The Blood of Youth

Adventure for the ones tha have a justice mind

This was one of the best things I ever watched, it felt like the first time you enter a fairy world, it’s so magical.

Great things:

- The characters have such a good development (you can see how their mindset changed)
- The are a lot of plots and side plots that had me crying, laughing and being amazed
- The fights were made with such care, everything came together and you can feel like you were there
- The main character is so smart! I think that this was what made me love so much from the beginning
- The music, omg the music is sooo good, the intro is one of my favorites of all time
- The finale was fair, you can see the heart of the main character and realize that the decision was correct

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One of the best modern wuxia to come out in a long itme!

There is something weirdly addictive about The Blood Of Youth. I usually hate “video game” wuxia with the flying sparkling kung fu, but the characters are compelling. Doesn’t hurt that Li Hong Yi (Xiao Se) is so pretty 🤭

One thing I like about The Blood Of Youth is that no matter how powerful Xiao Se, Wuxin and Wujie are, they still behave like young men who are impetuous and yes, childish! This makes for really funny moments between the trio, especially between Xiao Se and Wujie.

While most CDramas lose my interest after the 20th episode, not this one! The Blood Of Youth was tightly plotted, the characters so interesting.

Although the “magic” martial arts took some getting used to, this was a classic Wuxia tale. So, you have the themes of brotherhood, loyalty, chivalry and honour that the genre is known for.

The storytellers were brilliant, ramping up suspense in seemingly innocuous events to great heights. For one, who knew a banquet can be such a suspenseful and tense affair? And when the curtains finally parted and the truth of the banquet is finally revealed, you feel a whoosh of emotion at what it signifies. Now, that’s a fine piece of storytelling there.

When the show ended, I had a hangover because it ended “too soon” and I didn’t think I could watch anything this good in a long while. 😭

Fortunately, 2023 turned out to be a great year for wuxia dramas, with Mysterious Lotus Casebook, The Ingenious One and A Journey to Love following soon after. Now, with season 2 of Blood of Youth just announced, I hope to enjoy more of our gang in the future!

Note: This is a condensed review of my longer review on my blog: https://dramatea88.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/the-blood-of-youth-review/

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More hype than watch value

Blood of Youth offers to the viewers, can't blame the high rating of 9.7 stars when many have watched less than episodes and given 10 stars. I'm reviewing this drama after completing watching the 40 episodes. Here's my rating and thoughts:

Plot: 9/10 🌟 Apparently this drama has it's twists and turns and keeps driving the viewer to watch till the end. Things rounded off well, viewers can see the ML is a stubborn man who makes his own decisions and it's this ending which makes them to crave more.

Characters: 6/10 🌟 This rating is for the ML, Xiao Se. I liked that he was this confident man who strategically worked towards his goals. What I didn't like was that in the martial arts world, the ML barely fought, even when he was treated of his injury, he continued to feebly (not my but Lei's words) wrap his hands in his long sleeves and never practiced. Of course I rolled my eyes when a shaft user, all of a sudden wants to own the tianzhan sword.
Other MLs did justice to their roles, Wuxin and Lei kept me going.
I can't say anything about the FL when she's basically treated as a side character in the whole drama.

Comedy: 9/10 🌟 Yes this drama will make you laugh, especially Wuxin and General when he first meets his future son in law, Lei.

Romance: 0/10 🌟 seriously if the director and scriptwriter chose to focus more on the fight scenes, then romance shouldn't have been added at all, however, couples were formed with zero thought to romance. First of all, Xiao Se's pairing with Quinlou wasn't great, zero on-screen chemistry, no moments between the leads happened.

Screen effects/fight scenes: 10/10 🌟 Amazing CGI during fight scenes is the best of this drama. Hats off 👏

Background music: 5/10 🌟 Introductory music gave an okay feel but throughout the drama it lacked the goosebumps moments music when a great action happened.

So overall it's a good drama worth watching.

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Why was there no romance?

I liked this series. The fight scenes were very good, but there are some minor points that I want to criticize. First of all, why was there no romance at all?
Secondly, I think the Wuxin character was given too little space.
Third, I didn't like the story of the evil prince (the way he died or something).
The last had too many character-names. It caused confusion.

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Adventure with Xiao Se

Martial arts team drama is not my usual genre, but the group members were not students at the academy, learning as they go... except for Motor Mouth Lei Wei Ji. Many times he would not shut up, but he did have exceptional sword skills, and he was loyal to his companions. He and the annoying eunuch Jinyan were the only actors who showed their acting range, and deserve the award for OTP acting. They were wired every day on set. There are many good looking actors in the cast, btw.

The final stretch was non-stop action and intrigue. Xiao Se Chu He is the first C=drama prince to walk away from the throne. He passed it to older brother Bai Chong (#2 prince). They were technically, the last two princes standing.

Bad Prince Yu Chi took the easy way out, and stabbed himself in the heart. I never felt sorry for him. He was wound too tight. 🤯🤯🤯 He was a quirky looking actor, who might be handsome in real life. He reminded me of Oh Ji Oh and Villain Prince in Scarlet Heart Ryeo.

Yu and Wuxin's birth mother had three men in love with her in the past...I guess. I am not sure if Emperor was in love with her, and sired Yu Chi, just to fill the lineage chart. The last man, #1 Handsome Swordman, took Consort Xuan away from Tianqi City at the end. 

Rating 8

0.5 deduction for the extraneous use of BGM overlaying dialog. I depend on subtitles, but I like to hear the actors talking their native language. Someone, send a petition to the production companies... Stop the loud BGM and loud singing!

0.5 deduction for choppy scene splicing by the film editor. Conversations were disjointed when the character in the alternate scene completed the sentence from the previous scene.

1.0 deduction of putting Wuxin and Tang Lian on the shelf most of the drama. They were the two most enigmatic and skilled characters, and the actors were handsome, too.

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Another poor ending to the show which could have been the best of 2023

Though I liked the non stop action in most part of the tv show, I find the ending absolutely disappointing.
Heroes action in terms of not letting go the villain for the war crimes is applaudable.
However, he decides to give up the throne? Because he is lazy or finds it boring?
Unacceptable as this will lead to poor ruling and the suffering of people. Though Chong is shown to be a nice man, it was the same of the father who decided to u-turn and kill his brother who should have been the king. it’s not like the father king was perfect…he married chu’s mother against her wishes though his crime is conveniently forgotten by everyone. Why did langya his brother conveniently remained silent against the brother king and let him rule till his death when he should be the king.
This can happen again. To avoid this, the hero should have accepted the throne and rule which could have helped people …putting an inefficient ruler is a bigger sin than anything….so the hero failed in my eyes and hence a rating of 7 instead of 9.5 or 10… this is where I think Sword snow stride is a better tv show of 2022/2023

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Fairly goodl

The drama started out rather intriguing and very engaging, the build of the story was very impressive, truly in the Wuxia style (even though I think there were just too many XianXia elements). The storyline though predictable ( kind of imbued with lots and similar characters of Nirvana in Fire) but is quite entertaining. I love the friendship and camaraderie of the youths formed along the way (I assumed they were in their teens and some of them are just way too old to play the teen roles, which I am prepared to overlook as I am so used to already in C Drama and K Drama) The build-up of the characters too were great, and it went on smoothly until some 32 episodes later I realised none of the youth characters has achieved any greatness, and that is more than three-quarters of the way through.. but soon after the story just plateaued and it just went flat right to the end! So much potential for a fantastic and great drama ended with a bunch of rather unremarkable youth who only managed to stay alive because some of the villains woke up from a trance and saved the day.. and Guess what? Like Who Rules The World, again, they gave up their non-achievement and their sworn duty and travel the Jiangsu... So Love Like The Galaxy is still the Best Wuxia drama in recent years, (post Nirvana In Fire) .. Autumn Ballade, Dream of Splendour, Who Rules The World and now The Blood of Youth are the promising Dramas with some of the worst ending in recent years.

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笑点泪点燃点都有，一部优秀的剧，就是天启部分的谋略太弱智了。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

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Love this drama a lot awesome

LIKE

How come the Lei family are always so funny and talkative

The men from Tang family just so shy and gentleman lol Tang Lian vs Tang Lian Yue

Sometimes those youngster can show the elders something different Lei Yun He realised something from Lei Wu Jie

Hilarious Deng Tian Ge got destroyed by Xue Yue Jian Xian

Everyone is just so crazy about being the best in martial arts

How does the Zhao Yu Zhen Jian Xian ranking even come from when he has never go down the mountain?? Lol

Wow when Xuan Jian Xian rescues Xue Yue Jian Xian omg

When the boys lied about their names hilarious

What is the real intention of holding out sword to protect? To kill?

Waahh Xiao Chu He he just doesn’t kneel when he sees the Emperor woots got guts!

I like how Bai Xiao Tang always announcing the top martial arts people to the whole world woots!

Bai Wang subordinate so loyal

When Xiao Se and Lei Wu Jie did the unbelievable!! HAHAHAH

How does everyone knows everyone martial arts and weapons lol

When Xiao Se scolded Luo Qing Yang lol

DISLIKE

Where is that little monk who is with Master Wang You in Dashing Youth?

Omg I so sad what happened to the Jian Xians!!!

I’m still waiting for Tang Lian Yue and Mu Yu Muo hello??

How about Su Mu Yu and Bai He Huai??

MUSIC - personal fav

锦瑟 Jin Se - 房东的猫 Fang Dong De Mao
雪月 Xue Yue - 万玲琳 Wang Ling Lin
无尽 Wu Jin - 等什么君 Deng Shen Me Jun
踏歌行 Ta Ge Xing - 曲肖冰 Qu Xiao Bing
自古英雄出少年 Zi Gu Ying Xiong Chu Shao Nian - 李鑫一 Li Xin Yi
何求 He Qiu - 双笙 Shuang Sheng

REWATCH VALUE

Shall re-watch someday when I'm free

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Top tier wuxia drama

Just finish the drama

You have to watch each episode the story is about old generation story and grudges. Old generation really love to fight each other and stay on top somehow they forgot the old value of friendship and the reason why they want to be top tier in the martial worlds. The younger generation is more value the friendship they had they will fight but not at the point to kill their martial members. The younger generation story implicated by the old generation greed to become top tier on the martial world. but the plot really dont ever skip one episode or not you will not understand the story

There are to many martial member and clan until i forgot which clan this person on and it will get confused along the story.

Act i dont like tang lian need to die, at the beginning of the story he the one that strongest among all of them and the way he die really bring injustice. I really dont lei kid character he still clueless until the story end and the show only portray he the strongest among of all of them but he can be defeated only two major power which i confused who the main leas of the show

The main lead we will not how he gain he power back along the show he only powerful only 2-3 episode back and the rest of the episode only show the powerful is the Lei kid which i say i confuse who the main lead of the show.

Actually there are many loophole on this drama. They portray wuxin as the strongest among of them but he had only dew scena on this drama

I reallly like the martial scene all the techniques and all the sword techniques that has been shown on this drama its really satisfying but the downside why all the character dye their hair red which is so weird because the drama revolve in old time.

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