One of the key elements behind a good magic trick is misdirection – the act of distracting your audience with one hand while the other sets up an illusion, explains Ri-eul, the mysterious protagonist of the Netflix musical fantasy drama The Sound of Magic.This new show from Itaewon Class director Kim Sung-yoon, based on Ha Il-kwon’s webcomic Annarasumanara, essentially does the same thing. During a charming and occasionally enthralling opening episode it dazzles us with bright visuals, infectious musical numbers and engaging performances. But even the best magic trick can’t stretch to six hour-long episodes.The Sound of Magic Season 1 Download.
Choi Sung-eun, who impressed in her drama debut Beyond Evil and the indie pregnancy drama Ten Months last year, takes on her first major leading role as the diffident Yoon Ah-yi, a high-school student working part-time jobs who has been providing for herself and her younger sister ever since her father had to go on the run from creditors.The one thing that Ah-yi enjoys and excels at is maths. She’s top of the class in the subject, which is a source of frustration for the silver-spooned class whizz Na Il-deung (True Beauty’s Hwang In-yeop). True to his name, which literally means first place, Il-deung ranks top in every subject, except maths.
The evening Ah-yi finishes her first shift at a new part-time gig in a convenience store, a stubborn wind keeps blowing her day’s pay, a single 50,000 won (US$40) note, out of her hands. She chases it down the road, eventually reaching an abandoned amusement park, where it drifts into the hands of Ri-eul (The K2’s Ji Chang-wook), a handsome young man dressed in a tattered magician’s outfit.Ri-eul’s opening words to Ah-yi, as they are to everyone he meets, are “Do you believe in magic?