Reviews

Depressing

I found this drama to be a major disappointment. While many coming-of-age stories find beauty in growth, this one was unnecessarily depressing. The finale was particularly frustrating; seeing the core group of friends disconnect and move on in different directions felt like a betrayal of the audience's emotional investment. Instead of a satisfying conclusion, it offered a cold dose of reality that made the hours spent watching it feel like a total waste. If you are looking for a show that celebrates friendship, I would suggest skipping this one."🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🤭🥲🤭🤭🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🤭🥲🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

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Sweet

I really loved the male and female leads. The 1st half of the drama was definitely my favorite part. I also enjoyed the two side couples, who were friends of the leads. However, the 'adopted brother' relationship with the female lead felt really creepy to me.✿♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎❀❀❀❀❀♫♫♫♫♫◐◐◐◐◐◐✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✥✥❈✰✱✩✡︎✸𓃵𓃠𓃟𓃭𓃟♥︎♥︎❀𓃭𓅿❀𓆉♫✥𖠑ꪉ✈︎☔︎☔︎☔︎☔︎☽☽☽⁂⁂😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘💙💙💙💙💙💙❤️💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙❤️❤️❤️💙❤️❤️❤️💙💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💙💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Serviu boas risadas

Vi todos os eps, agora começam os dois especiais. Ai, que BL conforto, com certeza vou lembrar pra sempre dele. Muito fofa a relação que eles criaram, e como o KishiKishi acreditou no Toru e apoiou ele até o final. Se tirarmos a comédia e o exagero dos personagens, esse BL tem uma mensagem bem legal de não julgar as pessoas pela aparência e também sobre como muitas vezes as escolas desistem dos alunos e os subestimam. O Toru era um adolescente sem perspectiva de vida, ele não fazia nada, só tirava zero e possuia um professor que o levava cada vez mais para baixo. Dai vem o Kishikishi, incentivando, elogiando, mostrando maneiras de ele conseguir estudar, mostrou que pode ser divertido. Fiquei me sentindo uma mãe orgulhosa quando ele decidiu ir para a faculdade e virar um professor também.
Acho que essa série pode não ser para todo mundo, porque é uma comédia beeem escrachada, chega a ser ridicula mesmo essa parte, mas eu amei. Eu amava o Toru agindo todo marrento, mas ele narrando os pensamentos com uma voz fininha, adorava muito ele ficando todo boiolinha pelo Kishikishi, a maneira que ele abaixava a guarda, as caretas, os alunos do ensino medio aparentar ter 40 anos, a gangue parecnedo mais uma gangue dos patetas. Confesso que me senti até aliviada por não ter beijo nem nada, porque não sabia a idade do Kishikishi, e o Toru tinha 17, então espero que esses eps especiais sejam com ele já na faculdade, reencontrando o Kishikishi. Resumindo, se quiser dar muita gargalhada, algo para ver com o cerebro desligando, apenas acompanhar um maluco que quer ser lider de gangue se apaixonar por um professor perfeitinho e também esquisitão, esse BL é perfeito. Também teve varias cenas que eu estava surtando igual o Toru pelos momentinhos dos dois.
Vi nos comentários do ep sobre não poder ser considerado um BL, porque não teve beijo... minha opinião sempre será: se o personagem é abertamente apaixonado pelo outro, é um BL. Esse é o ponto que eu discuto sobre não curtir bromance, porque eles dão falsos momentos românticos apenas para alimentar os telespectadores. Agora, um BL sem beijo, os personagens tem sentimentos um pelo outro, são gays ou bi/pan, mostra um romance entre dois garotos, mesmo que sem a parte fisica, então não é um bromance. É BL.
OBS: minha nota é totalmente pelo sentimento. Me apeguei muito a esse mundinho e aos personagens. Se for olhar pela parte tecnica, seria um 7. É basico a atuação, o roteiro, a cinematografia, etc.

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I still don't understand the title

This kdrama showed me a lot of the things I missed about the industry: real people - real skin, pores, skin texture, beard stubble, beautiful and healthy, sun kissed golden skin; people throwing liquids at the FL; a hopelessly in love ML; a healthy dose of nonsense; the nonsense ring tones and a ridiculous keyboard tapping sounds; people looking sad and depressed, saying nothing for long periods of time, looking longingly at their surroundings.

It was fun and depressing, with a little sprinkle of nonsense and hope. Even if it was annoying at times, it was nice to see real people and a story that takes its time. The state of recent kdramas has me longing for simpler times and I guess that's why I watched this one.

Even if the beauty standards aren't as strict as today, they're still equating glasses and curly hair with ugliness, but I guess that's still universal, unfortunately. In this drama we see superficial "improvement" or more topical and stylistic ones, instead of the permanent ones we're seeing in today's kdramas. Most of today's kdramas seem like an advertising to the plastic surgery and cosmetics industry. It feels like they're telling us to apply new paint to an imperfect house because what matters is what we see on the outside. Anyway, this kdrama was refreshing because it was an escape of what the kdrama world is largely becoming.

It has been puzzling me for a while how there are so many dramas that deal with cancer. It's a very specific trope to KDramas, which is probably something that is very present in Korean society. Tropes and stereotypes exist for a reason. They might be reductive but are usually indicative of at least a trend. I found out not long ago that there is a correlation between the presence of military bases and the increase in cancer diagnosis. Correlation might not be causation but the probability of causation is very high.

I'll leave a few articles here that might bring light on this:
https://gijn.org/stories/investigating-toxic-military-bases-and-their-links-to-cancer/
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/unpublished-study-finds-elevated-cancer-rates-us-military-base-2023-11-10/
https://www.civilianexposure.org/military-bases-are-full-of-cancer-causing-compounds/

Besides being the highest polluter in the planet, the US military is poisoning the people around the world. They have 800+ military bases all over the globe and these are the ones they have in South Korea, they're a lot for such a small country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_installations_in_South_Korea
It doesn't matter that many of them are closed, the contamination remains in the soil. The uncountable amount of cancer patients we see in KDramas could be linked to that, since, in some way or another, kdramas reflect Korean reality. Maybe that would be something interesting to talk about in a kdrama but with such levels of pro-US propaganda I doubt anyone will ever do that.

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Came for the actress, stayed for… actually no, I left.

This isn’t a bad drama, and I can see exactly what it’s trying to do. The commentary on toxic fan culture, boundary‑crossing “supporters,” and the way the entertainment industry flips its loyalty the second an idol stops being profitable — all of that is valid, necessary, and honestly refreshing to see addressed so directly. Celebrities are humans, not emotional vending machines, and the show makes that point clearly.

But the execution doesn’t always land. The scenes meant to highlight how dangerous obsessive fandom can be feel oddly muted, and the company’s reaction — treating criminal behavior like a PR hiccup — ends up more frustrating than impactful. The message is strong; the delivery wobbles.

The mystery element doesn’t help. When I can identify the killer before the story even settles, the suspense loses its footing. Predictability isn’t fatal, but it does make the viewing experience feel flatter than it should.

I’m not angry at the drama — just quietly stepping away before mild disappointment turns into irritation. I’ll give it a respectable score for the actress and the intention behind the commentary, but this isn’t something I need to push through.

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Eccellenza nel cast e alta qualità tecnica e atmosfera

Pursuit of Jade è un gioiello nel panorama dei drama cinesi, distinguendosi per una qualità produttiva superiore, una narrazione curata e una chimica tra i protagonisti che evolve in modo naturale e coinvolgente.
La recitazione è fantastica, estesa anche al cast secondario, elevando il livello drammatico dell'opera. La relazione tra i protagonisti si sviluppa con un ritmo sapiente, passando da una cura reciproca a un sentimento profondo, supportato da un'ottima chimica visiva e interpretativa. La protagonista femminile offre una prova attoriale ottima, riuscendo a bilanciare perfettamente la forza interiore con un'adorabile delicatezza. La sua interpretazione è sfaccettata, rendendo il personaggio non solo funzionale alla trama, ma profondamente umano, empatico e piacevole da seguire in ogni evoluzione emotiva.
La fotografia è curata nei minimi dettagli come dei quadri d’autore, i combattimenti sono ben realizzati e i costumi dettagliati , tutto a creare un'atmosfera immersiva. La narrazione è solida e intrigante. La serie è in grado di incollare allo schermo grazie alla sua atmosfera coinvolgente. È un drama che incanta, consigliatissimo per chi cerca storie profonde e recitazione eccellente.

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Absolutely atrocious!!

If I could give this series zero stars I would have given it zero stars! It says it's a series featuring four distinct stories; yet there's only two that had any, well anything! And I only seen three stories as the last story was 4 of those episodes and that's where it stops; episode 8. I probably would have been interested in the last one called "Blood Fighters" but that one never showed up so couldn't watch it and then this claims to be a BL anthology series, but I just saw one that way. This was very poorly written, very poorly executed, no real plots or stories, the acting was bad, felt incomplete and all in all; it was just really stupid to me.

I have no idea what "Make A Picture Production" was doing when they produced this, but it should have never been produced. It should have been named "This Should Never Have Been Produced As a Project For BL Fans" because it's so bad and I wonder why it wasn't completed. Now, I usually don't tell people not to watch something, but I'm telling you, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! You'll regret it as I did and I'll never get that wasted time back.

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a STUNNING... SOULLESS drama...

Initial observations 🗯️🗯️
I don't know what but something in this drama is just not clicking for me.
I tried to watch it and reserve judgment but as I keep watching this feeling is just not going anywhere.

This drama is beautiful, there is no doubt about it. It's pretty clear they invested at lot of money and the only word I can think of is "STUNNING". Sets, makeup, costumes everything is gorgeous but something is missing. It feels hollow, devoided of any emotion.

I like the ml and FL. They are fantastic actors and the whole cast is on point. But to me it feels like watching a super model, visually stunning but without feeling any attraction to it.

PREMISE OF THE SHOW🗯️🗯️
The Queen of the spirit wordl is taking a break in the mortal realm. Out of luck she encounters a mortal general who possesses the key to her desires: he is able to exchange his human senses with the queen to let her experience the human way of living. Thanks to this pact they destiny intertwined.

RANT🗯️🗯️
I am going to list everything that made me go "meh".

∆ This spirit queen doesn't possess the "human senses"... Which is not true.
Sight? She can see.. she is just colorblind
Earing? She can hear perfectly fine, she is just deaf to music. (But plays music on battlefields for the dying)
At the beginning her reason to experience the human life looked silly. After a while we discover that she actually had a human mother which I guess can be linked to her desire to experience life like her. I don't know because I didn't make it that far.

∆ Talking about "mothers".. at the very beginning the drama introduces the queen as the only queen born directly as a spirit. Ok, to me that implies that she just "appeared" in the spirit world. Oh no.. later we find out that she had a human mother and a spirit dad I guess(?).

∆ Moving on to the ml. He is conceiving his identity. When his turn to explain his past comes, he says that he was born as Duan xi but later is kidnapped and another guy took his place. Ok... So... Then why are you still using your original name, everyone knows by that name and call the guy who was put in your place with a different name?

Maybe I am missing something or the subs were off.. but to me that whole thing is a mystery.
Unfortunately this drama is full of these "weird "things".

∆ Let's talk about the FL. To access the mortal world she has to "possess " a mortal body. When we are introduced to her she basically uses a body that looks like her exactly. Occasionally, the mortal body needs to rest but she is free to go around in her spirit form. Later in the drama we find out that she was actually possessing a body that looks nothing like her and she is now setting her free. Emm. What? Then why didn't the body you showed us before change its features everytime your spirit left it? I don't get it.

I am either too dumb or this drama is just confusing as fuck and not too well though out.

∆ Arthur Cheng is a mortal general who never experienced magic (as far as I know) but isn't a bit surprised when the FL reveals she is the queen of the spirit world. He is cool as it gets, even happy. Shouldn't you be at least.. surprised? A bit frightened?

∆the general is trained as a killer. He murdered countless people as part of his training but one day a random man tells him" hey, the weather looks nice today" and he leaves the assassin world because that conversation changed his mind😒

∆ the general is a skilled assassin but he is still a human, right? Wrong. Because he volunteers to infiltrate the enemy camp and fight hundreds of men alone. You can be skilled as much as you want but that was just ridiculous.

∆ plot armor: there is never a real sense of danger in this drama which leads to no stakes. You never worry about the protagonists because they will always win no matter the circumstances. The Queen loses her powers and is about to die? Don't worry, the general is around the corner.
Hundred of men are about to kill the general? Who cares. He can single handedly kill them all.

∆ romance: I think this is the weakest part of the drama. To be honest I never found them believable.

At the beginning dilraba is this cool , ruthless queen willing to torture and murder when necessary but when she meets this general she basically makes empty treats to him all the time without any consequences. I get that she later is willing to protect him but even when a "punishment" is expected she never follows through.

He on the other hand is the one being "threatened" but after 2 second starts talking about love.

That surprised me quite a bit. It felt out of place because they didn't quite built that romantic energy yet. It felt weird.

After that moment he is so enamoured with this woman that it becomes ridiculous.
Especially when they arrive in the spirit underworld he switches from cold general to an annoying puppy. He seems a totally different character and she feels like his mom.

I never felt the "tension" between them. She feels like an aunt and he looks like an energetic baby.

∆ the episodes in the underworld are so far the most boring ones. They basically spend the time measuring "dicks" because the right hand and the general both are in love with the queen.

∆ while we watch the "void" episodes , what we saw that far never gets mentioned. The emperor, the power struggle, the other generals, conflict with the enemy, the little brother (really sweet actor). They never get mentioned or shown.

That's all I gathered from episode 1 to 18.
I think I might be dropping this drama because even though I am fine suspending my "disbelief", when stuff doesn't make sense with an internal logic , I just cannot enjoy it.

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Enjoyable Short Drama

I enjoyed this short drama and thought it was one of the better ones I've watched. The female lead was presented as very childish but she was "almost 18". With that age, the story was still very sexualized as they were jade waste demons who had to "be" with their chosen man that they give a love worm too on every full moon. There was good chemistry and implied intimacy but infact they didn't even kiss a lot. Just very close proximity and hand holding. Overall, I enjoyed the story and acting. However the Mango TV English sub translation was really bad. If you are looking for an entertaining shirt drama with some good chemistry, check it out. But, be prepared ahead supposed to be young. However, I didn't feel like the actual age of the actors were a problem. Enjoy!

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