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what is this cast?

The producers were probably saving money for decades to get this cast. Even the supporting characters, appearing for few minutes are full blown actirs having their own drama. Man oh man.
The lead actors and the actors playing 12 lives alongwith the support staff is just fire.
I watched the first 4 episodes and its been awesome so far. The story has been good and the life of mc was more based on reality compared to ither dramas.
The death of that parachute guy was too good. Even though it was expected the way it happened , it will still leave you surprised.
Waiting for the rest of episodes.

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED CDRAMA

If you're a fan of historical or Chinese dramas, then I highly recommend one of the best C-dramas out there. Even if you're not typically a fan of Chinese dramas, I encourage you to be open-minded and give this one a chance. You might just discover that Chinese dramas are truly awesome! This Cdrama features action-packed scenes and superpowers, but what stands out are the themes of romance, friendship, and stunning ancient fashion.

It is so sad that this drama will end in 30+ episodes only, but still, I hope the authors and director of the said drama will not disappoint us in the end. Hoping for a happy ending. I've been waiting for Liu Yu Ning to be the Male Lead since he got the auras and amazing presence in the 'Who rules the World' chinese drama. Now the time comes for this drama and his time to be a Male Lead, hoping for a happy ending😭, if not, our heart will be broken into pieces, chaarrr! Hahahaha

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Messy relationship & recycling

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Basically, PET is the material plastic bottles are made of. In this short series, the main characters liken their relationship to a plastic bottle and its cap: how long does it last and if they are going to meet again after recycling.

The drama depicts a relationship: meet, get together, live together, first glitches and then a major one sending everything up in the air. The relationship is told in short scenes over a period of time. That was the first problem I had with this drama: the timeline is not clear: months or years? Eventually we discovered that it took two years for the relationship to go bust(one moves out!) but it feels like it had taken much longer. Logically! Do you really break up with your boyfriend after a year because he does not want to come out to his family? In Japan? After a few years, maybe.... Moreover, they continue living together and seeing new people and still sleeping together. Messy, very messy but they seem fine with it!

The characters are rather sketchy as we never get to know much about them and their past, friends and family: one is bi the other one gay! They are obviously in love with each other but cannot live together. One is getting serious while the other is still behaving like a teen and throwing tantrums and running off in the middle of an discussion.

Production gives off the indie vibe: real and rough and cold (practically no colour to speak of!). Sets a limited to an apartment and a couple of outside shots. The story is straight forward for the most part though the final part has some flashbacks which are difficult to grasp (same sets, similar situation!). There are a couple of scenes after final credits suggesting that maybe they are not as over as they would like us to believe. The ending is open!

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Decent portrayal of mental health with l terrible messaging

Ughh. This drama really bugged me. As someone with some background knowledge and care giving in mental health, I just need to share a few thoughts on this one. Especially because the drama presented things in an almost textbook way. Well it came off as super old textbooks written years ago when we have much more research to update our knowledge of these things today.

Drama gave a decent portrayal of people with various mental health conditions. I especially appreciate that it took their perspective and was sympathetic.

What I couldn’t stand was that in order to manipulate the audience and tell emotional stories, they went completely off track in explaining root causation for mental health issues. They would rather put blame on bad parenting or societal pressures because it suited the story, than address the scientifically proven genetic predispositions people have to many of these mental health diagnoses. I am not saying environmental factors don’t play a role in triggering, but it was pretty obvious they wanted to skirt around the biological and genetic causes. To me, it was too much of a missed opportunity and came across as Korea once again not wanting to fully acknowledge mental health. Almost like it is a personal weakness and flaw to have such genetic predispositions. So it feels more comfortable to explain it in another way. I’m sorry but bad parenting does not cause bipolar disorder. It is a physical, chemical brain condition.

Once again, Korea still has a ways to go in facing without shame mental health.

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Wow. Wow. An absolute masterpiece Wow. Wow.

An absolute masterpiece It was so cute! The story is literally out of this world amazing. A true masterpiece and each episode is only like 10 mins long it's very short but VERY VERY GOOD, the storyline moved so smoothly and them being together was just butterflies and tears all the way. The BEST duo and it's funny! The crew have really created a true masterpiece! I loved it so much and the ending was just PERFECT the music was just soooo good and it's just DEFINITELY WORTH WATCHING EVEN REWATCHING just go watch it and thank me later cause it's AMAZING Overall, Its the most beautiful forbidden love story with the cutest duo. An absolute masterpiece. 🤵🏻🔪❤️‍🔥🔪👰🏻‍♀️

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my opinion

except for the ending, which was completely open, literally for us to imagine whether it worked or not. the drama is very good, the character development. That's not my opinion at all.

I loved the protagonists, also the secondary roles. I thought the acting was good, of course I can't say it was the best acting I've ever seen. But I shouldn't complain about that.

The ending was completely open, but let's not deduce a whole drama just from the ending.

There are so many dramas with open or sad endings, but that doesn't change the fact that the drama is good. There doesn't need to be a happy ending for the drama to be good.

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A meaningful drama about mental health albeit with some flaws

This drama has a touching storyline that encompasses education on mental health issues, realistic struggles working in the psychiatry department and relatable characters. In my opinion, the greatest strength of this drama is its relatability. It doesn't strive to be dramatic or over the top. Instead, it shows us the daily lives of the characters involved, just like its title - Daily Dose of Sunshine. As someone who has had mild panic attacks before, I found the illustration of panic attacks fairly realistic. Another good example would be the romance storyline, it is normal, it feels like it could realistically happen and does not involve any excessive development. However, if you have a history of mental health issues, I would suggest to spread out the episodes or just watch 1-2 episodes first and see how it goes because some episodes can be triggering for different populations.

My only quip with this drama is its overt focus on clinical recovery despite its evident attempt to increase awareness about mental health. It seems like the story it is trying to express is "Ok, I give you medication that suits you and then you are on your own". There is little show of therapy, counselling and many other factors that help a person with mental health issues to not only attain clinical recovery, but also functional and personal recovery, which are the three domains of recovery. To me, it makes zero sense to discharge someone with little coping strategies or community/social support with just outpatient psychiatric appointments. However, considering that their primary focus was on nurses, it is still somewhat acceptable. Additionally, I have no knowledge of the healthcare system in South Korea, thus I am not sure what is their current clinical model for mental health.

Moving forward, if this drama has a second season or if there are other similar dramas, I do hope they put a greater focus beyond doctors/nurses to the many people who are involved in the therapeutic process, such as social workers, occupational therapists, psychologists and spiritual workers. I also hope that they apply models such as the Clinical-Functional-Personal Recovery model or C.H.I.M.E. model of recovery to spread the message on what comprehensive recovery in mental health involves. Alternatively, perhaps they could focus on community mental health, to show a different area of rehabilitation.

Overall, I did enjoy the story and pace of this drama and do recommend you to watch it if you enjoy slice-of-life and storylines beyond the usual.

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The series, which follows the film itself, maintained its quality, perhaps a certain relaxation came in the middle parts. But still: different, different, gentle, tender, fragile, pure in connection with faith. Despite the small flaws that were there, everything I listed so clearly outweighed everything and I was amazed that we found ourselves in a Pinoy production, in the Philippines, which is so different in nature from this project ... simply Dolly is Dulu ?

Seriál, co navazuje na samotný film, si udržel svou kvalitu, snad určité zvolnění přišlo v prostředních dílech. Ale stále: jiné, odlišné, jemné, něžné, křehké, čisté ve spojistosti s vírou. Přes malé nedostatky, které tam byly, tak jasně převážilo všechno to, co jsem vyjmenoval a divil jsem se, že jsme se ocitli v pinoy produkci, na Filipínách, která je od tohoto projektu ve své podstatě tak odlišná ... prostě Dolly je Dulu ?

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1. SERIES
A very good collection of four stories, real, from real life, which pointed out the relatively large intolerance of Chinese society towards sexual minorities. I was most interested in the fact that at that time Chinese censorship was not yet so strict, and furthermore, that the creators managed to choose the most appropriate and especially likable types of boys and men, really enjoyable to watch.
1. US AGAINST THE WORLD - what was endearing about this sad story of intolerance was that one of the two boys was unafraid and defended the weaker one
2. BEIJING BEIJING - a boarded-up family breaks the bond between the two young men. Are you meeting again after three years?
3. THE WITNESS - two men with gym figures celebrate their third anniversary of living together, the mother of one of them pushes for her only son to marry and start a family, while the other of them sacrifices their relationship in order to "preserve" the traditions of the society. This gave me wisdom once: LOVE IS NOT AN OBLIGATION?
4. THE PROMISED CITY - two grown men struggle in the new city they moved to, not only with unemployment, but also with infidelity in their mutual relationship?
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I cried!!!!

Let's start with. What this series taught me "Made weak by time; might succumb to fate. But always keep your faith. Strive for what you wish to have and never stop moving forward." This is exactly my type of bl I was so sick of watching universe and school bls where they themselves create the problems. The acting was on point usually I don't get moved by sad dramas but this one made me cry. Another thing OMG the amount of second hand embarrassment i felt like fr in each episode like stoppppppp. It's a must watch. (Sorry for my bad English grammar it's not my first language)

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Not awful, but...

This was not what I expected. SO MANY reviews, and one of the tags, said "comedy" - This was a funny as DIY dentistry. THe base story was fine, and it was quite well told in 6 episodes, but a comedy it was not. OTOH, it was lovely to see Han Ji Hye back on screen. I hope this was her way of easing back into acting now her child is bit older. I actually started for this for Bae Da Bin, but her role was disappointing – for a former Marine, she was portrayed as pretty much weak and useless. Also, I was hoping to her speak English as she did in her last Drama, but no such luck with this one

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Best Fight Scenes!!

I thoroughly enjoyed the fight scenes as well as the Yokai's depiction.

My favorite is Kurama, he is so pretty in both human and especially in Yokai's form. I love his gifts too

I'm not a big fan of ML because his fighting style just seems reckless to me. I much prefer Kurama, and even Hiei.

Overall, it's enjoyable to watch, esp the fight scenes. Also love seeing animation coming in 3d forms like this!

The story is normal but okay for a short drama like this. What bothers me the whole time is...Yukina has healing power, but the WHOLE time, she is watching and standing still...she could have like walked over to any of them and heal them, instead of waiting until everything is over? lol

Other than that, I find this a good watch. I won't mind a S2, but maybe different ML with similar spirit world concept or sth

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Woo Young-woo is so wholesome.

The first half had unbelievable writing quality. I especially admired how it simultaneously developed the overall narrative and cases while still finding ways to seamlessly weave in personal development for the main character throughout. And so many intricate details. That was pure genius. As an aspiring writer I'm kinda jealous at the feat they pulled here tbh.

Unfortunately, the show couldn't maintain that level of quality in the second half, at which point it settled for… "still pretty damn great".

Massive kudos to the person who made the subs for this on Netflix, a certain Cho Hyun-soo apparently. Good subs help tremendously when listening to foreign media, and these subs were among the best I've ever seen, translating everything that's written on screen flawlessly, and even providing context for some jokes that couldn't translate well from Korean to English.

I'm not sure if a 2nd season of this show really makes sense but hey, I'm open to being wrong.

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No, no, no ... I tried very hard to understand everything, to empathize with the lives of the lowest levels of Philippine society, but I couldn't get past the barrier of weak to amateur acting and poor processing, and even if this time trans women had a cruel fate in this series , it only tempts me because they appear in practically all Pinoy projects, that there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of them in the Philippines, I can't explain it otherwise. The series doesn't seem to end and was supposed to have a continuation in My Chinito Prince, when 5 episodes were produced and then the continuation of this project was simply "cancelled" ... I think probably not only because of a lack of money ...

Ne, ne, ne ... snažil jsem se hodně vše pochopit, vcítit se do životů v nejnižších patrech filipínské společnosti, ale nešlo mi to přes bariéru slabších až amatérských hereckých výkonů a nedobrého zpracování, a i když měly tentokráte transky osud v tomto seriálu krutý, svádí mě to snad jen k tomu, protože se vyskytují prakticky ve všech pinoy projektech, že jsou jich na Filipínách snad statisíce, jinak si to nedovedu vysvětlit. Seriál jakoby nekončí a měl mít pokračování v My Chinito Prince, kdy bylo vyprodukováno 5 epizod a poté bylo pokračování tohoto projektu jednoduše "canceled" ... myslím, že asi nejen z důvodu nedostatku peněz ...

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I prayed that the young director would avoid the mistakes he made with Paano Kaya Kung Tayo, which I rated solid with my eyes closed mainly because of the lead actors, some of whom are also in this series. Those who know me know that I always try to find something positive in a project, to praise for the effort and not to boost my ego, what a strict critic I am. But it really didn't work for me here. Total amateurism, when all the mistakes were repeated and more were added to them. Even a low-budget film can make a whip, but here it stayed with that dirty word, as the whole Czech saying sounds, and even the guys who played there didn't get it out of that mess.
STORY: only a tragedy could have written it, no real plot, just two antagonistic parties of young people, an implausible ending.
ACTORS: amateurism of the first class, I will perhaps build a monument to two characters: Calix's mother (in the way she treated her children) and an affected shot in the form of a girl with long hair.
SOUND: in connection with the PROCESSING - not very good, some scenes and the orchestra - the feeling that the creators are constantly artificially creating heart-wrenching or dramatic scenes, the main song is good and in one passage fake. The director (who also wrote the story) would probably benefit if he went to dig canals instead, maybe it would be better ...
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Modlil jsem se, aby se mladý režisér vyvaroval chyb, kterých se dopustil u Paano Kaya Kung Tayo, který jsem ohodnotil solidně se zavřenýma očima především kvůli hlavním hercům, z nichž někteří hrají i v tomto seriálu. Ti, kteří mě znají, ví, že se snažím vždy na projektu najít něco kladného, pochválit za snahu a neposilovat si své ego, jaký jsem přísný kritik. Tady mi to ale opravdu nešlo. Totální amatérismus, kdy se všechny chyby zopakovaly a přibyly k nim ještě další. I z nízkorozpočtového snímku se dá uplést bič, tady to ale zůstalo u toho sprostého slova, jak zní celé české rčení a z toho odéru to nevytáhli ani ti kluci, co tam hráli.
PŘÍBĚH: to mohl napsat snad jen tragéd, žádná pořádná zápletka, jen dvě antagonní party mladých lidí, konec nevěrohodný.
HERCI: amatérismus první třídy, dvěma postavám snad postavím pomník: Calixova matka (v tom jak se chovala ke svým dětem) a afektovaný panák v podobě dívky s dlouhými vlasy.
ZVUK: ve spojení se ZPRACOVÁNÍM - ne moc dobrý, některé scény a k tomu ten orchestr - pocit, že neustále uměle tvůrci navozují srdceryvné či dramatické scény, hlavní píseň dobrá a v jedné pasáži falešná. Režisérovi (příběh i napsal) by zřejmě prospělo, kdyby šel raději kopat kanály, možná by to lepší ...

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