Fun little web drama
This actually wasn't that bad. It's one of those short web dramas on Youku, where the episodes are about 6 mins each. Their Youtube channel compiled all of them into one video with a 2 hour run time.So the drama is about this app where people can order food to change their personality traits/skills. Chi Xiao Yu is a very timid girl, she finds the app, orders all these delicious foods that alters her personality skill to suit the situations she's in, which leads to very hilarious or heart thumping interactions with her boss, Su Yang, who is also hiding a little secret. There is also a price she has to pay for each trait/skill she buys. Such as, the more traits/skills she buys, she starts to lose a trait/skill she was born with.
It's a low budget series, so don't expect much, but the female lead was great. I enjoyed watching her. The drama is cute, funny, there are lots of kisses, but they're all awkward. The male lead is handsome enough, and he does an okay job. The story starts out strong, but starts to lose a little steam by the hour mark, but watching the female lead act out different personalities is very entertaining. There is also a lesson here where they're trying to teach us that people should love us for who we are, don't change yourself for people and quite literally just "Be Yourself" , love yourself, blah, blah, kumbaya. I liked the format they used for when she eats the food to build up whichever trait she wants. If you've ever played any type of RPG game, you'll get it.
It's not a heavy drama, there's angst, it's minimal. BUT there is a drawn out misunderstanding that was really pointless.
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Not bad! Had a great moral to it.
Not a bad drama. This is a keeper for me. It had a great moral to the story.Storyline - was put together not to bad. It ran smooth and got the point across. I liked the romance but that is only what kept part of my interest. The story itself was a lesson to be learned. You need to truly believe in yourself to make things happen. Is it ok to get a little help now and again? Sure but you should never rely upon that help for to long or you can get trapped. I like how the two leads came to this realization. They worked together in the end to help each other achieve their dreams and stopped relying on the “help” they got from the APP. I liked to story.
Acting/Cast - they all did a great job. Was well done. I was rooting for the leads to finally get together and realize they really did love each other. They did a great job and had a happy ending.
Rewatch - yes! I would. It was a good drama with a great lesson to learn with a bit of romance.
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One perfect short drama
Sometimes pick the right short drama is like picking lottery, so many bad thing, but once you found a good one just like hit the jackpot. Haha...This short drama compare to other you can say one perfect little short drama. One short drama that not only offer you complete story (with beginning, middle & end), but also has very good meaningful story to tell. Although of course every drama still has it's minus point, but for me a short drama like this is just hit the perfect point. A little warning, I'm gonna spoiler a little, but still not a big spoiler so I don't think I'll gonna ruin your enjoyment for watching this drama. But if you don't want to spoiler at all, just skip reading my review then...
This drama tell a story about very unconfident woman named Chi Xiao Yu (XY), that often be doormat for the people in her office. The story begin when she found an app that can bring dishes that can change her characteristic, and the first order of course to give her the courage to change her as a doormat at her office. And from that the story go on... Unfortunately the effect from eat the dishes not long, only 15 min if I'm not mistaken & she has to order and eat it again. The interesting part is she's not only order that specific character, but also other character, like became queen of drama romance when she wants to date, etc....
What XY never expected, there's heavy price that she has to pay for the character that she's order. Like in real life, when something to easy, there're usually heavy price that we have to pay to gain it... Yeah in this case, her drawing talent, overtime her talent became worse and worse. And this the little MINUS of this drama, she never realize what make her talent became worse and worse, she just think because she's not practice it. So yeah she just continue practice her skill, while she's also stop ordering the special dishes. So yeah of course her skill become better and better again.
In the other hand turn out our ML, Su Yang (SY), also the customer of the character shop. But him in the other hand, only order 1 special dishes... Can you guess what...? Watch it for know it. Haha... And the heavy price he has to pay is his time & his appetite. He has no time for anything except his business & he can't eat anything except the special dishes he order from the character shop.
Overtime they bring us another price that they have to pay for eating the specialty dish. Our CP, XY & SY, think what the other like about themselves, the actual character of themselves or the character that they got from the character shop. That's also happen to ourselves in real life. When we put too many mask in our face for other to see, we will never gonna know what other person like more about us, the real us or just the mask that we put in our face, that sometimes we put to please other people.
What really interesting is the closure of this drama. Where both XY & SY finally stop ordering from the character shop & finally brave enough to show their real self to other person. Or to take quote from Wang Zhe, the owner of the character shop: "what people really need is the bravery to change themselves."
If you look for any short drama to watch. This is just one prefect short drama to be put into your watch list
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Short and cute
Liked:1) Interesting premise for a storyline, not something we've seen, with fantasy elements.
2) FL was just terrific. I loved all of her different personas.
3) It had a good message. Can someone love the real me?
4) Amusing.
5) The couple was cute together.
6) It's a short time commitment.
Not so much:
1) ML's acting left a lot to be desired.
2) Strange editing. A lot was left out that could have made the story more cohesive. The main couple has had a few conversations and all of a sudden, he's calling her his girlfriend. Wait, when did that happen!?
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What a Fun Web Drama
The story for what I thought would be forgettable, especially for a short-form drama, was actually fun. I didn't have that many expectations since I just came here for FL because this is the shortest drama I saw from her to finish. Immediately I was sold at the end of episode 1 on how uniquely fun it was. There are times in my brain when I would try to logically analyze everything because it's one of those types of story that is heavily reliant on a plot device that's not explained at all and it's just there to create a story. I would be like "No! Shut up brain! I do not want to dig deep into things or else my experience will be ruined". I was surprised for the investors that they didn't take advantage of this because if you tell me that this drama is an advertisement for a Grocery store I wouldn't be surprised about it. This was such a gold mine for product placements and it wouldn't be annoying to look at since it's part of the story. In the end, they tried to explain the intricacies of the plot device, though I don't think they needed to, since the story was already fine without it being explained. It just unveiled the curtain behind the magic which was unnecessary in my opinion.The characters... well, it's mostly about the main couple. They're pretty dynamic as the story goes on. I like their chemistry and the kissing scenes made me squeal every time for how good the usage was. FL is so lucky to have this in her portfolio as a young actress because her character requires a lot of faces and she managed to show the different sides of her. Even though she has that cutesy type of face, I prefer her serious side. I think I'm a fan now. I don't know about her first drama, but I would recommend this as a starter drama if you're getting into her. She did great here. For ML, he's fine. I liked how they balanced his character. He started strong, but when they revealed his plot twist, it kinda ruined it for me a little. It made sense for his character, but lacking in terms of acting. Overall he's good and a cutie as well.
Another minor critique is that the dubbing audio is pretty scuffed at times, but it didn't really deteriorate my watching experience.
So yeah, overall, a fun short drama. I highly recommend it. There's a 2 hours version of it where they stitched all the episodes to make it easy, so give it a watch.
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mini drama con un'anima troppo sottovalutato
Ogni tanto capita di incappare in una piacevole sorpresa e questa è una di quelle volte. Questo mini drama, per quanto lo faccia in maniera forse troppo scoperta, se vogliamo, è una di quelle rare perle che ci fa riflettere su di noi, sulla nostra vita, sulla pressione che la società, intesa come massa dei nostri pari, ci fa, spingendoci a comportarci in maniera contraria a quelli che sarebbero i nostri veri desideri e a quella che sarebbe l'aspettativa che abbiamo per la nostra vita. Per contro, il fatto di mostrare costantemente una maschera a chi ci circonda distrugge la percezione che abbiamo del nostro sé e ci porta tutta una messe di insicurezze perché non siamo più in grado di capire quale sia la persona, la maschera con cui si rapporta il nostro prossimo: saremo simpatici, saremo amati per come recitiamo, per il nostro personaggio, o per come siamo veramente? A questi e ad altri interrogativi da una risposta questa serie , forse in maniera un po' infantile, ma comunque in modo abbastanza intelligente. Gli attori si sono comportati tutti più che bene, sia la coppia principale che è molto carina e piacevole, sia le spalle e i personaggi secondari, che hanno fatto tutti il loro dovere. Ampiamente promosso e consigliato.Was this review helpful to you?
