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Premiere Watch: High School Return of a Gangster

Time slot: Wednesdays
Broadcaster: Wavve
Genre: Fantasy, youth, human
Episode count: 8
Global streamer: TBA

Reasons to watch: There are many things that dramaland loves, and this drama brings together two of them: bullied high schoolers and body-swap hijinks. In a special guest appearance, Lee Seo-jin plays a hardcore gangster who winds up inhabiting the body of a bullied teen (Yoon Chan-young). Needless to say, his body’s new inhabitant isn’t going to take any funny business from a bunch of high schoolers, and it’s all revenge and fights and school hierarchies from there.

TL;DR: Gangster (Lee Seo-jin) lands in body of bullied teen (Yoon Chan-young)

 
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Hoping this will survive the four episode test when it drops tomorrow.

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Gangsters and high school....thanks but I would rather read the recaps than watch it.

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So a bullied high schooler will body swap with a gangster boss. I do not see an end to the violence. I wait for reviews to see if this will be worth it.

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Sounds fun, but will those of us in the United States ever get to watch?

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I am guessing: no. Maybe late surprise somewhere like on Amazon plus.

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Spare a thought for us Australians - we hardly ever get anything and if we do, it’s ages after you Americans do! Nobody gives us a thought! Boo hoo hoo 😢

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Who makes these ridiculous decisions? Large audiences in both places.

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It is a shame that Viu is not available in Australia, heck I wish it was available in the US.

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I like the official poster but since I *just* watched The Dude in Me, I need to see some clips or something to see if there's any difference or appeal to this version of the concept.

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Did you like the Dude in me? I loved it that's why I want to see how they will turn it into a drama length story. They dropped the overweight needs to get fit part so I wonder about the other elements that were in the film that have been changed.

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I still have the film THE DUDE IN ME queued up on Viki US and promise to get back to you on that @reply1988. I don’t have good vibes that this GANGSTER will be available a legal stream in the US.

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It was fine. I smiled or chuckled a couple of times. It made me appreciate the gangster actor cause during the period he played a nervous teen, it's so hard to believe he was the same guy from Bloodhounds haha.

Also made me curious about the actor who plays the lead.

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minnie @luckywargoddess asked the same question in the previous news article, but this drama is not based on the film The Dude In Me. It is based on the web novel I, A Gangster, Became A High School Student..

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There were some parts that were very similar in both the film and the drama though so I wonder if The dude in me was also based on that webtoon or the webtoon was written after the author saw the film?

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Very interested in the drama. I'm sad to know Seo-jin only has a special guest appearance. Still I'm looking forward for this.

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I don’t know if there will be a hangout for this drama if only one or two of us get access to the drama and there are very few who will watch it even if they do have access.
I liked the start and the two episode drop worked well. There were some elements that were very similar to The dude in me but there were significant differences too. Based on these two episodes I will be watching for the duration.

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Oh, I was getting excited for this one before I realised they would (of course) drop the BL element for the screen. The webtoon is BL-coded, and I'm assuming they'll replace it with bromance instead. Oh well, I guess we can't have it all!

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Note to self: Do not attempt to read the webtoon. There's no English translation for now. (It's been 2 hours and I might have just reached the 3rd chapter— someone throw me a truck of doom to lie under, thank you)

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I very much enjoyed episodes 1-2 and I am super intrigued by Se Kyung. I don’t know the actor but he’s blowing me away (leftmost in the picture above). He is enigmatic and charismatic. I am so curious about his motivations and feelings, and I just don’t know where they’ll be going with his character.

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For those in South East Asia, this is available on streaming VIU on Wednesday released.

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I wrote the comment on the wrong page haha

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