WARNING: The following statements are my opinion and don't take anything I say as a personal insult to you. Please gtfo trolls.
Itazura Na Kiss, if you have never heard of this manga than you haven't been living in shoujo manga universe for long. This ever popular manga was written by the Mother of shoujo manga cliches, Tada Kaoru. Unfortunately, when moving house, she got into a terrible accident that lead to her death; leaving this manga incomplete forever~
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This didn't stop it from having an anime, a J-movie, a T-drama and now a K-drama.
I personally haven't watched the Japanese movie so I can't make a judgement on that but I can make a judgment on the other two. The only reason why I'm doing this now is because I heard these girls say :
I like Playful Kiss, it's so cute. I don't like the Taiwanese version. The characters don't look too appealing. It's bad, don't watch it
This statement rendered me speechless...
In my mind at the time:
Are you kidding me? It Started With A Kiss is really good. Don't make judgements on something you haven't even watched
Hence why I'm not doing an evaluation of the J-movie.
Here are a list of Pros and Cons for the K-drama.
Red means it's an invalid and nonsensical reason
Pros:
- It's a new updated version of this great story
- Kim Hyun Joong is pretty hot XD
- Jung So Min is pretty
- You can tell money was put into this
- There are really cute moments
- Made it their own drama
- The rival looks exactly like the manga/anime character
It's Korean therefore it's good-
The Taiwanese one sucks
- The actors aren't very experienced
- No immediate chemistry
- Kisses weren't passionate
- The beginning was boring
- The dream sequences weren't really funny as they put too much into it
WTF BUT KIM HYUNG JOONG IS IN IT
T-drama
Pros:
- The actors are experienced
- Obvious chemistry
- Kept true to the manga in most parts
- Ariel Lin acts like a bumbling idiot but funny at the same time; she doesn't get extremely annoying
- Joe Cheng acting shows that his character has some humane qualities that are stubbly noticed
- The mum is so funny
- The rival is sweetishly annoying
- The Beginning made me crack up and drew me in
- The dream sequences felt somewhat realistic
- Made it there own drama; funny twist at the end XD
- The rain scene was O_O
- They were actually kissing
- It's somewhat outdated (but I personally love it)
- Second series wasn't very good
OMG THEY'RE SO UGLY/UNAPPEALINGK-dramas are better
Of course I'm a bit biased...
Don't get me wrong I watch and listen to Korean stuff but Playful Kiss didn't do it for me.
Let's compare the first kiss scene which was a vital part of the story:
Can you see the difference?
No I mean the t-drama had more emotion conveyed.
Well I'll leave you with an ISWAK mv