#HIGH SCHOOL RETURN OF A GANGSTER

[optimistwithdepressivetendencies]

the juxtaposition of koreans turning bl into bromance cause this genre “doesn’t guarantee financial success” and chinese doing everything they can to bypass censorship in order to produce bl is so funny to me

[magicaldragons]

LMAOOO, why does every kdrama i start either have a potential gay ship or turn out to be queer-coded.

[guzhufuren]

fucking vindication

in contrast:

[xiaofengs]

High School Return Of A Gangster (2024)

[dangermousie]

I am LOVING High School Return of a Gangster which is basically this meme:

Made into an entire drama!

[chicademartinica]

[bearygyur]

Your face looks much better today. Of course. I kept rubbing an egg and raw meat on my bruise.

HIGH SCHOOL RETURN OF A GANGSTER (2024) – E04

[shangyeoms]

Yoon Chan-young and Bong Jae-hyun for Marie Claire Korea (May 2024)

[whumpderella]

High School Return of a Gangster (Episode 06)

[zhivchik]

[whumperer-86]

Fainted

Highschool return of Gangster ep4

[elmaxlys]

[randomblog-things]

i feel like i’m interrupting something idk

[ss-navi]

[swiftletinthecloud]

Kim Deuk Pal is being the father figure that all these high schoolers need 😭

He's trying to do well in school and to get into college since that's something he wasn't able to do during his own life. But he's also trying to improve and protect Song Yi Heon's life so that when the kid's soul does return, he's going to feel like he can live again. Standing up to Yi Heon's bullies, both those hurting him physically and verbally too, making sure Yi Heon has friends, protecting his mother and trying to get him out of that conniving secretary's hands.

KDP's also making sure that Yi Heon's bullies become better people AND stay in school bc education is important and he's going to threaten them to go to school even if they don't have parents who care.

He's also showing and voicing to Choi Se Kyung that his controlling prosecutor father is an abuser, even if he might not be hitting CSK, and that it's not CSK's fault for how his abuser father act, even if the douchebag is gaslighting CSK to think the way he's controlling ever bit of CSK's life is acceptable.

I hope that when Yi Heon's soul do feel safe enough to return that he'll keep all the memories and skills that KDP is creating so that he can keep all these friendships that KDP is painstakingly building for him.

[dangermousie]

I don't really have much to say about High School Return of a Gangster but it's such a fun drama, and makes me think of old jdramas from the early 00s - I can totally see one of old school JE boys as the mains.

Also, I know they said they removed BL for financial reasons but they did a terrible job of removing it if so - in this week's eps alone they took a romantic trip to the beach running in the ocean, placing little bandaids on each other and sharing a hotel room etc.