Is class of weak heroes a bromance? Director comments

Standing out as one of the main news of the world’s best -known streaming catalog, ‘class of weak heroes’ conquers the hearts of doramas enthusiasts around the world with their second unpublished season debuted on April 25th. For the launch premiere, a meeting in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, between the cast of the first and second part of the plot was marked by confirmations of theories to fans, those who came through the director Yoo soo min.

The series that accompanies student Yeon Sieun, played by Park Ji Hoon, Shows in the new episodes the protagonist in a new school trying to put past trauma aside and testing a new beginning, which does not work as expected to what he needs to face old ghosts.

In the first season, Sieun has important friendships that left them deep marks, such as Ahn Suho (Choi Hyun Wook), which brings a tone of “bromance” to the plot – but was that all?

Bromance or love?

Since the first season of ‘class of weak heroes’ Internet users theorize the relationship between the roles of Ji Hoon and Hyun WookSieun and Suho, respectively, to what they are realized the different treatment that the characters cultivate.

At the meeting between the cast, the protagonist of the series is asked about what it was like to review the past colleagues in the new recordings, both in personal view and in their role, and Ji Hoon He responds by saying that everyone there are “special friends” and that “even if you wanted to forget them, you couldn’t. It’s like you kept looking for your friends unconsciously …” while also claiming how Sieun was “as a first love.”

The interviewer then says that “his first love is smiling by his side” while pointing to Hyun Wookthat from life to Suho. So the actor added, “For Sieun who is deep … They must be friends who are really significant and precious to him, I think.”

However, shortly after the actor’s speech, the director and screenwriter of the series, Yoo soo min, He makes a point of clarifying the relationship between the characters at once, saying:

“I think they were in love. I told the two actors that it was close to being a melodrama. I’m revealing it now, but I wanted that feeling.”

The filmmaker’s statement took Sieun’s interpreter by surprise by revelation, becoming a viral reaction on social networks.

The two seasons of ‘class of weak heroes’ are available on Netflix.

Relationship on Webtoon

The series, which is based on webtoon of the same name, also shows the ambiguity of the relationship between the characters Sieun and Suho, but yet it is reinforced their connection and the friendship they cultivate while following the two students facing Bullyuing in a boys college.

Already the second half of the novels focuses some time after the events of the first volume, in which Suho is in a coma for much of the plot, but eventually recovers. His presence in the whole plot is reinforced to what Sieun makes a point of calling him in fights that eventually gets involved, as if he had made a silent promise to him, reinforcing the theories of a mutual passion.