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News Round Up: You Are The Apple of My Eye Korean film remake in the works, new webtoons (Truth Is, They Only Remembered Her and Who's The Baby's Father) upcoming webtoons in print (The Kiss Bet and I Love Yoo)and more!


You Are The Apple of My Eye gets a Korean remake. The movie is headlined by Jung Jin Young (of B1A4/ also in Love in Moonlight and Police University) and Dahyun (of Twice/also in Sprint). Source: Screendaily

The romantic comedy drama centres on a group of friends who attend a private school and all have a crush on the same girl, Sun-ah (Dahyun). Jung will play the only member of the group who claims not have feelings for the popular pupil, but ends up falling for her.

It is based on a 2011 Taiwanese film of the same name, You Are The Apple of My Eye. It was based on the novel, "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years".

Changhua, west coast of Taiwan, 1994. Sixteen-year-old Ko Ching Teng is a pupil at Chingchang High School, along with his pals “Boner”, the serious “Fattie” A Ho, the bragging “Cock Tsao” and the lascivious “Groin”. All have a crush on the brightest student in their class, goody two-shoes Shen Chia Yi, but she is only interested in her studies. When Ching Teng and Boner are caught fooling around in class, Ching Teng is made to sit in front of her and is put under her personal supervision. Chia Yi makes it her personal mission to get Ching Teng interested in taking schoolwork seriously.



You Are The Apple of My Eye also had two Thai adaptations. My Precious movie in 2023 and My Precious TV series which premiered last May 21, 2024. The movie is available on Netflix. (May not be available in all countries)

movie synopsis: Set in 1999, sixteen-year-old Tong and his friends Dong, Bank, Mai, and Pao regularly wreak havoc at school, giving the teachers headaches. As punishment for his prank in the middle of the classroom, Tong has to sit in front of Lin, the smartest and cutest girl in his class. While she is the object of affection for all of Tong’s friends, Tong is on the fence about Lin because he thinks that he is too awesome to like anyone. Nonetheless, the time spent studying together ultimately leads to a deeper bond and the beginning of first love that is impossible to forget, no matter how much time has passed.


Journey To Find True Love cdrama premiered last May 23, 2024 on WeTV. 

Zhou Mo, a 32-year-old vice president of a social software company, is seen as an independent and confident modern woman by her colleagues. To her best friends, she's a little girl with a strong sense of self-worth; and to her boss, she is a capable yet troublesome assistant. However, love doesn't seem to flow as smoothly for her. She meets Jiang Qi, a sweet man much younger than her; Yu Da Zhi, a male chauvinist businessman; and Xia Yu, her minimalist ex. Love, perhaps, is like that: meeting the right person at the wrong time, and the wrong person at the right time. Despite her stumbling journey, she continues to fight through the battlegrounds of love and life. Is marriage a necessity to safeguard love? Is it correct to love someone without the purpose of marriage? What is the true reason for getting married, and is it possible not to marry at all? Can love really not be controlled? Even if she must constantly face challenges, she still wants to find the answers.


Truth Is, They Only Remembered Her started on Tapas last June 9, 2024. (Also on Tappytoon)

Haunted by the horrors of war, Dame Clarence Holton abandons her knighthood and withdraws from the capital, believing her companions will forget their commoner-turned-hero comrade. But her disappearance causes a stir and the crown prince, a genius magician, a loyal priest, and a stoic knight who fought alongside Clarence set out to find her. As she attempts to bury her past, this humble heroine must acknowledge the bittersweet reality of companionship and of those who cherish and remember her.

Who's The Baby's Father premiered on Tapas yesterday (June 26). 

Reeling from the shock of waking up in labor, a woman realizes that she is in the body of Princess Etricia Lette, the anti-heroine of a novel she never finished. The only thing she recalls is that Etricia had countless suitors, so the father of her baby girl, Loustina, is a mystery, but he could be one of four powerful men. Is it the captain of the imperial knights, the prince of a neighboring country, the master of the mage tower, or a descendant of dragons? Who will Loustina call father?

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The Kiss Bet will be in print under WEBTOON Unscrolled. It will be released on February 25, 2025. Source: Laura_a_grace (Mini-review of S1-S4 on June issue of Patreon which is out btw)

It’s senior year and Sara Lin just turned 18. She’s got great friends, a cool Dad (or so he thinks) and a whole lot ahead of her. The last thing she needs is to worry about having her first kiss. But that’s all about to change because her good pal Patrick just challenged her to a bet that will either lead to love, heartbreak or embarrassment…or maybe all three.

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I love Yoo will also be in print under WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic. It will be out on October 15, 2024. (This is not a confirmed reverse harem.)

Dogged by pain and misfortune from the very beginning, Shin-Ae decides she wants nothing to do with people nor anything to do with romance. Although content with her unsocial, boring, loveless existence, her lifestyle is challenged after she ruins an unsuspecting strangers' clothes.


Villains are Destined to Die is back for Season 5 on Tappytoon. Release Date: June 19, 2024 Source: Tappytoon Comic

The game, “Daughter of the Duke, Love Project, ” is a breeze to clear as the heroine, but when playing on hard mode as the hated villainess, Penelope Eckhart, one wrong move could lead to death. To make matters worse, there’s no reset button in sight. Penelope must gain the affection of one of the male leads to clear the game, all in a single playthrough. All five male leads are hard to charm for various reasons, and Penelope is on a time crunch as the game will get exponentially harder to clear once the heroine makes her appearance. Will Penelope be able to safely reach a happy ending? And what will be her reward for clearing the game?



Tao Tsuchiya and Ryota Katayose made their first public appearance after marrying in 2023. They became close after filming Ani ni Aisaresugite Komattemasu. Source: Unleashthegeek and Koreaboo (Check out drama review)

Tachibana Setoka is a high school girl who has bad luck with it comes to love. She has made countless love confessions to various boys in the past, but they were all rejected from the get-go. She has no idea that her brother, Haruka, is actually behind all of it. Will things finally be able to change for the better when she meets a new boy, Chiaki, or when her first love, Takane, turns up out of the blue?

 And I found reverse harem-looking dramas...again!


It's Nothing More Than Love cdrama | Release Date: September 28, 2022 (runtime: 3 mins each)

After working hard under pressure, novelist Lin Xiao Yu, famous for being unlucky in love, faints and wakes up in the world of "True Love". In order to go back to her real life, she must complete the task of finding true love.


Who Stole My Kiss cdrama | Release Date: December 10, 2022 (runtime: 10 mins. each)

This is the story between the "love queen" Han Ting Ting and ace producer Lu Bai. Han Ting Ting is a sweet, cheerful woman who works as a white-collar planner of a love game company, who has never really had much kissing practice. Lu Bai, the business savvy producer, is an ice cube on the outside a warm softie on the inside. What could a stolen kiss between these two possibly lead to?

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