Kahogo no Kahoko - 2018 Love & Dream (2018)

Stupidly, I watched this SP to the unmitigatedly abominable series in the vain hope that it would somehow be better. That thinking was as annoyingly insane as Kahoko's monstrously maliciously mental Mother. If this Drama is "all about family", the message it's trying to convey is "don't have one, or be part of one, ever. You'll regret it"

The whole series and SP were manic and OTT and relentlessly awful. The Drama at least had the redeeming feature of the titular lead's own growth from 22 year old child to functioning adult, but sitting through all 11 episodes (inc this SP) is, perhaps ironically, enough to reduce sane viewers to gibbering wrecks.

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I finished the original Overprotected Kahoko series earlier today (I'M IN LOVE WITH IT), and in my eagerness to consume more media about this wonderful cast of characters, I immediately jumped into the special. And I have to unequivocally say that I am Not in love with the special. In fact, it's not only not worth watching, it almost tainted my feelings for the original series.

It's not that the special is necessarily terrible. It's just........not exactly good either. The characters are still the same, and the situations are (mostly) in line with something you might expect them to go through (although there were a few things that had me side-eyeing), but because the writer doesn't have the luxury of ten episodes to really flesh things out, the whole thing ends up feeling very rushed and incomplete. I think if this had been a ten episode season 2 instead, it probably could have been just as good as the original season as all the necessary ingredients are there. But as it is, it's just a disappointment.

Overprotected Kahoko (the original series) has officially made it into my top ten favorite Asian dramas of all time, so I definitely recommend watching it, but I would suggest skipping this special. It's a waste of time.

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