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sweetsorrow18
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Group Eight, the producers who butchered adapted Hana Yori Dango into the hot mess that was Boys Before Flowers, is adapting another popular Japanese manga for Korean television: Itazura na Kiss, or Playful Kiss, which was turned into an anime series as well as the Taiwanese drama It Started With a Kiss.
(Waits for manga/anime/Tdrama fans to stop swearing angrily.)
Normally, I'd be all for a kdrama adaptation of what sounds like a cute romantic trendy drama, but Group Eight has pretty much lost its credibility with me after Boys Before Flowers. Not that I didn't enjoy watching it, but it was nowhere near what it could, and should, have been. Group Eight is often mentioned as producing Goong, but that's not strictly true (there was that production company split with Group Eight and Eight Peaks). The titles that Group Eight can claim as exclusively theirs are Fantasy Couple (okay) and Goong S (highly disappointing). On the other hand, they're also doing Tamna the Island, which looks promising.
According to Group Eight president Song Byung-joon, the adaptation of Itazua na Kiss is next on their slate after Tamna, and they are currently in the planning stages. The licensing has been finalized and they are currently in the process of finding a scriptwriter. They are aiming to broadcast the series (I'll use the Korean title, ???? ?? or Playful Kiss) next summer.
Song did add that because the original manga never had an official
ending (the writer passed away before finishing the series), the Korean
version of Playful Kiss may choose to make its own, "entirely
different, Korean-style ending." Just as long as nobody dies of sudden
cancer harboring a hidden birth secret, we hope.
What do you guys think??? Will it be as successful at ISWAK?
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have to wait to pass judgement. Usually nothing is ever as good as the original. Even for bbf though most people agree it was entertaining and it started a bbf mania thanks to the f4 eyecandies still the japanese one felt like a total different show. It felt complete.
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