Love Phantom ep 1
Okay Renn, I love you, I really do, but I don't think I'm gonna survive watching 9 more episodes of this drama lol (if I'm not mistaken, there should be 10 episodes??). I mean aside from the fact that I'm still not used to watching you doing kiss scenes even though you're seriously good at it (I mean after OjiKawa, AoVam and Colorful Love which are the very definition of wholesome, it would take some time for me to be comfortable watching you in a drama with LOTS of kiss scenes), the story is just.... not my cup of tea (I can even say stories like this is my least favorite). I actually read the first chapter of the manga months ago as I got curious about this new role of yours and I seriously cringed and didn't bother reading more chapters anymore hahaha (no offense to people who enjoy stories like this, it's more of personal preference).
I thought maybe they'd tweak the story/script a bit to fit a live-action setting (you know, make it a bit more realistic compared to manga setting) but no, they seem to follow the manga quite faithfully (I guess because the drama script was also supervised by the manga author? Although this would be pleasing to most of the manga fans, maybe...), and some parts even became more rushed perhaps to fit into a 30-minute drama with 10 episodes only.
Of course I'll still continue to watch this until the very end because Renn is too hot and handsome here lol, but on a more serious note, I'm praying that this drama will do more good to Renn than harm. It's being streamed in various overseas platforms too so I hope this will become a way for Renn to be known to a wider audience and will help him gain more supporters who will eventually become interested in his other works which showcase his acting prowess better and have a much more decent plot than this.
But I also hope the story will still get better moving forward since now there's no story lol because as far as I can see, a lot of people are already uncomfortable with how things escalated too quickly and how illogical some settings are. While understandable because I also feel that way (I somehow already expected such reactions when I read the manga), as a fan of Renn of course I'm sad to read such negative feedback for a drama he's currently starring in (although of course there are also good feedback, the negative ones kinda linger).
And after this I hope Renn won't accept dramas like this anymore lol.