It Started With a Kiss 惡作劇之吻

This is my ultimately favourite drama. I LOVE THIS DRAMA! It’s the best drama ever made and broadcasted in Taiwan. Also, the best drama I’ve ever seen! I like it so much that I don’t know where to start…I’ve already written a paragraph stating that I like the drama…


Anyway, to the more important part, WHY I like this drama. (Gosh, I’m using so much CAPS). Well, first of all, it is, to put it simply, totally HILARIOUS! (There I go again…) The drama is so carefree; no pressure at all on the audience, except for maybe the suspense of Zhe- Shu’s way of liking Shain-Ching. There was also the fact that both Ariel Lin and Joe Chen are professional actors, which eliminates the constantly annoying bad acting of some of the main characters in other dramas. As you should well already know, It Started With a Kiss is a manga made drama. There also exists a Japanese drama from the same manga. It is widely known that the Taiwanese version is much better than the Japanese version. Considering the time it took to film it, half a year instead of the usual 3 months, it should be and deserve to be rated higher. I’ve heard that Shian Ching is really annoying in the Japanese version, which is not suprising because the character could easily go from the protagonist to the antagonist. This also proves that Ariel Lin is in fact a really good actress. Zhe-Shu is also quite different from any other character Joe Chen has played, which is also impressive. Or am I wrong? Correct me if I am.


Another thing is the character of Ah-Jin. In the manga, Itazura na Kiss, Ah-Jin is this totally ugly freak that nobody gives a shit about. But in the drama, Ah-Jin isn’t that bad. He’s hilarious without being annoying and in actual fact he’s not unattractive. It made me cry at the end how he worked so hard for Shian-Ching but never got her. Now on the other hand, if it were some one quite different, I would’ve told him to give the fuck up.


I’ll post the MV for the end song here, I actually didn’t find out about it until about a week later, I was all panicky, like, where’s that scene where they’re drawing hearts on the window, did I miss something, was there something cut off? I searched a forum then found out about the MV and went to YouTube and watched it. I loved how they filmed it separately, like an extra after the drama. I still have the last two episodes on my computer and I watch it whenever I feel like it. I love the ending, how they didn’t totally change but it was still a happily ever ending. But I didn’t like how the wedding turned out, bad attempt at creating humor. But all in all, it deserves 1st place.