And by that i mean i ended up chronically addicted to kdramas and random korean stuff beca use of which i spent years hunched over a screen and i got severe dry eye syndrome which i kept doing warm eye compress 'massages' for and rubbing my eyes which later (might have) given me keratoconus and then i had to get surgery done and my eyesight still sucks and my eyes still burn and i cant become a pilot anymore.

But NONETHELESS.
This drama was my entire childhood.
I still remember how i found it. I was a weird child and i was searching up...uhm 'hot kiss scenes' on youtube because that was the closest thing to cornography i knew about,and i accidentally watched this. And I kept watching. And here i AM a decade later.

Controversially id give the acting and cast a 10 tho ill swipe off 1.5 to counter my inherent bias. This is because HANI MY Gworl carried the show. I wouldnt take her any other way. I know people hate her, think shespathetic(they have a point). But theres something so endearing about her. She's cute. The cutest

ugh.

People think she's a stalker?-WHERE??(except for the whole following hera around thing which was...creepy) but other than that she wasn't. that. Stalkeroo.

I watched an episode and flipped through parts of itazura na kiss 2013 which seems more liked, and it irked me how... sober the girl is there. For me what carries the show is the cringe. The consistent and CONSTANT second hand embarrassment you feel for hani. But you still feel for her. her tenacity/patheticness.

itazura 2013 just felt like playful kiss minus all the personality.
As far as I'm concerned playful kiss IS the original. The standard.

Yeah the plot is substandard at best BUT guess what i dont care. They pull it off and i smiled every minute

I thought now that im 'grown', id dislike the show more since everyone else does, but surprisingly i like it even more.
The guy is an insufferable asshole though.

I do hate the last three episodes though. The sudden marriage thing was incredibly stupid and made my rating plummet into the negativesBUT i watched the youtube special season for after their marriage, which more than compensates for that. I thought theyd suck for each other but they set off each other really well and thankfully the boy is less dicque-y. Lemme just act like the last three episodes never happened.

Now that i have 'grown', i do think the mother in law is awful.