공부의 신 (God of Study / Lord of Studying / Master of Study)

* 16 episodes
* Genres: comedy, school, romance

Main Characters
Kim Soo Ro as Kang Suk Ho
Bae Doo Na as Han Soo Jung
Oh Yoon Ah as Jang Ma Ri
Yoo Seung Ho as Hwang Baek Hyun
Ji Yeon as Na Hyun Jung
Go Ah Sung as Gil Pul Ip
Lee Hyun Woo as Hong Chan Doo
Lee Chan Ho as Oh Bong Goo
(from DramaWiki)


Summary
Kang Suk Ho, a lawyer, goes to work at a local school, which is known for having notoriously bad students. The townspeople wishes to close down the school, but Suk Ho promises that he will prepare a special class to apply successfully for "Chun-Ha-Dae University". If not, the school would be sold to a company. All of the teachers are skeptical, but the principal agrees to the idea.

Five students decided to give it a try, and thus begins the journey of intense study methods with the most unique teachers to aim to get into the prestigious university.

The Japanese version which came out first is called Dragon Zakura.

Review

I thoroughly enjoyed watching the whole series, episode by episode. (Though, it was kind of ironic for me to watch it when I should really be studying myself...) At the end of each episode, the cast members would give out tips for studying.

In terms of the plot development, the episodes moved seamlessly and smoothly, with the occasional sudden problems which arise and must be solved in order for the plot to move on.

For the love plots, it slowly fades away towards the end of the last few episodes, making room for the full development of the actual main plot. I would have wanted to see how they would have wrapped the pairings, but they never really did. Hyun Jung just gives up in the middle of the plot, so her character sort of dies off.

It was refreshing to see some full character developments in some characters, but I felt that others could have been better, even though they were part of the main characters.

I would recommend to watch Dragon Zakura first and God of Study at a different time. Even though they were based off of a manga, they both had their strengths in different aspects, and the plots are a little different.

Overall
Plot Line: 9/10
Subplots: 8/10
Character Development: 9/10
Special Effects: 6/10

Total: 32/40

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18禁不禁? (18, Censoring or Not?)

* 20 episodes
* Genres: comedy, school, romance

Main Characters

Ah Ben as Zhao Zhi Jie 趙智傑
Li Jia Wen as Guo Jia Lin 郭家麟
Ah Mei as Pang De Feng 龐得鋒
Xiao Cao as Du Jian Xin 杜建新
Albee Huang as Xia Nian Qiao 夏念喬
Michelle Zhang as Hao You Jia 郝又佳
Amanda Zhou as Liang Pei Jun 梁蓓君
Carmen Tang as Ji Yun Hao 季芸浩
(from DramaWiki)

Summary
A comedic, battle-of-the-sexes school drama which revolves around 4 guys and 4 girls. The school recently allowed co-ed classes, thus beginning the rivalry and romance between the students.

Review
Basically, this whole drama has no substance - whether it's plot development or the different stories in each episode. Some of the stories were quite random (such as the alien and body-switching episode), but I did get a good laugh sometimes. Many cliches were used for comedic purposes.

The introductions made at the very beginning of the drama had initially set up quite a stage for the rest of the drama, but it went downhill from there.

I found that some story lines in the drama were quite tedious and long, and pretty repetitive too.

There were also "love talks" with the girls and a parallel with the guys, talking about different aspects of the genders.

Special effects used in the drama were quite childish, but not really appropriate for younger audiences - so it's a little contradicting. Even though this drama is mainly just to laugh and criticize about the genders, they were not appealing.

I would think that this drama would be more appropriate for an older audience.

Overall
Plot Line: 4/10
Subplots: 4/10
Character Development: 4/10
Special Effects: 3/10

Total: 17/40

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The episode opens up with Linghu Cong explaining the school to Guo Jing, and tells him that practice makes perfect.

The go to attend a class of staff techniques. When the teacher asks a question, Guo Jing quickly answers incorrectly as he recalls the information from his "books". When the students go practise, no one wants to practise with Cang Tai. So he calls on a random person, but not Guo Jing (even though he was very willing to). The teacher then gives Guo Jing a Chinese yo-yo to practise his basics.

Xiao Long Nu grabs the wrong textbook, but remembers that she hasn't prayed yet that day. Xiao Bao is curious as to what she was doing, but she leaves right after his interruption.

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