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I've seen manhwa adoptions before (both with actors, as well as in animated form). Some better than others but when I stumbled over this one on my prime account, I dropped my viewing plans and cleared my schedule and watched the first 3 episodes (hours).

I don't know if it's the score (music), the scrip (that looks like it holds hand in hand with its source (love that 👌) or if the actors, direction or lighting and stylist had a finger in making this magical. Perhaps all of the above because it just CLICKED for me. I got swept off into the story, it took me where I first went in the manhwa and I couldn't say any negatives about it,

Sure, Su-min doesn't have her "pink'ish" hair, nor does a-hole of the year not his brown'ish hair but the actors ARE these characters. I have NO trouble believing them or notice who is who from a glance since the behavior (dirty or sweet) shines through everyone of the main cast.

Deep respect for the actors here. Not sure if they read the manhwa and laughed, cried and raged at some characters and that's why they are so incredibly adjusted to just BE THEM! But everyone had me mimic their faces. I was so caught up in it! Sumin pouted and I wondered why my brows hurt: I was glaring at her while at the same time "mirrored" her pout because I was so deeply invested into it.

When our heroine cried, feared or raged internally I "felt" all those emotions and was sobbing at several points, to the point that I had to apologize to the rest of the house that I just found a REALLY GOOD series, so that's why there is cheering, shouting and crying 😅

Needless to say, I cannot speak highly enough for this.

I know some will take issue with the lack of hair color on a few character, however I understand and have to respect the different culture of "blending in" rather than looking like a peacock in between shoots (or have horribly wigs that fans would perhaps also fault them for).

I cannot remember if I laughed this much when watching Meg1 on HBO, but watching this one, was time well spent.

The primary character are well acted, the tension is high (though I was highly distracted by the girls tiny buns on her head 😅) and the humor delightful. As I said, I don't recall how serious the first movie was but it's CLEAR this movie doesn't take itself too seriously and I LOVE THAT.

While they could have gone for drama instead to chop up the parts with tension (pun intended) it was nice to get some smiles out of it. Especially Mr Wu Jing delivered comedic relief to perfection. I nearly cried with laughter at some points.

All in all, it has both excitement and ginormous sharks plus drizzled with family bonds (especially the one you choose) so I'm kinda baffled as to why this has such a low rating.

Minor negatives: the last two stars is taken away due to minor details:

• Kinda off kilter plot-points (a little)
• Bad CGI on... eh, "something" (that's a sorta-spoiler, so..)
• And a few minor characters who were stiff in their delivery (it was pretty bad IMO)