Webtoon Hero - Toondra Show (2015, South Korea)
Title: 웹툰히어로 툰드라쇼/Webtun Hieoro -Tundeurasyo
Also known as: Webtoon Hero - Tundra Show Genre: Romance, comedy, melodrama
Episodes: 11 (However I'll only recap the part that has EXID's Jung Hwa)
Broadcast network: MBC every1
Broadcast period: 2015-July-27 to 2015-?
Due to a complicated roommate situation, high schooler Yook Ah Young (Park Jung Hwa) is left with a baby. One day, 4 handsome guys knock on her door....
The Cast:
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- Park Jung Hwa: Yook Ah Young
- Park Eun Seok: Joo Do Jin
- Lee Cheol Woo: Baek Shin
- Seo Han Gyeol: Chae Kang Woo
- Go Hyeon: Go Yong Jae
Information: I'll only recap and analyze the parts with EXID's Jung Hwa, mostly because the other 3-4 sidestories are not subbed yet and very difficult to find online in good quality.
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[SPOILERS BELOW!] This is a recap and analysis of episode 1
The first episode starts off with Yook Ah Young peacefully sleeping just to, in the next second be awaken by the loud sound of a crying baby. She picks up the baby named Bomi and tries to calm her down, which causes the baby to cry even mode. This triggers irritation from all the neighbours in the entire building complex. Suddenly, someone rings the on bell. Thinking that it's her friend, she runs to open, only to find four handsome guys standing in front of her door. Dream come true <3
Before she knows it, they neak into her apartment, leaving her speechless by the door. Feeling both confused and flustered by their sudden appearance she makes an attept to ask what's going on, only to be hushed by one of the guys. He brushes past her and she follows him inside the living room where the other three are fully occupied cleaning and looking through the apartment. The entire scenario feels like a dream, with flower petals and calm music. Ah Young is more confused than ever.
They tell her that the apartment isn't in good condition, how the temperature isn't correct, how the air isn't clean and that half of food in the fridge is unhealthy. Their point is that the apartment isn't a good place for the baby. In all this commotion Bomi starts to cry. Ah Young tells them not to touch the baby as they'll only make her cry more. However, when Joo Do Jin, the guy that hushed her by the door, touches the baby she instantly stops crying. You're a wizard Do Jin! O_O Just just an expert, I dunno xD perhaps both?
Ah Young is surprises and asks how he could calm down the baby so easily. Joo Do Jin just smirks. As the guys doesn't seem to want to leave the house Ah Young decides to just give up and let them have their way. She watches them as one of the guys starts to play a calm melody on the guitar. Feeling suddenly relaxed and sleepy, Ah You dozes off on the couch. In her dream she is lying down in a meadow with the four handsome guys surrounding her. When she suddenly jolts out of her sleep she realises that the scenario wasn't just a dream.
She blushes and checks her clothes to make sure that nothing had happeend while she was asleep. Then she asks them why they're still there to which they reply that they have no place to go as their job is to move from place to place while working as babysitters. Ah Young reveals to them that she is in fact not Bomi's mother but that the baby belongs to her friend. They were supposed to live together but her friend suddenly disappeared, leaving Bomi in her care. To this the guys get up and introduce themselves as "Every step to take care of a baby", they are babysitters who serve both the baby in need and the customer.
They reasure Ah Young that they will serve her and help her out, but Ah Young is very skeptical to the whole situation and tells them to leave. Not paying them much attention she puts Bomi in a baby stroller and runs off to school. The four guys watch her leave and decide to give up and instead find another cutomer.
Sadly, even with their charms, they get rejected over and over again by various families. The constant rejections leaves them feeling failed and empty and they start to worry about their future as they need are in a deserpate need for money. Meanwhile, Ah Young is forced to leave in the middle of class due to Bomi's loud crying.
She starts to wonder about the future and how long she will be able to take care of Bomi when she suddenly get's a phone call from her friend. But because of the bad connection she doesn't end up finding out her friend's whearabouts.
The scene switches and we get to hear yet another failed cell phone conversation between Joo Do Jin and a cutomer. As the four guys try to come up with a good plan what to do next. They are met by their boss, who tells them that because of their repeating failiure he doesn't want want them in his company/business anymore. The guys fall down to their knees and desperatly yet comically beg him to give them a second chance.
But their boss has no time for pity and just coldly leaves their luggage in front of them, before he walks away. Ah Young walks by and sees the scene being played out but is too wrapped up in her own problems to pay it much mind. She goes back into her apartment and Bomi starts to cry again. Making an attempt to try to calm her down she realises that the apartment feels empty and that she won't be able to take care of the baby by herself.
She goes back to the playground where the four guys are, and tells them that she'll accept their offer and that they should "live together". With those words and their reaction, episode 1 ends.
My Thoughts:
Honestly, I only decided to check this out because I saw that each episode was 20 minutes long. The synopsis on mydramalist and the promo-poster didn't give much information about the plot and because of that, I didn't know what to expect from it; but boy was I pleasantly surprised! Taking it for what it is (a short webtoon drama) it was very enjoyable. The characters are funny and I quite enjoy the sudden twist at the end when the main girl decides to accept their help. The cliffhanger really makes me wonder what will happen next. We'll definitely see a friendship bloom between our main characters but what I'm most curious about is the romance. Will it be played out as a triangle-drama or something else? Seeing as that we already got a few Ah Young x Do Jin moments, I'm starting to think that a cute relationship might spark between the two of them in the near future. What do you guys think? Do you perhaps already have someone you ship with the main girl? I already have so many thoughts and theories but since this was just the first episode, it's impossible to say what will happen next. Either way, I enjoyed this episode a lot and I can't wait to see what direction the plot will take!
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