I started watching this drama series because of my friend. It was long ago when she started watching the drama series,. During that time, the series is still on-going. I don't really like watching cheesy love stories or dramas, not to mention the number of series of this specific drama. But I was intrigued after she told me that Luhan was the lead actor and after she told me the plot of the drama as well. So after learning the plot, I started watching the series.
Story:
This part of the drama made me think if I should watched it or not. So since I was able to finished watching the drama, meaning, the story, for me was good. There are just some part which annoyed me but most of the scenes were good.
Casts/Acting Skills:
It was so-so. They're not really good in carrying their roles but it's forgivable since they are playing the roles of a student in a well known university.
Music:
The music was not that appealing except for the into music. I did not observed the background music in particular when I watched it.
Re-watch Value:
If I remembered correctly, I re-watched some episodes but not the whole drama because there were episodes which made me interested with it.
Some things even people are like the sun ☀ and the air we breathe. Since we can feel their presence almost everyday, their importance we can no longer see.
©️Sweet Combat (Chinese TV Series)
Habits / Are Hard / To Break
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the story started is good but unfortunately from the middle of the series it gets sloppy... Fang Yu becomes very stupid, badly and loses his intelligence ...
Fortunatly the others couples were interesting and very cuteness, it was really good to see their evolutions :)
Ya nan and Luo Guan Yan <3
Xiao Mi and Sun Hao
it's a series about fights but in fact there were very few it's frustrated
This series was too long with a lot of unnecessary and uninteresting moments...
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This show has a whole set of unique, interesting characters. I appreciated featuring women who enjoy sports, were motivated and competitive. I liked how the male characters developed feelings first while the women were somewhat clueless. The acting is rather amateurish, but the actors were also very endearing and interesting to watch.
The main failure of the show is the lack of pacing and suspense. Everything is established 1/2 way through, and the audience is just waiting for the characters to figure it out.
Also minor points off for lack of budget for the combat scenes. BUT, there is enough screen time of practicing, fighting explaining strategy to 'buy-in' to the plot.
The beginning and end songs were catchy and well-done given the lack of budget/context. No reason to rewatch.
I grade on other criteria:
Complex Themes - 7.5
Karma catches up with you. You have a responsibility when engaging in fighting to do so in an ethical and moral way. The older generation does not always know what's best.
Character Growth - 6
The characters fall in love with each other and learn to trust each other, so in that way there is 'growth.' But you could watch the first episode, and last episode and the characters would feel about the same.
Complex Women/Female Relationships - 7.5
I really did enjoy the focus on a different type of woman from the typical awkward, bubbly cute girl. There's strong female friendships as well. They are more stereotypes/caricatures than fully fleshed out characters but there's a good diversity to them. I wish their character growth was not centred around becoming more open to relationships with men.
Production/Cinematography - 4.5
This is filmed like something from before the 'golden age' of tv dramas. If I hadn't known, I would have thought it was shot in 2012. The 'wealthy' people do not dress wealthy or have the barest trappings of it. The fight scenes are very short and they didn't even invest in much slowing-down/speeding up effects that are in your basic social media video. The cinematography just records what is in front of the camera with some mix of wide and close-up shots.
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A decent martial arts drama marred by unlikeable characters and bad fight choreography.
"Sweet Combat" is loosely based on the South Korean Manwha "Girls of the Wild's". I would suggest reading it before the show to get the best experience. While I loved "Girls of the Wild's" for the most part, this show was somewhat of a step down due to a few unnecessary changes.The biggest downiside to the show is the main female lead. Fang Yu or "Queen" is one of the worst female romance leads I've ever seen in a drama. If I were Ming Tian, the first time she wanted to break up I would have left and never went back to her. He had so many other choices, Zhengze University was all girls except for he and Sun Hao for God sakes. Fang Yu had a terrible personality, she always believed anyone, even her Aunt and Grandpa who were obviously scheming pieces of garbage. Would it never occur to her that all of this terrible news could be made up or a lie? Ming Tian couldn't control any of the reasons she broke up with him, yet she blamed him anyway. Xiaomi was clearly the more loving and attentive girl for Ming Tian but because "reasons" he ended up with Fang Yu time and time again.
The training and fight choreography in this show is abysmal as well. As a huge fan of MMA and combat sports in general it is laughable, especially if you're used to seeing professional fighters or even amateurs fight. If you're going to have a show about a martial arts college at least teach the actors proper form and how to throw punches, kicks, and engage in submissions correctly. You can tell during the "fights" they aren't even touching or pretending to touch each other at times.
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I really enjoyed this drama the story was really good and it was perfect for me because it had comedy, romance, university setting and martial arts and that ticked all my boxes i honestly did not think i would enjoy this drama as much as i did.
The acting was really good i liked how the five friends were all linked together they made the drama more interesting to watch and it was fun and the music was quite good and if you are into dramas that have this type of setting with martial arts, romance and comedy then this is one you should watch you never know you might enjoy it.
I will watch this drama again some time later on because that is how much i enjoyed it because at the moment i have a lot of other ones to watch and again this is my personal opinion all i am going to say give it a try you might enjoy it.
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Cool Chick flick
I like this drama. It portrays friendship, relationship, family ties. I admire the siblings relationship.The actors are funny, sweet and they portray their characters well.
Good thing that they highlighted that it is never okay to be bullied and to fight back if it's necessary.
The friendship of Fang Yu and Yanan is definitelys worth the praise. Sister love and bonding is there
I sure hope to see Guan Xiaotong and Luhan in another drama.
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Good Story - had promise - have the fast forward button at the ready
Good story but, as is usual - they drag it out for far too long. This could have been finished in 16 episodes.Character wise - good mix of nice cast but, the annoying characters are in far too many scenes. Have your finger on the fast forward button at all times. Xiao Mi is just awful and I can't stand anything she says or, does. Very immature. Self centered. And how on god's green earth did she ever make it into college? I would worry for her if she put her head in a paper bag.
I agree with many of the other reviews. As you learn more and more about the main characters - you will wish they WON'T get together. Really? Drag it out to the last episode?
I stuck with it. I agree with others - not enough time is spent when it comes to the actual fights/tournaments - it becomes a bad edit music video. Prepare for them to spend an eternity in prep for competition and then, the actual thing being over in just a few minutes because they want to spend 80 percent of the time on junk that means nothing. They REALLY take advantage of the stock footage they created of the school grounds. They are always exercising - always doing the same thing - always sunny and blue skies - always flipping the same tires in the same spots. Grinds my gears...
There are some WONDERFUL characters and the writers gave them some great material. That is why I stuck with every episode. Pick and choose - fast forward - and, you will get through this in half the time and still enjoy the overall story.
Want to be ready?
Lazy writing. Character gets abused and used by people with money but, there is NEVER any compensation.
There is a near death and AGAIN - no money - no compensation. Everything is handled under the table and the poor people get to stay happily poor. God forbid rich bad people get in trouble in a Chinese drama. That might give the common folk some dangerous ideas to society itself.
Grandfather stays pure evil until the very end. I kept yelling at the screen for him to have a heart attack or, something.
Xiao Mi - terrible. You can safely fast forward through everything she is in and not miss a single thing to the overall story. Her stubborn immaturity is a drag on the entire series.
Child actors - why couldn't they have been traumatized by something and not speak for 34 of the 37 episodes?
The on again off again of all the relationships REALLY shows the emotional immaturity of most of the cast (as written). College? Really?
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Main Male Character
The story for his character to be a whimp, it's absolutely dumb. The events related to his past, makes him act like a total loser. He's afraid to fight because of what happened to his father, the reason his mother went away. All runs out on the least believable reasons. In martial arts, it is true that you must never use them to attack, only to defend yourself. But in martial arts competitions, the possibility of a hit killing you opponent are high. It depends on the strength and also you can hit or get hitten on a place that's really harmfull.He's traumatised by the fact that a guy died on a fight competition with his dad. But all the time the make you think that his father killed him on purpose. And that's the part of the story I dislike. His mom is in fact selfish, cause she didn't try at all to help his husband understand that what happened was an accident.
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For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
will Turkish subtitles come?
For 25 chapters and more please come to Turkish translation
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J'ai au depart eu peur que le drama ait enormément de longueurs du aux 37 épisodes mais j'ai été surprise. Il y a certe quelques longueurs mais elles sont tres legere et j'aimais tellement les personnages et leurs histoires que cela ne m'a pas grandement derangé.
Les acteurs font tous du tres bon travail, mais je ne suis pas vraiment en position de juger car je ne suis pas une experte en drama chinois et je n'ai pas nono plus beaucoup de point de comparaison. Malgrés tout je peux dire que l'on voit bien les emotions des personnages et c'est tout ce que je juge en tant que bon acting
J'ai adoré les Ost, je ne pouvais m'empecher de chanter le generique et les ost a chaque fois qu'elle arrivait. A ce niveau la c'etait vraiment du bon travail.
J'ai a la fois adoré et detesté le devellopement de la relation entre Fang Yu et Ming Tian. J'adorais les voir se tortiller a propos de leur sentiments et se faire des films mais je ne pouvais m'empecher du manque de demonstration de leur relation et a la vitesse ou ca va. C'est quand meme long!
Et surtout qu'ils n'arretent pas de tomber sur des problemes et ne sont jamais tranquille!
La relation entre Ya Nan et Luo je l'ai adorée et c'est je crois ma préférée du drama ! Ils vont trop bien ensemble et le caracere de Ya Nan en general je l'ai adoré ! Puis il y a Xiao Mi et Zi Tian (Je ne me rappele plus de son nom dans le drama...)
Au final si je devais admettre une petit reserve c'est le manque de competition de combat. J'aurais vraiment adoré les voir se concentrer plus sur les art martiaux et eventuellement voir un petit combat entre Ming Tian et Fang Yu ^o^
Parce que vriament vers la fin on ne parlais plus de sports de combats ca m'a decue
Sweet Combat c'est vraiment un bon drama que je conseille!
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