nisha
australia
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What happens when you forbid love?
Despite the drama being named 'Renai Battle Royale' on here, I'll be referring to it as 'Chastity High' (name on Netflix). Honestly, this was a pretty entertaining watch and worth the time (mostly).
This drama was on my PTW radar and I decided to pick it up (3??) days ago to fill my weekday wasteland, that was dry asf waiting for new episodes of Love Next Door. The premise is really interesting and the plot sounded unique. But, I was STRUGGLING to get through episode 1. I had to leave it and come back to it multiple times but when I finally pushed through, I was hooked.
The story isn't simple. It constantly changes course and there's a new plot twist every episode. A lot of unexpected things happened, but it's not TOO chaotic that you get lost.
The characters are pretty fleshed-out. There is a lot of depth behind every character and a lot of backstory. Arisawa is at first only Love Keeper because she needs money, but Maki brings out a different perspective and she begins to fall in love with him, and they even help a couple for free. Maki's brother Haruto is a mess. He's a cheater, basically a pedophile and overall a mess. He was not taking Ayami seriously. But we find out some of the troubles he has, doesn't make him any better though and I won't symphathise with him. There is a SML and I was confused at first because he seemed to be stalking her with all those photos. But I guess in the end, he's good? The principal, I was expecting her to experience first person trauma about romance, since she's so ANTI-romance but it was her best friend instead. The build up was making it sound like she got pregnant in skl and then the father left her or smth?
The acting is pretty good though and I now have an eye on Ai Mikami. Beautiful and also talented acting!
OVERALL:
This drama isn't a must watch, but it's there if you're bored and need something to fill in time. I got pretty bored around the last episodes NGL, I fast-forwarded through those. 7.5/10, but honestly a 7/10. It deserves 0.5 for good cinematography and an interesting premise.
If you do watch this, I hope you enjoy! :)
This drama was on my PTW radar and I decided to pick it up (3??) days ago to fill my weekday wasteland, that was dry asf waiting for new episodes of Love Next Door. The premise is really interesting and the plot sounded unique. But, I was STRUGGLING to get through episode 1. I had to leave it and come back to it multiple times but when I finally pushed through, I was hooked.
The story isn't simple. It constantly changes course and there's a new plot twist every episode. A lot of unexpected things happened, but it's not TOO chaotic that you get lost.
The characters are pretty fleshed-out. There is a lot of depth behind every character and a lot of backstory. Arisawa is at first only Love Keeper because she needs money, but Maki brings out a different perspective and she begins to fall in love with him, and they even help a couple for free. Maki's brother Haruto is a mess. He's a cheater, basically a pedophile and overall a mess. He was not taking Ayami seriously. But we find out some of the troubles he has, doesn't make him any better though and I won't symphathise with him. There is a SML and I was confused at first because he seemed to be stalking her with all those photos. But I guess in the end, he's good? The principal, I was expecting her to experience first person trauma about romance, since she's so ANTI-romance but it was her best friend instead. The build up was making it sound like she got pregnant in skl and then the father left her or smth?
The acting is pretty good though and I now have an eye on Ai Mikami. Beautiful and also talented acting!
OVERALL:
This drama isn't a must watch, but it's there if you're bored and need something to fill in time. I got pretty bored around the last episodes NGL, I fast-forwarded through those. 7.5/10, but honestly a 7/10. It deserves 0.5 for good cinematography and an interesting premise.
If you do watch this, I hope you enjoy! :)
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