Love Song for Illusion (2024)

Dropping it and for good reason

After watching the first three episodes, I have some thoughts on this drama that give me pause.

Right off the bat, I don't like how the storyline is basically based on leading man drugging leading lady to make her lose her memory and taking advantage of it in order to make her believe she is "his woman". MAJOR ICK.

When it comes to the plot of the drama, I can already tell how it's going to develop and kinda guessed the ending.

Performance wise, I am dumbfounded. Hwang Hee is the strongest link. Everyone else is overcompensating for a bad storyline. I have seen members of this cast in different roles before and I know exactly how good they can be. My guess it's that they are being told to lean on the original webtoon material, which it's fine, but not so heavy.

Look, Park Ji-Hoon was amazing in Weak Hero Class 1 but I'm frankly deeply upset he accepted this incredibly ill thought out project. Even he can't carry the crap dialogue, weirdly disjointed jumps, and underlying creepy premise for his connection to the female lead. It's just bad.

Lee Jung-sub, the director of this drama has worked in some very fun projects and scriptwriter Yoon Kyung-ah was responsible for stories like At Eighteen, so... Iike I said I am dumbfounded.

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# We all have an "AK HEE" ( Evil spirit ) inside us .........!!!

AK HEE is the evil voice that resides inside each of us !

AK HEE is our second personality which asks us to do things which brings " Instant Pleasure " that in long term may harm us but it doesn't care because that becomes the work of main personality (THE REAL YOU) to clean after the mess

You have an important task to do right now
AK HEE doesn't give a damn about it
It will give you 1000s of reasons for why you can delay it
It will make a fool out of you without you even realizing and when you realize , most of the times it's too late to correct things.
It will create huge messes which if you can't correct in time will become " Lifelong REGRETS ".

You decided to wake up at 6 .
AK HEE cares only about the instant pleasure
It will then give you 1000s of reasons why it's ok to sleep just 5 mins more
Here you again became a fool
And until you realized , It's already been 7 o'clock
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There are 100s of cases , 100s of messes AK HEE creates each day
It is now time for you to realize.
And take control of your actions.

A Little change today by saying , " I will not let AK HEE fool me today. " will make you a Better version of yourself tomorrow !
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# Only YOU can control the AK HEE in you !!!

( AK HEE is the other personality of ML in the drama. - FYI Only )

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Except for our leads, everything else is boring and not funny

First of all, the leads’ introduction: Our male lead, Sajo Hyun (Park Jihoon) is gentle but has the worst father, who makes him suffer from childhood to boyhood. Due to his upbringing, he grows up to have multiple personalities, one is his gentle self and the other is a seductive fighter goes by the name Ak Hee. In contrast, our female lead Yeon Wol (Hong Ye Ji) grows up in a loving family and she’s trained to be a warrior. These two met in such a traumatic incident, which lead her determined to take revenge to his father. 10 years later, they meet again.

UPDATE: They did well setting up the tension and stake, first ep was really good. The child actors performed so well!

In the first few episodes, I don't feel connected to both leads once they grow up. The palace intrigue are boring and the scenes that are supposed to be a comedy are not. I was bored out of my mind seeing the king being drunk. The positive part is that the revenge mission is moving along well so far.

With more screentime our leads spend together, I feel more interest with them, but still, I'm struggling to enjoy everything else that happen outside their scenes. It feels like I've seen this type of story many times before.

-Jan 2024, Yovita
Find me on Instagram: @kdramajudge

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Fantasies are weird anyway

> I'm currently watching this show <

So, I just watched episode 3 and after seeing so many bad reviews about this show I noticed I had to write mine too and say that this show isn't bad as the people are saying it's.
First of all, keep in mind that this one is fantasy so things are all weird and nothing is normal here. With that in mind, you should also knows that Ak Hee isn't even the second Male Lead of the story, he's just a bad personality that our ML has developed thanks to his tragic past, so ppl who are dropping this show bc of him definitely are losing a potential story. I also don't like Ak Hee but he's an important part of the story, he made us wish for Sajo Hyun to win this weird fight. And talking about "fight" I think it's very weird seeing Sajo fighting Ak Hee in another demission, like, what? But anyway, it's fantasy it isn't mean to have any sense.
One thing that I like like about this show is our FL, Kyera is really enjoyable and love her, even when she had lost her memories she was cool, I really like her. And her relationship with Sajo is really cute. I hope they'd end up together at the ending. As for Ak Hee, I hope he di*s already LMAO. Idk if he's supposed to be the kinda character enjoyable who's psycho but also funny, but the only thing I know is that I don't like him at all, I'll wish for Soja victory, he's cute and I feel bad for him :(

Anyway, if you like Fantasy as much as I do give this show a try and don't mind the bad ratings. I'm still watching and I know that my review might change in the future but for now I think it's worth watching it.

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As a reader, Im so disappointed but As a fan need to continue.

I read this webtoon because of PJH but I never thought that this will make me happy and sad.
To me , this webtoon is perfect example of Character development I want to see in protagonist of a story. This webtoon has many layers that make u hooked and amazing every new chapter arrived. I love how character made, especially sajo hyun from being distrustful man to a man with full of love because of gyera. The webtoon's plot is masterpiece but in this drama the plot is OVERSIMPLIFIED. I felt they rushing too much the story. Adding King participation in plot didn't help to build a strong impact in plot of the drama but make it worst. It only add some dead atmosphere in drama. Some character are poor written. I dont have problem in acting but I think the plot is a big hinderance to the actor's potentials to make this a good series. This drama didn't get the vibe of webtoon not because they make it like rom-com but plot is just messy.

NO HATE TO THE ACTOR, They are great especially PJH. Hong Yeji some your great also but there some needs to improve but I see how you act, someday you will be one of most finest herione actor in K-drama

BUT FOR PLOT I HATE. I know writer did your best but the story you made failed to impress me and made me realized that I wish never read the webtoon to not see the flaws you made.

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Good concept, sad execution

A man who developed a split personality because of guilt in seeing his father kill so many people. A woman out for revenge but fell in love with the son of the man who killed her parents. This was my kind of drama or so I thought.

I love revenge stories. I also love healing stories. I expected to love this drama but more than halfway through its run and I still can't get invested in any of the characters. Most of the actors are overacting so the characters felt fake somehow especially the ChungTa character. Also, when ChungTa changes from male to female, you can definitely see the pauses in the camera work. Some of the scene sets used also looked cheap like the dream world where Akhee and SajoHyun meet. The director also used a lot of recall scenes instead of just telling the story as it happens. An example of this was the scene of Kyera encouraging SajoHyun to return to the palace then the next scenes show what was happening in the palace, after that was the coronation, then SajoHyun recalled how Kyera was finally able to convince him to return. Maybe the director thought this was more dramatic but for me it just became disjointed storytelling.

This drama just keep feeling more like a low budget school project not a station drama.

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Tudo é Fantasia

Hoje é o dia de se perder nas intrigas mágicas de Love Song For Illusion! Entre no mundo encantado onde o inusitado é a norma. Ak Hee, um psicopata adoravelmente destemido, está enfeitiçando nossos corações, enquanto o Príncipe Sajo Hyun é tão fofo . Sinto vontade de proteger esse príncipe em um potinho!

Com a morte do Rei Mal, o caos persiste com o Grande Príncipe Sajo Yung lutando pelo trono e a ambiciosa Princesa Herdeira pronta para qualquer coisa para se tornar rainha . Kyera, em busca de vingança, agora se encontra no epicentro de um triângulo amoroso envolvendo o Príncipe Sajo Hyun e o intrigante "espírito maligno" ou personalidade Ak Hee. E como se isso não bastasse, sua verdadeira identidade foi revelada, colocando sua vida em risco.

Em Love Song For Illusion, prepare-se para uma montanha-russa de emoções, onde o destino de Kyera se entrelaça com segredos e paixões intensas. Não perca esse espetáculo de fantasia que vai te deixar ansioso por mais!

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An Acquired Taste

I am usually a read the synopsis then decide if I am going to watch a show and I must say I actually ignore this first but the I run out of shows to watch and decided to start this drama.

So far, I am really liking this title and was looking forward for new episodes. I must say that characters need more development though. Also, this gives me the “Moon in the day” vibe with the revenge plot but then again as I say an acquired taste. It is not bad as what they say. I have been into Chinese (Wuxia/Xanxia) drama because of the fight scenes and so far this show has good stunts and fighting scenes.

I am really loving Park Ji Hoon here, the way he potrays his dualities in character is on point. The ML and FL chemistry are good as well.

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