I needed a few days to rest my soul to write this review objectively as much as possible , because I swear, this drama is everything. First things first, I'm not going to say I'm an expert on kdramas nor I've seen 100+ kdramas, so, take this from the newbie. Reply 1988 just got a big big place in my heart. In fact, I watched the first two episodes and then held it for a month, not because they were bad, but because I was used to other kind of dramas, dramas with a lot of romance and illogical and ridiculous moments, I was not prepared for this realistic and slice of life (but still funny) kind of the dramas, but thank God I made the right decision. The best thing (in a lot of EXCELLENT things): the characters ... they are so real and human, with flaws and good things. In one hand there are these five main characters, who are teenagers experiencing their first love, living their youth and going through what life really is; and believe me, you will love them all. There are no good or bad characters, there are only humans (human teenagers). I thought it would be a problem with so many characters, but the drama manages to give them all protagonism, although one more than others. On the other hand, there are secondary characters that do not lose in charisma and depth, who are basically the family of the teens, parents and brothers / sisters that made me fall in love, they are all so funny that I really can not believe that characters around their 50s made me pee in my pants of how funny they were, but above all, they were also human. The plot is not the usual as we are accustomed to see: the characters are not trying to solve the mystery or defeat the bad man, it simply follows the life of a group of neighbors struggling through life, and this is one of the most amazing things: it may seem simple, but it makes you feel so many things. You cry, you laugh, and well, you also learn. After finishing this drama, it gave me a feeling of nostalgia, and made me realize that life passes quickly and although I am in my twenties, I feel as if I already wasted it. The bad: after thinking a lot, I would say the worst of the drama were the last episodes, they were so fast and they missed that special thing, the essence of the drama that made it extraordinary. I can not say they were bad-bad, they were just meh, they give me the feeling of losing the characters even before the drama ended, but to be honest, at that point you are madly in love with the story that it not longer matters If they are awful, you only keep going. OOHHH, the other bad thing: will I ever get over the perfection of R88? I already tried with R97 (yes, I saw it in the wrong order) but i can't even compare them. My heart is tearing apart at the thought of not finding something as good as this in a long long time.