Not typo. It is really 78 episodes 20 minutes each. I'm watching the raw version now.
Nevermind, it IS danmei (as much as they allow it), and there's a HEA. It doesn't even look as bad/horror as the novel, so I guess I'll wait a bit and see if anyone cares to TL it, and then maybe watch it raw just because, LOL.
I hate February for personal reasons.And every year something is added that makes me do it more. Last year it…
Look up Love for Love's Sake for a consolation prize. It just ended, and it might be the best short BL kdrama ever (IMHO). It's a transmigration story, and the acting is amazing. It's not a cdrama, true, but it's based on a novel, too, so that might count for something.
Not typo. It is really 78 episodes 20 minutes each. I'm watching the raw version now.
Mo Dao Zu Shi, the MXTX novel that The Untamed is based off.
The drama really downplayed the horror/gore aspects, but the donghua not so much, and the novel has some pretty hard (for me) scenes - like undead things munching on living persons at the command of someone who's important to the story, etc. I love that drama and I'm glad I watched it before reading the novel (though now the novel is also a favourite, I just skip the gore scenes, LOL).
Not typo. It is really 78 episodes 20 minutes each. I'm watching the raw version now.
I'm not seriously asking, LOL, MDZS is the top-level gore I'm ready to face in danmei, and Kaleidoscope of Death is way out of my comfort zone. I just read bits and pieces, and was curious about how they did the drama (still coming out of the left-field, LOL), and if it retained THAT aspect of the story.
Why did Jian remember the guy he dated after she removed Brother's mask? I might have missed a detail.
I thought it was a mercenary thing - the "not today!" and the "find enlightenment", not just SeongJo's thing.
Still, JiAn is having nightmares about a dead//fake eye hyena carrying the hand, and there's no way she'd be thinking about something like that if she didn't see it. (The hyena is easy - it was the doc about the lion falling and being killed by hyenas, but not dead-eyed ones).
There were more than one guy at the apartment, and only two who looked after she jumped off the window, but that doesn't mean there wasn't someone else inside (I don't think we actually saw who did the hacking. It could've been SeongJo, but then again, it might not...)
Why did Jian remember the guy he dated after she removed Brother's mask? I might have missed a detail.
Wait, now you're mentioning it... she's seeing a hyena with a fake eye - did Bale actually come in person to kill her, and got Honda who was trying to protect her?
Then - when she was in the hospital, Bale DIDN'T come again, because maybe he's afraid of JinMan... and so he did wait for all those years for JinMan to be gone (officially) in order to come get her again.
There's NO WAY JinMan would fall for such a lame trick as believing JiAn was being kidnapped by Babylon. But if…
The cop half-heartedly offered an autopsy report - but she didn't actually check if there WAS an autopsy, we didn't see the body underneath the sheet. And TBH, I don't really see why they would cut into a body if the death wound is so obvious (that would be another point in faking his death).
The twins were there to check if the body is being burned, totally verifying JinMan is gone (since JiAn is actually grieving etc). And they're coming from the bad guys anyway.
And LOL, that whole BUS full of people the taxi driver gathered to come to the funeral - I'll just bet at least some of those were either with JinMan or with his enemies, just checking up on things hahaha~
Most confusing finale ever. I thought it was a game and I was wondering would he be living in a simulation forever…
This is how it usually works in transmigration stories:
1. The MC actually dies and is reborn some years in the past, and is supposed to either get revenge (if needed), undo some bad mistakes, or live a better life.
2. The MC is taken over to another world (usually complete with a System controlling the OOC-ness) and has to get revenge/redeem someone's bad mistakes (usually they get transmigrated into someone else's body)/live again by the rules of the new world.
3. The MC is drawn inside a game/novel/alien world and has to survive there and/or do some missions in order to escape the game.
LFLS seems to be mid 1 and 2 - it's a rebirth story but with a System (that doesn't feel like an actual System, more like Death itself or at least a Grim Reaper).
I am more accustomed with novels dealing with transmigration, so I can mostly offer such examples - for 1-type, I'd say Rebirth of a Movie Star (excellent modern danmei novel), for 2-type, Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (amazing story, there's a donghua too), and for 3. The Romance of Tiger and Rose (this is actually a hetero rom-com cdrama, LOL.)
There's NO WAY JinMan would fall for such a lame trick as believing JiAn was being kidnapped by Babylon. But if…
We'll see next week - but think about this. If he wasn't "confirmed" dead, Bale wouldn't have come for JiAn. He never got close to them in the past 14 years after he killed her parents, so maybe he really was afraid of JinMan (plus MinHye), and only meant to come out when he was certain JinMan wouldn't stand in his way.
I kept looking through the first and last (6th) eps, trying to see if the police officer (who kept giving JiAn sideways glances when she was identifying the body) is one of the ex-mercenaries, but then, even if he was, 14 years could change a man.
But there's the "coincidental" taxi driver who just happened to be a friend of JinMan's, who also knew which crematory she should go to, and then Pasin just "happening by" in the middle of a full-on warzone (where the hell did he come from?!), and - I counted - there were less than two minutes between JinMan going into the bathroom and JeongMin going after him, and the tub is full of blood but there's no spatter (I mean, he supposedly cut the carotid) - and I keep remembering him getting great drugs to pretend he's dying of hypothermia or whatever... I very much want to believe he's setting a long-term trap to get Bale.
Was Jian away for school when Jinman died? Otherwise, Jian would have met Jeongmin even before the funeral since…
They did have a deal that she would be able to leave and live on her own if she could hit him. I guess she did manage to hit him and got to go away (it was her new address he was fixing bars on the windows and placing bullet-proof wardrobes in, LOL. )
Or he could have let her hit him on purpose in order to start off the series of "coincidences" that eventually lead to the current state of affairs. (Jeongmin came to work for him after he hacked into murthehelp and Babylon recruited him. JinMan was probably aware s*it was about to hit the fan. Or so I hope.)
These guys are crazy, seriously. I just wish they'd just sell the dramas to the highest outside China bidder and let them be watched by at least foreign audiences, if they're just going to sit on them until they get seriously outdated and nobody cares anymore...
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But at this point, I'm really hoping for a twist in the direction everyone and their best friends watching this drama seem to ask for :D
The drama really downplayed the horror/gore aspects, but the donghua not so much, and the novel has some pretty hard (for me) scenes - like undead things munching on living persons at the command of someone who's important to the story, etc. I love that drama and I'm glad I watched it before reading the novel (though now the novel is also a favourite, I just skip the gore scenes, LOL).
Still, JiAn is having nightmares about a dead//fake eye hyena carrying the hand, and there's no way she'd be thinking about something like that if she didn't see it. (The hyena is easy - it was the doc about the lion falling and being killed by hyenas, but not dead-eyed ones).
There were more than one guy at the apartment, and only two who looked after she jumped off the window, but that doesn't mean there wasn't someone else inside (I don't think we actually saw who did the hacking. It could've been SeongJo, but then again, it might not...)
Then - when she was in the hospital, Bale DIDN'T come again, because maybe he's afraid of JinMan... and so he did wait for all those years for JinMan to be gone (officially) in order to come get her again.
The twins were there to check if the body is being burned, totally verifying JinMan is gone (since JiAn is actually grieving etc). And they're coming from the bad guys anyway.
And LOL, that whole BUS full of people the taxi driver gathered to come to the funeral - I'll just bet at least some of those were either with JinMan or with his enemies, just checking up on things hahaha~
1. The MC actually dies and is reborn some years in the past, and is supposed to either get revenge (if needed), undo some bad mistakes, or live a better life.
2. The MC is taken over to another world (usually complete with a System controlling the OOC-ness) and has to get revenge/redeem someone's bad mistakes (usually they get transmigrated into someone else's body)/live again by the rules of the new world.
3. The MC is drawn inside a game/novel/alien world and has to survive there and/or do some missions in order to escape the game.
LFLS seems to be mid 1 and 2 - it's a rebirth story but with a System (that doesn't feel like an actual System, more like Death itself or at least a Grim Reaper).
I am more accustomed with novels dealing with transmigration, so I can mostly offer such examples - for 1-type, I'd say Rebirth of a Movie Star (excellent modern danmei novel), for 2-type, Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (amazing story, there's a donghua too), and for 3. The Romance of Tiger and Rose (this is actually a hetero rom-com cdrama, LOL.)
I kept looking through the first and last (6th) eps, trying to see if the police officer (who kept giving JiAn sideways glances when she was identifying the body) is one of the ex-mercenaries, but then, even if he was, 14 years could change a man.
But there's the "coincidental" taxi driver who just happened to be a friend of JinMan's, who also knew which crematory she should go to, and then Pasin just "happening by" in the middle of a full-on warzone (where the hell did he come from?!), and - I counted - there were less than two minutes between JinMan going into the bathroom and JeongMin going after him, and the tub is full of blood but there's no spatter (I mean, he supposedly cut the carotid) - and I keep remembering him getting great drugs to pretend he's dying of hypothermia or whatever... I very much want to believe he's setting a long-term trap to get Bale.
We'll see...
Or he could have let her hit him on purpose in order to start off the series of "coincidences" that eventually lead to the current state of affairs. (Jeongmin came to work for him after he hacked into murthehelp and Babylon recruited him. JinMan was probably aware s*it was about to hit the fan. Or so I hope.)
These guys are crazy, seriously. I just wish they'd just sell the dramas to the highest outside China bidder and let them be watched by at least foreign audiences, if they're just going to sit on them until they get seriously outdated and nobody cares anymore...
Is this for real?!! Then where's my Immortality drama, censors?! Or did they remove everything danmei and left in only the horror?
Also, 78 eps of 20 minutes each... Is it a typo or what?
The poster gives me creepy Bad Guys echoes...
And obviously I might be wrong :)
Have a nice day too :)
First song/OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xARL_tuRigQ
Second song (ending eps): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjRoYVzO6k