Heart Stain (2025)

Cute but uninspiring and forgettable! Same old, same old!

This is cute and everything, but it’s pretty much the same stuff I have seen before. It follows all the typical tropes, so while it's fun to watch, there is nothing to run home about.

Park DoHa and Woohyun had chemistry but it felt very fragmented and lacking in depth.
While they did tried to capture the essence of first-love jitters and the youthful charm that often accompanies the first teenage crushes, it didn’t feel convincing or genuine enough. There wasn't just enough chemistry on the table for me to ignore the plot holes.

As for Woohyun’s crush on his homeroom teacher, it came across more as a plot device than a meaningful subplot. There was little to no emotional depth in that storyline, making it hard for me to care about.
Also, I'm still not sure how or when Woohyun fell for DoHa. The pacing felt off and it seemed like they needed to be together just because there were only two episodes left. The pacing felt all over the place especially in the last 2 episodes.
Honestly all the connections felt very surface-level and superficial.

That said, I did enjoy the friendship between Woohyun and Sori even though their friendship wasn't explored much. The banters were cute.

This is my first time seeing the actors and with what is given, I think they did a decent job. The problem for me was more on how the characters were written than acting here.

Overall, this was enjoyable for a one time watch, but it doesn’t really bring anything fresh or stand out in any way. It's cute but ultimately forgettable in the end.

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