Pacing Issues, Good Friendship Theme
LIKES:Locations, cinematography, use of props, costumes/wardrobe, were all good.
Music was good and appropriate, but again nothing too memorable.
The friendship of the main 5 was really well delivered.
The message of taking action, communication and trust, were strong throughout the show, especially with Ken’s time jump situations.
DISLIKES:
PRODUCTION:
Some scenes the waves or background sounds overpowered the actor/actress voices. Some shaky camera moments too and zooming in too close, (if I can see nose hair it’s too close!). Also pretty lame FXs for the Fairy intervention moments.
DIRECTING: reactions or under reactions too way too long, which is bad directing. PACING: slow, very very slow. They had Iwase Ken (Yamashita) running around way too much, seemed like filler.
WRITING:
They tried to make the time jumps work, but without enough character development, the “changes” fell flat. This had potential and got lost in delivery. Way too repetitive to have real substance.
It’s supposed to be a romance, but there was none; no chemistry, almost no kisses, very little of everything romantic. Every time Ken tried to speak up, he was ignored abruptly. He was actions speak louder than words, but the girl didn’t appreciate anything. So can she really say she liked him? And it was the typical cliche stuff of guy has to ask girl out, rather than having both pursue each other. It’s understandable that he took way too long to verbally express anything, but she’d have to be super dumb to fall for a guy just saying “I like you”! The 5 are supposed to be great friends, but Ken and Tetsuya constantly bully Hisashi. Some scenes they literally threw Hisashi aside and it wasn’t funny. Was that their attempt at comedy?
ACTING: Even from Yamashita Tomohisa was subpar. He tried with what he was given, but didn’t really connect with the viewer.
OVERALL: I liked the friendship theme, but not much else. I was disappointed throughout, even the special wasn’t very good. I won’t watch it again. There are so many other rom-coms or fantasy romance dramas out there, even die hard fans of Yamashita might not make it through all the episodes.
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I was not impressed. At all. It started of fine but I was really hoping that it would not follow such a repeating pattern, with I'm not a fan of.
The female lead reaaallly irked me. I'm not trying to spoil anything ( maybe a little) but the way she treated the male lead seamed ignorant and came across rather uncaring. He persistently tried to confess and it was so hard for him you could see that. Yet she didn't even make the effort to listen, even though she "apparently" liked him. Also the efforts she told were.... Weak to non-existent and kind of puzzling, so when you don't pay the most mindful attention it gets overlooked. And let's face it, not everybody has such an eye for teeny weeny details.
I think the main lead should have just moved on she didn't have him attention nor the love he needs
Personal note:
I would really appreciate more dramas where not only one character makes an effort.
Even if you try to make the female leads always perfect they aren't. Especially in this drama where the girl doesn't seem that lovable yet she is always the center of his universe and he gets hurt time and time again.
I think scriptwriters should always pay attention to how the character feels and maybe let the character have a personal point where he / she says that it's just not worth it and to take a step ack and maybe take another way.
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Ken definately thinks about himself too much and because of it he is uncertain. He had got so many opportunities in the high school and on the university. Aww.. He upset me. But it's Yamapi. Even if he has a bad role, I will love him.
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