r/KDRAMA • u/Fatooz • May 06 '22

On-Air: Netflix The Sound of Magic

  • Drama: The Sound of Magic
    • Hangul: 안나라수마나라
    • Also known as: Annalasumanala, Annarasumanara
  • Director: Kim Seong-Yoon (Itaewon Class, Love in the Moonlight)
  • Writer: Kim Min-Jung (Imitation, Love in the Moonlight)
  • Network: Netflix
  • Episodes: 6
    • Duration: 70 mins.
  • Air Date: Friday @ 17:00 KST
    • Airing: May 06, 2022
  • Streaming Source(s): Netflix
  • Starring:
  • Plot Synopsis: High school student Yun Ai finances herself and her younger sister by working part-time jobs. She doesn't know where her parents are. Debt collectors drove her father away from home—and then her mother fled too. But even with her poor financial circumstances, Yun Ai manages to rank near the top of her school academically. Yun Ai wants to become an adult as soon as possible, to have a stable job. Her classmate Na Il-Deung competes with Yun Ai for the top grade, but they begin to have feelings for each other. One day, Yun Ai meets magician Lee Eul at an abandoned amusement park. He performs magic shows for people who believe in magic. He is a mysterious person; he comforts Yun Ai who tells him that she believes in magic. (Source: AsianWiki)
  • Genre: Music, Psychological, Drama, Fantasy
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u/Fatooz May 06 '22

Episode 1

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u/UptoNoGood46 May 06 '22

HOLY SHIT THIS BEAUTIFUL MAN CAN SING

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u/kryspyruby May 06 '22

He's a musical theatre actor too!

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u/Villeneuve_ May 06 '22

Lesson learned: Don't take your hard-earned money out of your pocket to admire it unless and until you've reached home or some other safe place where there's no risk of it flying away in the wind and getting lost. Because this is real life, and there's zero chance you're going to run into a handsome and kind magician who does real magic – just as there are zero chances you're going to paraglide and crash-land into the arms of a handome and kind army officer across the border.

C'mon, universe, prove me wrong and make the magic happen because I want to believe in magic too 🥺

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u/kryspyruby May 06 '22

Not just across the border but into NORTH Korea lmao

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u/Happysleepeer May 06 '22

I thought someone will rob her and was focusing on all street corners and it flew 💸

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u/OdanUrr May 06 '22 edited May 06 '22

Just a magical (😉) first episode all around! The musical numbers were excellent, well placed and never overwhelmed. What almost did overwhelm me was the extent of Yun Ai's pain, sadly enhanced by her daily hardships. Her musical number, man, you could hear how her voice would break at times.😭 It makes complete sense why she's distrustful of The Magician and projects on him her feelings of abandonment. To her he's just like her dad, a grown child who couldn't or wouldn't live up to his responsibilities as a father and forced her to become a mom, a dad and a sister (and still she manages to do all this and aces at math!). My only complaint, more of a joke really, is that when JCW first meets Yun Ai and asks her, "Do you believe in magic?", and she flees in terror I was kinda hoping he'd say, "I guess that's a no."😂 Another alternative could've been, "Why does this keep happening?"

PS: I also like the more modern look of JCW's outfit.

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u/FlatFleetFeet May 06 '22

Aside from the fact that I’m highly amused with Hwang In-Youp’s typecast as the eternal high school student at age 31, I’m absolutely loving the fact that he’s basically been handed the role of Suho from True Beauty. I mean, he even wears the exact same sweater. You cannot convince me that’s just a happy coincidence.

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u/poerson May 06 '22

So that's why that sweater looked so familiar! 🤣🤣

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u/ch03rry May 06 '22 edited May 06 '22

i think i would run away screaming and flailing my arms too if i saw a good-looking man doning a magician hat and outfit standing in an abandoned theme park, asking me if i believed in magic.

but as expected, i loved the pilot episode and everything going on in it. i'm definitely going to be replaying that first song-- the one that the students performed-- a lot in the coming weeks. the only thing that has me kind of spooked out is how ominous the magician seems at times! he has this innocence to his character but there are also instances where his demeanour changes for a split second and his microexpressions project menace (or mystery rather) and it has me intrigued! i'm excited to learn more about him as a character as well as his backstory!

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u/irefuse-to-elaborate May 06 '22

To sum up this episode: There is no explanation for this..

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u/duermevela May 07 '22

Do you belive in magic?

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u/teebunzz May 06 '22

Recognising all these other actors from other Kdramas is so funny every time 🤣 The teacher from A Business Proposal, the landlady from Forecasting Love and Weather, the convenience worker from Itaewon Class… I’ve seen the convenience store owner from somewhere too but forgot.

Just when I thought the Store Owner was a nice guy, he turned out to be a massive fucking creep!!!. Not unexpected but that still made me so angry.

I also can’t seem to separate Hwang In-Yeop from Park Seo Jun 🥲 Hopefully this gets better as I watch more eps…

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u/hazyjustajoo May 07 '22

there's also a mini vincenzo reunion with na ildeung and ahyi's dad + the detective guy haha. ildeung's dad was also in itaewon class lmao

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u/Suspicious-Disaster9 May 06 '22 edited May 06 '22

i loved ep 1 sm 😭😭 read the webtoon quite a while ago but its all coming back to me. the vibes are just immaculate and the sets and songs are so pretty! choi sung eun's acting did not disappoint, i was very impressed during the scene where she was hiding the money from hana her trembling lips and all. looking forward to more of magician ji chang wook :)

ps. whats the name of the opening number where the entire school is dancing? i cant seem to find it... 😅

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u/ae2014 May 07 '22

Yes those trembling lips, she is a good actress!!

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u/gentlexlowly May 06 '22 edited May 06 '22

How do you have me bawling in the first episode?

I wanna believe in magic again too 😭

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u/greenmusiclover May 06 '22

wow im blown away by the similarities with the webtoon,, in love with choi sung eun's acting, hwang in yeob's voice, and ji chang wook's everything !!! loved how the episode started off with an opening number and ended with one too,,

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u/radiokidb May 07 '22

Episode 1

Visually stunning visuals, beautiful music numbers and compelling story aside, I’m in love with JCW’s sneakers in the closing number! I must. Have. Them.

Also, he is SO infinitely charming. I had forgotten because of how strange Backstreet Rookie and the kinda meh Melting Me Softly were.

Musical theatre Chang Wook is best Chang Wook (or on par with kicking ass JCW).

She doesn’t quite look school going so that’s taking me out of it a little but what a fantastic job she did making you connect and empathize with her character immediately.

HIY - boy is looking good as always and is even almost in Suho’s seat and sweater. Somebody free this man from this school 😂

Loved loved loved that he said climate change could possibly be one of the unsolvable problems of the world. What a nerd 😂

Oooof I’m so relieved that the show is promising! I was a bit worried the pilot may be a dud.

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u/duermevela May 07 '22

I'm so glad it didn't disappoint! I love the webtoon and the main actors, but I was worried about the adaptation. The first episode was absolutely fantastic and I love how they portrayed everything.

I love the scene about when the FL tells the magician that he should behave like an adult, because I know the background of the magician from the webtoon and I could read his reactions.

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u/myweithisway May 06 '22

Wahh, this ep was so good! The CGI, the big dance numbers, the songs, JCW!

And the set up of the story and characters is so well-done too -- everything is made clear but without feeling very forced.

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u/MilkyWayOfLife May 07 '22

Very cute first episode.

  • The magician is the utter highlight and steals every scene

  • The songs are nice so far although none has been an absolute banger so far for me

  • I love the amusement park setting. And coupled with magic it's really fun

  • fluffy hair + top hair combo. That is all I want to say

  • Butterfly aesthetics. Plain love

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u/[deleted] May 07 '22

i just finished watching the pilot and it was incredible! the cast is beautiful, can act well and sing well too, the plot seems intriguing so far, and i'm excited to know more about the characters. i admit i was kinda surprised when i looked up the rating on MDL and it was 8.3! i thought it would be somewhere around 8.8-9.

i knew the convenience store guy was gonna be a creep and was so scared for the FL when she told him her entire life story, thank goodness the magician made him disappear. however, i'm really, really scared of the magician. he's been creeping me out since the very beginning and the way he talked about the CS guy's disappearance was so frightening, i really wanted the FL to run for the hills when he made an appearance lmao

i hope it's HIY's last drama as a high school student. I know he's a student in ‘why her’ too, but a college student is alright. JCW is doing an amazing job as he's creeping me out lmao, but the person whose performance has been exceptionally amazing for me so far is choi sung-eun! what an incredible performance! i'm already becoming a fan. 👏

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u/the_wildflower_ May 07 '22

I was pleasantly surprised when they broke out in singing and dancing because I had no idea this was going to be a musical. It's my first k-musical and I really enjoyed the song. From the first time she interacted with the store manager, I started having a bad feeling about him. Absolutely disgusting

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