It's more than okay.
What would you do with the power of a kiss that can bring you back in Time?Story/Acting: Kentos perfomance was amazing. He was not annoying or overacting and switched the emotions (of being a scum) just right.
The other cast did great too, the characters felt real.
His relationship with "Saiko" (the killing-kiss girl) was special. Although it wasn't explored that much and you did not get the cringy lovey dovey scenes, the connection between this two was very strong.
Music: The music is so great. The ost is "sayonara elegy by Masaki suda".
Ending: Fits the drama perfect.
Go and watch it <3
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Yamazaki Kento shines so much as an anti-hero host! Great concept solidly acted!
I truly enjoyed the scenario of this drama which mixes time leap concepts with a host club as a starting point. I always liked "second chance" and "revenge on life" stories and I found it was done here in a particularly exciting and rather innovative way. There are unfortunately some loopholes inherent to that kind of supernatural element but it never really impacted my enjoyment of the series, except maybe in the last episode where I felt the solution chosen was a bit too abruptly put together and not very coherent. I was there for the emotional payoff but a bit more time for the resolution would have been appreciated.Yamazaki Kento did an incredible job as the anti-hero, a host without morale and caring only about money, using women as tools. He managed to make the evolution of his character really believable and had some incredibly well-executed emotional scenes. It is probably my favorite role of his so far. Mackenyu, who I discovered here and who plays the antagonist, was a really good counterpart in terms of acting skills. I was totally invested in his character's storyline: it was so painful and dark. Not sure if it is due to the writing or the actor's performance (or more likely the combination of both), but I found it super interesting. Kadowaki Mugi and Araki Yuko were also very good in their respective parts, even if their characters had seemingly less agency than the male roles, they evolved all through the show, becoming stronger in advocating for themselves.
I liked the overall production of the series. It was super efficient in conveying the various time leaps. At no point as a viewer I felt confused about where we were on the timeline, it was very simple to understand. I really appreciated the opening generic and the OST as well. Suda Masaki’s character singing, as a street musician, was such a highlight in the drama. I loved it.
I would recommend this to people looking for a drama that will take you on a journey alongside its (anti-)hero. It mixes genres well with supernatural, thriller and romance elements.The acting is very solid with some passionate and captivating moments. There are some loopholes and the ending would have benefited from more time but I honestly found the watch incredibly rewarding with a lot of emotional payoff.
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Questionable, not satisfying, sad ending.. BUT, unique
Ok... so basically ... it has something to do with time leap or time skip. The casts have done an amazing job in acting. The main part here is that it gets confusing a bit. Some scenes are kinda exaggerated. , the reason why it is unsatisfying ,is that you'll feel this wired feeling at the end of the drama as you definitely will not see the end coming. It will not be to your expectation. But.. it will keep you occupied for quite a sometime. If you are a person into emotional and feelings drama.., this is JUST for u. It has quite a good amount of jealous. You can see the love developing between the leads casually and realistically. The love can be described as pure. Obviously it has something to do with lot of kissing. I will recmmend it to someone not too sensitive. If you are sensitive... PLS REFRAIN from watching it. It'll break your heart into million, not thousand, but millions. Overall, its thrilling and full of surprises. As i said... it is ACTUALLY pretty recommended.And they even made a side series call 'todome no parallel'. So if you are not over with the drama, you can watch the mini series to calm your heart !
If you are sensitive : 2.5/10
If you are not 8/10
And ... MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD, IF YOU HAVENT WATCHED THE DRAMA, STOP READING FROM HERE PLSSS!! OR YOU WANNA NO THE FACTS, GO AHEAD ..!
the reason why i said it was unsatisfying is because, THE LEADS DON'T GET TOGETHER AT THE END!!!
Ik!!! It's really painful! The fact the saiko comes back to life and still doesn't find her way back into otaro's heart kills me. In my opinion, i would have been a tinzy binzy satisfied if saiko remained dead! This may sound creul, but it is better for a person to die and the other to stay alive knowing the fact that their loved one is no more rather than both staying alive and not feeling and fullfilling their heart's desire.
It really sad...REALLY SAD.
AND THAT IS WHY IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO SENSITIVE SOULS !!!
But if you are not sensitive, give it a go, you will be thinking about it even after a week you finsided watching it.
Anyways... happy watching, i love u, bye bye !!!
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IT'S A GEM!
THE BEST. WORTH IT!I like how the motives of the characters were not directly or immediately shown. Indeed a mystery.
Plot, acting, overall STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!
I love the FC! I love her gloomy and innocent look. Plus she's honest, mature, and no beating around the bush. I hate it when FCs are too childish or naive and always acting dumb or stupid. Mugi Kadowaki did great! She's adorable.
I love the slow but strong development between the MC and FC. Not much the romance-yyy type but you'll definitely feel the love and connection!
If you're a fairytale person, you might not like the ending. BUT it is actually already good even when you don't watch Todome no Parallel. You still might want to watch it though for some extended feels, fun and what ifs, and satisfaction you might be looking for ;) It has 10 EPs but shorter duration. I'd say give it a go.
All the characters are so eye-candy! <3 I definitely want more.
This is now my favorite JDrama >< (Hana Yori Dango, you will always have a special place in my heart ^^)
Side note: It's the nature of the drama but it kinda felt tiring at some point to keep going back to the past. Lol.
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Good Story, Great Character Writing
After watching a trashy GL jdrama, I was looking at my plan to watch list, to see if there's another trashy sounding title that i can tick off. I ended up with this drama and damn. I didn't expect i would pick up a gold one and would make me cry like a river in the end.The story is not just all that dark mystery about this kiss of death, it's actually more than that, though it started that way, it slowly developed into this puzzle piece game with a romance on the side. The first arc with the mystery killer though short and hilarious at times, was good. Although once you get the first hint it was obvious who was actually the killer. It's also just a groundwork to build up FL antagonist and her intention was all along. After that, okay where are they taking the story... now ML realizes he can make himself rich by taking advantage of the time leap to make things go his way and that's where it starts to get messy and exciting.
The second part of the story is what i actually like the most, everything was going smoothly for our ML, but as the story goes on, more and more you see him hit a wall, and he has no choice but to actually start thinking and planning before recklessly going into time leap because, every time he time leaps, that doesn't only change his future, but also starts affecting his surroundings. And i like that even though he has the upper hand to curate his path, the story will still naturally find its way to corner him. Along the way, there are also parts where they start tapping into human emotions, that will touch your heart. It's not just all this if could redo things to make yourself rich, you'd do everything, It is also about spending time with your loved ones while they're still alive and that's where the romance on the side slowly creeps in because i doubt every time you'd kiss each other even if it's just contractual you wouldn't fall for the other. The romance was already sad as it is because it got caught up in this love triangle, then you see it get thrown out the window in the end as a way to redeem ML, like why would play with my heart like that?!?!?!
I say great character writing because you have these innocent characters who were forced to become villains because of the ML's greed to keep messing with time, some characters became good, and some remained villains to be the necessary evil. It's not every time you time leap that you would see the same flow, because other characters actually evolved and would start affecting things.
The way MC was written to only chase money, not women, you see his back story as to why he became that way. It's fucked up, sad, like really sad and you'll start feeling for him, then he starts to progressively mature and corrects everything in the end. THE FUCK WAS THE POINT OF HIM REALIZING THAT ALL THIS MESS STARTED BECAUSE OF HIS GREED, SO HE DECIDED TO NOT BE WITH FL IN THE END?!?!?! I get it though, he has this greed, he's the scummiest of the scums, so he decided to not redo his romance with FL because he's afraid that he might just still take advantage of her down the road. I was surprised that it was Kento, he's so cool here.
I like how FL was painted as a villain in the beginning, but she wasn't actually and became this important tool in MLs life. Her dynamic with ML was really funny, I like how she can bluntly diss back, with no holds bar and you'd see ML get choked. They have a really good back-and-forth going on, that's why i preferred her to be ML's endgame rather than Mikoto. Whoever Saiko's actress is, imma have to look that up, she's so cute!!! She's like an amalgamation of Adora because of the hair, Kim Jiwon because of the nose and eyes, also Seoyeon from fromis_9.
The one i was impressed with the most was Takauji, because in the beginning he's just this good "innocent" person who's really keen to protect her step-sister, no matter how his uncle sways him, but again because of ML's greed you'll start to see him become the villain that he didn't want to be. His sole job to protect his sister became an obsession in turn he's forced to do bad things and it's just sad to see.
I don't really have much to say about Mikoto, she's okay. In the beginning, i preferred her for ML but because she's just being used by ML you'll start feeling sad for her, though it was true still that ML actually managed to love her a little.
I had a lot of curiosities about the intricacies of the power and It was funny when my curiosity actually happened if the time leap would still actually work if it was girl to girl HAHAHA, the same thing as well if it was Man to Man, that was super hilarious. They managed to answer everything as well as if they could actually return years later, though only in words, not in practice.
Overall, Good Story, Great Character Writing. I rate it 9.5 because I'm bitter about the ending HAHAHAHA but in my heart, it's 10/10.
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