Shenji06
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pros setting /story is a bit different then usual
female lead saves this drama i really enjoyed her the rest of the cast not so much besides maybe 2 or 3 side characters
cons
story ( why put it in pros and cons ? watch the after episode 24 and you will know why )
too many episodes with filler that serves no real plot purpose ( series would have been good around 30 or so episodes in my mind )
1-24 this series is a solid 8+
i have to say i quite enjoyed the story at the beginning and when it focused on the food and how she was surviving using her modern knowledge and how she was living her fantasy and treating it like an vacation.
24-56 would be a 6 for me i feel like they did the bare minimum to keep a solid story
Then everyone dies and the story too as well, i didn't like the turn they took with the story to me if they kept it light hearted and funny and maybe add a little bit of spice/drama but they full on when they only needed to sprinkle a little.
You go from a light hearted funny drama to full on politics with slapped on cooking on the side and the typical wuxia struggle of jealousy in the palace with hidden birth none of those turns were presented well.
after episode 24 i ended up skipping alot of the series and just watched the main couple scenes i really enjoyed the first half and i want to know how there story unfolded and ends.
It's too bad that after the black wind massacre the story dies along with it and then the main leads play hot cold cold for the rest of the drama till near the end.
TLDR
-good first half
-terrible second half
-besides leads the rest of the story isn't good
get ready to fast forward alot unless you like slow torture
-romance is just ok to much cat and mouse and hot and cold in the end makes it not very entertaining
-happy ending
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The acting is just borderline cheezy enough to not be cringe but they are walking that tin tin line the whole drama.My favorite actor is the drama is one of the side cast and its the "Map Girl" really enjoyed the lightness she brought to the drama.
One thing that i was suprised to see is how well the cgi effects were done for a comedy wuxia its quite suprising i think it add some better effects of some the more well known wuxia's to be quite honest maybe its cause it was only here and there butt the fighting was actually good and nice.
If you are looking for a good comedy that is well excecuted give this a shot its not my usual cup of tea but cause of the setting i thoroughly enjoyed it i wanted to give it a bigger score but its hard to judge the acting in comedys you either love it or you don't and i liked it in this case.
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The cast
Setting
The bad about this drama
FFFFFLLLLAAASSSSHHHHBBBBBAAACCCKKKSSS such a killer of momentum in this drama past the second half it get so bad at one point it feels like a filler episode of an anime where if you take out the opening song and ending song you are like with 10 or 15 minutes of actual progression of the story
Rivalry is akward beetwen the 2 male leads.
first 20 episodes amazing then the flashback grenade hit and made the last 20 episodes drag on.
i binged the first half and loved the show then coudn't watch more then 1 or 2 episodes each few days and when i watched it i ended up skipping alot of scenes without the main couple.
Dissapointing show if it was not for the flashback taking 35% of the episodes past the first half and maybe cut down to 26 episodes or less and it would have been fantastic and one of my favorite dramas
Still worth a watch but boy does the quality go down past episodes 23-24 what saves it from being really bad is the story is actually great when it progress and i really like the tech aspect of it.
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Now for the good and bad about this drama
Good
-Female Lead ( she really nails the expressions early on and shows the journey of her past and how it haunts her)
-Male lead (is goofiness shocks the plot to keep it alive and breathing)
-Gaming firm/ Kendo hall setting
Bad
-Story
-Rest of cast and side cast are just not written very well (
-Slow romance i can understand why cause of the story but it took to long to take off and story really suffered cause of it
Like many dramas that are over 16-20 episodes things start to drag at a certain point and that point for me was around episode 25+, i really enjoyed the first 20 episodes i thought it was going to be a sad yet cute romance to overcome the past but i found myself skipping alot of scenes past episode 25 that wasn't the main couple and sub couple
all in all i enjoyed this drama i really wanted to give it an higher score cause of the setting of the gaming firm and kendo hall was well done but the story is reheated one to many times for me and the romance sadly doesn't save this one it's still worth a watch but in all honesty be prepared to skip here and there.
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->When to watch this movie <-
1- favorite drama just ended and you need an Pick Me Pick Me Pick Me Up(I.o.I)
2 -you like chaeyeon
3- Waiting for subs for your next binge
4- Need happiness in visual form (chaeyeon is top tier in this movie and is so pretty)
5- Bored
Good
Chaeyeon
Chaeyeon
Boss little sister
The music
Chaeyeon
Bad
Cliche story
Wish it add an longer ending
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I quite liked the concept at first it was a bit different then your typical time travel/ hidden messages to help you change your present and future. But in the end after the first 10 episodes the troupe ended up making this drama loose all its steam and take itself quite to seriously with the twists and turn.
At first you wanted too see what happened in the future and see the messages but by the end i have to say i was dissapointed how they were used and ultimately how it closed out.
I really enjoyed the cast
The main couples struggle and the friend couple wasn't bad but i wished they showed a bit more of them and the team, the this one sided brotherly rivalry.
Unless you are starved for a drama i sadly can't recommend this drama i still gave it a 7.5 cause of the cast and how i enjoyed the first 10 episodes but at episode 13 and 14 i found myself skimming through the important points of the story and in the end it left me dissapointed with this drama.
***Spoilers***
The pace and ending of the last few episodes totally ruined what would have been a 8.5 or a 9 drama for me.
They took there troupe too seriously and wanted to created like a future that affected the present that warned the future ? Might not fully make sense if you didn't watch this but it's how they choose to do there ending and its utterly bad
To be continued.. really that's your pay off for watching this drama a 5 minute fluffer or a changed/changed future
until there's an official posting for season 2 i will take this ending as a open ending left up to the viewer and if that is the case and there is no season 2 i can't recommend this drama
and if there is indeed a new season how will they manage it will every character loosing there personality and the only hooking point is the fate of everyone no matter what happens will always be entangled together despite all the changes that happened and changed destiny.
If you are really curious about this drama and love any of the actors in this just skim through the main couple scenes to make it at least a little bit worth it to watch this drama, i loved it for 10 episodes but man the last 6 left me utterly dissapointed and made me wish i didn't start it the only redeeming fact for me is i find mini tsai through this and will watch her dramas except that i take nothing out of this except dissapointement at what could have been a really good sports/rommance/future gimmick drama.
The writers should have taken cues from Back to 1989
Sorry went a bit of a rant but when you love a drama and you just see it flame itself out its so dissapointing as a viewer.
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But now that that is out of the way what an incredible live action anime/manga adaptation the way they did the action and rendered the hollows i was impressed the fighting was really good it felt fluid and not tacked on awful cgi as someone who grew up on bleach it will always have a soft spot on my heart and they really killed it on that aspect for me it was my biggest worry going in
i hope this gets turned into a trilogy and do the soul society & aizen arcs ( like many bleach fan the last anime arc would be best forgotten but the last manage arc :) )
great job on the casting everyone was pretty much spot on
(yes i know kon is missing and chad is supposed to be mexican but i have no problem with those over look same goes for rukias hair and why so many people hated it in the previews i thought it looked good and it was realistic same with ichigos hair the only thing that semi bothered me was a dark haired orihime since she is my favorite it bothered me but i liked the casting of the actress)
ost was good it's way different then the anime but overall i liked it and even added a few songs from it to my playlist but something about not hearing ichirin no hana dissapointed me to be quite honest but i think some of the changes were made to be different then the anime on purpose to set itself apart (since like i said some of the changes alterations add fans mad before it even finished shooting and came out) so in the end its maybe not a bad choice ?
TLDR
-If you loved bleach don't fear it it's pretty darn good if you can overlook some things and not be nit picky its not a 100% copy of the anime/manga does it's job as a nostalgic start to bleach and makes you wanna relive the ride all over again and scratch that itch in a different way then the anime/manga
If you aren't a bleach fan it's a pretty good introduction into bleach to make you decide if you wanna take the plunge into the anime/manga material
what was shown in the movie was condensed quite a bit and some things altered the the soul of bleach and the gist of it is there nonetheless
In closing
hopefully maybe a new generation of fans can fall in love with bleach and enjoy the heck out of it like so many fans did while it was on air and be on production
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It's very different then any drama i recently watched, the psychological stuff is really well handled and feels real not like its tacked on in certain other dramas.
The romance takes a bit to take off but when it does it does a good job at lifting the heavyness of the trauma that some of the characters while not making it all peachy.
The cast and subcast do a good job of portraying the different sides of the coin of the tragedy when the drama starts and when it ends you may feel differently about some of its characters
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As it starts to drag on and the story unfolds more it starts to loose more and more of its luster by the time it ends.
Not a bad drama it just doesn't have that wow i really wanna watch this again after its over feeling i don't know how to say it
The support cast is really decent and makes you want to keep on watching when the main plot starts to sag a little bit
Now for the **ending** i readed reviews and it seems to have confused alot of people here is my personal take on it.
When they have the talk going down the stairs they acknowledge that the love they add when they were in college is no more both persons grew and changed because of the "accident" and not because of it cause love naturally matures as you grow older and becomes something else and both of them were hanging on to those lost memories walking in a circle being stuck in place narrowing there vision of what love was.
When he re introduces himself to her to me that signals that it became full circle for them and they wanted to start again anew without the old memory baggage.
They really wanted to be together but they wanted to figure things out and get married " the right way" if it can be called that not cause of guilt/circumstances etc..
It isn't as open ended as some think cause the next scene is the scene of there wedding no matter how you slice it its not your typical "happy ending" it just took them more time to discover what that is for them but there happy ending is there it just took a long way to get there cause they got lost in the process of eyeing the destination.
I thinkt he director wanted a open ending feels to it and left some blanks to fill in until the 30 second wedding scene to nail in that in the end it does have a ending that is happy
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But after watching the series and completing it i can now say i am a big big fan of both actors the way the series carried itself over the streches of 3 to 5 episodes showed a different side to them and you were on the edge of your seat with there acting as was the rest of the cast.
When some of there motives and emotions start to show the show really grabs at you and doesn't let go untl the end of the ride.
The music and ost of this drama is really excellent one of my favorites along side Who are you 2015
Its truelly a shame this didn't do well in korea and i for the life of me can't figure out why IU was critised for her acting in it props to all the cast for the amazing roller coaster and well done this instanly made it into my top 10 dramas and found myself 2 new of my favorite actors in the process i am glad at least on the international stage it did well and it receive the real love it deserver a great fantasy history drama.
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