Premiere Watch: High School Return of a Gangster (2024)

22 May 27, 2024May 27, 2024

Premiere Watch: High School Return of a Gangster

by missvictrix

Time slot: Wednesdays
Broadcaster: Wavve
Genre: Fantasy, youth, human
Episode count: 8
Global streamer: TBA

Reasons to watch: There are many things that dramaland loves, and this drama brings together two of them: bullied high schoolers and body-swap hijinks. In a special guest appearance, Lee Seo-jin plays a hardcore gangster who winds up inhabiting the body of a bullied teen (Yoon Chan-young). Needless to say, his body’s new inhabitant isn’t going to take any funny business from a bunch of high schoolers, and it’s all revenge and fights and school hierarchies from there.

TL;DR: Gangster (Lee Seo-jin) lands in body of bullied teen (Yoon Chan-young)

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Hoping this will survive the four episode test when it drops tomorrow.

Gangsters and high school....thanks but I would rather read the recaps than watch it.

So a bullied high schooler will body swap with a gangster boss. I do not see an end to the violence. I wait for reviews to see if this will be worth it.

Sounds fun, but will those of us in the United States ever get to watch?

I like the official poster but since I *just* watched The Dude in Me, I need to see some clips or something to see if there's any difference or appeal to this version of the concept.

Very interested in the drama. I'm sad to know Seo-jin only has a special guest appearance. Still I'm looking forward for this.

I don’t know if there will be a hangout for this drama if only one or two of us get access to the drama and there are very few who will watch it even if they do have access.
I liked the start and the two episode drop worked well. There were some elements that were very similar to The dude in me but there were significant differences too. Based on these two episodes I will be watching for the duration.

Oh, I was getting excited for this one before I realised they would (of course) drop the BL element for the screen. The webtoon is BL-coded, and I'm assuming they'll replace it with bromance instead. Oh well, I guess we can't have it all!

Note to self: Do not attempt to read the webtoon. There's no English translation for now. (It's been 2 hours and I might have just reached the 3rd chapter— someone throw me a truck of doom to lie under, thank you)

I very much enjoyed episodes 1-2 and I am super intrigued by Se Kyung. I don’t know the actor but he’s blowing me away (leftmost in the picture above). He is enigmatic and charismatic. I am so curious about his motivations and feelings, and I just don’t know where they’ll be going with his character.

For those in South East Asia, this is available on streaming VIU on Wednesday released.

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