I Wanna Bite It (2022)

C'était bien (avec la bonne fin)

J'étais un peu incertaine en débutant ce drame et finalement, après les deux premiers épisodes, j'étais plutôt emballée. Ce qui est assez étonnant quand on connaît mon passif difficile avec Idol Romance. Et pourtant ! Idol Romance met en lumière un potentiel qu'ils avaient caché jusqu'ici. Bien sûr (et comme c'est visible sur ma note), ce n'est pas parfait. Mais c'était bien mieux que ce qu'ils ont proposé par le passé. C'est sûr qu'avec Semantic Error en cours de diffusion, il est facile de faire pâle figure (j'ose), mais Kissable Lips s'en sort bien - c'est seulement la fin qui est boudée (à tord d'après moi).

Le scénario est simple et bien géré. Étant un web drama, les épisodes sont ridiculement courts. La semaine des épisodes 5 et 6, j'ai eu l'impression de n'avoir rien vu. C'est gênant et cela impacte forcément le scénario et surtout le rythme du drama. Mais c'est récurrent (à croire que les BL sud-coréens n'ont pas le droit à des épisodes de 40 minutes). Pourtant, je n'ai pas trouvé l'écriture aussi chaotique que The Tasty Florida qui n'avait tout simplement aucun scénario - et qui possède une meilleure note (en tout cas, au moment où j'écris cette critique). Pas d'incohérences particulières et c'est (sur un aussi court format) un point bonus. Combien de web drama veulent traiter trop et ne s'achèvent pas correctement ? En fin de compte, le seul point que je ne suis pas sûre d'avoir compris est la raison pour laquelle Hae Soo a des yeux rouges, mais ce n'était pas comme si ça m'avait empêché d'apprécier l'ensemble.

J'ai vu quelques critiques sur le budget. Vous ne pouvez pas vous attendre à une Ferrari quand votre budget est celui d'une Polo (rien de mal contre les Polo, ce sont de très bonnes voitures en réalité, j'ai moi-même une Polo). Le budget semble bien réparti et nous épargne des effets spéciaux foireux - Jirisan et ses fonds verts, on en parle ? Certains drames chinois avec des effets abominables on en parle aussi ?

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Pourquoi je vais à contre courant de la majorité des avis sur la fin ? Pour moi, c'était la fin idéale. Bien sûr, il y avait d'autres possibilités, mais est-ce que cela aurait dégagé le même sentiment, la même ambiance ? Je ne pense pas. Il ne faut pas seulement voir la mort de Jun Ho, il faut la comprendre. Il décide de mourir afin de laisser Min Hyun vivre. Il décide qu'il n'a aucun droit sur la vie de Min Hyun et accepte juste de disparaître, même s'il perd la personne qu'il aime - et qu'il l'abandonne. Et cela fait toute la différence. Parce qu'en fin de compte, mourir était moins douloureux que tuer la personne qu'il aimait. Et c'est en ça que la fin est parfaite.

Pour parler rapidement de l'anneau. Tout le monde semble déçu que Min Hyun ne le trouve pas. Et bien, encore une fois, je pense que c'était le bon choix. Quelle est la probabilité que Min Hyun trouve cet anneau ? Proche de zéro; soyons honnêtes. Ainsi, le fait qu'il ne le trouve pas est tellement plus réaliste. C'est comme un point manqué, comme cette opportunité ratée de la vie. Oui, c'est frustrant, mais...

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Le jeu d'acteur n'était aussi mauvais que mentionné dans certaines commentaires. D'accord, ça pouvait manquer de naturel et de fluidité de temps à autre, mais ce n'était pas aussi dramatique que ça. D'une certaine façon, le casting s'en sort bien. La musique était agréable et discrète. Quant à l'image, c'était un pur plaisir avec en prime beaucoup de prises à la lumière naturelle.

Peut-être que je prendrais le temps de le revoir en vostfr un jour ou l'autre. En attendant, je me sens un peu plus copine avec Idol Romance. En espérant que cela ne fera que continuer dans ce sens.

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Sympa

Un vampire sur le point de mourrir. Pourra-t-il échapper à la mort ? C'est un peu pour ça que j'ai regardé ce mini drama.
J'ai trouvé l'histoire intéressante mais trop survolée puisque c'est peu d'épisodes (qui sont très courts d'ailleurs), mais le jeu des acteurs est plutôt bon, et les ost sympas.

Quand j'ai regardé ce bl, j'ai trouvé ça joliement raconté, un peu comme une sorte de conte ; j'avoue que je n'ai pas l'habitude de regarder ce genre là (avec des vampires), mais j'ai trouvé ça trop mignon.

Ce qui est triste c'est que le vampire va mourrir parce qu'il a tué un humain par le passé, et que son seul moyen de survivre, c'est de boire du sang pur, mais que la seule personne qui en possède, il en est tombé amoureux ; c'est un dilemme compliqué...

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Made Me Unbelievably Mad

Overall: I'm a sucker (haha) for vampire BL. I was willing to overlook too many characters and a totally unneeded love triangle, but episode 8 made me start screaming at my computer in rage. Watched on Viki.

Content Warnings: hypnotizing someone against their will and biting their lips, murders/death, gore/blood

What I Liked
- the premise of a vampire wanting to become human instead of the other way around (a la Twilight)
- I liked that the college student didn't just ghost/run away, but he's really pretty dumb to be alone with vampires...
- good production value

Room For Improvement
- this was some really awful writing, the ending was absolutely abysmal. They could have had some smart plot twists but did not. I need another vampire BL that is done well to destroy my memory of this one.
- they needed to cut characters and really build the relationship between the vampire and college student, they spend like 2 hours together and are soulmates...
- the explanation 10 years ago was disappointing, I thought there was more too it but basically the main vampire was just stupid
- the treatment of his friend (for hundreds of years!!!) at the end was awful. Jun Ho was actually worse when you think about it.
- I'm not even going to get into the just odd/unexplained/poorly thought out world building
- some odd camera shots, too many close ups
- way too many flashbacks that were used as filler
- the extreme blur filter that made the vampire look like a ghost

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It was okey I guess...

So let me say a few words about this series.
It´s pretty short but I don´t mind it but what I really don´t like about this series is how dumb all of the characters are. Aspecially the main characters. It was killing my brain cells lmao. I don´t want to write any spoilers here so if you already watched it or you don´t mind then the spoilers will be at the end of this review.

STORY: Meh...like nothing original. It was kinda boring and nothing much happend. In every episode you´ll see almost the same thing. The main characters falling for each other, the vampire regreting and crying over his past, another weird vampire and the one woman i don´t understand at all. Like who was she??
ACTING: Not the wors, but could have been much more better. It was kinda cringe especially in the last episode. It felt weird.
MUSIC: I wasn´t paying attention to the music so I can´t say much abt it, but it wasn ´t bothering me so i guess good.
REWATCH VALUE: 2...I will propably never watch it again but like just for chilling it´s alright and cute
OVERALL: 5 stars. It was right in the middle. It wasn´t good, but it wasn´t so bad either.

SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( WHY WERE ALL SO DUMB?? )





Like what? I was dying lmao. Why didn´t he simply just drink his blood when he offered him? Like i get it, he was scared that he will hurt him, just like he did hurt the other guy, but he didn´t need to drink from his neck....? Like the human could have just cut his hand or somethnig, pour the blood to a glass and the vampire could have drink from a glass without hurting the human. And yes, you can say: "but if he tasted the blood, he could go crazy and kill the human even though he drank from a glass". I mean yeah...this could also happen but he could have lock himself somewere so he can´t go near to any human or something. Or they could at least try it.
I think they just wanted the series to have sad ending so they ended it like this.
Anyway i did enjoy it but the last two episodes were pretty cringe lol
have a good day :))))

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Everything happened so quickly

The story was okay, not that great but it is watchable. The acting was not so good though, it could have been better but it is okay because in my opinin it didn't affect the story much.
They production again could have been done better.
The episodes were short, everything happened so quickly. I wish BLs in korea have longer episodes. But the ending was beautiful and satisfying for me.
Now for their chemistry, I didn't think there would be much chemistry since the episodes were so short, but they did satisfy me towards the end. Tbh, I continued watching the series just to see their chemistry.
It's a good series but don't expect much.

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The sucking here, isn't from drinking blood or that other thing. (Dirty thoughts much?!)

Kissable Lips is a an exercise of childish daydreams. The plot makes no sense. The characters are hardly sketched beyond their purpose (I Vampire you Pureblood Argh). The time-frame it all takes place is unknowable (It seemed maybe a week or two). And there is enough glossy over-lit melodrama to say, hey Hallmark Channel we coming for you.

The budget is small, but fine, the acting is the strongest aspect of the entire affair, not that it saves much. Some side characters over-act with the best of them. There is even a sequence that requires an actor to maniacally laugh because they are trying to be invited into the league of supervillains. (Illuminati...whaaat!) However, our two main actors do a decent enough job, though for the first few episodes are mostly flat and lifeless. (Ha ha, vampires...lifeless...ugh)

You will be treated to a dose of Romeo/Juliet style old school romance. Ya know, where two characters meet, have love at first sight, and within a week are ready to die for each other and want the other next to them for all eternity. That sort of romance. If you like that, then maybe go for this, maybe. The actors are cute, and you will get some good kissing (Which for a Korean BL is RARE so lap this shit up! But this year does seem to be the year of progress in that department.) But be prepared for everything and I do mean everything to be underdeveloped, unbelievable, and empty.

How much will it all just kinda happen and be ridiculous well, here is an imaginary conversation:

Me: Before, I can go any further, I just gotta ask what is a Pureblood?

The series: It is a person that can cure vampirism if a vampire drinks their blood.

Me again: Ok, so what distinguishes a Pureblood from a normal blooded? How do Purebloods come to be? Why do they exist to begin with? And why is our main character one, when even his own brother is not?

The series:Um, it's Pureblood...just ya know it's Pureblood.

Me: Is it Virgin Blood? (And his brother has already done the nasty?) Korean Blood only with no other bloods from the rest of the worlds races? (But then wouldn't his whole family be this? And hello racism!) Is it blood without something in it, like a hemophiliac or medichlorians (Looked that one up..I giggle). Or blood that has something in it...like mystic magic...yay (Or liquid sunshine!!!)

The Series: Look...it's just Pureblood kay. It is Pureblood. Just accept it.

Me: I think Hermione would have some issues here. Well lets switch and talk about the vampires.

The series: The vampires are sexy and non-threatening. If a vampire kills their snack, they too will die, just not right away, like over time, like a lot of time, until in like a matter of days they fade away sometime in the future.

Me: So like they are in agonizing pain until they die right?

The series: No, they just ya know take this long drawn-out march towards death, and in the meantime they still need to eat, and fall in love, have sex, and have a normal life knowing that eventually they will die.

ME (With side eye): Uuummmmm...isn't that called being human? I mean, isn't that what we call living life? So these are just humans with icky eating habits now?

The series: No, no, cause if they go and drink a Pureblood, killing that Pureblood, then they can become HUMAn. Just as long as it is before they ya know fade away.

Me: Wait, so if the vampires drink a person's blood and that person dies, then they too will die unless they go and...KILL...another person and become human which means they will eventually still die. Really....So kill 1 bad eww cursed with eventual death. Kill 2 good yay humanity and still death..as long as it is a Pureblood. (Which can't be defined, they just exist and this guy is just one). What if the first person they killed was already a Pureblood, then would it cancel out the original curse and it would be like nothing happened, just instant human?

The series: ...um....well...well...that isn't the point of the series. There are just ya know vampires and Purebloods and stuff. There are shirtless guys kissing too. Everyone likes that right? Oh and the vampires also have blue glowing eyes. So yay, that's fun right?

ME: Well that came out of left field and didn't answer any of my questions. But all the vampires have blue eyes that also glow?

The series: No, no, they have normal color eyes that just sometimes glow blue and well, not just blue, sometimes red too.

Me: Oh why red and blue when those aren't their eye colors?

The series: Well ya know the good ones glow blue...the bad ones glow red.

Me: Wait what, like Twilight's Golden eyes versus Red eyes? Are their "vegetarian" vampires that eat animals completely obliterating the term vegetarian and meaning they are on the side of humans?

The sereis: No ours just glow those colors they don't actually become those colors. They just glow Blue and Red depending on if the vampire is a good guy or bad guy, nothing else.

Me: Like light sabers? (2nd SW reference and I don't even like SW)

The series: That's green and red.

Me: No that is Christmas colors...Wait, the vampires are Christmas vampires, this takes place over Christmas?

The series: (Silence)

5.0 = D+, 2 1/2-Stars. Lacking and filled with flaws. Die Hards will likely still love it.

It is fun for a good laugh and a nice sexy scene and that is about it.

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fated mates, paranormal, vampire, codified chase/stalker/ seme

AKA I Wanna Bite It, from Moving Picture Company (Wish You, Nobleman Ryu's Wedding, The Tasty Florida, Tinted With Love) so we all expected a classic modern Korean BL.

The leads were perfectly cast, the ideal seme vampire and the ideal uke prey. I like it when a vampire is actually deadly and facing up to the moral quandary of living a very long life. I found the uke actor particularly endearing in this limited role, he was quite soft and appealing without being weak or inactive. I enjoyed most of it but near the end I did start to feel the sparseness and the limited cast, like it was a one act play of a fairytale.

I suppose if you name your BL kissable lips you better end with a good kiss, even if you are Korea. But even a great kiss doesn’t mitigate killing the gay in a BL. Sorry. Not my thing. I’m aware of the history of BL, and I know dark is part of the tradition (even from Korea) but I HATE IT. These days a sad ending isn’t really Korea’s bailiwick (with the possible exception of Peach of Time), and they didn't set Kissable up properly. Right until the last episode I thought they might pull it out and save the couple in some supernatural way. Not that death came entirely out of nowhere, like H3:MODC, but still, it wasn't what I wanted in a vampire BL and I have been waiting for this trope so long for one. *this is my disappointed face*

I also I hate that the sad ending explains why the kiss was so good. It’s the vintage trope of: Sexualize those gays and one of them MUST DIE. How old school of you, Korea. Anyhoozle, if they kill one half of the couple it gets a 2/10 (or lower) from me. Sorry not sorry.

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I just wanna praise the actors

The story is fine, but could've been better if it had more time to develop the romance. The relationship between the main characters is believable because the actors do a fantastic job and have great chemistry. However, on paper it doesn't make much sense for their feelings to be so strong as we don't see them interact enough for them to not just start falling in love, but actually love each other. Still, I want to reiterate that the actors absolutely sell the characters' strong emotions towards each other, both the romantic and dramatic scenes are upgraded from good to amazing because of these two. I hope both of them find success, would love to see them do another project together, though I don't know how likely that is.

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Storyline needs more story

Tbh, the storyline has GREAT POTENTIAL! A vampire BL where the ML falls in love with the boy he's supposed to kill. It could've been amazing, and it sounded extremely interesting when you read about it.

The problem is, it didn't quite live up to the expectations most of us had set for it. The story was a little fast paced. with 20min ep they could be able to pull it out a little, explain more of their lives. Maybe more about the fact that he was an orphan and was once kidnapped?? They just brought it up and completely forgot about it, it seems. They could also tell more about the story between the ML and his old bf that he killed.
They just met, fell in love, slept together and then he died.
Another thing that kinda ruined the show for me was the awkward acting. The villain doesn't need an underbite, and everyone is allowed to blink, are they not? The ML is hot, yes, but his acting isn't top tier just yet. It kinda reminds me of Color Rush and Hwalls acting back then. Just that these two seem to have a bit more chemistry.
Send the ML to a few more workshops and teach him to blink.
Also... the way he killed the other vampire... it looked like he was grazing his neck, and who tf dies sitting like that??!

Great idea, poorly made. It seemed like the budget was relatively small, as the production wasn't at the same level as we're used to seeing with K-dramas.
Hopefully we get to see them redeem this plot with a new vampire BL soon, cause this storyline just needs more....story?

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This Could've Been So Cool

I'm so frustrated to see such a unique BL (Korean BL at that) go to such waste. Kissable Lips had so much potential to be THAT BL, and yet it falls off the wagon so fast and so brutally. I can't even really say I didn't like this, I more so am just so disappointed for the way it was executed and how anybody on the crew of KL could think this was okay.

Let's Dive In.

Kissable Lips is a K-BL about a vampire who finds a pure-blooded who can potentially save his life and turn him human as long as the mortal falls in love with him. When the mortal does, incidentally, the vampire reciprocates those feelings, and because of that, he's too scared to take the human's blood in the fear that he'll kill him. Great plot right? Just with this small synopsis, you can get a feel for how incredibly wonderful this story could be, and I remember reading it and being stoked to watch. But sadly, this series suffers from the common, "Korean gays get no time" -- the new phrase I'm calling it.

What needs serious help: With less than 12 minutes for only 8 episodes, this series chokes on its own plot. While I can believe the stakes Junho has to make in order to get Minhyun to fall in love with him, the romance is so hard to believe -- cause it seems to happen in the span of a few minutes -- in the series' world, maybe a couple of days. And while I too fell in love with Jiwoong at first sight, it's hard to believe MInhyun is so ready to potentially die for him at the drop of a hat. It's so important to build chemistry cause without it, you have no series, especially a BL series where the romance is the most important part. If anything, I would've liked them to take the majority of the time they had to build this relationship rather than anything else. Even showing a montage of maybe a few days/weeks going by while they connect would've been a better choice to show than what we got. And Jiwoong and Seobin didn't do a bad job with what they had to work with (they didn't even have a chaste kiss, it was spot on), but when it's not much, you have to look past the parched romance to really not mind the rest of the story.

Speaking of the rest of the story, it was a lot to add for a series that had no time for outside commentary. Like how Junho and Dohyun's story was scattered all over the place, and if you weren't paying attention with the right focus, you would be completely lost. It wasn't developed enough, there were so many flashbacks with little to no meaning, and you make connections, but I'd rather it just be outright explained. Not to mention that Dohyun's actor looked like he didn't want to be there. The delivery of his lines were so bland and uninteresting. They could've cut his parts and I still would've enjoyed the story.

What I liked: I liked the plot since it was unique and not something I'd ever seen. Vampire boy falls in love with human boy. Please, I would take that any day. But I just hate that it doesn't work due to the insignificant time frame. I didn't even mind the ending in which I would've complained about any other day, but seeing as this is a fantasy BL with vampires, I was understanding of why it ended as it did. But because of the stupidly rushed plot, I wasn't even all that sad when he died. I sighed a little and went awe, but it didn't provoke any real emotion. Just imagine how significant this series could've been if we got a fully fleshed out, complex-plot, character-driven, 40 minute 12 episode series. God, It would've been so good.

The title sequence was mesmerizing. The way the lighting cascades over his face and then changes to cast a gloom over him is so addicting. Jiwoong is seriously the prettiest human being ever.

Rating:

Story: 6.5 - So much potential wasted. And for whatever reason Korea doesn't let the gays shine on screen is beyond me. It fell short and left me unattached. I'll give it somewhat of a decent rating since they did what they could.

Acting: 7.5 - Good. The leads were pretty good. Spectacular? Meh, but good enough to keep the story going. The supporting characters were also pretty much in the same category. Dohyun's actor is the only one I wasn't all that impressed with.

OST: 5 - I really don't remember the music. Like at all. Oh well.

Rewatch Value: 1 - this just made me sad and not in a good way. No chance I'm rewatching.

If someone were to ask me for a recommendation solely based on the hotness of the actor, I would then shove this show in their face. Other than that, there are way better K-BLs.

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.....?

I agree that anything is possible and acceptable in drama and delulu world, but what in the ultra pro max delusional plot is this? Many things made no sense and the bare minimum rating which I am giving rn is just for the leads especially seo bin. He is nice. Rest, many things are just for the namesake. I didn't like the series from the beginning but kept watching it in a hope to have a happy ending. But the drama said not today. They could have atleast made it a happier end. TBH TO BE REALLY HONEST, the ending is the only sensible thing in the series. So yeah, it's okay to not have a happy ending afterall, I guess.

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Suspended disbelief for the sake of a kiss

In film theory there is a term called “the willful suspension of disbelief”…it is required of the audience so you can believe that the actors you are seeing on screen are believable and their story is real.. Just like a 300 year-old vampire (Kim Jun Ho) is willing to forego life as a human because he has instantly fallen in love with a high-school boy (Choi Min Hyun) and refuses to suck his pure blood for the sake of immortality. Thus is the plot line of Kissable Lips, the latest Korean BL offering.

The plot is simple enough and the boys are lovely to look at with just the right amount of yearning and angst (a requirement for a good BL). However there are some very odd aspects to this drama, the logic around killing humans (isn’t that what vampires do?), a principal who really serves no real purpose and why does the “bad vampire” have red eyes as opposed to the protagonists blue eyes? And the ending…..

I did check that this review was a SPOILER … why Jun Ho have to die with no real reason or purpose? the death scene was agonizing to watch not because it was sad, but because it was dumb. He could have force fed him instead of whimpering like a baby. I did not get it. There seemed to be no reason for the death or even the relationship. I felt frustrated. It was unsatisfying.
I also disliked the music, it seemed to be really loud and took away from the death scene making it even more clichéd.

Kissing? Yes! Even more than you would expect from a Korean BL. There is a positive trend occurring in this regard which is nice to see. Korean BLs use to be about lingering looks and tight closed mouth kisses lol. They are are finally becoming somewhat more realistic.

Overall…not bad a bad series but not great. I cannot wait until the day when Korea will produce a truly epic 16 episode BL series. Until then Kissable Lips, Cherry Blossoms After Winter, Semantic Error, Tinted With You….it is. Enjoy!

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