This will be kind of a double review; Age of Youth and Age of Youth 2. I didn't write one for Age of Youth because I feel like I had to watch the second season and gather all my thoughts in one go to see how I really feel about the show as a whole.

When I started the show I wasn't sure because recently I've had a bad streak with slice-of-life dramas but I stuck with this one and I'm very glad I did because there was not a single character I didn't like and I genuinely loved the whole main casts line and also the supporting cast.

I don't really do well with drama with 5 main characters because sometimes it could get too full and cramped but the script wrote each and every character well and spread them throughout the story while intertwining them all.

First off Yoo Eun Jae, In season 1 she was played by Park Hye Soo and I loved her whole vibe since she played the shy introverted pure-hearted very well. Even though I'm a male I emphasised with Eun Jae the most as we have similar personalities. That was why in season 1 she was my favourite character. Her whole storyline in season 1 was very interesting as she had a love life and a childhood trauma that haunted her to her young adult days. In season 2 they replaced her with a new actor to Ji Woo, I'll be 100% I didn't like Ji Woo as much as Hye Soo. I felt like Ji Woo looked unnatural playing the shy character and I felt like the script tried to show that she grew and developed as a character but at times it was quite jarring to watch. Her storyline in season 2 was quite boring as it was basically her trying to win back her boyfriend from season 1 which she eventually gives up in the latter half of season 2.

With Jung Ye Eun, in season 1 she was the classic college girl in the share house, she had a boyfriend wore all bright colours and had a cheery personality which I personally really liked. Ye Eun by the end of season 1 went through quite a lot as she became a victim of relationship violence and ultimately had to undergo therapy and was scared to go outside from the fear of something might happen to her. In season 2 she became a timid character when she went outside but when she was with people she trusted she became herself again. In season 2 Ye Eun became my favourite character as she goes through a really tough storyline and her character develops as she gains her confidence back. The actress Han Seung Yeon who played Ye Eun just seemed to play her perfectly and was very natural. Her relationship with Kwon Ho Chang was very cute as they were opposites but they were attracted with each other as they have similar experiences and Ye Eun needed to meet a sweet person and she got that out of him.

Yoon Jin Myung was very much the mother of the house, everyone looked up to her as an older sister and respected her. Her story in season 1 was interesting as we see that she is not well off and has multiple part-time jobs to support herself financially as she had to pay college debts and also her mom's debts. Han Ye Ri played Jin Myung very well and just fit the role really well. I felt like she had the hardest time out of everyone else as she was the oldest so getting a job and becoming settled in life was her goal as she didn't go to college. In season 2 she gets a job at an entertainment company in which in my opinion was a weird job for her personality but she did meet a great person who is like a little brother to her because of it.

Song Ji Won is what every share-house needs. She was eccentric, loud and positive which at times kept the overall mood on the house positive. Her story wasn't really delved deep in season one which was a good thing because her story kicked off in season 2 and was very interesting and I felt like it would've made season 1 too jam-packed. Song Ji Won is played by Park Eun Bin and I've seen her other works and I must say this was perfect casting as she was just pure entertainment in every scene she was in. In season 2 we see she still her same chipper self but with the addition of the mystery of what happened in her childhood, It was actually quite fucked up once we find out what happened to Moon Hyo Jin and I'm glad it came to light in the end.

Kang Yi Na was a very intriguing character as she was a very bold and confident person. In season 1 her story was sometimes heavy because she had the backstory of that event in which she was the sole survivor and then met the father of a child she knew without realising who it was. She also had the term "prostitute" thrown at her as Ye Na called her that because she had multiple boyfriends and got money from them. Ryu Hwa Young has the perfect image for Yi Na as I couldn't see any of the other housemates have her role. I liked how she didn't take any shit from no one and even though she had arguments with her friends she always defended them and had their backs which I really liked. She wasn't present for the majority of Season 2 as she only had cameos. But every time she was on screen the scene she was in was never boring for a second, episode 1 was probably one of my favourite episodes with her in.

In season 2 we got the addition of a new housemate Cho Eun. She first came off as a standoff-ish tomboy who didn't want to associate herself with the group but the more she mingled with they she saw the good in them and started to warm up to them and show that inside she is a cute and sometimes timid girl. Choi A Ra plays Cho Eun in which this was her acting debut and shes not been in anything since but I really wish we could see more of her. Her friendship with Ye Ji was complicated as people thought they were lesbians as they were too close but in the end, they brushed over this topic and the two friends eventually drifted apart so if we get a season 3 they will make that a plotline.

The OST was surprisingly good as I never skipped the opening to the show as it was just such a catchy song. The other OST throughout the seasons were also good, with Age of Youth OST being slightly better than Age of Youth 2.

Overall this show was a nice breath of fresh air as recently I've been watching quite serious shows so I needed a light-hearted slice-of-life coming of age drama. If you're looking for a drama in which is a female main cast in which explores the different stages of life with each of them then I recommend this show as it also has some good laughs that come with it.