Sometimes you have to go on a journey...a blade journey
What a journey this show was. 2+ years ago I started watching this, thought it was terrible and dropped it during the third episode. However I decided to give it another shot because I was in the mood for a wacky show and I wanted to feed my perpetual Lee Dong Wook brainrot. The second time around I enjoyed the show a lot even though much of it is terribly written. The loud, over the top cartoony humor which I found obnoxious back then amused me this time, the show had surprisingly good production values, and despite how dumb it got I was strangely emotionally invested in the story and couldn't stop watching it. The relationship between the ML and his devoted secretary was the highlight. The romance/love triangle of sorts was deeply annoying because it was driven by truckloads of noble idiocy and constant miscommunication. The leads mainly sulk and squabble, there are few actually cute or romantic moments. Watching the last several episodes of this show was like tonguing a canker sore, painful yet irresistible. Don't look for any kind of consistent treatment of the fantasy element either. I'm giving this a much higher rating than it deserves by any objective metric but I have to live my truth, I was transfixed by this train wreck. It was just so weird and its mixture of sincerity and incompetence cast some kind of spell of me.
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