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Anime Review: Romantic Killer

Romantic Killer 12 episodes Anzu's greatest loves of her life are chocolates, video games, and cats. Then one day the wizard Riri confiscates all three and turns her life into an otome game. She must fall in love for her life to go back to normal. I haven't had this fun in a reverse harem anime since My Next Life as a Villainess but it's more fitting to group this with other highschool comedy Ouran High School Host Club and Kiss Him, Not Me . There's a lot of slapstick humor for my liking but Anzu's non-heroine comical forms will make you chuckle. All the forced encounters with the ikemen end up as hilarious.  It went away with the usual isekai otome game that is all the rage right now.  No villainess reincarnation too.  In fact, the reverse happened. It brought the otome game elements into Anzu's life and ditched the isekai part. There's no invisible hand of the game. It's just Riri magically manipulating things much to Anzu's annoyance.  Although

Drama Review: Was it Love? ~ Don't ask me I don't know anymore

No Ae Jung is a single mom and a film producer. She finds herself waist-deep in debt and her only way to pay it back is to produce a movie. And on top of that, these four men will make her life more complicated.  There's the PE teacher, the loan shark, the writer, and the actor. And one of the guys is possibly the father of her daughter.  It started off strong (check  First Impression  eps. 1-4) but as predicted I got bored when it's evident you know how the story will end before it even passed the halfway mark. Heck, it was already obvious from the start. The only thing that is making me come back is the cliffhangers. Still, it is feel-good and entertaining with endearing moments.  The  Korean version of Dreams is a great song choice. It sets an over-all happy mood.  It is four flowers alright (multiple men after her, see  Levels of Reverse Harem ) but it seems forced. They were just keen on the idea of an older F4 trope and decided to make a story from there.  Although it can

First Impression: Kdrama Was it Love eps 1-4 Hooked from first episode

No Ae Jung is a single mom and a film producer. She finds herself waist-deep in debt and her only way to pay it back is to produce a movie. And on top of that, these four men will make her life more complicated.  Okay, I said I was hooked from episode 1 but it was exactly in the last part of the first episode. This drama makes use of cliffhangers effectively. It's just so incredulous though that she will meet again the guys from her past all at the same time. Actually, not all of them. It reminds me of kinda reverse harem drama, Reply 1994 , where it keeps going to the present as the drama is set in 1994 and teases you of who she got married to in the present. (One of the guys in WIL is also in Reply 1994) In Was it Love, we get flashbacks from 14 years ago of who might be the father of her daughter. The past is keeping me on my toes of what really happened. It was not obvious at first but as it goes on I think we know who the father and the main guy is.  Well, I wouldn'

Related/Movie Review: To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Lara Jeans wrote letters to all the boys she've loved before but the letters got sent out to the ALL the guys!

Drama Review: Good Morning Call and Good Morning Call: Campus Days

 Good Morning Call - 17 episodes Nao Yoshikawa finds herself duped into renting an apartment together with one of the top three popular hottest guys in their school, Hisahi Uehara. They must keep this a secret to everyone -- friends, family and school.