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It's mid and could've been shorter
A few years ago I read tong the webtoon. I'm gonna admit that I totally forgot what it even was about. To many people their surprise I actually really enjoy these type of series. Although I normally watch BL or Romance in general, it's rare for me to even start these type of series. But today, I wanted to watch something with fighting and more in it. Tong wasn't bad, but there is definitely room for improvement. The plot lacks but the fight scene's are good. When I was around episode 7-8 it got more and more boring.
The thing I really like about this series are how well done the fight scene's are. It was enjoyable, although I did catch a few editing mistakes. I like how dopamine fed it is. But, the plot is just pure and only fighting. I wished we had more deeper moments and sometimes it became a bit overwhelming. It took me 3 episodes to really understand what was even going on, I had to read the description to understand it. I even rewatched the first episode... I was kinda confused on how to start with this series because I knew it was a sequel to the manhwa. It might confuse Manhwa readers but watching Tong:Memories before Dokgo rewind doesn't matter. It would be so nice if more parts of the manhwa series got a live action but if I'm honest, I don't think that'll ever happen.
For the acting, it's quite nice. This series acting reminded me a lot of Weak Hero. I actually wasn't familiar with the actors before so this is my first time seeing both Heo Ji Won and Lee Hak Woo as leads. One of the second things that made the series alright. When I first saw Myeong Hwa I was like "DAMNN". His hair is amazing, I love it. The girls in this series were badass as well. Like genuinely. Talking about women... this show lowkey had a few misogynistic moments, let's not lie. I understand it's all about men and I'm saying this as a male but... some moments just felt weird and direspectful. Maybe just different culture but I did not like it.
My main problem was how boring this show got the more I got into it. Everything until episode 7 was alright but after episode 7 it just felt like unnecessarily added episodes. What also made me more and more confused was the amount of random added characters. Like after watching a few episodes we do not need to keep getting more and more new characters. It would've been way nicer if they cut time by shortening the series. 7 or 8 is enough. Sorry but the last episodes were just bland and my whole motivation to finish this was BAD. The fights made up almost half of each episode too like...the fighting is what makes it good, sure.
I really enjoy the animations in this series. Like when the characters are introduced and the intro. Really well done. But we never got proper introductions of many characters. Also, the motivations are so unclear because the episodes are short and shit. I get the whole Tong thing but I just don't understand half of the time why they're fighting. There's more fights than actual talking it just pisses me off like where did that plot go?
I watched this on YouTube and had to find out if the music in ep 6 was the actual song originally used in the editing? Either way the very happy music while they seemed excited for the fight was crazy to me. How can they be soo excited to fight. episode 6 might be my fav ep so far. Even if I do have a bit of criticism, especially on the lack of plot and production, I do actually like it. I mean.. everyone has their own taste. My rating is still low and it'll probably stay this way. Mainly with the reason that it got extremely boring to me towards the ending. I somehow managed to finish it but if I'm honest, I did press that skip button during the fights a lot. Not recommended, but maybe you'll like it. This is purely based on my opinion.
The thing I really like about this series are how well done the fight scene's are. It was enjoyable, although I did catch a few editing mistakes. I like how dopamine fed it is. But, the plot is just pure and only fighting. I wished we had more deeper moments and sometimes it became a bit overwhelming. It took me 3 episodes to really understand what was even going on, I had to read the description to understand it. I even rewatched the first episode... I was kinda confused on how to start with this series because I knew it was a sequel to the manhwa. It might confuse Manhwa readers but watching Tong:Memories before Dokgo rewind doesn't matter. It would be so nice if more parts of the manhwa series got a live action but if I'm honest, I don't think that'll ever happen.
For the acting, it's quite nice. This series acting reminded me a lot of Weak Hero. I actually wasn't familiar with the actors before so this is my first time seeing both Heo Ji Won and Lee Hak Woo as leads. One of the second things that made the series alright. When I first saw Myeong Hwa I was like "DAMNN". His hair is amazing, I love it. The girls in this series were badass as well. Like genuinely. Talking about women... this show lowkey had a few misogynistic moments, let's not lie. I understand it's all about men and I'm saying this as a male but... some moments just felt weird and direspectful. Maybe just different culture but I did not like it.
My main problem was how boring this show got the more I got into it. Everything until episode 7 was alright but after episode 7 it just felt like unnecessarily added episodes. What also made me more and more confused was the amount of random added characters. Like after watching a few episodes we do not need to keep getting more and more new characters. It would've been way nicer if they cut time by shortening the series. 7 or 8 is enough. Sorry but the last episodes were just bland and my whole motivation to finish this was BAD. The fights made up almost half of each episode too like...the fighting is what makes it good, sure.
I really enjoy the animations in this series. Like when the characters are introduced and the intro. Really well done. But we never got proper introductions of many characters. Also, the motivations are so unclear because the episodes are short and shit. I get the whole Tong thing but I just don't understand half of the time why they're fighting. There's more fights than actual talking it just pisses me off like where did that plot go?
I watched this on YouTube and had to find out if the music in ep 6 was the actual song originally used in the editing? Either way the very happy music while they seemed excited for the fight was crazy to me. How can they be soo excited to fight. episode 6 might be my fav ep so far. Even if I do have a bit of criticism, especially on the lack of plot and production, I do actually like it. I mean.. everyone has their own taste. My rating is still low and it'll probably stay this way. Mainly with the reason that it got extremely boring to me towards the ending. I somehow managed to finish it but if I'm honest, I did press that skip button during the fights a lot. Not recommended, but maybe you'll like it. This is purely based on my opinion.
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