Kdrama 2019
Extraordinary You (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Global Granary Recommendation
Extraordinary You poster
- Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Youth, Comics
- Release Date: 2019
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama: 16 Episodes
Cast:
- Kim Hye-yoon as Eun Dan-oh
- Kim Ro-woon as Ha-ru
- Lee Jae-wook as Baek Kyung
- Kim Young-dae as Oh Nam-joo
- Jung Gun-joo as Lee Do-hwa
- Lee Na-eun as Yeo Joo-da
- Lee Tae-ri as “Jinmichae”
- Kim Ji-in as Shin Sae-mi
- Um Hyo-sup as Eun Moo-young
- Choi Jin-ho as Baek Dae-sung
- Ji Soo-won as Cha Ji-hyun
Episode 1 & 2
I love this drama. It is fun and rather refreshing to watch.
And there are many eye-candy. The girls are not bad either.
Anyway, Dan-oh is a popular girl who had been thought to be in loved and engaged with Baek Kyung. They are childhood sweethearts and their fathers are business partners.
Baek Kyung does not like Dan-oh much, in fact, there are times that he hated her and tells her about this hatred.
What Dan-oh could not understand was that she does not have much feeling with him either and had told him this. In fact, she would get out of his way when she cannot help it.
She tells her friend that she was not in love with Kyung. Her friends thought just laughed at her denials because they told her that she had been pining for Kyung for ten years.
Dan-oh has a heart problem and wears a pace-maker. She would often faint when was stressed or to get attention or even to get out of troubling matters.
Kyung was often tasked to take her to the clinic, stays with her until she comes through but very begrudgingly. He even has a girlfriend, who he shows off to Dan-oh.
It is very unfortunate that Dan-oh seemed to end up where Kyung would be and he would accuse her of stalking him.
He won’t take her denials. He told her that he hated her because she was a sick woman. He doesn’t do sick girls.
Dan-oh was actually not feeling 100 percent about herself because she seemed to jump from one situation to another without her control. She would be sitting and then she suddenly become conscious.
She was rather confused about her situation that she thought she might have a mental illness like amnesia, Alzheimer or dementia. She thinks she has lapsed of memories.
She went to the library and researched her symptoms. Among the books that she was looking at, she found a book called Secret.
She had a fright while flicking through the pages. It was a comic book.
Dan-oh had this feeling that she must help a schoolmate, Joo Da, who was being bullied because she does not come from a rich family.
Despite the constant bullying, Joo Da remains positive and bright.
Her purity attracted the leader of the most popular guys in school. They are called the A3, made up of Nam Joo, the leader, Baek Kyung and Do Hwa. Whenever these three guys appear in school, the girls and some boys can’t help scream their adoration.
Nam Joo had fallen for Joo Da.
Aside from these three, there was also a school student/chef called Jinmichae who was wowing the girls.
Jinmichae though was rather mysterious.
One day, Dan-oh saw a sort of vortex shining just out of her reach by the school bridge. She immediately noticed that Jinmichae seemed to be staring at it too but the rest of the people in school seemed completely oblivious.
Dan-oh went to find Jinmichae in the school canteen. She was surprised that he had a copy of Secret.
When she flicked the pages again, she found it oddly familiar.
Jinmichae was forced to explain to her that she was not human, she is a cartoon, a product of someone’s fertile imagination.
Dan-oh was finally convinced after realising why she moves to a situation completely random from what she remembers last.
After coming to terms with was she was, she thought that she was the lead in the story. But she was absolutely gutted to find out that she was just an extra character, not even part of the supporting leads.
She then realised that the leads of the story were Joo Da and Nam Joo.
Dan-oh found this too much but when she tried to vary the story, she was prevented to move and if she managed to, the story sort of rewinds.
And then she met an unknown boy, who seemed to save her every time she meets an accident, including falling on the stairs.
He was there for her to fall back onto. But for some reason, she can’t see his face.
Until she realised that she can see the future and can change it somehow. She may even become the lead.
She made a mission to find her mystery boy with the heartbeat-inducing back. She felt her heart rate increasing while she was supported by his back.
To find him, she started running to every boy she sees in the school to bump her back against their backs and monitor her heartbeat.
One day, she saw a boy out in the pergola. She went to find him. She was reaching for an umbrella which was stuck in the pergola when a hand pulled the umbrella and gave it to her. He then quickly tried to leave but she ran after him and for the first time she saw his face.
Awww so cute. I can’t wait for the next episodes.
I love this drama so much and the cast are gorgeous.
It’s so interesting, I just kept watching the episode after another, forgot to blog it. LOL
Episode 3
Do Hwa realised that something strange is going.on.
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
As a consequence of aiding and abetting Dan Oh, Haru was punished and disappeared into oblivion.
Episode 7
Haru had returned but he had forgotten everything about his previous incarnation. He is Haru but not really Haru.
Dan Oh knew for sure that he was not her Haru when she saw that the long scar in his palm had vanished.
Episode 8
The book, Secret, had mysteriously disappeared. Its replacement was another manwha called Trumpet Creepers. This comic is a historical version of the love story between Dan Oh and Haru.
They were so cute.
Haru said that there is a force within himself that forces him to gravitate towards Dan Oh which was annoying his new best friend Kyung, Dan Oh’s fiance.
In the end Haru gave in and told Dan Oh that he remembers her and the scar in his hand had reappeared.
Episode 9
Haru is back complete with his memories of Dan Oh and scar on his hand.
He got the scar and memories back when he tried to reached into some sort of glowing vortex in the far corner of the library.
Wit his memory intact he ran after Dan Oh, who at that point was having a mini-breakdown in the middle of the street because of missing him and her throbbing failing heart,
Haru went to hug and comfort her and told her that he will never again let her go and he is doing good fulfilling his promise because he had turned into one badass against Kyung.
He refused to be a sidekick of Kyung anymore.
They had a confrontation where Haru asked Kyung seriously if he really likes Dan Oh because he does. Kyung can’t answer but he is really fond of Dan Oh and felt guilty that his family is using her for financial gain.
Meanwhile, Nam Joo was really trying his to court Joo Da by delegating to people to create a romantic setting for him to confess to Joo Da.
But for some reasons, it always go wrong and Do Hwa seemed to end up comforting and supporting Joo Da.
Joo Da is beginning to look at him in a new light but Do Hwa had made a promise not to come between the love story of Joo Da and Nam Joo anymore.