“Love Music for Phantasm” is a Viki Unique, launched in January 2024, has 16 episodes; and might be categorized as Historic (or Sageuk), Revenge Drama, and Romance. This Korean drama sequence relies on the webtoon of the identical identify (literal title: “Fantasy Sonata”).
♦ Lengthy In the past and Far Away within the Kingdom of Asatae
“Love Music for Phantasm” begins by telling the story of how Asatae got here to be. “Seven noble households established the nation of Asatae, and the Yeon household rose to the throne.” Like most kingdoms, there are loyal topics and there are those that are treacherous and covet the king’s throne. Asatae isn’t any completely different. Minister Sajo Seung dedicated treason and usurped the throne.
Crown Prince Sajo Hyun is the son of the illegitimate King Sajo Seung, and suffers from a cut up character. His alternate character is called Ak-Hee. That character is the “manly man” his father at all times wished him to be. His true self is Sajo Hyun, a person who likes “womanly issues” like portray and dressmaking; the kind of man his father despises.
Sajo Hyun conceals himself and works at a store within the metropolis portray lovely designs and making the clothes in his work. He’s unsure how or when, however occasionally, he blacks out and his character named Ak-Hee takes management. At occasions, his eunuch and devoted guard are additionally by no means fairly positive who’s who. Is he the crown prince or is his Ak-Hee?
Yeon Wol witnessed the deaths of her father and mom by the hands of Sajo Seung. Since she was the one dwelling royal descendant to the professional throne, he supposed to kill her too. Somebody saved her and took her away to boost her secretly with a brand new identification. However she by no means forgot who she was and absolutely supposed to avenge the homicide of his dad and mom.
Yeon Wol crossed paths with each Sajo Hyun and Ak-Hee. She first met Sajo Hyun once they have been each youngsters. He saved her life. When she grew up, she met Sajo Hyun who labored on the store the place her dance costumes have been made.
To earn extra cash she would problem fighters. She met Ak-Hee as a result of he challenged her in a battle however she ran away. He chased after her and caught her. These have been two completely different encounters. Not solely did she not notice that she was speaking to the identical particular person, however she additionally didn’t know that he was the crown prince.
♦ Why Make Plans When Plans By no means Go In line with Plan?
Yeon Wol was skilled as a dancer and an murderer. Her dance troupe was invited to the palace to carry out. The plan was for her to bop for the king, and he could be so enchanted that he would select her to share his mattress. Nonetheless, issues didn’t go as deliberate as a result of the king selected one other dancer. Decided to succeed, she switched locations with the dancer meaning to enter the king’s bedchamber and kill him. That change plan didn’t work both.
The crown prince acknowledged her from their earlier assembly. So he requested to have the dancer that the king had chosen. His father was so impressed that his son was behaving like a person that he granted permission for him to take her. Nonetheless, she was drugged and when she awoke, the courtroom woman informed her she had been made the concubine of the crown prince. She switched locations with the dancer after which, the crown prince switched locations with the king. One other plan botched!
However what about her plan to assassinate the king? There’s a slight drawback with that plan too. The drug prompted her to lose her reminiscence. Yeon Wol has no thought how she grew to become the crown prince’s concubine. However what’s even worse is that she will be able to’t even keep in mind who she is.
Ought to she keep within the palace or ought to she go away? She desires to go away and search to search out out her true identification. The crown prince can also be in a predicament. Sajo Hyun thinks he ought to enable her to go away. However Ak-Hee is interested in her and needs her to remain. Ak-Hee is already dedicated to being her man and needs Yeon Wol to decide to being his girl.
Which character will win? Sajo Hyun or Ak-Hee? Suppose Sajo Hyun falls in love with Yeon Wol too? Does he battle with Ak-Hee to win her from himself? Suppose Yeon Wol remembers she is the one professional dwelling royal descendant within the Kingdom of Asatae and her plan to kill the king? Suppose by then, she has fallen in love with both Sajo Hyun or Ak-Hee?
If solely the plan had gone in line with plan, then there wouldn’t be all of those questions.
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My private ranking is similar because the Viki viewers. ‘Love Music for Phantasm’ has a singular story-line. The 2 major characters meet as youngsters beneath devastating circumstances after which meet once more as younger adults beneath unplanned circumstances that might be interpreted because the “will of the heavens”. With a storyline like that, numerous attention-grabbing issues are sure to occur.
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NOTES: TWO TAKEAWAYS FROM ‘Lengthy Music for Phantasm’:
The scriptwriters for ‘Love Music for Phantasm’ took the initiative to include realism into the fictional story in two methods. They addressed psychological sickness that may be attributable to childhood trauma and/or by medicine.
(1) The crown prince’s psychological sickness was triggered by bodily and emotionally abusive therapy acquired from his father. As well as, when the younger boy witnessed the slaughtering of harmless folks by his treacherous overbearing father, it was an excessive amount of and his thoughts cut up.
- The advanced psychological situation referred to as cut up character dysfunction is normally the results of childhood trauma.
(2) The storyline is additional compounded when a younger girl suffers reminiscence loss as a result of she is unaware that medicine have been administered to her.
A younger youngster had grown up in a house the place she knew she was liked. However she witnessed the homicide of her father and mom. She had grown up in a house the place she knew she was liked. That completely happy life was shattered when her dad and mom have been murdered.
When she grew up, she skilled diligently to turn out to be an murderer to get revenge by killing the king. However she will be able to’t full her mission as a result of she was drugged. When she wakes up she has no reminiscence of who she is and is knowledgeable that she is the crown prince’s concubine.
- WARNING! There are numerous medicine that may trigger reminiscence loss. Rohypnol, the date rape drug is linked to reminiscence loss. In the actual world, many ladies don’t get up and discover themselves dwelling in a palace with a prince. Pay attention to your environment. Additionally, if you’re taking prescription medicines, ask the docs if or how they are going to have an effect on your cognitive features.
TRAILERS/TEASERS:
Viu Singapore. “Park Ji Hoon & Hong Ye Ji’s First Impression of Every Different? ? | Love Music for Phantasm.” YouTube Video. YouTube, January 3, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYjuA6xExuA.
