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Cheap Love japanese drama review
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Cheap Love
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by mya
Aug 3, 2022
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 5.0

It lacked in quite a few aspects

I was really enjoying the first half of this drama, but what went wrong? I will try to explain without any spoilers.

It had such a strong start. I was really into the interactions that the FL and ML were having. It was smooth sailing.

But then it became disjointed. It didn't feel like a love story anymore. The FL didn't even feel like a main character. I think both her and the other FL were heavily underdeveloped, and I'm quite disappointed in that. In general, I don'
t think the characterisation was that great looking back. Eve the two MLs felt underdeveloped. We didn't get much insight into their motivations and backstory. The acting was decent though.

Now, back to the plot. What the heck was going on? I feel like they didn't give much of a build up into the second half. It felt like the same person was placing the leads in to the same predicament over and over again. And like many have mentioned in the comments, that last episode was a bit of a mess. This drama could have benefitted from an extra episodes to make it 11 like most 90s JDramas. It would have been in their favour.

Can't remember the music at all. And I have little intention to re watch this, at least not any time soon.

Clearly my review was all over the place (much like the drama), so bear with me. If you are a fan of 90s Japanese dramas and have already watched the more popular ones, maybe give this a chance. I don't think you'll regret it.
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