The Day of Becoming You (2021)

Not Bad for a Gender Body Switchroo

We had this on our watchlist since last year, the trailer didn't look that compelling so it was postponed for a bit but I'm glad we decided to give it a try. Don't like to watch shows where the character is a celebrity or its about the entertainment business, its not interesting. This show managed to make it work. Don't bother trying to apply any logic, rationale, or thinking to the series and why the body switch occurs.

The gist of it is an aloof male celebrity and an entertainment reporter do multiple body gender switchroos.

- Jokes, Jokes, and more Jokes. It pokes fun at itself, it makes fun of Asian drama cliches, and at celebrity idol culture and worship.
- Great chemistry between the leads and decent acting with the gender swap that happens repeatedly. The ML does overact sometimes during the swap. The development of their romance was good, a bit of a slow burn but a fair amount of hilarity in between. The part where the ML swapped with the FL and experiences his first period was pretty funny, of course he had to wear a white dress to top it all off.
- No long drawn out boring SML or SFL stories, the focus is mainly on the leads. It focuses on how they handle the gender body swap situations and their growing affection and attraction for each other.

Didn't really care for the backstory of the family dynamics of the ML, it felt like they were trying to force some trauma family story to add some complexity to his character and rationale for why he was moody and aloof.

I'd compare this series to kinda like going to an amusement park, its fun, its not part of normal life, and it takes your mind off all that studying you were supposed to do. I felt they were able to make it work between a male celebrity and a non celebrity average person because of the extraordinary circumstances that pushed them together.

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Body swap done right

I would say this is the top drama in the genre of romantic comedy. It managed to excel in both romance as well as comedy which I believe is an amazing feat. This was body swap done right. I tend to fast forward a lot as most of you know because I have to take out some time to live my own life! But the story line and every day mundane tasks were so stinking cute that I was inexorably pulled in. I was constantly giggling or laughing out loud. They poked fun at the cliches etc and humor was so fresh.

Really kudos to both leads as they did an awesome job. The ML was just outstanding and managed the nuances of being a female so very well. The side characters especially the second leads were lovable and I managed to watch all of them. The ending was very well done in my opinion. People have been criticizing the ending but take another look as they tried to make it more realistically plausible and nothing really changed for the relationship of all characters.

So if you want to relax, have fun and laugh, go watch this drama.

Lovely skinship and the female participation was the way it should be.

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Terpesona Senyum Jiang Yi ;)

Madam mau ingetin kalo bagian abis ini akan spoiler banget !!

Pertama-tama : ternyata apa yang kita tonton hanya novel saja !! untung gak full ceritanya itu novel tapi beneran ada Jiang Yi dan Yu Sheng-Sheng di kehidupan nyata

Story :
Dari segi cerita sangat amat menghibur walaupun body swap bukan tema yang baru, tapi seri ini bisa bikin alur cerita yang menarik untuk diikutin. Jumlah 26 episode pun dirasa pas karena seperti yang kita tau tipikal drama cina jumlah episodenya rata-rata lebih dari 30 episode dan itu yang membuat ceritanya suka dipanjang-panjangin gak jelas. Endingnya pun bagus dan gak maksa walau itu semua hanya cerita novel haha tapi kita tetap dilihatin sisi Jiang Yi dan Yu Sheng Sheng yang asli.

Cast :
Selama nonton ini Madam meleleh liat senyumnya Zhang Xincheng atau nama lainnya Steven Zhang apalagi momen-momen saat dia lagi tukeran jiwanya sama Yu Sheng Sheng gemeeshh banget!! Zhang Xincheng berperan sangat bagus di seri ini, cool-nya Jiang Yi dapet tapi centilnya Yu Sheng Sheng juga dapet. Dan Madam resmi jadi fansnya Zhang Xincheng :D

Untuk Liang Jie udah gak usah diragukan lagilah ya dengan pengalamanya main di banyak judul seri drama.

Chemistry keduanya juga bagus banget gak kelihatan kaku saat adegan mesra ataupun ketika harus beradegan canggung.
Ditambah saat liat foto-foto mereka untuk majalah Bazaar China sepertinya Madam berpindah kapal dari Liang Jie-Xing Zhaolin menjadi Liang Jie-Zhang Xincheng :D

Untuk cast pendukungnya juga bagus dalam bermain porsinya masing-masing

OST:
Ost utama seri ini ada 4 lagu dan 2 diantaranya dinyanyikan oleh Zhang Xincheng dan Liang Jie sendiri. Madam pribadi pun suka banget sama OST drama ini, sebenarnya Madam jarang sampai terngiang-ngiang OST drama cina tapi beda sama seri drama ini Madam sampe niat cari playlistnya :) dan favorit OSTnya Madam adalah Crush On - Lu Si Ying

Overall:
Totall worth it!! Karena jumlah episodenya juga gak terlalu banyak jadi gak akan menghabiskan waktu banyak. Ceritanya juga cukup menghibur ditambah lagi bisa penyegaran mata karena lihat visualnya Zhang Xincheng

Selamat menonton :)

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Mixed feeling emotion roller coaster ride which ended up being nice somehow?? But loved it!!!

The reason behind my title is from ep 1 to ep 26...what i thought i could predict didnt happen...not your regular cdrama series what i mean os...When i saw the trailer, i thought normal cdrama that the Main couple will exchange bodies for once then they will fall in love.....and the story continues....

What attracted me the story concept , a star falling in love with a entertainment reporter....it may sound us funny or ridiculous....but its actually not....its not necessary that they shouldnt fall in love together....love can happen anytime or anyone. We are no one to judge....so this Main couples's occupation perked me up to give it a try. Also this cdrama is based solely on pov of the Main couple. As the drama focuses more on them and less on the other stories in the drama.

What i didnt expect is for them to switch bodies more than 1 time....total 3 times their bodies switched.....so i must say the acting of Main leads was fantastic. Its not easy to act as a girl in guy's body and guy in a girl's body....they tried their level best to execute and give us the accurate feeling. I also wanted to watch this show because of steven too.

All the actors some of them where familiar faces did amazing job on acting their roles....even i liked the acting of Jiang Yi 's driver...the direction was good that the actor/actresses gave their level best. The OST is so soothing, good to hear.

Now the thing what i thought normal light weight cdrama turned out to be a roller coaster or semi weight drama....its NOT a simple story where just think they swap their bodies....its more to it...broken family, trust issues....basically what we see in stars life in real and fans reaction, dating life etc etc.

The writer tried to mix all...from a group band to dating a celeb to even swap bodies in a story which at the end of episode the FL reveals that this novels is based on their love story But its not actually ttheir love story...for once i couldnt process this because 25 episode witnessing what all the writer made the story and at the end i hear its just based upon....first im happy they are together in real life story but at the end im like why...mixing all up....its like pineapple pizza some may like or digest the combination and some may not.

So idk why writer did it but at the end of the day ,it didnt matter to me coz each episode or the ML were cute,lover dovey ,cute scenes gave me gitters ,its all good. Because of this mixing up of diff plots into one...i guess the writer ,direction also werent able to give focus on other roles properly...like i would have liked to see tong and pie jai shu as second couple....but I guess this drama is fully based on story pov that is Main Lead's story which is actually a novel which was going to end with a bad ending and from there the novel starts oops im sorry the story starts.. and its in 1st ep more like first 2 scenes....

Sorry if you got confused now.....you will understand clearly after you watch it....till ep 20 or even ep 21 you can relax and enjoy the drama till there its about how they got into relationship and their cute scenes of being in a relatio ship...but after that all the roller coaster ride begins....if you want you may skip certain scenes or watch clips and then watch the last episode where FL explains or tells about her sudden change of mind of ending the novel with a good ending... Which you may relate with the first episode where she talks to her manager or someone in the call....like in 26th episode we get to the exact thing.

Its the emotional sample of her real love life that the writer in the drama Shen Yu took and made a novel so the NOVEL is just a fantasy or imagination the writer created and she took bits and pieces of her real love life put and added more imagination to it made a novel. This idea struck her where she lacked inspiration also She and Yi Jiang had troubles in their love life...where one day he told her that how he wishes that one day if he and her exchange bodies so that she can understand the feeling of being a star and concerns or problems being a star....this line said by him gave her the insipiration to create this novel as what we saw till the point the FL explains the whole thing (till 26th ep around mid scene). And in the both be it novel drama what we saw and shen yu the writer's real love life in both the couple got an happy ending.

I hope this cleared some doubts...it will be worth of your time if you are ready to expirience this bumpy ride where you will question alot of things but at the end it wont matter also....its a good cdrama where the writer tried to make good plot and direction given is excuted properly with amazing cast who put their level best. I hope you all the like the drama who still havent watched but are planning to watch and also helped you to make the decision.

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SUPERB Acting by both Liang Jie and Steven Zhang

I am fascinated by Liang Jie performance in ‘Time Flies and You are Here’ where to me her performance is very good, and I started to look for her other series and came across this one: ‘The Day of Becoming You’.

In ‘The Day of Becoming You’, Liang Jie is pairing up with Steven Zhan where I remember seeing him in ‘Go Ahead’.

‘The Day of Becoming You’ tells a story of entertainment reporter – Yu Sheng Sheng (Liang Jie) – and famous boyband star – Jiang Yi (Steven Zhang). Under certain circumstances they switch bodies.

You may predict that this will be typical boring body switching stories… Well YOU ARE WRONG! Although the broad idea of body switching may not new or original but the way the story goes and how the script is built are quite surprising to me.

The most that I appreciate on this series is the ACTING from both main leads. They can bring the character very well and make the character alive. The chemistry between them is also mesmerizing. Even when they switch bodies, Yu Sheng Shen becomes Jiang Yi and Jiang Yi becomes Yu Sheng Sheng, their acting is fascinating.

Yu Sheng Sheng as female reporter, lively, energetic, full of emotion and once swapped as Jiang Yi, she becomes cold, emotionless, a bit manly despite of in Yu Sheng Sheng body.

On the other hand Jiang Yi a cold, reserved and hide his emotion person when he swapped as Yu Sheng Sheng in Jiang Yi’s body, he becomes so girly, lively, full of emotion depicting Yu Sheng Sheng character very well.

So, KUDOS to both actors for bringing good acting and bring lots of fun, sweet, romance and affection, full of emotion moments in the series.

Another thing that is also good in this series, that will be the soundtrack. Beautiful song in this series: My Soul, I See You, Crush On, Whisperer. The way they use the soundtrack to emphasize certain scene is superb and spot on, brings more emotions on that scene.

My personal preference is “I See You”. Listening to this song is really moving and brings out a lot of emotion, deep love, despair, longing feelings… really a good song.

So, this is a must see series if you love to watch GOOD ACTING, sweet romantic chemistry of the actors.

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Body Swapping High Jinx

This is the first time I've seen either main actors. I am quite impressed

Pros:
The plot - it keeps moving! None of the scenes were wasted
The acting - Both Steven Zhang and Liang Jie nailed their roles. I can readily tell when they were playing each other. Being a fan of idols - I kept seeing Steven Zhang - acting like one of my favourite idols. I am not familiar with his personality but he was really convincing as an idol. Liang Jie - was great acting like a guy. She was cute but not overly cute.
The chemistry! both leads had great chemistry with each other.
The family/friends - I liked how close they were with each other. He had a wonderful manager and group mates.

Cons
The beginning and end scene. What was that about? It lessened the show for me, made it seem less magical.

Overall, I recommend this drama. I don't typically watch modern cdramas - because I find them draggy. But I really enjoyed this one.

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Good entertainment

Things I love:
- The body swapping was actually fun
- The relationship progression between the leads felt so right. They went from enemies to friends to lovers in such a green flag way. There weren’t any weird misunderstandings, and unnecessary angst due to miscommunications. Their bantering and connection with each other felt very real. Lastly, they trusted each other!
- Altho source of contention, the ML’s parents weren’t portrayed as caricatures of the evil parents. They came across as flawed human beings.
- The shitty co-worker isn’t a caricature and actually had a redeeming quality.
- I appreciated the commentary on how poorly women are treated in the industry in comparison to their male counterparts for doing the same
- I also appreciated the commentary on how toxic idol culture
- The relationship between FL and her bestie is very cute
- The 2ML was a sympathetic character but not enough to give you 2ML syndrome
- Funny side characters

Dislikes
- the PPL was too much. Sometimes it felt like entire episodes were dedicated to bestore and that cold medicine brand
- The middle was kind of draggy
- The conditions for their body swaps didn’t feel consistent
- The ending re-contextualices the love story in a way that makes it lose its impact. Just because something is fiction doesn’t mean the viewer’s expectations for a satisfying resolution goes out the window. If you want the perfect ending stop watching at 32:41

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Warm Fuzzy Feelings

Something that cdramas do well is offer fluffy romance and make it really sweet. And the Day of Becoming You was no different in that respect. This drama is however exceptionally good because it went a bit beyond the fluff, letting us into the lives of the 2 main characters, what they fear, what they love about their lives and that builds up so that you have really great character development.

I thought the plot was sooo interesting..I hadn't ever watched a body-swap drama and was expecting that aspect to fail but amazingly it was my favourite bit. The 2 leads in each other's bodies was absolutely hilarious! Stephen Zhang...oh my gosh is just a fabulous actor for pulling off the transitions so well that you could tell almost immediately tell that they had swapped. And thank you to the writer for sneaking in some positive body image and making satire off the fact that far too many men do not know how the female body works. I did think some of the acting was overdone when they swapped so that rather than having 2 lead characters, you had 4 but because it was so funny, I was quick to forgive this detail.

The chemistry between the leads was so great and they had such a cute healthy relationship. You also understood why they had to break up. But you know what's my absolutely favourite thing about this drama...that the ML planned out and waited 1 year to reunite with the love of his life....aaaaaaaaah! Excuse me as I go swoon!

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The theme of the script is not innovative, but it was developed in a pleasant way, with captivating characters, without the presence of 'villains' who set up all the time. It managed to show the family dramas, the difficulties encountered in some professions and a light and contagious romance.
The cast embodied their characters very well. Liang Jie and Zhang Xin Cheng interacted gracefully, providing an entertaining show with hints of pure emotion.
The direction led the drama with a satisfactory rhythm, the errors in the editing are few and it finished in a pleasant way, despite being perceptible a certain haste in the end.
The soundtrack is not bad, but the sound team was not very attentive, as there is a significant gap between the dialogue and the presence of the songs.

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literally the best body swap drama

When I started watching the drama the first episode felt slow and boring and nothing out of ordinary but I still kept watching the show and just by the 2nd episode it picked up. I had so much fun watching this drama. The light humor throughout the drama was what kept it fresh. Plus kudos to both actors playing the main leads. Their acting was so on point that you could tell they were playing the same person and I loved that so much. Even the transitions as small as their eye or hand movements were so clean. I was so damn amazed by them. Their chemistry was great too. They are the ones that made this show exceptional. Aside that the plot was simple, there were no major problems. I came to like even the characters that I didn't quite like at first. I actually shipped the FL's best friend and Pei Jia Shu too. Their backstory was cute.
So to sum it up. I loved the show and I'd definitely watch it again and recommend it to everyone else.

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