Have to say that the first half was definitely interesting, which was why I kept on watching the drama. But then for the last 4-5 eps, I started to question if I should continue watching this. Should have trusted my gut feeling when the plot started to turn uncharacteristically dark for no reason. And just when you thought that maybe things will be overturned later, you ended being disappointed and wondering why on earth you even bothered watching this.

Like seriously, the moment the villain starts getting clingy with the main pairs and wanna get the guy to kill his girl just to justify his own belief and started killing off every tom dick and harry around the main character the plot gone to the trash already. The villain becoming too overpowered to the point of ridiculous and the side characters acting stupid by not heeding the main character's warning to not confront the villain direct and ending up being killed stupidly as well. And the ending was so anti-climax that you can't help wondering if the writer themselves gave up in making the story be decent. Which was a shame, since the earlier plot was decent only to become a trainwreck at the end.

This is as bad if not worse than a lot of western b-grade horror with dumb main characters and overpowered psycho villains.

Tl:dr, as much the initial story sounded interesting, don't bother watching this. Please watch other much better dramas seriously. Like say, Ghost Seeing Detective Cheoyeong was good. It had a similar starting plot and was much written and balanced on the detective and the supernatural theme.

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The moment that I find out about the setting of the story and the fact it's written by a Malaysian author made me want to watch this drama.

That said, the concept about ghost bride is something you can see often in a lot of East Asian mythologies and I was curious at how that would come to play here. Loved the Peranakan setting and the fact that it was set in 1980s Malaya. Aside from the supernatural elements, there was a touch of mystery involving Li Lan's mission to find out the truth about Tian Ching's murder (in order for her to save her father) as well as Er Lang's mission. Overall, the drama is quite good and entertaining. And if you're a Malaysian, you'll appreciate a lot of the little bits of local 'inside jokes' that come out occasionally.

I loved the casting for the drama. If you didn't know any better, you'd think everyone there (who're Chinese) were local people. Even when some of the main cast were actually Taiwanese etc. While there are some details in the drama that runs differently than in the original novel, the drama still manages to convey an enjoyable story. I love the attention to detail in the Peranakan culture, Malay culture as well as the culture of people from that time, it even had that quality you get from Yasmin Ahmad movies.

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What an enjoyable movie! I really missed seeing the trio together after so long and it was certainly a delight to find out that Higashino Keigo-san did release a new novel after Midsummer's equation. (Though I still wished publishers also pick up translating the other earlier novels, given how popular the series was. )

Fukuyama Masaharu was still great as Professor Yukawa, bringing out the many charms of an eccentric physics professor who also had a taste in mystery deduction. It was also great to see Shibasaki Kou back as Utsumi, bringing back the old Yukawa-Utsumi dynamics that everyone loved so dearly. And with Kitamura Kazuki reprising his role as Kusanagi, the ultimate trio is complete! Even more, I really appreciate this movie due to the fact that this is the first live-action adaptation of the novel where both Kusanagi and Utsumi were present in the original novel (ie most of the drama plot for Utsumi before was originally written for Kusanagi while plots that include Utsumi in - after Higashino-san start writing her in due to drama's popularity - end up being pushed to Kishitani)

But of course, due to some changes in the drama plot aka having Utsumi being sent away for training and slotting in Kishitani as her replacement as well as a few of Kusanagi's key scenes be given to Utsumi, the writing would be affected to reflect that but the overall vibe of the movie was still okay.

As usual, Kusanagi and Utsumi were dealing with yet another complicated case and ended up needing the help of our reluctant physics professor who always tends to find himself in the middle of a case. And this time, Kusanagi had to confront an old case that once traumatised him so much.

I really love the trio's dynamics, and I especially love how Utsumi grew to become this bridge that's connecting Yukawa and Kusanagi and mediated their relationship; as Yukawa and Kusanagi's friendship grew even more strained due to the case.

The case was interesting as well as it featured a conflict faced by the police when they couldn't prosecute the suspect that they were sure to be guilty yet unable to prove the crime as the suspect kept their silence despite mounting evidence stacked against them. It also presents a dilemma when they have to investigate the victims of the crime who may have committed murder out of revenge due to the failure of the police to punish a criminal using the law.

The movie compiled a montage at the end in the credits featuring most of the trio's past scenes in drama and movies which I find to be very sweet.

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Never thought I'd be able to see the Jinchu arc made it into the live action adaptation. So when the new movies were announced I was really elated as the Jinchu arc was one of my favourite arc in the manga, and half of me did wished to see that arc to appear in the live action. Especially since for the earlier three movies, the live actions did have certain parts that they changed in order to fit all the important plotlines while trying to stay close to the original story.

That said, it's been a long while since I've read the manga... yet I am glad to see some of the familiar plots reappearing in the live action almost exactly as it originally did in manga. And it intrigued me to see the parts that was changed and reimagined in order to fit the set amount of time for the movie. I was delighted to see the return of the Oniwabanshu members as well as certain surviving members of the Juppon Gatana who ended up fighting on the same sides. Not to mention the unexpected Seta-Himura combo was really amazing to see and enjoy. And I also love seeing more glimpse of Tomoe-Kenshin plotlines alongside the conflicts with Enishi.

I really enjoyed the movie and I'm looking forward to The Beginning as we get to see more of the past relationship Kenshin had with Tomoe.

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What a fun and enjoyable watch. While at first glance the series seem to be a cheap take on the old spy plot combined with a corporate corruption drama, the drama turned out to be quite enjoyable with the cast of unlikely trio of female agents with different backgrounds.

It's basically a Korean Charlie's Angels drama with two of the female agent being mothers. The spy plot may be a bit old-school and full of clichés but Choi Ganghee did pretty well in playing the part of a super agent with a painful past. The addition of Lee Jonghyuk as Team Leader Dong adds a bit of comedic element to the series which made it fun to see this unlikely team of NIS agents try to solve the case of corporate leak conspiracy.

While as a whole, the series did have a simple plot with some predictable twists... the drama did not fail to make me laugh with the comedic gags as well as its old school espionage plot.

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Took me a while to get to watch this continuation after Two Worlds, but I finally managed to do it now. And I have to say that it's amazing.

The movie picked up after the loose ends left from Two Worlds, after Jahong was ascended and then the fate of his dead brother remained to be seen. For a second I had to wonder what was the connection with the other assignment given to Ganglim and his team aside from the matter regarding Kim Suhong but it turned out that everything still connected in an intricate way! It's really amazing, the writing that is.

We get to find out more about Ganglim, Hewonmaek and Dukcheon's past lives and how it turned out that it wasn't a coincidence that the trio was paired together. We also get to find out the circumstances of their deaths and how it leads the trio to become grim reapers and having to guide the souls of the dead in order to absolve their sins and allow them to reincarnate. And it turned out, the complicated circumstances of Ganglim's past life had also a connection with Kim Suhong's judgement. Loved the amazing writing, and how much the story in Two World and The Last 49 days seamlessly interconnected. It felt like it was also no coincidence that Ganglim's team was assigned to handle Kim Jahong's case and later on with Kim Suhong.

That aside, I have to say that the final reveal about King Yeomra just add the final touch on how the writing of everything been done well. It explained a lot on why King Yeomra have had quite a lot of interest in Ganglim in particular and why they seem to have a special relationship.

I really enjoyed the movie throughout. And while the movie's serious plot had been engaging enough, I love the fact that the comedy in between was still so amusing. Had to say that Ganglim, Hewonmaek and Dukcheon really had grown on me.

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This drama started well... but then halfway through the series for some reason, the production thinks that it was wise of them to CHANGE the main writer and have the FL being too sympathetic to the Psycho Dude and be very unkind to the person she's supposed to be more in love with and destroyed the drama. The only reason I'm still watching this drama is for Cha Hyungbin/Kim Soohyuk. Seriously, nothing else matters in this drama besides Soohyuk.

Seriously I don't get how Sabin could be so dumb and inconsiderate. Like even if she was trying to be so trusting in the good of people, I don't get how she could be so forgiving to someone who stalks her and acts like a psycho yet can be so biased to Soohyuk who might be a bit unforgiving towards anyone who had a history of criminal actions just because of that one moment where he messed up a bit due to some misunderstanding. Not saying that Sabin's character can be very unrealistic; like it's understandable that she might feel confused about her own feelings towards the two men for the fact that there were some 'deja vu' she had with Jicheol where actually from Haeeun's memories of Hyungbin. Even then, her treatment of Soohyuk was much too biased for someone who's supposedly trying to see good in everyone around her.

Like seriously, I thought this drama was aiming to reunite a pair of lovers in their second life after dying prematurely over an unjust death. But No. It went off the charts in a really BAD way.

Somehow I wonder just how much of the plot had diverted from the original plan for the writer in this series. Like I heard how in the middle of the series there's somehow a change in the main writer thus one of the main reason this drama took in the stupid ridiculous direction. Yet even then I wonder about what part was still following the original scripts before the writer change obliterated it. Like tbh, I feel that Soohyuk/Hyungbin's plot was the only one that remained intact from the original writer's plan as his part of the story was the ONLY one that remained consistent as the rest of the plot went downhill just so that the second main writer could make the psycho dude be paired with the FL.

Tl;dr, unless you don't mind watching having your expectations of what a good story could turn out be destroyed during the next half of the plot, don't watch this show. Or you can be like me who had stuck around till the end because the second male lead being your ONLY salvation inside this drama. Like seriously, Lee Soohyuk was still the only good thing about this drama. I mean, as much as the mystery/crime plot seemed interesting at first... all that went to drain as apparently whoever that has been brought in to replace the original writer cannot for the life of them write any engaging crime or court scene to make it believable and only focusing on love plot.

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At first glance, the drama appeared to have a similar storyline that inspired the creation of Gapdong, Signal as well as Tunnel. Suppose such first impressions are unavoidable when it involves stories that contain unsolved serial murder cases and cover-up plotlines. And because of Shin Hakyun, I can't help getting a similar vibe I felt from Less than Evil for this drama. Which is probably intentional as the two characters from the two dramas had a similar level of darkness, and the way Shin Hakyun carried both characters was almost similar.

That said, as much as I'm no stranger to these kinds of genres I have to say that this drama can be pretty dark, heavy and intense. In which it might get a bit taxing to watch as almost every character in this drama seems suspicious and makes you wary about everyone. And the way Lee Dongsik kept acting very suspicious at times can be pretty exhausting to watch as one alternates from wanting to believe he was innocent or guilty, and it gets worse when almost every character in this drama behaved in similar ways. You can't help feeling like you're being gaslighted to believe anything you're being told and later get fooled over and over, throughout the drama by almost every key character. It gets pretty tiring if you're the kind who easily becomes engrossed in the plotline and is treated with constant gaslighting and manipulations from the characters.

On the bright side, it made the plot very unpredictable yet on another, it makes one question whether or not you should continue watching the drama as the main character tried too hard to act as the ultimate villain, just because they've become quite disillusioned with how the law works. It only really gets better or tolerable halfway towards the end, partially because the truth starts to finally get unravelled and the main characters start to become much more honest with each other, and we realised how some of the earlier behaviours had just been a false facade/

Overall, it was a good story though you do need to have quite a bit of patience to get through the first half of the drama before being able to properly appreciate the mystery and storyline.

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To be honest, the series was quite decent. Not too bad nor too silly, contrary to what some people might claim the series to be. And in terms of acting, I don't see that to be any worse issue compared to any other Sentai series before or after Ninnin. Even for the actor playing Takaharu. Also for people who still question Nishikawa Shunsuke's acting ability, he IS a good actor honestly as you could see in later episodes where Takaharu's personality totally change whenever enemy monsters get up to their tricks. Or if you disliked the idea of a cowboy ninja, dude, Kinji's already is a Japanese cowboy prior so having him embracing his new ninja side shouldn't be weird.

Just because you have a biased opinion on the show or disliked how the characters were written, doesn't mean you can shit on the casts.

As with any other sentai series, as the episodes progress so does the acting as the cast gets more in tune with their roles. And to be honest, I wouldn't call any of the plot pieces to be 'bad' or 'boring'. Each Ninninger gets their own character arcs in turn and kept growing stronger as the episodes progress. And as they get stronger in power, so does their familial bonds. I wouldn't call the writing to be shabby when there's a lot of consideration placed on each of the members to allow them to grow as a team. By the end of the day, you'll see how each of the Igasaki family members overcome their own difficulties and grow stronger and much closer as a family of ninjas.

Ninninger is your usual super sentai show featuring fights with kaijin and monsters with ninja (and ninja cowboys) as its main theme. The show also had the elements of family (as it focuses on a clan of ninjas who are family) as well as an evil feudal warlord as the main villain. As someone who had seen a lot of old and new sentai series, Ninninger didn't fall too far from using the usual common tropes and writings that are prevalent than any other sentai series in general yet can still be entertaining, as well as wholesome.

Just because ninjas and family theme is not your cup of tea, don't be too brash to claim that the show was bad because you didn't like it. Or else you'll find quite a number of sentai series that by rights shouldn't appeal to you as well due to the similar themes and tropes that were present in their respective series.

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Ever since I learned about this series being made, I've been looking forward to it. Not just because the lead was played by Kim Namgil, but also because it's a story about the first profiler in Korea. And I have to say, I really liked it. But since this drama was based on a real person and real cases, safe to say anyone watching the drama need to prepare themselves to revisit some very well known and familiar cases in which a few had already sparked other dramas like Signal. And in particular, the drama would cover some of the most notorious serial murder cases that once loomed over the people of South Korea.

And I have to say, as much as I've yet read the original book, we can already see how important criminal profiling is in solving difficult cases. Especially with the common occurrences of the use of violence to extract confessions, (which was quite a common scene in past dramas that may reference to real life situations in the past) that can lead to some innocent victims being falsely convicted and allowing the real criminal to slip away unscathed. To people who were quite curious to learn how criminal profiling started in South Korea as well about the many criminal cases that once haunted the country which includes some notorious serial murders, this drama was a good one for you to dive in. Though, as much as the drama is based on Kwon Ilyong's book, there would still be some details that may be fictionalised and dramatised to make it more interesting.

Kim Namgil gave a great performance as Inspector Song Hayoung, the first criminal profiler from the Criminal Behavioral Analysis team. You can really feel the struggle faced by Hayoung as he attempts to read through the minds of notorious criminals in order to give the families of victims of criminal violence some closure as they put a stop to the crimes that were commited by these criminals. In order to do their jobs well, these officers will have to learn more about the criminals they're studying and the task wouldn't be for the weak minds. This drama would give as a glimpse of what it used to be like when criminal profiling hasn't yet be a common occurrences and allow us to better understand how tough the role of profilers were and appreciate the work that they're doing.

The drama had some pretty haunting ost, in which it reflect and enhance the sombre mood and seriousness of the cases. It really felt as if you were being brought back in time when these cases had happened.

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Yanno when the Bonus stage was first released, I never expected even that SP ended up being 'canon' towards the main lore. But the aftermath of that end up leading up to this SP, and while this SP was fun... it does make me wonder what kind of SP we could've gotten if Ace, Keiwa or Tsumuri had won the Bonus stage.

"Anything goes" was basically the gist of what Miichi wrote his wish when the Quiz game had started. Who could've expected that Miichi would now get to become a boss of a Yorozuya shop with Tan, a girl who resembled Beroba as they go around taking random jobs as a living? Not Miichi, of course.

After being informed of the wish by GM Sarami, Michinaga ended up going around taking clients which mostly consisted of his rivals in the DGP! While at first he started begrudgingly doing the job because he had no other choice, near the end of the day he realised that it might not be such a bad thing for him to be a Yorozuya. Pity that it's only for a day only tho. I'd have liked to see more of his shenanigans as a Yorozuya XD

But the most important question that remained unanswered though... IS WHOSE CHILD WAS KEIWA WAS HOLDING? IS IT HIS? Hahahaha

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This movie is such a great love letter to the franchise! It was really so beautifully written and quite action packed. While at times some of the sfx or superfast fight scenes can turn out to be quite anime-like, overall the stunts and battles and story telling still makes you feel so exhilarated and excited to know what happened next.

I know of Sousuke from the MOZU series almost a decade ago, and I had looked forward to seeing him play Hongo in his own image. And I have to say that I wasn't disappointed at seeing the result. Since the behind the scenes had been released way ahead of the screening, I was excited to see the final result on film and it was really great to see how all the shots play out.

With every single reimagination of Rider 1 and Rider 2 stories, it never ceased to amaze me at how unique each version of Rider 1 and 2 turned out to be. This movie's approach to introducing Hongo to the audience was quite different compared to how it was in The First, as well as in original. But I love how refreshing the story felt, even when at the very core of each different Rider 1 and 2, there's still that certain quality that remains the same.

I also love the reimaginations of the five kaijins or Augs, and how they have a different stories behind them... to which we learn how twisted they had become after joining SHOCKER.

The movie somewhat ended with a pretty open ending though, like it felt like there should be a continuation after this. Hopefully there is, because I really like to see more of Anno's reimagination of the Showa riders.

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I laughed

Never thought there'd be a day when I'd welcome an insane dose of comedy in a supposed ghost 'horror' movie. But then you got this movie lol.

I'm currently on a Lee Jehoon binge where I try to watch his past works that may sound like a fun show to watch, and Jehoon as a young shaman was really an interesting concept. And his character did turn out to be an interesting one since Sukyun wasn't just any normal shaman character but one with a doctorate and using technology to fight and exorcise ghosts.

The rest of the exorcists also turned out to be an interesting bunch and you get almost every single interpretation of what an exorcist could be, to which later on it got narrowed down to a specific five-man group plus a journalist whose father turned out to also be connected to the place where the special ghost exorcism ritual was supposed to be done.

There were moments where the plot gets serious and spooky and dark... and then there were silly and hilarious parts that you can't help being tickled about, and there were parts that can be quite emotional yet cute. Like I'm aware that Jehoon had that super adorable charm about him, but this movie is too much lol. And then when you get that unexpected reveal about the relationship between Kim Sooro's character and Jehoon's, you can't help feeling even more drawn to the characters as they tried to put a stop to the big evil spirit's schemes. Kang Yewon was also charming as journalist Chanyeong and you wouldn't have guessed that she was actually several years older than Jehoon.

This movie was a lot of fun to watch and seriously it had a very good balance between the horror and comedy genre.

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This is a really fun and lighthearted drama. Since lately tv have been reairing old dramas I ended up encountering this show.

I thought it was only in recent series that Choi Kanghee has started doing characters who are quite feisty and knows how to fight... so this drama had intrigued me after seeing Queen of Mystery as well as Good Casting. Same with Jisung tbh. Like it was interesting to see his earlier works as compared to his more recent works and seeing how much his acting capabilities had expand since.

All in all, the drama was quite enjoyable and not too heavy, which means that you don't really have to stress to much while watching the episode. And the rest of the cast was also pleasant and charming and the comedy was well timed and enjoyable. It was fun to see how Eunseol and Jiheon's story unfolds and how they try to work their way out over the things that life had put in store for them.

Overall, this drama was surprisingly fun.

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Never thought I'd be able to see this movie so soon, what with the pandemic et al so when this movie appeared on tvN Movies I immediately grabbed the chance to see it!

At first, it may seem to be a mediocre start as we were initially introduced to the plot setting, as well as the main characters. And the case that was chosen to be the first one being held with a jury seemed to be a simple case of murder, with what seemed to be a clear motive for murder by the defendant. It may turn out to be a boring case as the jurors chosen seemingly more interested in resuming their normal lives rather than taking seriously of the task at hand. But with the eighth juror starting to doubt that the case was as simple as it appears, that was when the plot started to get interesting.

I have to say that I was really fond of Hyungsik's character, Kwon Namwoo in this movie. He was so adorable, even when it seemed that it might be too hard for him to handle the responsibility of being a juror in a court trial. That aside, I love how throughout the movie we can see how the rest of the other jurors also started to take their job as jury seriously because of Namwoo and try so hard to find out whether or not the defendant of the case was truly guilty of the crime that he was accused of. And I have to say the final outcome of the case was really unexpected and sad.

Watching Hyungsik in this movie was really a treat, I really can't get enough of him making his surprised face. And I love how Hyungsik really pull off Namwoo's honest belief and sincerity to want to save the defendant to the point that you could really believe that Namwoo's honesty was what moved the rest of the jurors to change their minds and help him.

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