Also known as: Suddenly July, Ha Roo Found by Chance, Suddenly One Day, A Day Found by Chance, July Found by Chance, 어쩌다 발견한 하루
Episodes: 32 (but they are 30 min long and were aired in pairs)
Cast: Kim HyeYoon, Rowoon, Lee JaeWook,
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Manhwa
quick points about the show.
found the plot very original
you’ll want to hate a charecter but you won’t
loved the aesthetic and visuals
had me on the edge of my seat
I cried a couple of times
there’s (a kind of) reincarnation involved
based on a webtoon named July Found By Chance by Moo Ryu that you can read HERE
As everyone knows, every prestigious highschool has their own Popular Guys Squad, and this high school has A3, which is formed by Oh Nam-Joo (Kim YoungDae), the leader, Baek Kyung (Lee JaeWook) and Lee DoHwa (Jung GunJoo). Girls want to date them and boys want to befriend them. Eun DanHo (Kim HyeYoon) is Baek Kyung fiancé, but it seems as it is a one-sided love since Baek Kyung can’t stand her.
Eun DanOh suffers from a heart disease, and when she experiences some short-term memory loss and seems as she can see the future, she confuses them as some of her syndromes. But they aren’t.
Little does she know the future she thinks she sees is in fact the storyboard of the comic their whole life is. Not only that, she also discovers she is not the main character of the comic but an extra.
The main plot of the comic is one of many clichés: poor girl – Yeo JooDa gets a scholarship to the most prestigious high school and the hot popular guy Oh NamJoo, who doesn’t care about girls, falls for her, but she is not that into him. And as always, there’s also another popular guy who likes her (love triangle enters the room), who is nicer to her, but as every cliché story, you just know they won’t end up together.
Eun DanOh’s only purpose on the comic, as an extra, is to be the one who always defies Oh NamJoo to support Yeo JooDa. But when she learns that the author has planned her heart disease to be terminal, she’ll do anything to change it. And it may involve falling in love with who she wants and not who the writer tells her to.
I liked its OST. I was always singing along. It really suits the drama and is really sweet. Here are my favourites:
A Never Ending Story By Stray Kids
(pls don’t miis their live performance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dk-27B5Uzg
You can listen to its OST on Spotify HERE
I watched the show while it was being aired and I DON’T KNOW HOW I SURVIVED NOT BEING ABLE TO WATCH IT ALL AT ONCE!
(from now on there will be spoilers)
Eun DanOh is the highlight of the whole drama. She is pure energy. Far from being that weak girl who needs a saviour and is crying all the time, she really will do anything to change her set-up. Moreover, as nobody seems to remember what actually happens between scenes whatsoever, she will start dancing and singing in the corridors, even mocking people and stamping a statue on the floor tearing it apart. She is energetic and charismatic, completely different from what the author portraits her.
What I also liked about this drama is that the main characters of the comic aren’t the main characters of the drama. And yes, bit cliché, but each story – comic and drama – has its own love triangle.
Those who gain self-awareness make fun of all the clichés the author is drawing and are really tired of them all. They might be in scene saying their lines and when it ends, the ones that are self-aware burst out laughing at how absurd the situation is.
THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS AND THOSE CHARACTERS YOU DIDN’T EVEN THOUGHT COULD GAIN SELF-AWEARNESS, DO. It enables the show to explore even more both worlds, and you can really relate to the characters trying to figure out who they really are.
As it is all the world of a comic, there are a lot of scenes when a sudden music or spotlight appears to add dramatism, which only those who know the truth can see, which makes the scene even more ridiculous.
There is a really beautiful friendship between Eun DanOh, Haru and Lee DoHwa. And at the last episodes, I really felt sorry for Baek Kyung and part of me wanted him to be with Eun DanOh.
The cast was soooo cool. I really liked their acting even though they are rookies. I previously watched Kim HyeYoon on SKY Castle and was really amazed at how different both characters are. She did a really good job on both dramas.
I have enjoyed this drama so much that I have started reading the Webtoon. I don’t know if there are any major changes on the plot but I am enjoying it so far.
I give this Kdrama an 8/10.
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