[K-drama review] Let's Fight Ghost: The Ghost Hunt is Open!

Want to spend Halloween under a soft plaid with a drama cut for the occasion? How we understand you! So let yourself be tempted by the K-drama Let's Fight Ghost, which will not startle you hard but will make you spend a pleasant moment in the company of ghosts!

Let's Fight Ghost

Original title: 싸우자 귀신아 – Ssawooja Gwishina

Alternative title: Hey Ghost, Let's Fight – Bring it On, Ghost

Genre: comedy – fantasy – romance

Country: South Korea

Episodes : 16

Channel: tvN

Broadcasting platform: Dramapassion 

Release period: July 11 to August 30, 2016

Director: Park Jun Hwa (Let's eat, Rude Miss Young-Ae)

Writers: Lee Dae II (God's Quiz 4 / Shin-ui Quiz 4)

Original Webtoon: Im In Seu

Synopsis 

Park Bong-Pal is a student… and exorcist. A hobby not quite like the others, which earns him to fight against hateful ghosts to make ends meet. But one day, he comes across the tough Kim Hyun-Ji, who will give him a hard time, a good dose of adrenaline, and more if affinities…

Source: dramapassion

Main cast

Ghost, are you there?

Let's Fight Ghost is above all a ghost story… Oh, but fear not! They won't all play tricks on you and some will even be there to help you. Provided you can see them. Like Park Bong-Pal, who since his earliest childhood, remembers growing up surrounded by disturbing and terrifying ghost apparitions that only he saw. A particular context, not to mention the death of his mother, which will lead to a withdrawal into oneself and an avoidance of others.

But once the fears are tamed and the fearful child becomes big guy, the bad ghosts just have to behave! Because the hunt is open! And despite the reluctance of the only remaining member of his family, Myung-Chul, Bong-Pal will throw himself into this hunt. Fortunately, he will make friends on whom he can count for these perilous missions!

A ghost scenario that leaves the beautiful part to action, mystery and romance! All well mixed and precisely dosed, as we like them! Adapted from the eponymous webtoon by the author Im In Seu, Let's Fight Ghost promises you a good time from start to finish!

Endearing characters, human or ghost

Ghosts like humans or priests, all reveal small despairing or endearing sides. Park Bong-Pal, as the main hero of Let's Fight Ghost, will obviously be the one you cling to first. Incidentally with Kim Hyun-Ji, depending on whether your heart swings more towards a male or female character. A duo that will take you into situations sometimes muscular, sometimes conflictual or romantic. You'll also enjoy the fairly well-developed and seeded story over the course of Bong-Pal's drama, albeit a bit repetitive at times. We also love Hyun-Ji's whims and sympathize with his unlucky past, but also his ghost life. A touching duo that sometimes makes us smile, sometimes cry.

There remains one last main character that closes our top three: Ju Hye-Sung. An angelic head, an athletic body, an eternal kindness. A trio whose development we appreciate, even if we regret to know so early the great villain of the story.The secondary characters are not to be outdone and will make you spend a very pleasant time too! Especially since they are rather well developed and very appreciable for some! We love Choi Chun-Sang and its eccentricity, Im-Rang and its bursts of terror, duo creator of the supernatural site GhostNet. They are the ones who will allow Bong-Pal to develop his ghost hunter business and who will accompany him to each case. They scream in fear, but we could howl with laughter when we see their heads at every crack!

We also appreciate Myung-Chul, a former priest emeritus who will constantly try to protect Bong-Pal, without wanting to confess the secret around his story and the murder of his mother. His attentions and fighting style will touch you more than once!In short, in Let's Fight Ghost, you will meet a lot of new people. Good or bad. Human or ghosts. Deadly or not. 

A drama punctuated by the ghost hunt

From start to finish, this K-drama is a great ghost hunt. Hunting whose prey is known, but also the hunter. Unless it's the other way around… The effects that give life to ghosts are sympathetic and manage to get some chills from our spine. But if you are real fans of horror movies or series and you like to be really scared… Go your way. Let's Fight Ghost is not a horror drama. It may startle you a few times with its ghost appearances and its sometimes tense atmosphere… But far from unhealthy and terrifying. If like me, you do not like to be afraid, but you enjoy suspense and mystery series, let yourself be tempted! 

The drama holds a good rhythm from beginning to end, and we appreciate as much the fights (sometimes too short) as the love plot. We like to see the characters change in contact with others, open up, but also close. We also salute the acting, which gives a little more credibility to this drama. Even if a little less meandering would surely have been better suited to a drama of this kind.

On the soundtrack side, it goes pretty well in our ears! The musical atmosphere sticks spontaneously with the drama and its adventures and allows us to better immerse ourselves in it. The musical themes of Let's Fight Ghost are rather numerous, but we all appreciate them at their true value, according to the moments and feelings they convey. 

In short, Let's Fight Ghost is a K-drama that will make you spend a pleasant time this fall, and more particularly at this time of Halloween. If you like ghosts, romance, fighting, but also having some scares, then Let's Fight Ghost might well please you! To be found on Dramapassion!

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If the choice was too limited, here is enough to help you find a drama of choice to accompany you on this Halloween evening!