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Aug 7, 1:10 PM
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The premise of this anime really turned me off, but the execution is pretty charming so far. This will be my second anime in Korean (as opposed to dubbed into Japanese). As with the last one, the music is fantastic. And speaking of music, I can't express how much I love that the protag is a metal fan. Here's hoping the series stays charming.
Aug 7, 1:55 PM
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I'm not loving the voice acting for now I think. And I've watched the kdrama so I keep expecting the same voices 😅 I like the adaptation so far!
Aug 7, 2:19 PM
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This is likely gonna be the first Korean animated series I’ve ever seen
Aug 7, 2:33 PM
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So who knows anything about the OP? Sounds good, maybe I need to move from Jpop to Kpop?
Aug 7, 2:38 PM
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I read the Webtoon, so I know what to expect in terms of the story, and I gotta say the pacing so far is quite fast. Also, I can't help but find the cast for VAs kinda unbearable, but maybe it'll grow on me. Other than that, it's pretty okay thus far, it does look good visually.
Aug 7, 2:40 PM
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I'm not loving the voice acting for now I think. And I've watched the kdrama so I keep expecting the same voices 😅 I like the adaptation so far!
@slayra I didn't like the voice acting for the main character either :(
Aug 7, 2:41 PM
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I read the Webtoon, so I know what to expect in terms of the story, and I gotta say the pacing so far is quite fast. Also, I can't help but find the cast for VAs kinda unbearable, but maybe it'll grow on me. Other than that, it's pretty okay thus far, it does look good visually.
@Moiloru Honestly, same
Aug 7, 3:07 PM
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Animation is fine, but not liking the pace at all. Literally jumping from one scene to another without any clear plot. Kinda disappointed after watching the kdrama and reading the webtoon ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ
Aug 7, 4:10 PM
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Watched the PV and can't stand the girl's voice...call me if they redub in Japanese.
Aug 7, 4:26 PM

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I'm not loving the voice acting for now I think. And I've watched the kdrama so I keep expecting the same voices 😅 I like the adaptation so far!
@slayra Me too, why Jukyung voice sounds like a grandma and like a child at the same time? lol
Aug 7, 4:30 PM

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Animation is fine, but not liking the pace at all. Literally jumping from one scene to another without any clear plot. Kinda disappointed after watching the kdrama and reading the webtoon ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ
@Oishy_14 I think the same. I didn't like the webtoon because the author kept pushing the series with new conflicts just to keep earning more money or something but the drama is one of my favourites (I even started watching kdramas after that lol) and is disappointing how the series is so rushed, and childish? Even the bullying didn't look like a big deal here while Jukyung tried to f**ng jump from a building in the drama series LOL And I liked how they expanded the story of her family members also.
Aug 7, 6:19 PM
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Somehow this felt almost like it was going to be a Girl's version of Viral Hit for a few moments. LOL
Aug 7, 8:03 PM
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as a webtoon reader who watched the disaster that was the kdrama adaptation.... this was somehow worse
Aug 7, 8:24 PM
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is this the first anime made by a korean animation studio?
Aug 7, 11:16 PM

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is this the first anime made by a korean animation studio?
@AmeKnite Actually, no. There's plenty of Aeni (Korean name for animation) that were also created by Korean studios. But I'd admit that they're mostly missed marks nearly everywhere (story, art, and dubbing specifically) and rarely released, it's hard to find great aeni tbh.

Dunno if this correlates to the issues I've said earlier, but animation adaptation were outsourced/created by Japanese and Chinese studios lately.

Also oddly, Korean aeni in recent years, they spams BL instead bruh.


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Aug 7, 11:20 PM
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PinkkMoonn said:
as a webtoon reader who watched the disaster that was the kdrama adaptation.... this was somehow worse

Calling the kdrama a disaster is a lot, and this anime adaptation is not even a disaster, is way worse than that
Aug 7, 11:51 PM
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Does anyone know if it’s going to get an English dub?
Aug 8, 12:01 AM
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I am gonna wait till it complete
Aug 8, 1:24 AM
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So who knows anything about the OP? Sounds good, maybe I need to move from Jpop to Kpop?
@FutoiOtaku Kpop is fantastic, but why abandon Jpop? Listen to both, my friend!
Aug 8, 3:37 AM
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weird voice actress
Aug 8, 4:06 AM

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Can't believe they decided to ditch the fundamental parts of the story (heavy bullying/trauma) to make it a pretty people romcom.
Aug 8, 4:08 AM

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So who knows anything about the OP? Sounds good, maybe I need to move from Jpop to Kpop?
@FutoiOtaku It's called My Hightlight, by Jo Yuri, former member of the legendary girl group IZ*ONE and now soloist :)
Aug 8, 4:23 AM
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WerewolfAshen said:
@FutoiOtaku Kpop is fantastic, but why abandon Jpop? Listen to both, my friend!

Wording… ok, maybe I’ll expand in the kpop direction then…
Aug 8, 4:23 AM
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@FutoiOtaku It's called My Hightlight, by Jo Yuri, former member of the legendary girl group IZ*ONE and now soloist :)

Thanks, off to find that now!
Aug 8, 5:40 AM
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lystral said:
PinkkMoonn said:
as a webtoon reader who watched the disaster that was the kdrama adaptation.... this was somehow worse

Calling the kdrama a disaster is a lot, and this anime adaptation is not even a disaster, is way worse than that

The drama was horrible imo, (from acting to plot) but to each their own.
I agree the anime is absolutely worse. I hate the voice acting, although it's cool that it's in Korean and not Japanese. With how rushed it is... ugh.
Plus, with both the kdrama and anime, it seems everyone is scared to make Jugyeong a character that isn't conventionally attractive without makeup. Which is what plays into the whole "learning to love yourself" theme, but whatever😭
Aug 8, 8:19 AM
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So far the only good thing is yuri’s opening song 😵‍💫
Aug 8, 1:33 PM
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Does anyone know if it’s going to get an English dub?

it is. Crunchyroll did say so.
Aug 8, 3:38 PM

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It's been a while since I watched an Aeni, and although the premise isn’t something entirely new, I liked the pacing. I don’t understand what’s going on with the excessive bullying in Korean schools. I know that in Korea, using makeup in schools or among men is very normalized, but I think a large amount of foundation would be noticeable unless the makeup tutorials the protagonist watched were magical and made her look natural.

As for the OP and ED, they weren’t too bad, but they gave me the strange feeling of an intro to a pre-teen Disney or Nickelodeon series
Aug 9, 3:55 AM
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I read the Webtoon, so I know what to expect in terms of the story, and I gotta say the pacing so far is quite fast. Also, I can't help but find the cast for VAs kinda unbearable, but maybe it'll grow on me. Other than that, it's pretty okay thus far, it does look good visually.
@Moiloru I also found the pacing to be way too fast! Didn’t really allow us to connect with the main girl
Aug 9, 11:04 AM

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Oishy_14 said:
Animation is fine, but not liking the pace at all. Literally jumping from one scene to another without any clear plot. Kinda disappointed after watching the kdrama and reading the webtoon ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

ikr? 😭
I've been hoping this would get a anime, but kinda a disappointing start with the pacing 😭 and they changed the keychain she drops to a earbud? :/ (if I remember correctly)
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Aug 9, 6:38 PM
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This is some like Disney channel garbage and the voice acting isn't good. The message is terrible too but I guess it makes sense from the plastic surgery capital.
Aug 11, 4:44 PM
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its very fast paced, which is kinda expected since it's being adapted into an anime, but it's too fast. And they changed some tiny details like the earbud she lost in the store. other than that its a cutesy type of show so far
Aug 12, 7:51 AM
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another trash ass webtoon where the enitre premise is about looks is everything, female version of lookism
Aug 12, 11:58 AM

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I know is different but the drama adaption (aka the live action) is better showing the bullying of the main character. This animated adaption is too fast in my opinion showing the beginning of the story.
Aug 12, 7:21 PM
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another trash ass webtoon where the enitre premise is about looks is everything, female version of lookism
@TheSekiryuutei That's more or less what I expected from the premise, and I almost didn't watch it as a result. Even when I decided to give it a chance, I expected to give up in disgust 5 minutes in, but I didn't. In fact, from the episode I actually got the impression it was going to end up with a different message completely. We'll see, but I'm hoping it won't turn out like you say.
Aug 13, 7:26 AM

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I found this first episode way too fast! The messages of the K-Drama are completely forgotten and the dubbing is really disastrous. It's a real shame because the animation and the character design are magnificent and the opening and the ending are adorable!
Aug 13, 10:45 AM

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TophSmash said:
the voice acting isn't good.


I'm having a hard time deciding if the voice acting is bad, or just the sound mixing. The characters are way too softly spoken. I'm not sure if I even understood Korean if I could hear what they are saying. The dialogue stood out to me as bad though...
Aug 19, 2:46 PM
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It had a different feel to it for sure.

Much more like moving pages than a normal anime production.

A novel stylistic choice for sure. Guess we will have to see how they pull it off.
Aug 27, 2:38 PM
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some people really like wasting money, I never thought they would adapt something like this, except for real children's shows, I think any shoujo is a worthless piece of shit and that's no different than what I think about shonen, when something is made only for a single certain genre I already think that the author's biggest objective is not to create something good but just to use this appeal to gain a certain fame, the story of this rubbish is horribly shallow, the kdrama was shit, the manhwa was shit , the anime WON'T be any different from this even if it has the best animation in the world, the whole plot of this doesn't exist, it's just about a girl who wears makeup and attracts 2 pretty boys, why is something like this so targeted? people are crazy
Aug 28, 5:29 PM
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Lots of negative sentiment here. I watched this and thought it was decent. I'll continue to watch as well.
Aug 29, 6:16 AM

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Please don't be offended, I am honestly asking, because I don't know, and I would like someone who does know to help me understand please

So South Koreans (I think?) do not like Horror Stories & Metal Music?
They really look down on it as weird?

South Koreans (I think?) call a girl with glasses, freckles, a reddish complexion, and has her hair in a ponytail ugly?
Do they have extremely high beauty standards?

In my opinion, the female MC is not an ugly duckling, plus the insult of calling her a "dumpling" does not seem to fit, she might be short (it is hard to tell), but she is not plump.

This show's premise does not work, if the female MC, from the start of the show, is cuter than the girls bullying her and almost all the girls at the new school.

Other than her grades needing to be worked on, I don't see what is so bad about this female MC, she is better than the students at her previous school.

And I do see things very wrong with those awful bullying girls at her previous school that lied about the situation, the parents that spoil their kids, and the previous school for expelling her.


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Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.

Aug 29, 6:53 PM

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I was very curious about this anime before watching it... the charadesign, the story, and then the op (which I really appreciated)... And then, I heard the voice acting... and it was like a mirror was shattered in my head :/ I love japanese, but this language here is definitely not my type ^^'... Im disappointed, but as long as it's not a japan dub, I'm gonna have to let this one go... ^^'
Sep 16, 5:45 AM

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Damn... I read the webtoon years ago when it first came out on webtoon, so I don't remember much anymore. But wow, everything is happening so fast. At first, I even thought it was a Chinese adaptation, but wow, it's a Korean anime adaptation!? Even the dub is in Korean. 😲 This is my first time watching a Korean-dubbed anime lol
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Sep 18, 3:38 PM

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Literally distorted Hannah Montana on crack
Oct 11, 7:39 AM
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kdrama was good, although cha eun-woo's acting was a bit bad there. I'm gonna give this anime a try for the sake of kdrama
Oct 13, 2:53 PM

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shes so real. also rip crunchyroll comments
Oct 26, 8:37 AM

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First Korean series I have watched. I enjoy reading webtoons, and like the artstyle of the show. I don't think that I am the target audience for this show tho. The drama is a bit juvenile. and over the top.



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