Premiere Watch: What Comes After Love
by missvictrix
Time slot: Fridays
Broadcaster: Coupang Play
Genre: Romance
Episode count: 6
Global streamer: Viki
Reasons to watch: Anyone in the mood for an evocative, sad love story? *waves hand* In this cross-cultural romance drama, Lee Se-young is reunited with her ex Sakaguchi Kentaro five years after their breakup — which seemingly left some unresolved feelings. The novel adaptation also stars Hong Jong-hyun and Nakamura Anne.
TL;DR: Red alert for all those who want an introspective love story with no guarantee of a happy ending.
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1 jerrykuvira
September 26, 2024 at 3:12 PM
It is time for the tissues and runny nose. Tell me why I am excited to be heartbroken by this drama.
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2 Blue (@mayhemf)
September 26, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I am so ready for all the feels and heavy heart. And for the beautiful human called Sakaguchi Kentaro.
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Procrasti-NationFirstCitizen
September 27, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Honestly... These two actors are unworldly beautiful. I have never seen the Japanese actor before, but I find Lee Se Young one of the most beautiful FLs out there. I've seen 3 shows of hers, and she's been absolutely stunning in all of them. Good actor, too.
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3 kiara
September 26, 2024 at 3:18 PM
These two leads, along with the PD, have been working hard to promote their drama. I hope it will find success in both Korea and Japan and that this cross-culture novel/drama and casting will become a trend.
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4 kay4625
September 26, 2024 at 3:40 PM
This is gonna hurt, isn't it?
Gotta admit, I'm mostly drawn to this because of the cross-culture element. I'm not that familiar with the leads (aside from having seen Lee Se-young in Crowned Clown), so I'm also curious to see what both bring to the table here. Please be good!
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5 jillian
September 26, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Waahhh! Its here! I am so in the mood for introspective melodrama and hopefully a beautiful cinematogtaphy.
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6 Siona ⭐️ (@DramaticFoodie)
September 26, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The stills from the trailer were gorgeous and gives me 5 centimetre per second feelings. Better to be sad than frustrated/disappointed with all the current melos disguised as rom-coms - Sign me up!
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7 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 26, 2024 at 6:58 PM
So looking forward to this one, a short season and a same day two episode drop is exactly how I like my drama served. Fridays will be interesting again.
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8 Dylan [Suffering from Judge from Hell brainrot]
September 26, 2024 at 7:49 PM
My God, it’s finally here! Anyone know where this will be streaming?
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM
The post says globally on Viki and this show is showing up in my region but the other show that is supposed to be on Viki globally isn’t even showing as not available in my region or in the coming soon, latest release sections. I hope you can locate it too.
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9 Ahjummaaa
September 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Ahjummaaa
September 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
with that said, ML is awfully attractive.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
September 26, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Because the other post was deleted this half a sentence leaves me feeling intrigued🕵️♀️
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Ahjummaaa
September 27, 2024 at 10:56 AM
haha you caught me! I decided to delete my rant about writers and actors showing cross cultural relationships when they don't know the cultures that well and aren't fluent in the languages. Because it often leads to perpetuation of cultural stereotypes and inaccurate portrayals. I'm thinking of the typical foreigner in K-dramas that is just a caricature of what the writer thinks an American is supposed to act and talk like. Or the supposed Korean raised abroad but played by an actor who doesn't speak English and raised completely in Korea. Or a Japanese character played by a Chinese actress in a movie. There's all these nuances that are missing in these situations. So then I looked up the drama and realized that it was based on a novel written by a Korean and Japanese team so maybe there is less chance of it being culturally inaccurate. Hence the deletion :)
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Dylan [Suffering from Judge from Hell brainrot]
September 27, 2024 at 5:20 AM
of course, it's THE Sakagucci himself. And, wow, Anne Nakamura... I wish she was the FL of a good drama T-T
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Ahjummaaa
September 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM
This photo and age and hair styling looks good on him. Reminds me of Lee Joon-hyuk a bit. I googled him and there's other photos that make him look like Gong Yoo too. I def. prefer how he's aged in his 30's as compared to the younger photos of him. I'm curious what he's like on the screen since so far I've only seen photos.
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10 Kurama
September 26, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Yeah! Finally! I'm waiting for it since they announced it. I love cross-countries dramas!
There are only 6 episodes 😭
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11 🌸 Seeker 🌸
September 27, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Good to go into a drama expecting heartbreak. Who knows we may just get blindsided by HEA!! 🤣🤣🤣
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12 Ahjummaaa
September 28, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I watched about 20 minutes of episode 1 and it wasn't as bad as I thought. It's watchable. ML is a dead ringer for Gong Yoo. I'm just...I don't know. I'm never satisfied with cross-cultural rom-coms. The writing and storylines don't satisfy me. I may have enjoyed this more when I was younger though. But now as an ajumma it's just too sweet and a bit too trite. So I managed 20 minutes and that was all I needed to satisfy my curiousity about the ML. It's hard enough writing a decent rom-com, let alone a cross-cultural one set in a foreign country. The stories I've seen so far fail to capture my interest. There's no hook.
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13 peiyeelai
October 1, 2024 at 5:14 AM
This is not a romcom...and I love every bit of the drama.
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