I love Link click but...
I have no idea how to start this review... I'm a huge Link click lover. Time travel is my thing and when it comes with bromance, 'm down bad for it. But... But. I haven't seen Chinese live action and honestly I don't think I'll watch it, but I am very familiar with original donghua, which will be releasing a season 3 soon.
I won't start very positively. It's just my subjective opinion, but I think that Hikaru and Toki don't do justice to Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi. Japanese are generally known for making their live action characters look exactly like they do in manga or anime, so what went wrong here? Where are Lu Guang's white hair, cool and cold attitude but caring heart and the look he always give Cheng Xiaoshi? And where is Xiaoshi's ponytail? Their appearance really bothered me but when it came to their characters, they were almost perfect. Almost. Hikaru cares for Toki and he tries to hide it, but it's not the same as Lu Guang. Lu Guang would burn the world for him, but I honestly can't see Hikaru to do that. Again, as I already mention, that's my point of view, if you can see it, I honestly envy you, because I really miss it in both meaning of this word.
Now I'll say something positive. It's easy to make different animated characters to act like one. When Xiaoshi enters other people, he can't hide his personality. In donghua, it was easy to do, but to put multiple actors who can act exactly like that one character? That's not an easy task and I want to praise the actors of side characters who had to act like themselves and as Toki in their body. All of them nailed both characters perfectly (clapping hands).
About story, there's not really much I can say... It was different from donghua but also the same. I feel like episodes here were fillers, while in donghua there was some kinf of continuation. Not everytime, but at some point, all cases were connected. And everything started and ended with Ema. Here, Ema didn't really get as much space as she desered, which makes me sad, because I was looking forward towards her episode.
Last thing, I'll talk about is bromance. Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi are secretly dating (call me whatever you want but if it wasn't chinese, they'd be a canon couple). Even if not, their bromance is really strong and you can actually feel even through the screen that they love each other and care about each other in whatever meaning you want to interpret it. But here, I couldn't really sence that bromance from Hikaru and Toki. Especially not from Hikaru. Toki lives in his own world and that was shown exactly as it should be.
It's not bad, if you don't expect much. And I expected a lot... Which was my fault and I admit it. Overall, I recommend you to at least give it a try.
I won't start very positively. It's just my subjective opinion, but I think that Hikaru and Toki don't do justice to Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi. Japanese are generally known for making their live action characters look exactly like they do in manga or anime, so what went wrong here? Where are Lu Guang's white hair, cool and cold attitude but caring heart and the look he always give Cheng Xiaoshi? And where is Xiaoshi's ponytail? Their appearance really bothered me but when it came to their characters, they were almost perfect. Almost. Hikaru cares for Toki and he tries to hide it, but it's not the same as Lu Guang. Lu Guang would burn the world for him, but I honestly can't see Hikaru to do that. Again, as I already mention, that's my point of view, if you can see it, I honestly envy you, because I really miss it in both meaning of this word.
Now I'll say something positive. It's easy to make different animated characters to act like one. When Xiaoshi enters other people, he can't hide his personality. In donghua, it was easy to do, but to put multiple actors who can act exactly like that one character? That's not an easy task and I want to praise the actors of side characters who had to act like themselves and as Toki in their body. All of them nailed both characters perfectly (clapping hands).
About story, there's not really much I can say... It was different from donghua but also the same. I feel like episodes here were fillers, while in donghua there was some kinf of continuation. Not everytime, but at some point, all cases were connected. And everything started and ended with Ema. Here, Ema didn't really get as much space as she desered, which makes me sad, because I was looking forward towards her episode.
Last thing, I'll talk about is bromance. Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi are secretly dating (call me whatever you want but if it wasn't chinese, they'd be a canon couple). Even if not, their bromance is really strong and you can actually feel even through the screen that they love each other and care about each other in whatever meaning you want to interpret it. But here, I couldn't really sence that bromance from Hikaru and Toki. Especially not from Hikaru. Toki lives in his own world and that was shown exactly as it should be.
It's not bad, if you don't expect much. And I expected a lot... Which was my fault and I admit it. Overall, I recommend you to at least give it a try.
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