Sparkle Love (2020)

Second time was better

This was the second time I tried this drama. The first time, I couldn't get past Episode 4 because none of the characters were clicking for me. FL wasn't someone I'd actually want to be friends with, the 2ML looked really creepy to me, I was too fixated on the roommate's eyebrows, and I was really, really, struggling and distracted by FL's style. I've said it before but I don't know why Chinese dramas like to dress the FL as either an 8 year old in patent shoes or like a grandmother in frumpy dresses, lace, and frills. I don't know what look they were going for with the FL but how I wish I could dress her!!! It makes me wonder too if the actresses ever say anything about these outfits!!

I was in between dramas so on a whim, I decided to try this again. Once I got through a few more episodes, the FL and ML grew on me as did the other side characters. I ended up enjoying the rest of the drama and it was a good filler for me.

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When Pikachu fell in love..

Nothing profound to see here. Just the usual pure entertainment. A young love, almost innocent love shared between the ML and the FL..

Added a little paranormal element to their love, an electric current flowing through our FL body. A spark, causing an attraction to who ever is affected by it.

After they've gotten over that challenge and still manage to be friends, they eventually fell in love. The latter part of the story was a bit unnecessary, for me. After facing all the obstacles, the FL left the ML without notice? Oh well, they still ended up together. Happy ending for everyone.

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Delightful fluff piece that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy

From start to finish i was smiling. Sure there were parts that were sad like the whole bit where he got framed and later when she had to leave for a while, but while those problems did take a while to be solved our main couple stayed together and in love. The whole typical "for the greater good" breakup didnt happen at least not in the way youd expect it to. And although both were ready to sacrifice for the other they still had such a healthy relationship. Definitely would recommend this show. And its one I will be rewatching. I generally dont have many cdramas I'm willing to rewatch but this is up on my list along with 'You Are My Glory' and 'Meeting You'. Both those had this same fresh healthy happy feeling. Tbh in real life unless its an absolutely unbearably bad situation most couples share their troubles and sort them out together. Thats why i find dramas like this way more relatable and realistic. I'm not one for angst and if you're like me then give this a watch!! You will not regret it. Our main couple has amazing chemistry and a satisfying abundance of screen time. The story is a little fast paced at times which is why i didnt score it a 10 but its not lacking. You will not be disappointed. Plus point all the side couples are adorable and not annoying in the least.

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If pikachu could blast this drama -_-

The sole agenda of writing this review is to deter future watchers like me from watching it. I am amazed as how there were so many positive reviews for this shit show. Okay let me rant.. See I wanted a light fluff drama and chose this. I was not expecting anything and just wanted a simple watch but Oh my God what nonsense I have seen, I wish I could sanitize my eyes. Sometimes I wonder how do they even verbally spell out the scenes..... like director telling the FL "look we have this scene today where you have to go to an office to meet a star and the SML will momentarily go out for some work and you have to break down and cry. Oh but make it look like its his fault.. I mean how could a man ever leave a full grown girl alone and expect to be chosen by her right? Then we will get the hero coming and save the day in a proper securitised building which we won't explain how everyone including the ML breached it because audience watching this wants logic thrown out of the window and THE END"

As you can already sense this drama defies logic, any basic physics knowledge you may ever know and is cringiest to the core.. I have used a lot of my thumb energy trying to fast forward the scenes hoping that it may become better because the starting was decent. The reason for not dropping it was I wanted to explore more of Xia Rui's character who I thought had some angle to it. But that also was ruined by the show. Thanks for that btw. I am more angry at the portrayal of the FL who is weaker than a 10 year old kid rather than the cliches shown. At this point I have accepted chinese dramas as such (heavily rolling my eyes at Love 020). There are VERY rare c dramas portraying women more than a medium of cutesy tagalong for men. Trashing such content to teens who believes in such romance for views HUH!

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Love,attraction, romance

This is the first Chinese drama I love so much I repeat again and again ?❤️ I watch this drama many time in a day love to see their next drama together ❤️❤️❤️their chemistry is full out of 10/10 I am very impressed about this drama and story is excellent.The concept is all very good!Best wishes for upcoming drama .and hope to see again and again with the full enjoyment upcoming drama .
Both the male and female leads act is excellent.thry role their character very well and supporting characters also role very well.
Lots of love from Nepal ????❤️

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From strangers, to enemies, to confidante, to friends and then to lovers <3

I'm re-watching this for the second time, after watching so many of those YouTube vertically filmed shows that are soooooooo heavy with drama, i needed some sweetness, and this was a perfect choice to re-watch. I think I'm also enjoying it more the second time around.

They have such great chemistry, and there romance is soo sweet. I love how they went from strangers, to enemies, to confidante, to friends and then lovers, and i love how there wasn't any issue transitioning into lovers from friends, which i find does have some issues in other dramas that has a similar friends to lovers trope. They are so sweet and affectionate, they make you smile and blush.

PS. I've seen enough to not care about the logic behind the FL's powers haha, so dash that out of an open window, and just enjoy a sweet couple, nothing to be taken seriously, truly a fluffy show to watch

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An irksome female character that makes me want to bang my head against the TV..

it is an injustice to this promising show with a beautiful male lead.

I'll start off with my verbal diarrhea before I go to the good parts.

Weiwei, her character sucks. Surely, I am not the only one who thinks so? The only redeemable quality of Weiwei is her "Pikachu" powers... or is it? Yeah, I get it she got this static electricity condition, she's young, she's had a hard time in high school, yada yada yada... but it's not an excuse to be so dishonest, never forthcoming and always lie. She didn't even treated her friend well, like can you not apologise? Either her character is a total idiot or just likes to string along two guys at the same time. Come on, not all girls are like that you know?

It is insufferable how unfair she treated the ML and SML on the first half of this show. I understand the intent with the love triangle. The show needed some angst, but surely there are other effective less annoying ways to convey this. Her character could have, should have been better.

This was even made worse with her character styling and her overall look. Why is she styled so terribly? I don't understand the need for a bad haircut and frumpy clothes. The styling made her look bad deliberately. And last but not the least, the FL actress. I have seen a lot of dramas and very forgiving on acting... but the actress' performan ce is very "meh".

Now that's out of the way... we need to talk about Zhang Ling He. This upcoming actor is not just a beautiful face, but this man can act. He got a very expressive eyes. I picked up Sparkle Love because of ZLH and watching it in parallel with Maiden Holmes. You wouldn't know he is a new actor based on his performance. He did fairly well in this show, while it wasn't a heavy melodrama, he nailed his scenes. Unfortunately for the FL, being paired to him made her acting look mediocre.

The story is light and fluffy. Its about your usual overbearing jock with personal issues, falling in love with your typical girl with a special condition. And just to make it interesting, they mixed it up with likable secondary characters.

While Zhang Ling He is a total babe and I can watch him for days, I have stopped around episode 16/17, just because I find the FL irksome. I don't think its about the chemistry either, the FL just doesn't have that spark (pun intended), its flat. I haven't had my mojo back to pick it back up and watch, but maybe I will one of these days.

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Electric girl shocks the male lead and they fall in love

Its been a couple weeks since i finished so please forgive me if anything is wrong. For the most part the drama was enjoyable!. Loved how the female lead has a higher level of electricity in her system and when she shocks them they will temporary fall in love with her. Its a cute concept.

This drama was enjoyable up until the last 4 episodes?

Background- female lead body's somehow can conduct electricity, so she tries to stay away from people especially males,. Once she accidentally shocks them the male will temporarily fall in love. lol.
Male lead is super serious hard core just focus on his swimming, he doesnt even have site for girls. The female lead accidentally shocks him and he starts to fall in love with her. The male lead also figures out that the person who saved him from an accident long ago was the female lead. Thus beginning to pursue the girl. At the meantime she tries to use her electricity to help the male lead with physical therapy. He had an accident which he injured his knee. He found out that after kissing the female lead his score for swimming gets better, so he thinks she his medicine.

The story however doesnt just stay sweet, and somehow it develops in a weird way. The last four episodes honestly didnt even need to be there. He ends up going to train for the city's swim team and they are separate. The story is no longer interesting ...

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This was cute. A top university swimmer and a human Pikachu fall in love. After many obstacles, of course. And after he stops being a jerk to her. It's his journey, from a big a-hole to the best boyfriend under the sun. I felt very single after the final episode ?

But really, it's honestly quite the sweet drama. He stops pulling her pigtails rather quickly, once he realizes that he might do everything in his powers to annoy her, true, but he hates it when other people hurt her. And he even enlists his mom to help her. BTW, his mother? Quite an awesome lady, also quite enamored with her son's new lady friend. No bad parents for this main pairing.

He truly is all ride or die for her. At one point, he's even ready to drop swimming, his lifelong dream, simply to protect her. Because if push came to shove, he would always choose her. Who would not love a love like that?

And she! Quite mistrusting of his affections at first, for obvious reasons, considering her powers. But slowly, she lets him in and she lets herself believe that his feelings are genuine and then... then she simply adores him. Their love is so soft and so honest. Once they get together, there are no big fights, no misunderstandings, only love and the need to protect the other from any harm.

I liked this one a lot!

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Cute and Enjoyable Modern Fantasy Romance Drama

I only watched it for Zhanglinghe and the story is cute. The sweet moments are the best part for me. I skipped some parts i don't find interesting especially because sports dramas are not really my cup of tea.The fl is cute not the annoying type which made me really enjoy the show. Zhanglinghe's character is very sweet and funny especially the part when he was first shocked by the fl and ended up mistakingly falling inlove. The school part of the story does not really interest me but it's quite fun. There are some things i really find annoying or hard to watch but maybe it's just me being overly critical to the show. The Osts are quite fine but and pacing is also fast. It's worth binge-watching if you ever want something that is sweet, fun and not stress-free plot.

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Ending became boring

Concept is good, electrifying concept which connected with love stories but love stories last 24 hours and then every couple become normal. Nobody knows what had happened with them yesterday ,whole day . So here the story starts that her friend wants to spend 24hrs with the male lead so she asked her to electrify the environment but accidentally all the time male lead made the eye contact with her and fall for her and did somethings to pursue her which were become some funny scenes but he found that something is wrong with her and then her secrets revealed and he promised to hide this among all and then the two fall with eachother . Their relationships faced some problem and eventually they together solved it .
With them four more love stories went parallel but they were supporting actors so they didn't have much scene but I personally feel they should have some more scenes because they all were good. Among four ,two got okay endings but other two not , so this disappointed me .
Story is good but don't know I except more from the story . Hence not liked much.

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