Aramintai

Finally managed to finish this. Very disappointing. First few cases were kinda alright, though nothing memorable, they did the Night Market right. But the last ones just became a mix of dumb circus, mixed with some soap and badly choreographed fights. I'd say it rapidly went downhill when they decided to introduce some unnecessary soap to SML's character and make him related to the royal family. It's also quite draggy, with lots of explaining things over and over again, villains were mostly very predictable as well. There are also some jokes, but they mostly fall flat.

Other than that, both MLs' acting is forced, SML is always barking and ML has that unnatural, forced manner of speech.
ML has no character development whatsoever, he's just a carbon copy of judge Di, his mentor.
SML is really unlikeable at first, but gets better later, after he gets fired from being a general.

FL and SFL are basically background furniture here, nothing'd be lost here if they were absent. Nothing to write home about them either. One is occasionally useful as a painter, another is just another fighter rogue introduced late in the plot. I was baffled as to why FL, a lady of high status, is roaming around without maids and proper guards and living in a guy's home just because he said he'd be her sort of brother. Wtf. And her father, who supposedly is doting on her, never even visited her when she ran away from home. Her being crazy for SML and gradually wearing him down was just cringe. But not as cringe as some sort of tacked on romance between ML and SFL, that was completely out of the blue and nothing at all was shown to warrant any of this sudden development.

Not much more to say. Very overrated. I've read second season gets better, but now I'm not sure I want to continue.