Knavery

It's an unpopular opinion but I think that manga and anime are slowly killing TV and Movies in Japan. I'm not saying never do Manga-->Live Action but I wish more TV shows and movies were based on an original idea.

I got to 47 a while back but I just haven't had the willpower to keep going. I don't know why but I've lost interest. I'll definitely finish it but it will be very slow.

Taiwanese stuff tends to fly under the radar but yeah I love it. Light and funny so far with a good mystery story and plot to carry it for 15 episodes.

I guess I would also add the lead actress is known more for her supporting roles and the lead male (even second lead) is pretty new. Established names usually have an easier time attracting people.

Trailer doesn't look that promising. Saw it on DramaFever. The messages they are trying to send with it look like they're going to get lost in over-acting, poor writing and directing. Kai looks like he's going to be way out of his depth. He fit in OK in Andante because the girl playing Bom is new to acting but Kana Kurashina is experienced and it's going to show.

He has fans, I get that but he's not that good at acting and I don't think he's ready for this role. It's just TV producers cashing in on his name and image.

Sometimes I disagree with the ratings of more racy movies but this was pretty awful. I saw some of the reviews in publications trying to dress up this garbage and make it pretty... it's not. There is no depth. Yes Paris and France has a dark underbelly like everywhere else. So what? The main character is boring. I don't care or know what happened to his wife. The movie could have been ~10-20 minutes and been much more compelling.

I think I'll go with diversity and pick one from the big 3 countries: Go Back Couple (SK), Million Yen Women (JP) & The Big Boss (CN).

A love story, a mystery and a highschool story (with tons of imagination but little romance despite hints).

It's tough to come up with one that had wide and mass appeal for everyone so I just picked my favorites.

Yeah the focus is heavily on the men and their 3 destinies.

A half-human half-'charmer' prince is treated as an outcast because his destiny is to rule like a horrible tyrant and bring destruction to his people. He finds love in a mysterious woman who lives trapped in another dimension.

A son of a general is abandoned as an infant because he has a destiny that he will become emperor. The family couldn't bring themselves to kill him so they abandoned him. He falls in love with a woman destined to be the Empress.

A son of a tribe from the plains has his whole tribe slaughtered and children sold into slavery (including him). I forget his prophecy but I think it was unite the 8 tribes and march on the ruling class/city. He sort-of falls for the Princess of the ruling family.

People rate early and before the show is done. I haven't done it yet but the longer this goes the worse it's getting. I thought early on it would be planned out well but it's becoming clear they're going to have more and more major plot developments happen off screen only to be mentioned in passing by supporting characters.

I'm half expecting the ending to be a 1-liner by a supporting character "and "Muyun Sheng won, the end".

Production value is high you won't find anything that decisively surpasses it. The acting is alright and I don't really have a criticism of any of them.

There are a lot more moving parts than most other stories. It is kind of slow like Nirvana in Fire. But there is some light magic/prophecy/destiny stuff like some more fantasy wuxia stories. The problem is NIF and almost all other period/wuxia dramas... the focus is one character or one couple or one cause. There might be scenes without them but they're clearly side characters.

Tribes & Empires is a lot more like Game of Thrones or American shows like Heroes. They have multiple main characters and storylines and only near the end will they truly converge on each other. For example they focus on Tribe-Boy these last ~4 episodes (38-42) with only a handful of scenes for the other 2 main characters. But the previous episodes before 38 had a much heavier focus on the 2 other characters and almost no Tribe-boy scenes.

The description is a little vague but you have 3 men as the main characters.

One from a tribe out in the prairies. One abandoned as a baby because of a prophecy but who comes from the most powerful military family in the land. One from the royal family, a prince who is an outcast because of a prophecy.

Each has a woman attached to them. Tribe-boy has a princess who treats him like a pet but eventually starts to fall for him. Military-boy has a girl he saved when they were both children. Prince-boy has a girl in some crystal ball who is a 'spirit' like his mother was.

The 3 men each have a prophecy about how they will conquer and rule. 1 of the girls has a prophecy (she will be Empress).

And essentially you have a really slow paced show that kind of skips between each of the 3 leads and their journey to achieve (or avoid) their destiny.

Not bad. A little weird how events transpire but a good message, especially at the end as she watches the video of herself where she's so happy and free with him where she can never be as the mistress of that boss. Part of me is glad they didn't end up together and he left because of how he lied to her to live out his fantasy for a day.

The problem is he looks dumb and he acts dumb. He got his family killed. He got his wife and her family killed. He has and will get more of his friends killed.

There is nothing about him that would make me believe this guy could unite and conquer anything.

It's probably challenging enough for the character to conquer putting his pants on in the morning and doing his shoes. "King of the world", lol. There's confidence and then there's delusional. The writers may think they wrote a confident character but it's plain as day they wrote a half-wit who is arrogant.

He's dumb. He's not very good at fighting. It's the worst possible combination for a supposed "conqueror". At the very least you want a smart character who can make tactical decisions, read a situation and respond quickly. He hasn't done any of that.

The best episodes are still the ones without Shuofeng in it.

A feel good drama without a lot of realism and depth but sometimes these dramas are a needed break.

I have no idea how Weightlifting Fairy has 9.0/10. It ended in 2017 so does it count? Or start date has to be in 2017?

The Empire of Japan had ruled over Korea for a few decades. 1931 the Japanese staged an 'attack' on a Japanese owned railroad in Manchuria and used it as an excuse to invade them and expand their empire.

The Japanese have a long list of war crimes. Read the description of the show. Soo Ji is looking for a matchmaker to get married. What kind of problems could a single non-Japanese woman face?

It's 1930s Korea - I guess the description doesn't say that. If you know a little about history - you should have an idea of what is going on in Asia at the time. That's the dark background.

I wish he wasn't a main character. Spoiled and stupid brat grows up into stupid and whiny man. He's worse than useless. He seems to get anyone close to him killed through his own stupidity and unwillingness to listen to others.

Any character trying to do the right thing or help him: "We shouldn't do this"
His response every time: "WHAAA UNFAIR I WANT TO DO IT ANYWAYS SO I WILL"

I'm almost certainly going to start skipping through his parts. The character is an annoying abomination up there with the women who are second leads in Thai Lakorns. Bad job by the writers.

Yeah. The background of the story is pretty dark but the story itself is your typical one where a guy reluctantly helps a girl and falls for her.