The Emergence of First Love (2019)

This drama opened with a heroic act in beautiful scenic Barcelona, Spain, that attracted me to start watching it. The first few episodes are exciting since we are introduced how our sassy FL Xixi met the sweet ML Ziang and the hot-tempered Xiujie, along with other supporting roles. Ziang is ambitious to bring Aurora football club (owned by his dad's group) that used to win championships back to its glory. He hired Xixi to be the cartoonist and the agent of Aurora group in lieu letting her stay in his house to pay for the job. But the romance grow SO slow they do not get together until 2/3 of the drama. Instead there are lots of discussions on the group issues. The drama mostly shows the growth of Aurora FC from an amateur soccer group to winning matches and the championship. There are a lot of issues to tackle during the growing pains of the club, including life problems of the players and the staff have encountered in connection to being in the club. So, if you are not familiar or do not like football (soccer is the term in United States), you will not like this drama. There are growing love stories between supporting couples other than OTP, which are annoying to me cos it seems like the pairing of the OTP is left until almost the end just to built the climax. The group does eventually visit Barcelona, but unfortunately the director did not exploit the charm of this ancient city again in its cinematography, that I suspect the first scene is just to attract viewers to start watching this show. The rest of the drama seems dragging with side stories and long conversations, which is typical to Cdramas.
I will not watch it again unless the production company Mango TV continue subbing it to English until the end. They stopped at episode 6 and the rest are raw episodes.

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