02.
Example timestamps to check for generic replacement music (will be some 15-20 seconds later in versions with the intro):
EP01 03:27
EP01 16:33
EP02 57:27 (again/re-used at the start of EP03)

Chemistry is alright, but not like it's been hyped.
Adverts are out of place / intrusive (and really dumb).
The comedy characters are all overwhelmingly unfunny.
(( Stuff at the end is stupid, but not as painful as it could have been. ))

They died because of a popped tire etc, she didn't hit them or anything.
If you watch the scene before, they kept going on about having to leave and not having time — they presumably knew it was time for the collection of their soul(s) to happen.

There were a whole lot of Goblin wannabe scenes.
(In some way even the scallion stuff is from Goblin.)

They kind of have the same ending too.

The cat did not become human because of the FL's webcomic.

Meeting the FL was the very first memory of the ML, long before she started drawing her comic. After that, the ML turned into a kitten found by Jae Seon.

Timeline thus:
?? (ML likely cat, but unknown) -> ML human, meets FL -> ML cat, lives with Jae Seon, then given to his new girlfriend -> ... -> FL draws the willow boy comic

For me the show would have worked far better as a simple fluffy rom-com without "characters do dumb things to pad the running time" or "characters encounter sudden problems for an episode or two again mostly to fill the time with something". *
I already complained about the ending of the drama here: https://mydramalist.com/32545-man-that-bakes-bread#comment-16421587
..and as I saw a bunch of comments saying the manga didn't suffer from some of the problems this show has, I checked out the last few issues/chapters.

the manga/manhwa/webtoon ends with
- two chapters where jae-seon returns after some absence to celebrate FL's birthday and FL wants to rush out to meet him, and hong-jo the cat protests, and then hong-jo the cat turns into hong-jo the human to cling on to her, but since jae-seon and doo-shik are already at the door he becomes a cat again, and they get drunk to celebrate the FL's birthday and the FL even confesses her feelings to jae-seon despite the WTF experience right before.
- one chapter where FL looks for a suddenly-missing hong-jo the cat and she meets the schoolgirls who talk about a dead cat and she digs it up and realises it's not hong-jo and is very relieved.
- one chapter where FL confronts SFL, who is the only one who knew that hong-jo the guy is also a cat (but promised hong-jo not to tell his secret to anyone).
- one chapter where FL dreams she is actually the cat and hong-jo is actually the human going out to meet other humans and she begs him not to go and can't do anything to stop him, with dialogue pretty much mirroring what she says to hong-jo ("I will be back late today" etc) when she wants to go out to meet jae-seon.
- one chapter where FL comes home and is happy that someone is there waiting for her with a "Welcome!", no matter if that hong-jo is not-human or not-cat or both or whatever.

There's no long 10 year old pining between anyone, Sol(-ah) only meets Jae-Seon as a friend of a friend (and develops a crush on him) and Eun-Ji-Eun (who is called Ala) is the character with the most of a crush on Hong-Jo. The willow love is a mere three or four panels, the abandonment angle is very very minor, Hong-Jo is randomly sickly a few times but without much context. The second couple doesn't happen, but more importantly the main one also doesn't conclude with anything else than a somewhat unclear semi-timeskip ending.


*: Other people have addressed this well for example in https://mydramalist.com/32545-man-that-bakes-bread#comment-3220831 and https://mydramalist.com/32545-man-that-bakes-bread#comment-3256769 .

It's puzzling how they cut out all these good scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfmq9Sxhzo (not really spoilerish).
I would have liked to watch *that* show more than the unnecessarily-dramatic one I got to see. The things the writers throw in here as wrenches really seem like what a webcomic author without inspiration would come up with to insert some obstacles that prop up at the start of an issue and get solved at its end (with no particular meaning or relevance). It's all the more puzzling that the original apparently doesn't do things like this (but then it's comparatively short anyway).

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The follow-up comment is only meant for people who have watched the show and discusses the ending of the manhwa.

The whole part where the "don't abandon animals!" guy becomes a full blown catnapper villain was unncessary. Then he was unncessary brought back to throw some threats around. Then he unneccessarily appeared yet another time for, well, silly action sequences that had no particular point. To coax the ML back into being able to transform? I don't even.

I dunno why so many people mind that this show was cut short, it seemed like it only had 5 hours of content to begin with and then was artificially blown up with repetitive drama.

IMO he is a human for good, thus with a regular aging pattern.
https://mydramalist.com/32545-man-that-bakes-bread#comment-16421587

I don't think it's your bubble, since otherwise he would have had to be MUCH older. Or the film crew just had a zero out of ten effort day when filming the ending....

The real cat was CGI a good few times, so I guess I was annoyed by that... :D

Since you still have it on plan-to-watch: I would argue it's a happy end, just in the typical Korean rushed-out-in-half-a-workday way.

He's magically turned into a human for good and the time problem is waved away. Just gotta wait the mandatory two year timeskip or something...
https://mydramalist.com/32545-man-that-bakes-bread#comment-16421587

Mandatory Korean timeskip plus mandatory super-rushed "ok now they're together" scene that got shot in all of five minutes?

The last like third just makes less and less sense.

IMO: https://mydramalist.com/32545-man-that-bakes-bread#comment-16421587 (spoilers of course)

The ending is similar in many ways..
(Unfortunately)

There definitely were a lot of good points about this show, but whoever came up with the story beats I'd still hit with a fish cake.

There's so much melo-obstacle stuff thrown in in terms of the writing, and sometimes it even teases yet more extreme possible melodrama directions (only to not play them out).

(And some people – perhaps – don't enjoy Human X Cat romance.)

Dunno if you watched Angel's Last Mission Love with the same ML? You could argue the mechanics of how pinocchio can become a boy are pretty similar in that, and the, well, rushed ending wrap-up.