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Shadow Love chinese drama review
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Shadow Love
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by Nat
Nov 4, 2025
38 of 38 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 7.0

Great light fantasy show with weird pacing

This is the kind of sea drama. I love. It’s got all the favorite tropes I enjoy. Hidden identity. Amnesia. Just enough fantasy elements to make it stand out. the lead had great chemistry. And I think for the first 20 episodes it was a perfect 10. Then the pacing of the show slowed down a lot and I had to skip a lot of scenes just to get through lengthy unnecessary dialogues. If they kept that editing the way they kept it in the first part of the show, mostly concentrating on the leads and with little attention on the rest of the unnecessary characters, it would have been perfect.

I can tell they did not have a lot of budget for this, but the overall story was good. And I am glad they didn’t end it the way the did Till the End of the Moon or some other of my favorite shows. I liked most character arcs in the way everyone’s story ended. I would have probably rewatch it again if not, the really draggy second part. Maybe I’ll come back and rewatch my favorite parts later on.

Side note: Ryan Chen should have stayed in Prince Annan’s headspace more. Guy had some aura. But I obviously understand the direction of the story was completely different. As long as it didn’t end they way a few ones I recently watched ended.
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