It was bad, but entertaining enough to finish

After I watched Hidden Love right, Zhao Lusi piqued my attention because she did really great there, so i wanted to watch her early shows and this is the earliest that netflix has in their catalog. Also great, since Riley Wang is in here cuz i just checked 'Everybody Wants to meet you' too, though that drama was really trash.

Anyway, the story... I wouldn't say it's trash, though they did add something new to the table with that "Fake relationship" concept in dramas, i think they just did it badly like they had an idea, but they didn't manage to put it all together really well. It was such a mess in the first half, but after the season 2 of the dating show, i wouldn't say it's good, but it got a littleee better enough for me to feel something and to be at least a littleee invested for me to finish it, and it got fast paced as well. FL's mom, i think she got introduced too early and it was soo sudden, like there are no bits of crumbs that we might get a FL family drama side plot incoming, she just came in storming and it never even got a proper resolution, because suddenly she's okay with her mom, like did i skipped an episode or something? why is her relationship with her mom suddenly like "Oh, we're good now", and the scam part with her mom, i kinda predicted that, but that scene with the other victims like those paid extras doesn't even give a shit, they didn't even put an effort in their acting. I also don't like how the moment she knew her composer crush was actually our male lead, immediately her feelings flipped, it wasn't like "now i'm in love with this guy" kinda thing, but it was sort of like you can tell she started developing some feelings towards Shuwei right away just because of his other identity. The accidents in this drama are soo predictable, how could you mess up something that's supposed to be a turning point for a character or story? I don't really know how to explain it... I've watched a lot of dramas that have accidents in it and it's supposed to come out as a plot twist, something you're not expecting and just happened out of nowhere, but here i can sense it a mile away and it's baaaad. I like how they handled the side plot with our 2nd male lead. It's not intrusive, and they didn't really focus on it that much, it's just there from time to time, that's probably why i never felt the 2nd lead syndrome. It's very cute and heartwarming, glad he got a proper closure. 2nd couple's side plot was a nice break, for how messy our main couple was, but it got messy too as it went on and i wasn't expecting it to turn out that way, though i'm glad it got a proper closure too. In the very late game, i don't know why did this, but why introduce a new girl? I get it she had some sort of contribution to the story, but i think that is unnecessary, there's a lot of ways you could've done that without adding a new character to the story, it just stretched out the last parts of the show. The japanese dubbing in the last episode was so obvious, but props to them since it matched Zhao Lusi's voice

The characters, I think they're all ok and the acting too was meh... it's passable. The one that stood out to me in the beginning was the 2nd couple, again it was nice, but it got messy as it went on, their acting was okay and then i switched to our main couple because they got better in the 2nd half. Zhao Lusi, although i like you here, because you're so cute and adorable, but this is me after watching your recent work 'Hidden Love' so there's a very big difference in your acting. In here, i can tell it's not up to par with what your current acting skills can show, i don't really have much to say about your character here, aside from 'it's okay'. Riley wang, this is the 2nd drama that I've watched that he's in and to be honest, I feel bad for him because this one too is still bad, He really needs to be given a good written and scripted drama. Also, at the same time i don't like his acting here, he's just a frowning soulless character, that's not how you act cold. You just look like you're angry all the time. I don't even think I've seen his character smile genuinely in this show and it didn't develop much at all. I don't know if i'm supposed to blame your acting or the writer...

The music was okay, i mean it's there... good. Though i liked the violin stuff. I wish they did that more.

Cinematography is ok, but i just noticed this, and not just here, but in other cdramas as well, when they do video calls, dashcam, or cctv footage stuff it's always a full on cinematography, oh my god.. are you really that lazy to film those kinds of shot? like, have an intern film those for you if you couldn't be bothered to film it yourself. In most cases, you're not gonna bother eyeing that shit, but it's just that, i would notice it every time. Stop it!!!

So yeah... overall, this drama is bad, but still entertaining enough, like the first half if you could endure, and get past that then you're probably gonna enjoy the 2nd half since that's where it'll get better in terms of story and characters. Would i watch this again? heck no!

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Good Acting and CGI, but failed on the Narrative

Ever since One Piece live-action came out right, I had high hopes that the following live-actions from now on will be at least decent since OP proved that it can be done, but i'm still on the fence since it's always gonna be 50-50 when it comes to adapting an anime or manga into a live-action.

In the beginning, it was really really good. I think the first 2 episodes had good pacing and writing, but in the remaining 3 episodes, the pacing of the story started really becoming fast, like 100 miles an hour. I think right that if they wanna condense the story all the way to defeating Toguro if the higher-ups behind this had no choice but to really condense it all, if they had at least given it 10 episodes run time, i think it would be a decent enough time to give the characters some depth and their dynamic/chemistry with the other characters and take the time to build up the story enough.

I think what really carried this adaptation, to compensate for the fast-paced story is the good action and CGI. My god, the fight choreographies here are so good, whoever is in charge in that department did a really good job, the fights are really awesome. And the CGI, they poured in some money in their goddamn, it came out really really good and clean and I like how they visualize the realms, it's so beautiful, props to the art heads behind those set, that why i think if this had more episodes, it could've taken the time and showcase the realms, cuz they just brushed it off as if it's just there.

The characters, again because the story is fast-paced AF we didn't even get that much time to get really invested in these characters, but they showed enough for us to care, aside from our mc Yusuke and Kuwabara, because in the beginning, they build them up fairly well. The acting... you know, i hate it in japanese films when the actors imitate the anime acting in real life, like you're not a fictional entity, why are you imitating this thing that only works in animation? but here i think the actors did a good job at portraying the characters. I think the only actor that really embodied the anime acting, but still came out really good was Kazuma. He's so good and can we just appreciate how alluring the voices of the actors? like my god! I'm using in-ears watching this show right and ooohhf! them voices tho!! It's so asmr coded. The costumes of some of these actors, like it didn't look like they were cosplaying at all, we probably aside from Hiei. When i first saw him, he really looked just like a cosplayer, but everybody else they really are in tune with their characters.

Overall, as a fan, this was a really good adaptation in terms of action and cgi, but i'm disappointed because they failed in the story for how fast it is. If you're someone who's never heard of Yu Yu Hakusho before and you're going in blindly in this, i think this is a good gateway for the anime or its manga.

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Boring Zombie Series, full of Cute Girls

This show is just boring. The gist of the story is not something new, but props for trying something creative. As a zombie show, this is just trash, but it's full of kawaii girls so I get the appeal of it.

Some of the mains had okay acting, as for the rest they're very meh, from what i can see i think everybody here are newbies, the teacher had decent acting, and the news reporter is just a bad actor.

The effects were really clean especially when the zombies transform, but the fire explosions in the last episodes were really horrendous, but honestly? wtf is up with that not so scary jumpscare ad break? there are 3 in every episode, at first it caught me off guard, but since you'd be expecting it every episode, it not even scaring me anymore.

The music is almost nonexistent in this series i think that's what lacking to at least make this really eerie, but that upbeat J-pop song really annoyed the fuck out of me, wtf??? this film is supposed to be horror, why the upbeat jpop? but at least they have okay sound effects that's one point.

Nothing else to say, just skip this if you're looking for a good japanese horror, but if you like your cute girls in jdramas then go for it.

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Honestly, what on earth did i just watched?!?!

The film starts off with our 3 MLs without even exploring their characters for viewers to get invested in them, all we know is that they are a film club and they are out on Club Vacation because after this they are gonna be out in the Adultworld. They teased us in the beginning this will probably turn into a killer film. Then we got introduced to our FL and the dialogue interaction with our 3 MLs towards her was soo bad, it's soo unnatural, it looked like the scriptwriter never had a real interaction with a woman, i think it's because our 3 MLs are those virgin boys who never had a girlfriend before, that's probably why.

Then the filmed turn into a mystery for a bit then turned into a killer horror film, i don't even know what is happening and those old actors are bad at acting as killers too, everyone in this film is acting like anime characters, except they are not that why its soo bad, but whoever is the actress of Tasaki yuki, she's really cute thooo, i think i like her, she looks like a combination of Chuu and Kanna Hashimoto.

After this whole ordeal of chasing, killing then there's blood and shit, we found out that this whole situation was a big misunderstanding which was so OBVIOUS!!! because of what granny said when she was introduced and then they rewind back to where grandpa was introduced which is early in the film, just to show the other side of this movie how the misunderstandings happened.

Then we cut back where the film left off and all of the characters are sitting down for a hot pot, it's chill, nice, and cozy, they are eating and talking, getting to know each other, and then we get hinted at something, then sleep. Moments later, they finally revealed a plot twist with who's the real antagonist which was obvious as well, and what the motives are and connected the dots that were hinted at in the beginning, shit is happening, gore everywhere, police came and the movie ended with an open ending and our Main Male lead finally reunited with her crush happily.

To be honest, this was a bad film it looked like it was filmed by a bunch of amateurs that had a wacky idea and tried to turn it into a reality, and even though it came out really dumb, it was still fun, like dumb-fun, it's soo bad that it's good, that you can't even take it seriously, i don't even know if you're supposed to take this movie seriously and you're just having a good time laughing for how bad this movie was. That is my biggest compliment, yet the biggest diss for this film.

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It was alright

As a remake of the korean original, this was actually okay, but that's only it, i don't think it did anything unique or special to make itself stand out from its korean counterpart.

The story... they basically followed the korean original almost 1 to 1, but they made a few changes. One of which was unnecessary in terms of the connections of the characters is them changing FL and the Creator of the Robot as mere friends, in the original she is her Ex and that's the reason why she based her face on the robot as he couldn't move on, but here they just brushed it off as friends and they used her face because it was the idea of one of the side characters because she's pretty, like.... okay??? I mean, if hypothetically i have a scientist friend that would build an AI Robot based on my face without my consent i think i would be angry at them, because just why??? If that's the case they could've just used a random celebrity face or something. Anyway, i think they changed that part because they wanted a different endgame for the Creator of the AI and i found him and Li'er's relationship really cute, their dynamic is really good, and they bounce off each other pretty well. So yeah, i think story-wise this was okay, but it felt really weak because it didn't do anything to stand out, in the later parts the way they tied the knot of the business side was kinda bullshit, it was like as if I'm watching a teledrama. That's all i have to say in terms of the story, go watch it and judge it yourself.

The acting, we all know the bar is really high. ML's acting was good, but i think it could've been better like i think he's just acting the same character from Meteor Garden, but in a different drama. Sun Qian, she's the reason why i watched this drama in the first place and i think she did okay too, she's cute as always, but I just couldn't really help comparing it to the original as i was watching this, because the original was one of the earliest dramas that i've watched when i was getting into kdramas and i was on the high of watching banger after banger, that's why i'm so biased. So yeah, even with my love for Sun Qian didn't really help for me to say that this show was that "OH MY GOD ITS SOOO GOOOD!!!"

Side characters are okay, i don't think there's a character wasted in this remake despite the changes, all of them really contributed to the mains and to the story, again it's basically the same as the original, but with a few changes in the story and the relationship of the characters.

The OSTs are really good, there's that one cute ost that i even thought was a remake because it sounded so similar

The CGI, I'll give it to this remake, because it was made when the technology has already evolved so far that would make the original pale in comparison and the sets are really futuristic as well even the world of this drama is modernly futuristic, they really up that part. The timing for releasing this remake was really on point because we're already at the Rise of AI Technology.

I didn't know this existed because, while i was looking at Sun Qian's list of dramas, i just clicked on this because i thought the title seemed interesting, but later i found out that this was a chinese remake of 'I Not a Robot'. This is still recommendable because i had a good time and the dynamic was really cute, but i doubt i would ever rewatch it.

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Kinda cute, but will also make you feel something

When I was looking for something to watch from Nana, I was intrigued by this because i also saw Arthur Chen in the cast.

I wasn't really expecting anything when i watched this, all i know is i just wanna watch something where Nana is in it. In the beginning, it was kinda meh, like the way they built up the characters and the story was uninteresting at first because it's like your typical youth love story with family drama in it, but when it got to the 2nd half of the story it actually got better, because the love triangles got thrown in. also, they've expanded on the family drama and i was like "Ohh? this is serious..." like suddenly i found myself caring for FL and ML and curious where the story would go, though it was predictable (in a good way).

The characters were okay because again it's your usual youth love story, but the dynamic between FL and ML was still cute along with the other side characters and also with the parents, and then again when it got to the 2nd half with all that drama and love triangle shit, the dynamic got even more interesting, the lines even though the mains are just high schoolers, carry such emotions and the way we get to hear what they think in their minds makes you feel for these characters.

Since this was in the early years of Nana and Arthur's career, the acting wasn't really the best, but it was still good. Arthur still has that smug expression that i saw in him in L&P, he's really good at acting cold characters. Nana, it was kinda of weird for me because i found her acting here much better than her acting in 'The Great Ruler' even though this movie was 3 years before TGR, I think it's got to do with the characters that she's playing, in TGR she was playing a Cold Goddess Princess that hasn't interacted with the mortals so she doesn't how to talk and act with the mortals, in conclusion, she's being held back by the character, while in here because of the heavy drama in the 2nd half she gets to showcase some ranges of emotions and expressions.

So yeah, good movie. I would probably rewatch it again and i highly recommend it if you want something cute but also with something that makes you feel.

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Depression throughout the show

Just saw this randomly on my netflix feed and seemed interesting, so i watched it. And my god! I've never cried like back to back to back watching a drama before. I've watched a lot of sad dramas from China, Korea, and Japan, but i've never cried more than once, I think twice is the max, I would only cry in the climax and the ending if it's done well, but here I don't know how many time I've cried, I think cried like more than 10.

In the first episode, we were greeted with the 2 mains that we're gonna follow throughout the series and they wanna find the whereabouts of the other 2 mains of this show who created a song for them. Immediately they will hit you with the "Oh both of them are dead already" so the drama suddenly takes a dark turn faster than your grandma could stand up, and then the back story of the other 2 mains plays and hits you with another dark plot slapping you in the face. And that's when i knew "Ahhh I'm gonna be depressed throughout this show".

This drama never ceased to amaze me, cuz as you keep digging down to the stories behind these characters, it keeps getting darker and darker, like chill the fuck up, can we have just a least one good part of the backstory?? It's like you're staring in this abyss watching the backstory of these characters.

Though the other 2 mains of the story are dead, i was still really invested in their backstory. It started out dark and then turned into a revenge story, but ended up as a sad romance. And that's my problem with this show, which is that they made the story of the deceased 2 mains really REALLY good. It's soo perfect from A to Z that I wasn't really invested that much with the 2 Alive Mains. It's not that the 2 alive mains are boring or their story is badly written, It's just... i couldn't really relate to their story as I'm not at that age yet or I have yet to experience that part in life. So every time their part would come on, I would immediately press the 1.5 watch speed and be like "COME ON JUST GIVE ME K & CREAMS BACKSTORY!!!!". We also have a third couple that we are gonna follow throughout the show and their story is somewhat tied to the deceased mains, because they have a bigger role to play in that part, but again... wasn't really invested in anything aside from K & Cream's story.

I wonder why they didn't make this drama as K & Cream's story only?? by itself I think their story is 10/10. It would hold itself really well. Maybe the writer isn't confident that their story alone wouldn't sell well??? Though way they told the story was still unique to me and was done really well. It's like you have this Cat and Mouse chase, but the mouse is dead already and the cat is just blindly chasing.

And I'm not gonna spoil the most important twist as that would greatly ruin the immersion of the show, but yeah.. I don't think they should've called this 'More than Blue, they should've just titled this "Black: The Series" cuz the stories in the show is just different variation of the color black hahahaha I'm joking xD

minor critique - The actress of bonnie, i think her acting is very mid.

Highly HIGHLY recommend this show if you want something that would slowly chip away your heart and then glue it together again just to burn it into ashes in the end.

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Very Cute and Sweet, but wasn't perfect

I wasn't really expecting much when started this series, all I know is that my sister really really liked this cdrama to the point where she watched it multiple times.

At first, I wasn't really that hooked, so I watched it at 1.5 speed. The first thing that I noticed is that the ML acting is such a robot, that it has no soul or emotions at all. I mean, I get it he's supposed to be a cold character, but he's doing it too well... and the FL acting, like she can't act at all like there's only a set of emotes that she can do and because of that, it dragged the others acting like they're all newbies. There are some side characters that I think the acting was okay.

Once I got past around ep 4-5 the acting really didn't bother me that much because the story got interesting, so I'm finally watching it at normal speed. The dynamic between the ML and FL is getting cuter and sweeter, I think that's what finally sold me on this drama. The development and interactions are soo good.

Also, jinyang the FL's best friend, is what I was expecting out of Jingjing in 'A Love So Beautiful'. This is how you write a best friend character. Jinyang is the example of the best friend character done right, she knows the flaws of FL's ex and she points it out and she's advising the FL to not get back with her ex since they're also over now. I don't know the full story of FL and her ex maybe there's more to that, I kinda wish that we had more backstory scenes of tong yao and jian yang like they didn't really show much of their relationship, i was kinda invested in them or maybe because i felt bad for jian yang, but regardless.. I'm still glad that we got closure for their relationship, so that's good.

Jinyang and Aija's relationship is really cute too, it's like a good side dish that's there to enhance the dining experience more, I hope we get a drama of these two actors, their dynamic is really cute.

Something that's really bad BAD in this drama, that you can't really ignore, is the korean dubbing... Like WTF was that, it's sooo bad. It threw me off when I first heard it, cuz it's very different from the actor's voices and it's very deep too. It's very obvious that the VAs are reading a script and trying to match the lip flaps, cuz they're saying it so slowly, but it's very enunciated, so I'll give them that, but again it's very weird... they could've just made the actors say it themselves instead of dubbing it since it is not very prevalent in the show.

The gaming side of the show doesn't really interest me. The show is very meticulously done, like i noticed the small details that the director is trying, so I wish they could've taken the time and effort to add something that would explain the know-hows of the game, that they are playing for me to care about the gaming side. Good thing I used to play dota, I kinda understand the overall gist of the game and the terminologies that they're using. Something about the FL and ML's team that I wish that they would do that they actually did was, I hope they would at least lose once if not a couple, because them keeping a winning streak would be unbelievable. I mean, it's possible for it to happen in real life, but it's only a minuscule chance and I'm glad they actually did lose a few games, and that actually contributed something to the development of the characters and their relationship as a team, so good job.

Good thing that in the beginning they only focused on the mains and fleshed out the characters for us watchers to get invested, they didn't really add crazy plots. I was kinda amazed because it's just you're typical drama that you would watch, they're not doing anything crazy and new, they're just doing it safely and hitting all the points of the story that you would kinda expect. When they add side plots, it's mostly contained within 1 or 2 episodes, it's mostly when they need to build up the next enemy that the team is going to face in the tournament. and later on, they started expanding the business/politics side of esports and it was aight.

Around the later parts of the show maybe ep 27 above, i started kinda falling off again. I don't know, something felt flat and kinda rushed, so i started watching it in 1.5 speed again, i mean I'm already this far so I just wanna end it. The ending was okay. Overall it's a cute and sweet drama. As much as it was only okay to me, I think i will rewatch some of its parts again and i would recommend this to someone.

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As crazy as it is, i find it good and I THINK I WANT MORE

At first i thought i was watching the wrong kanna hashimoto movie, but then i realized it really real hahahaha like what the fuck of fever dream this is... I guess it was my mistake too since i didn't look at the tags and i just immendiately went head on to the movie after seeing kanna hashimoto.

But yeah beginning of the movie might be rough cuz of the anime acting and all of its cringeness, but you'll get used to it and find it really funny and interesting.

I think it has its own charm, once you'll stuck with it. It's really a nice unique spin of the princess fairytale

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Great Movie, if you like John Wick

I mean it was really really good, it's like a korean take of John Wick, but they had the ranking system of One Punch Man or maybe even My Hero Academia, but mostly close to One Punch Man. And the mc was a women, so that was kinda breath of fresh Air. Though it's kinda ironic that this came out around the same time as John Wick 4

Storytelling was good, i think in the beginning it's kindly slow because they need time to build it up, I even almost fell off, but good thing i stucked with it as i'll slowly pick up as is goes on.

The sub plot of the daughter being a LGBT was fine, it wasn't distracting or ruining you're experience with the Movie, as they weren't really focusing on in that much.

The Cinematography was really confusing at times, cuz it was like a merge of old style asian and modern cinematography. I really the visualization when Boksoon is thinking on how to kill her opponents, that was really amazing, I think that really adds to her character.

Also, just a nitpick opinion, that sex scene of boksoon and heesung wasn't really necessary imo. I think the story would still be fine if it wasn't there, but i kinda get it why they had to add it, just to show how deep boksoon and heesung's relationship go, but again still unnnecessary.

Overall, I was really invested in the world, cuz it was interesting. It would've been great if this was a TV series, cuz the movie runtime didn't do it justice as it was to short for me, but it doesn't feel like it's rushed either. Still it would've been great if the world would be explored more because it's interesting, i think there's still lots to talk about. Hope they would make a sequel or spin off TV series of this.

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SOOO BORING

I watched it, cuz it looked cool in the trailer and it had a pretty interesting premise.

The idea is cool tho, ngl, but the movie didn't really deliver. There were so much lacking in this, so much so that i feel like if they had more time and i guess budget as well, they could've refined this movie more. I liked the slow burn in the early part in the movie, but it kept dragging on and on, and there's not much crumbs to make you interested, want to be hype for the payoff, but NO.

The CGI is very good in this, i'll give them that, but space sweepers had much more GOOD CGI...

Actors are great, but there's not really much to say. No one piqued my interest in terms of characters, they couldn't really flesh out much, considering they had to dump everything during a 1hr & 30mins movie.

My critiques tho, so SPOILERS!!!

The beginning already gave me a sign to exit, but i kept watching. In the intro, they will bomb you with so much text and i was like "Well, atleast show me?! don't just feed it into me"

And lastly maybe this is a nitpick critique, but during the last fight scene on the train. Like how did Kim Sang Hoon managed to go toe to toe in combat with Jung_E???? I mean, i get he's an AI, but im pretty sure there's no combat files that was uploaded in him, aside from knowing how to use guns...

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Drama is GOATED, but it still has it's flaws

This was trending all over my feed when this came out and i put it off from watching it and riding the hype train, since i still have a lot of shit to watch, so this is just something to keep as a treat because i know this is probably good and i know I'll probably love it and i must say... this will probably be my 2nd fave cdrama series next to Lighter & Princess.

The drama is about the love story of a Fire Fighter, like okay i can get behind that occupation since i fancied that job when i was a toddler, and a Doctor literally the occupation that i mostly stay away from in dramas, like the medical aspect, but hey let's not judge the book by it's cover. Before this, i was watching 'The Longest Promise' and Wang Churan is in there and she's great, at first i didn't like her mainly because of her character, but later on i actually got invested in her and started to like her as an actress, so i promised myself to watch this show after cuz i wanna see this girl in other dramas.

The pacing in the first 5 episodes or so is fast like really fast because in every episode there's plot convenience for ML and FL in order for them to meet each other, i was planning to watch Episode 1 only as i was about to sleep and would plan to continue watching it the next day, but i ended up watching up until episode 4 xD. You can tell i was really hooked right away in the beginning because, even though the beginning is fast paced, i don't think that necessarily was a bad thing, because i think it was done to get your heart fluttering right away for this Couple, no bullshit here's the mains that your gonna follow, now get invested, unlike in some cdramas where the first 10-20 episodes literally half of the show is a very slow burn build up and you're just sitting there waiting when the show will start to tickle your heart and by the time it gets good there's a big chance that you've mostly fallen off because of boredom.

Then 6-20 ish or so the story started slowing down and took its time to flesh out the story, side characters, the fire fighting and medical aspect, and building up the family drama and i wouldn't say that part is where you'll get bored as it was done really really well because it's like you're playing a tug of war, they would pull you in these side plots and maybe every, now and then they would let go and show some interactions between ML and FL, like "Hey, we didn't forget that this is a love story about this two. This shit that we are building up is for the bigger picture of this whole story".

20-25 is where you'll get the payoff that you've been waiting and 26-38 is where our couple with face the problems of them being together, the family drama i would say. Now, the family drama was done really tasteful here, like this is one of the best examples of how to do a family drama without necessarily making the parents be very hateable characters and a good family drama on top of that too, i was surprised like when i got near the end i realized i actually did not bear any hatred for FL's Mom and Dad, well the dad is mostly passive in this show, but yeah, i didn't really have any hatred for the parents because they've explained their side to make you understand, why they would do these things, even though its wrong for them to do it, they care for FL so much that they would go for such lengths for her, but as good as the family drama is, i noticed they didn't really show how powerful her family's influence really are, like how deep does it go? They did show it, but i think that was just a taste of how deep the connections her family got. Then the last 2 episodes tie everything all together into a nice bow.

After watching this, i can see why some of the comments said this was unnecessarily long because if you look at the number of episodes they've actually hit the max episodes rule placed by the law and if you look at the whole show, the stories in it aren't well balanced. I think they were too focused on highlighting both the Fire Fighting and Medical aspect of this show, like what it's like to be in that occupation, the struggles and stakes that you'll encounter, that is good, i didn't mind it, but when i finished the show i'm like "Yep... okay... wait it ended? now i'm sad" because we didn't even get the wedding scene that they've been building up, nor a scene where ML shows up on FL's Family dinner which he has been saying for half of the show and maybe even a time skip scene where they have a child and they're finally a happy family. It was really funny because they still managed to shoehorn a typhoon part very late in the show and because of that we didn't get the wedding scene that we'd been expecting and I noticed the lacking of backstory in this drama, the way they do back story here, they would just show tidbits of it when a situation is can't be explained enough with just words, that's where they would insert a backstory and it's scattered throughout the series.

Let's talk about the side plots... some of the side firefighters got their own side plot around the middle and i was like "Okay?" that was really unnecessary and necessary at the same time because it actually had some effect later on in the story and poor Zhan Dapeng, i was wondering why he suddenly got his own character arc very late in the game, without knowing they'll actually kill him off the next episode. Yanchen and Yezi's side plot was so obvious from the start, i could see it from a mile away from the way yezi is being highlighted every time there's a bar scene and that side plot was really good because both of them got the character development they needed. Zhao Miao, i was wondering when she'll get her big moment aside from being an annoyance to her brother and sticking her nose in other's business, even tho she's ML's sister she's really passive throughout the show, later on, her side plot made a big 180 to Yanchen and his side plot with Yezi, which rippled through the Family drama and I was like "Wow.... I'm amazed". I was wondering if Xiao Yixiao and Jiang Yu would be the only side characters that would be left alone, but good thing they also got a good endgame later in the story.

The characters, i think all of them are good. I like Suo Jon a lot in the beginning, as he is ML's closest friend they really bounce off each other really well and their chemistry is off the charts whenever both are on screen, too bad he was taken out early in the story. I don't know why but Song yan or his actor Yang yang he's so goated here, but I noticed one thing that he does in this drama like every time he's given water or something to drink, expect it by the end of the scene he would almost finish it or if not drank it all up and the way he drinks has vibes as well, i don't think i've noticed that of him in 'The King's Avatar' i don't know, that is the only other show i've watched from Yang yang, but i just noticed that here and i find it really funny. Xu Qin too has that quirk where she would scratch her fingers or external objects and it really shows what she really is deep inside every time they would highlight it and every time she would meet her family members her spirit would immediately bend, which goes to show her persona towards them, in her family's eyes she is their little baby that they really have to protect and control, i also noticed her actress Wang Churan, her acting in here is somewhat lacking for me, every time she has a serious scene with Yang yang she can't match his energy emotionally, every time both of them are together on screen Yang-Yang's presence would dominate, i wouldn't say she's doing a bad job, it's good but i felt like it could've been better and the line delivery as well and can i just take a moment to appreciate for how pretty she is?? My god!! and she looks like Sullyoon from NMIXX at times as well, like i got a glimpse of if ever Sullyoon becomes an actress in the future. ML's parents or i must say, Aunt and Uncle, in most dramas the parents of either ML or FL are just there to be funny quirky, and maybe be an actual parents at times, but here they are actually good as Parents they're not just there passively to be funny, they are actually goated at giving the words that our couple needed.

And speaking of words, one of the things that i like in this drama is the usage of talking. the way they resolve problems with each of the characters here is through words, rarely you would see them using action to resolve a problem and i really like that about this drama.

The music in this drama, ooooohhhh.... my god! 10/10 Top tier, i think that's one of the things that sold me on this drama in the beginning because it's such an eargasm, especially that piano-violin combo plus a singer that's harmonizing in the background, ugh!!! I wanna find that ost, I think that's my favorite in this drama.

So yeah, although this drama is goated, it still has its flaws, but i highly HIGHLY recommend it, i noticed this is the 3rd drama that I've watched where it has that intro logo in the beginning and all of them really pop off another minor thing that i noticed.

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Started off okay, but turned into a boring GARBAGE

My god!!! I watched this back when I was still on that Zhang Ruo Nan hype because I just discovered her on 'Cry Me a Sad River', but man... not even my hype could push me through finishing or even enjoying this drama, cuz it's just bad, like REALLY REALLY BAD... and it even took me a year and a half to realized like "You know what? Let's not even bother finishing it. I might have at least 10 episodes left, but I really just can't."

Ok so, I started watching this when I was also just getting into cdramas and I didn't know that cdramas have anime-like openings. So I got hit with a lot of spoilers in the first episode because of the opening like wtf... at least in anime, they'll try to make it look like a puzzle that you have to piece together. So already starting off really bad, and I can't really remember much in the beginning, all i know is i think it's decent, but I still watched it at 1.5speed. I think it was okay in the beginning because we're just focusing on the dynamic of the FL and 2 MLs, but the moment they've returned to their homeland and started introducing this family drama and business politics and stuff to the story, that's where it started going down to shit.

Now the family drama, it was either shit or just plain boring. I think it was kinda interesting with the lost son mystery and shit, but i think they've revealed it too early, and it's kinda predictable as well, as to who the lost son is. So maybe it's probably both shit and boring. Zhang Min's dad, my god... props to the writer for writing him as the most annoying dad, but my god! The actor is soo bad; the one scene that got me laughing so hard for how bad his acting was, is when he was choking her mistress, like.... that scene was soo bad HAHAHAHAH If you look at how he's choking this actress like, i don't how to describe it, but it was bad. I don't even think i have anything to say about his character, nor his acting, other than he's BAD. Both as the character and actor.

Zhang Min's mother, i mean... she's just there.. great. Most of the time, she's just passive, though she doesn't have that much screen time. It's understandable.

Zhang Min, my god, can you get even more annoying?? like he's really obsessing over the FL, pushing himself to be the FL's boyfriend, when the FL doesn't even wanna associate herself with him, and i feel for wenna, like why even bother considering marrying her? When it's very obvious that the girl that you really like is Luo Xi?

Luo Xi on the other hand is also annoying and is such a pushover, like just make up your mind for god's sake. I feel really bad for the 2nd ML for getting up his hopes because she's such a pushover, that's why ML keeps coming back and trying to convince her to be his boyfriend.

Tao Lun... ugh!! I'm getting 2nd Lead Syndrome. At first, I felt really bad for him, and i really really like his character, clearly written to be a good likable boy, and I've been rooting for him, but the more you watch, the more you get annoyed, like come on just stop, the girl clearly doesn't wanna be with you and only see you as a childhood friend. I skimmed through the remaining episodes that i have, and from what i saw, he ended up with wenna, and it was kinda cute. You can already tell since they've been building up to it. Of course, the revelation that he was the real son, is really meh, like okay... what else??

Wenna, when she got introduced, it was okay, but she started getting on my nerves. She got progressively annoying as you watch, but I'm glad she got that character development. Then she realized that ML doesn't love her, so that's when i started giving a shit about her character and her dynamic with the 2nd ML.

Now, I'm just gonna sum up the rest of the side characters, like you could've actually cut down most of them and given the screen time to Yang Lin and Secretary Zheng like you didn't even have to bother creating this many side characters. They're just distractions or fillers to stretch out the runtime of this drama because most of the time when it's just these side characters on screen, it's just a snooze fest for me. Like can we just get on the main topic, please?

Couldn't really care much about the business side plot. You could've just kept this on the sidelines and toned it down because of the Family and Business side plot that this became like a shit Teledrama instead of a romance-drama. At least, I'm done. I'm finally free from the shackles of wanting to finish this show, like I'M OUT! It's so garbage. This is the 2nd Drama that I've watched where Riley Wang is in it, and i feel really concerned about his Portfolio because the other one that I'm also currently watching right now is also shit, but I hope he gets a well written drama in the future because i think he's a great actor and he's cute with cute dimples.

Overall, again shit garbage drama. Don't even bother watching it if you're looking for a good story and acting, but if you're a fan of any of the actors/actresses, then go ahead if it can help you go through the atrocity that this drama is, i really wanna rate it 0.5 or even 0, but the website doesn't allow it xD. This is something that my mother or grandmother would watch, i think this is aimed for that demographic and not for my age.

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Dumpster Fire

I'm actually afraid to make this review because, it might just be my ignorance towards Thai Dramas. This is my 1st Thai Series, but 4th in terms of media, so it might just be the nuance or the cultural difference that I'm not getting, but I'll do it anyway. I'll be the black sheep for this drama.

The story is like a dumpster fire. It's so wacky and garbage. It has bad writing, full of cliche plot points, shameless product placements, and is also fast-paced. I say bad writing, but there are some parts where the writer managed to hit all the points that it needs to hit story wise. It has a lot of side plots as well, like A LOT that doesn't even contribute to the main story. I appreciate the topics some of the side plots tackled, like the LGBT and family Issues regarding chasing your dreams, but for me, it was like forcing something that was not the main thing of the show. I guess it's because some of them didn't have any effect on the Main Couple as well, that's why it felt like a distraction to me. You could've either cut it down or made the runtime longer. I didn't know that you could have a Music drama, that has politics in it, it's only a little bit, but you get the point I'm trying to make. I also couldn't understand some of the character's actions or decisions like I get this is a drama, but come on... at least make it convincing. It is so bad. I say fast-paced, it's because this drama has a lot to unpack, but they had to fit it all into 10 Episodes only.

The Characters, I only came here because of the Main Actress, she's a great actress, but that alone wasn't enough. I almost dropped this show, but what kept me going was the wacky dynamic between these characters after episode 4. I'm not even watching this because of the romance aspect, but purely for shits and giggles. I couldn't really feel any of the characters, but Chalarm though... he was annoying, but because of his dynamic with ML and how it evolved later on, that I appreciate, though it kinda gave off BL vibes, which is fine because that means they got good chemistry going on. And I love how the writer stood firm and went above 100 with these characters, great job on that. Like Chalarm as an example, again he was annoying and they explored all the avenues that he could do to make him a hateable character and in the end, he realized, then he changed. So I guess you could say, he was the one that stood out to me.

The music in this drama amazed me, not because it's good, but because you can tell they got the budget or I don't know, maybe music production in Thailand is not cheap because they had a lot of singing segments here and that's also one of the annoying things. I know it's a music drama, but they got a lot of random ass singing scenes that don't even connect. I already get how the character felt, you don't have to double it down, by having him dance and sing, it's sooo random. The bgm and sfx are soo exaggerated as well, I laugh every time a character makes an expression and you have this super exaggerated sound in the background, I think the only thing left is the on-the-top editing and you have those Indian edits that you see online.

Overall, I like how it ended and how it was resolved. I think despite being a dumpster fire it somehow managed to land its own two feet at the end. How I ended up in this show is that I saw a reel of FL and I was like "Ohh... She's Pretty!" Then I found out she's an actress.

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Good Story, Great Character Writing

After watching a trashy GL jdrama, I was looking at my plan to watch list, to see if there's another trashy sounding title that i can tick off. I ended up with this drama and damn. I didn't expect i would pick up a gold one and would make me cry like a river in the end.

The story is not just all that dark mystery about this kiss of death, it's actually more than that, though it started that way, it slowly developed into this puzzle piece game with a romance on the side. The first arc with the mystery killer though short and hilarious at times, was good. Although once you get the first hint it was obvious who was actually the killer. It's also just a groundwork to build up FL antagonist and her intention was all along. After that, okay where are they taking the story... now ML realizes he can make himself rich by taking advantage of the time leap to make things go his way and that's where it starts to get messy and exciting.

The second part of the story is what i actually like the most, everything was going smoothly for our ML, but as the story goes on, more and more you see him hit a wall, and he has no choice but to actually start thinking and planning before recklessly going into time leap because, every time he time leaps, that doesn't only change his future, but also starts affecting his surroundings. And i like that even though he has the upper hand to curate his path, the story will still naturally find its way to corner him. Along the way, there are also parts where they start tapping into human emotions, that will touch your heart. It's not just all this if could redo things to make yourself rich, you'd do everything, It is also about spending time with your loved ones while they're still alive and that's where the romance on the side slowly creeps in because i doubt every time you'd kiss each other even if it's just contractual you wouldn't fall for the other. The romance was already sad as it is because it got caught up in this love triangle, then you see it get thrown out the window in the end as a way to redeem ML, like why would play with my heart like that?!?!?!

I say great character writing because you have these innocent characters who were forced to become villains because of the ML's greed to keep messing with time, some characters became good, and some remained villains to be the necessary evil. It's not every time you time leap that you would see the same flow, because other characters actually evolved and would start affecting things.

The way MC was written to only chase money, not women, you see his back story as to why he became that way. It's fucked up, sad, like really sad and you'll start feeling for him, then he starts to progressively mature and corrects everything in the end. THE FUCK WAS THE POINT OF HIM REALIZING THAT ALL THIS MESS STARTED BECAUSE OF HIS GREED, SO HE DECIDED TO NOT BE WITH FL IN THE END?!?!?! I get it though, he has this greed, he's the scummiest of the scums, so he decided to not redo his romance with FL because he's afraid that he might just still take advantage of her down the road. I was surprised that it was Kento, he's so cool here.

I like how FL was painted as a villain in the beginning, but she wasn't actually and became this important tool in MLs life. Her dynamic with ML was really funny, I like how she can bluntly diss back, with no holds bar and you'd see ML get choked. They have a really good back-and-forth going on, that's why i preferred her to be ML's endgame rather than Mikoto. Whoever Saiko's actress is, imma have to look that up, she's so cute!!! She's like an amalgamation of Adora because of the hair, Kim Jiwon because of the nose and eyes, also Seoyeon from fromis_9.

The one i was impressed with the most was Takauji, because in the beginning he's just this good "innocent" person who's really keen to protect her step-sister, no matter how his uncle sways him, but again because of ML's greed you'll start to see him become the villain that he didn't want to be. His sole job to protect his sister became an obsession in turn he's forced to do bad things and it's just sad to see.

I don't really have much to say about Mikoto, she's okay. In the beginning, i preferred her for ML but because she's just being used by ML you'll start feeling sad for her, though it was true still that ML actually managed to love her a little.

I had a lot of curiosities about the intricacies of the power and It was funny when my curiosity actually happened if the time leap would still actually work if it was girl to girl HAHAHA, the same thing as well if it was Man to Man, that was super hilarious. They managed to answer everything as well as if they could actually return years later, though only in words, not in practice.

Overall, Good Story, Great Character Writing. I rate it 9.5 because I'm bitter about the ending HAHAHAHA but in my heart, it's 10/10.

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