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It was an okay watch thanks to the WuXia-Murai action but:
1. The story is just a copy pasted delinquent drama with the typical comradery theme and the stereotypical MC who is stupid but have clear ambition to become the strongest. The determination of the stupid wins over the intelligent. In the end of the day MC needs to face the ridiculously OP last boss.
2. The people outside the MC circle will be portrayed as villains.
3. Might as well worked should the manga author wrote a totally fictional characters without using the existing Shinsengumi members.
4. After watching many jidaigeki and J-historical, it was hard to suspend my disbelief on the costume, hairstyle and the ridiculous weapon, but I understand it is manga adaptation so I had to reluctantly swallow it during my watch....lol
5. Using Shinsengumi as inspiration, the stories could have been more deeper than what this one have offered. The rewritten characters in this series were mostly shallow and naive. Not to mention how oblivious they are to the politics of that time.

That's why I avoid reading episode synopses. In MDL, reading comments/reviews and looking at photos might as well give you out spoilers, so I will avoid those too until I finished the whole series. LOL

On the continuation of the story, it should be more after this for obvious reason. The Serizawa's case was like 1/4 of the Shinsengumi journey after all, but I never read the source Manga so I don't know until what point it covers.

Since the fate of the actual Shinsengumi is known to public, it may be the reason why they carelessly did that kind of spoilery synopsis. But still, I totally agree with you that it may "spoiled" the viewers who have no background information about the group. I understand your frustration!

Just watched the first episode and I have to kept telling myself (when watching) that this is based on manga so I have to forgive the authenticity (looking at the fashion and hairstyle)....LOL

The plot and dialogues are very typical of any delinquent drama you can find out there except that it uses the history timeline and event for the story's turning points.

**Just for additional info that this 2 episode SP has been combined with the other 6 episode sequel into an 8 episode series on OTT platforms....so I guess you have to mark your WATCHED list accordingly. The MDL database is correct though.

It will be tough. Firstly, while there are some series on iQiyi, VIU, and Netflix, I don't know if they are available for international viewers. Secondly just because those dramas available on OTT, it doesn't guarantee they will be great.

If you manage to see these titles though (on Netflix):
- Good Boys Go To Heaven
- Project: High Council
- One Cent Thief ~ I didn't watch fully but looks like it get good feedback from those who watched
- Generasi: Perfect 10 ~ I didn't watch the whole of it but it's a sport drama so if you're looking for one, that is
- Griya ~ Haven't watched at all but it's an investigation drama and get good feedback

Rightly paced movie even though the plot is a typical school-girl-coming-of-age. They know how to push the best part to the end so it finishes with a lasting impression.

This was fun albeit a bit satirical. I think the AI was acceptable for this kind of not-so-serious series.

It's an okay-ish episodic crime drama. The time leap mechanism had some loop holes but it's very minor. The production value is high. Interestingly though, the webtoon counterpart of this drama is Josei-centric while the drama is more into seinen.

I watched this without prior manga and anime experience, but I personally think the psychological aspect in this is still quite intriguing. Maybe it didn't carry the darker vibe but that what makes this drama more viewer friendly. OST is also perfect! If you're fan of Regal Lily you must watch this just to listen to music by Takahashi Honoka. She also contributed her voice in some of the OST so it's like a bonus after ANO's and MAJIKO's OP and ED respectively.

Thanks for sharing the link! I like how Japan always give opportunity to younger artist instead of limiting the job to the older dogs.

Maybe not many international fans know about her that's why not much talk about it. I wonder if they've heard about Regal Lily (her band) though. The band has done quite a number of OP/ED for anime, dramas and movies.

Yes I enjoyed it very much!!

Thank you! It also got subbed to english by someone several weeks after I wrote this comment.

It's a good watch (albeit nothing extraordinary) but a bit weird to see 70 y.o guy playing a mid-age father role....lol

Byk slot boleh masuk dalam kategori Admin tulis tu tp dalam masa yang sama bukan semua drama yg list kat atas tu "cringe". Contohnya Cerekarama byk je drama yg berunsurkan masyarakat dan kekeluargaan. Cuma nak petik contoh tu payah sikit la dah berapa puluh tahun dah slot cerekarama tu kan.

This is actually an amazingly produced drama with good writing, pacing, BGM, etc but unfortunately no eng sub available online. This is my most favorite from the trilogy while the Kanojo's one being the least favorite.

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For some reason this movie was so captivating despite the plot that not really unleashed the "time leap" aspects. It's a bit confusing at certain point and felt incoherent. But it has a nice blend of cinematography (not the cheap effects of course) and background musics. If I watched this in theater (in the 80's) I would have felt it worth the ticket price.

Wow thanks for mentioning this drama. Looking forward to watch when all episodes are out.

Finally watched this drama. Personally I was not that impressed but I rarely watch Kdrama anyway let alone K-historical so I might be a bit biased.

In my opinion this drama main weaknesses are:
- Inconsistent writing with characters that can swing from brilliant to idiot in a split scene. The Emperor character suffered the most from this especially during the first half of the series, but others were also minorly inconsistent.
- Poor editing. For example, at one place already 2 nights and 1 day passed by, but at the other still 1 night.
- Clearly made disclaimer that the story will differ than the actual historical facts, so they never intended to stick with history in the first place, which a bit sneaky considering this was funded by ministry. Strangely, the novel writer claimed this deviate from actual history and the funny thing is the one that he worried was the episode involving horse incident while the drama made so many non plausible plots before that very episode.
- Distance between places can conveniently change according to the plots. Biggest LOL
- The arc involving local lord seeking revenge was so "Mexican Telenovela" that it's laughable.

On the brighter side though:
- Korean need to make more historical drama close to historical record like this. But they need to move away from the classic soap opera plot writing and try to make side characters more believable than "parrots".
- The battle scenes involved a lot of efforts and money so big credit for that. However, there were some questionable scene cuts editing mistake/overlook that downgrade my ratings.
- Maybe beneficial to Korean citizens (not the foreigner unfortunately) to motivate their patriotism and nationalism.

Strangely though I personally find the second half was better in terms of writing despite the soap opera formula. Many viewers felt the first half was better just because of the battle scenes only, but for me there were too many weird edits/cuts during the battles.

Overall 6.5 from me but I add 0.5 more because of the battle scenes (the effort) so the final rating is 7/10.

I don't live in Japan and don't involve in academic conference so not sure about your question, but even in my country there are many telecommunication towers. They rent the existing tall buildings like condos and offices that made them less prominent.

Oh I see. Thanks for the info!