Hi welcome! This is my thirty-fifth blog post! In this blog post I will be talking about a kdrama called twenty-five twenty-one! This kdrama’s genre is romance! Haha I’ve posted too many romances. This kdrama is super good and came out in 2022! Hopefully this blog post will interest you into watching it!
Here is a quick summary I found from asianwiki!: “Twenty-Five, Twenty-One” tells a love story between Na Hee-Do (Kim Tae-Ri) and Back Yi-Jin (Nam Joo-Hyuk).
Na Hee-Do is a member of her high school fencing team. Due to the South Korean financial crisis, the high school fencing team gets disbanded. Getting through all the difficulties, she becomes a member of the sabre fencing national team.
The South Korean financial crisis also causes Back Yi-Jin’s father’s business to go bankrupt. This leads to a life change for Back Yi-Jin, from living the life of a wealthy person to a poor person. While studying, he works part-time jobs like delivery newspapers. Later, he becomes a sports reporter for a broadcasting network.
The main characters are: Na Hee-do, Baek Yijin, Ji Seung-wan, Moon Ji-woong,and Ko Yu-rim.
(spoiler alert! From now on the blog is going to talk about what happens in the anime! if you are interested in watching and don’t want spoilers then you shouldn’t read any further! just a reminder that everything I write in my blog posts is from memory so I do apologize if this isn’t the right information!)
This show can be very confusing at times. For example, this show is talking about the past but sometimes it will show some clips of the future with not much explanation saying what is happening. The first episode, beginning, it will show the future where the Hee-do is a mom and you may wonder “what’s going on, is the kid in the first clip Hee-do?” but it is actually Hee-do’s daughter in the future. Her name is Kim Min-Chae. She loves to do ballet but one day she was doing a competition and saw how good the competitors were so she got really sad and gave up when it was her turn. She then walked out of the place and went to her mom’s car and told Hee-do that she didn’t want to do ballet anymore. Hee-do asked her why not since Min-Chae used to love ballet and was super good at it. Min-chae responded saying that ballet was too hard now and she wasn’t having anymore fun doing it, it just feels like pressure… etc. Hee-do then explained that when you do something you love, you will go through some hills or trouble and you’ll get through the trouble if you just keep doing the thing you love, but Min-chae didn’t care and just got mad. When they got home, Min-chae found Hee-do’s old diaries from when she was fencing back then. At this point, she started reading it and the scene went back to the past.
That’s it for today’s blog post! I hope you enjoyed it!
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