The highly anticipated drama,
Of course, there were many rumors surrounding it.
First, the recent Korean Netflix dramas had been performing lower than expected.
Rumors said that this
However, since Joo Seo-yeon, an actress who had shown various sides and blown up last year, took the lead role, many people held onto the expectation of 'maybe?'.
Therefore, there were also many reviewers who watched it as soon as it went up on Netflix and posted their reviews.
Na Min-sang, a movie YouTuber with 600,000 subscribers, was one of them.
As a recently rising YouTuber, he was a reviewer who focused a bit more on movie reviews rather than just being provocative.
He actually belonged to the group that didn't have high expectations for this
'Looking at it, it seems like a superhuman genre.'
Even worse, a superhuman genre with a lot of action.
It was quite a challenging attempt in Korea.
'Did a knock-off like this come out because DC movies hit the jackpot?'
He couldn't hide his smirk.
Honestly, how many Korean movies with a lot of CG were actually decent?
Let alone a superhuman action genre?
Na Min-sang never underestimates Korean movies.
Especially when it comes to movies dealing with emotions, he thinks Korean movies hold a pretty good position.
But that's different from action movies.
Isn't this type of action movie the kind where even a slight weirdness in the CG immediately shows?
Prejudice.
Yes, he couldn't say he didn't have such prejudice.
At least, while watching works like
Thinking like that, Na Min-sang, who watched
"There is a girl here."
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Had no choice but to post a review right away.
Because he was convinced that it would be beneficial to post the review as quickly as possible, even if it meant staying up all night to work on it.
"Born and raised in a laboratory, this girl thought this small laboratory was her entire world."
The appearance of the protagonist, Jin Yeon-seo.
Na Min-sang recited the narration like that and announced the start of the drama.
As a drama review and summary YouTuber, he was a YouTuber who talked by summarizing the core of the work as much as possible.
Many people who thought it was 'fun' through his reviews moved on to the original work.
"Everyone treats the girl as a simple test subject. But, among such researchers, a man approaches the girl."
Adam Lowell.
"He always tells the girl. That there is a bigger world outside this small laboratory. And, he tells her stories containing the implication that he will show her the outside world."
However, the girl shows signs of not fully understanding his words.
Because her world was entirely this small laboratory.
At this point, the drama's description doesn't clearly show what exact abilities the girl possesses.
What is shown is just rapidly regenerating body parts.
It repeatedly shows her being experimented on and the wounds from those experiments regenerating quickly, directing only the appearance of a weak victim.
"And then, the incident occurs. The laboratory burns down, and Adam sacrifices himself to help the protagonist escape outside the laboratory."
And in that process, she meets a woman targeting Jin Yeon-seo.
Sim So-jin, an agent of the laboratory who appeared from the beginning of the drama and even showed scenes of killing people, blocks her way.
Until then, Jin Yeon-seo's appearance was just that of a weak girl.
A victim who only suffered by being unilaterally experimented on.
"Lab mice should stay quietly in the lab."
Sim So-jin says so, grabbing a baton in her hand and charging at Yeon-seo.
That relentless appearance seemed to represent the viewers' thoughts.
"But just once."
Jin Yeon-seo, who blocked Sim So-jin's strike, kicks Sim So-jin away just once.
With that single blow, Sim So-jin flies through the wall, becomes bloody, and faints.
The appearance of the 'superhuman' Jin Yeon-seo, not the unilaterally victimized one shown so far.
"Only then, the others who came to stop Jin Yeon-seo also realize."
That a beast has come out of its cage.
That they have no means to stop that beast.
There, holding his breath, Na Min-sang looks at Jin Yeon-seo on the paused screen in the edited video.
'It's such a shame that I can't include all of this in the review.'
Jin Yeon-seo's appearance gives off a strange feeling from the beginning of the work.
Even though she receives experiments close to torture and suffers pain, the girl just shows a nonchalant appearance.
As if this was natural.
The subtle bizarrity felt from that.
That bizarrity grows further as she converses with Adam Lowell.
Even at his words saying he would let her go outside, Yeon-seo gives off a feeling of 'do I have to?' rather than a longing for the outside.
At first, he thought he was just feeling that way, but he realizes that Jin Yeon-seo's acting intended it.
As he watches the drama, as he gets to know the character of Jin Yeon-seo.
Especially this part.
Smashing Sim So-jin, Jin Yeon-seo's face looking at her gives an indescribable sense of discomfort.
Like a girl who doesn't know emotions, as if she is imitating them.
"...Why does this actor feel particularly alive in these parts?"
At this level, isn't she actually optimized for a villain?
But the difference from the characters so far is that Jin Yeon-seo is 'objectively' a victim.
A victim, but a feeling that she doesn't feel like a victim.
Jin Yeon-seo, who destroyed Sim So-jin in one blow, erases the expression showing a series of uncomfortable emotions and pretends to flee in a hurry.
At this point, people get confused once more.
Was defeating Sim So-jin an accident?
Or was it intentional?
However, the fleeing Jin Yeon-seo's appearance is actually quite pitiful.
Despite having powerful superpowers, Jin Yeon-seo's appearance of fleeing as if she didn't want to fight deceives people.
Having fled like that, Jin Yeon-seo, as if heaven helped her, coincidentally meets a good couple and becomes their adoptive daughter.
"And, time passes quickly. 3 years. Jin Yeon-seo changes her name to 'Park Yeon-seo' and graduates from middle school. And after living her high school life somewhere else, she transfers to a different high school."
Na Min-sang says that and continues the story.
As the middle of episode 1 ends, the time when Jin Yeon-seo's high school life begins.
From here, the drama began in earnest.
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3 years, the story begins in earnest as Jin Yeon-seo, who had been living an ordinary life, enters high school.
Episode 1 of the drama covers such Jin Yeon-seo's high school life.
As the perspective shifts to high school, the story captures a high school in the scene.
"Hello, I'm Park Yeon-seo. I'll be living together in this school from today. Please take care of me."
Transfer student.
Unlike the beginning of the drama, a brightened Jin Yeon-seo comes out and introduces herself.
A transfer student who came to a new school. And the sight of classmates clapping at her pretty appearance.
"Where did you come from?"
"Hey, you're really pretty."
"Are you good at studying?"
Students flocking as soon as break time starts.
While Jin Yeon-seo answers such students one by one.
The camera slowly moves to another side.
A girl with a naive impression, who glances at Jin Yeon-seo for a moment and then quietly sits at her desk taking notes.
And a fierce-looking student taps the shoulder of such a female student and leaves.
"School store."
Leaving only a single word.
And at that one word, the girl sighs and stands up from her seat.
Highlighting another girl sitting behind Jin Yeon-seo like this, it captures the appearance of Jin Yeon-seo's high school life.
A few days pass quickly, and the events of that time appear as short scenes.
Jin Yeon-seo studying ordinarily.
And behind such Jin Yeon-seo, the appearance of a girl being bullied.
A girl wearing glasses with a relatively clumsy impression.
And the group entangled with such a naive girl as well.
Even those called the so-called delinquents.
"Hey, loser. Doing something alone again?"
"Bored? Wanna come out with us for a bit? Let's go to the school store together."
She says let's go to the school store together, but anyone can see it's a brazen attitude.
To the fierce-looking girl who speaks with her arm around the girl's shoulder, the naive girl swallows dry saliva and nods. As if she didn't like her attitude, the delinquent girl suddenly scowls.
"Hey, hey, hey, straighten your face. It's not like we're bullying you. Hey."
Slap, the delinquent girl lightly taps the girl's cheek as if teasing her.
As if such things were everyday occurrences at school, everyone pretends not to see.
Except for one.
Except for the transfer student, Jin Yeon-seo.
"What are you doing?"
With a fresh face, Yeon-seo interrupts the gloomy-looking girl and the group surrounding her.
For a moment, the other students watch the scene with bated breath.
Thinking that a transfer student who doesn't know the situation has intervened.
However, the delinquent student facing Yeon-seo freezes for a moment.
Overwhelmed by the strange feeling from Yeon-seo's eyes staring intently at her.
But perhaps feeling embarrassed about that, she scratches her head and says.
"What am I doing, can't you see? I'm hanging out with her."
"I didn't ask you."
"What?"
"I asked her."
Yeon-seo places her hand on the shoulder of the bullied female student with a smack and says.
Naturally, at her action, the other delinquent girls look at her as if it's absurd.
"You don't know who I am, do you?"
"I don't, I'm a transfer student."
"Then I'll have to let you know."
As soon as the words end, the delinquent girl's hand goes up.
As if trying to grab Jin Yeon-seo's hair.
However, that action is caught by the wrist before it is carried out.
"Huh?"
"You shouldn't do things like this. I learned you shouldn't."
Yeon-seo says with a bright smile.
The girl tries to pull her caught wrist out, but the hand caught by Yeon-seo doesn't budge.
At Yeon-seo's stare fixedly looking at her, the delinquent girl freezes, not even thinking of cursing.
She couldn't help it.
Because Yeon-seo's gaze looking at the delinquent girl was truly strange.
She was looking with a smile, but it was a look that made anyone feel she was not an ordinary girl.
Like looking at a robot that resembles a human.
Accordingly.
"Ah, okay."
The girl pulls her hand out and steps back.
"T-thanks for helping me."
"It's nothing. It's okay. By the way, what's your name? We're in the same class but I haven't heard your name."
"I, I'm Hong Se-ha. Hong Se-ha."
Se-ha says so to Jin Yeon-seo and bows her head.
The delinquent girl hurriedly moves with her group and runs away, but.
"Ah, what a disgrace."
"Why did you just stand there?"
"I told you she's weird? She's a total psycho. The vibe is strange."
"Are you still just gonna stay like this?"
"No way. I'm going to tell my brother and have him teach her a lesson."
It showed that their target had now shifted from the gloomy female student to Jin Yeon-seo.
The arrogant transfer student.
That alone was more than enough reason for them to bully her.
No one thinks it's reckless.
Because they were the majority, and Jin Yeon-seo was only one.
And, amid that, the female student saved by Yeon-seo, Hong Se-ha, quietly sits down, and the screen captures her looking at the back of Yeon-seo's head.
With the background music quietly playing, as if her naive appearance so far had been an act.
She opens her eyes sharply.
And only then, the girl's true face is properly seen.
Her appearance hidden under the glasses.
- What, that naive girl was Jo Seo-hee?
- No, really
- She kept wearing glasses and looking down so I didn't know lol
- ?? You didn't know that? She's obviously Jo Seo-hee
- What do you mean obviously Jo Seo-hee, you're such a tryhard loser. They dressed her up so you couldn't tell it was Jo Seo-hee at all
- I thought she was just a simple extra but she wasn't lol
Han Bong-sik, a 1.45 million-subscriber YouTuber, nodded at the viewers' reactions.
Honestly, he also didn't even think this girl would be Jo Seo-hee.
With her eyes cast down and wearing glasses, she was hard to distinguish.
"Episode 1 is totally following the hidden badass cliché. But, did you see her catching the hand? It was incredibly fast, is it CG?"
- They said this isn't CG, it came out at the end of episode 1 that she actually caught it.
- Anyone can do that if they just learn Jeolkwon-do
- ??
- I'm Joo Seo-yeon, and this is true
"Did she learn some martial arts? No, it's really fast, look at this. And her gaze..."
Bong-sik paused the screen for a moment and thought.
He felt it during Cha Seo-ah too, but he thought Seo-yeon's acting like this was truly top-notch.
She acts so well that it feels strangely discomforting.
"Isn't Jin Yeon-seo a villain here?"
- Lol she's the main character
- Honestly, if you were tense when she talked to the loser, thumbs up lol
- Real, I thought the loser's head was going to fly off then
- Just her talking makes you tense
- So when does Jin Yeon-seo's axe come out? Is it going to be a delinquent story like this?
- The early parts have a lot of this feeling, the daily life part
"Ah, no spoilers. Seriously."
Because there were already people who had watched the drama to the end, Bong-sik stopped them.
Since it was a drama he had been looking forward to, he wanted to enjoy it without spoilers.
"Huh, is there a making-of video at the end of this?"
- Yeah, if you look at the end, there's a scene of Min Do-ha getting beat up and flying away pathetically
- That's not CG either? Where the hell did they use CG?
- Is the wall breaking CG?
- Yeah, that's CG
- Ah, that's CG
- That was CG? I thought it was real
└ ??
└ Honestly, if it's Joo Seo-yeon, it seems like she'd actually break it...
└ What the hell do you guys think Joo Seo-yeon is
- Saying that is CG is nonsense, it wasn't CG you idiots, Min Do-ha got flattened like a pancake
At those words, Bong-sik wanted to see the making-of video, but held back.
Because he wanted to watch episode 2 first more than that.
Episode 1, which ended with Hong Se-ha's suspicious gaze,
And episode 2, as soon as it starts, shows Jin Yeon-seo surrounded by male students behind the school.
"Hey, I heard you bullied our little sister?"
A quite flashy-looking male student approaches Jin Yeon-seo.
"Looking at you, you're quite pretty? Wanna hang out together later? Then I'll specially let it slide."
"Ah, oppa!"
"What's wrong. Oppa can hang out too."
Seeing the two having such a conversation, Jin Yeon-seo lets out a smirk.
Because it was truly ridiculous.