#Webtoon Adaptation

[elvencantation]

WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME MARRY MY HUSBAND ALSO GOT A KDRAMA ADAPTATION????

[theomenmedia]

Solo Leveling Gets A Season 2

#SoloLeveling Season 2 is coming! 'Arise from the Shadow' premieres January 2025! Get ready for more action, deeper stories, and epic battles. #SoloLevelingS2 #Anime2025 #SungJinwoo

Link to the full story: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/solo-leveling-season-2-arise-from-the-shadow-premieres-january-2025

[kstarvibes]

"A Good Day To Be A Dog": A Fantasy-Romance Saga

MBC’s “A Good Day to Be a Dog” is captivating viewers with its unique fantasy-romance narrative. Based on a popular webtoon, this South Korean television series offers a distinctive blend of everyday life and fantastical elements. The Intriguing Premise The drama centers around Han Hae Na, a high school Korean language teacher with a peculiar curse: transforming into a dog with a kiss. Jin Seo…

[princessu-sumi]

i want more art for this fandom so i'll make my contribution - here's park moondae!

[lynn-tged-posting]

grown ass man...

[silversailormoan]

Once again I'm procrastinating by making sctir text posts but hey it gives me an excuse to reread the manhwa

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Bump Up Business | S01E01

Korean Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

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~~ Adapted from the webtoon "Bump Up Business" (범프 업 비즈니스) by RK Studio

[ying-doodles]

bringing it up again because frankly it ticks me off every time but lloyd is not "canonically" ugly- that is a webtoon only joke that went way too far and got old immediately after the first time,,

the most the novel ever goes in terms in lloyd's appearance is lightly teasing him that he's plain looking in comparison to javier and that's it!

[0fps]

The Noah Wynknight smile. It's an impartial smile, but it means, “I don't understand the nonsense coming out of your mouth.”

[asteriass]

The progression of the “Villainess” trope

Y'know, thinking about it, it's very ironic how a trope made to subvert one's expectations & give more depth to 1 dimensional villains in cliche novels by "humanizing" them more & providing their side of the story, eventually became oversaturated with cartoony villains & flat MCs. Thus, completely failing in its goal to "subvert expectations" as it too turned into mind numbing cliche, becoming the exact opposite of what the troupe initially aimed to achieved.

I am talking about "Villainess" series.

I remember seeing a twitter post a while back saying how a lot of the villainess stuff the authors & studios are putting out nowadays lack any sort of nuance when it comes to its characters. And how a lot authors simply switch the roles of the cast (Like: OG MC -> villain | OG villain -> MC) & call it a day. And I 100% agree with that.

This troupe kinda ended up becoming the dictionary definition of the saying, "You either die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” lmao

What could've been an opportunity to write nuanced villains & morally ambiguous main characters, turned EXACTLY into the cliche it was pocking fun at.

In an attempt to reveal how the MCs of your typical cliche novels can also be in the wrong at times, flaws that the story & its (in-canon) fandom may purposefully ignore, the villainess stories ended up doing EXACT SAME thing EXECPT this time it's the "villains" doing it rather than the OG FL or OG ML of the “OG novel”. In an attempt to stop cliche villains from remaining cliche, while we did ended up getting slightly more nuance for the “OG villain” characters, in the process, the OG MCs turned exactly into those flat cliche villains.

Alot of villainess series poke fun at the troupes they themself use, but not in a satirical way.

So many villainess series poke fun at the OG novels for being problematic or stupid & the fandom of said novels basically ignoring its flaws & problems, only gushing over the OG FL. Which yea, is nice & all, but y'know... that's exactly what those villainess series do too. SO MANYY of them borderline have the FLs participating in literal slavery. & More often than not have a borderline colonizer ML. Not to mention the numerous which carry weird undertones of colorism, and many such other things. All the while, the fandom of these villainess series continue to ignore their glaring problems & flaws & instead just gush over the FL and ML.

And I'm not even saying this in a hating sort of way (well, aside from the series with issues of colorism, orientalism, etc). Moreover, this is all not to say that one can not enjoy such stories, because admittedly, there is indeed fun in just reading a simple and familiar story line. But this is all more me being intrigued by this trope’s almost ironic progression as companies rush their staff to produce something which they think will be able to ride the waves of the current trends, only for the vast majority to simply drown in a sea of mediocrity (with many even being canceled due to this)

[Though I mean, something as simple as villainess tropes won’t be the only one to go through this. Like a lot of Shakespearean works, a subversion of the classics & typical troupes back then, got turned into ones of those classics and by many are now considered cliche. And that's just scrapping the bottom of the barrel!]

[milkbreadtoast]

god I love how silly the TWSB webtoon makes Jesse.... like he's already silly in the novel but the webtoon just cranks it up to 11 😭😭😭 like even when theyre just following the plot and jesse's not even doing/thinking anything that funny they use this opportunity to make him look extremely dorky... i lose my mind at these panels like they didnt have to do any of this but they did😭

and the funny thing is jesse's the one narrating in the novel so he doesnt know what he looks like.... SO HE COULD ACTUALLY BE LOOKING THIS STUPID AND BRO JUST HAS NO IDEA😭😭😭🤭

[ra1nrei]

twatf is also getting an anime adaptation. I hope they animate jaehwan majestically as well. we will get to see a cameo of kdj and other orv characts in twatf.

[princesandromeda]

The fact that this absolute parasite of a man recycled his proposal speech and managed to hit the head of the nail with both girls because they were both vulnerable and had desire for a family… or he would've if Jiwon hadn't had knowledge of the future.

Park Minhwan, you absolute scumbag of a human being. Not only are you a sexist, inferior-complexed, gymbro, cryptobro cheating man, BUT ALSO UNCREATIVE?

ofc there's also a lot to say about Sumin. Despite how satisfying it is to see her reap what she's sowed for decades (and would have continued to sow had Jiwon not stood her ground), it's… kind of hard to not feel pity for her. Especially after Minhwan's "you're only a pretty face" comment since she's probably been compared to Jiwon for her grades her whole life.

I really like how they're portraying Sumin's abusive childhood in this adaptation, because while it does not justify at all any of her scummy actions, it ties to her attention-seeking tendencies, and her obssession with being the only human being Jiwon ever needed.

ok that's it for tonight, let's see what next week brings.

[kuruk]

don't ever read or watch anything I talk about on here I will kill you

[mikey-way-enthusiast]

UM…??

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A Breeze of Love | S01E08

Korean Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

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