Beginning of episode 4 and this feels more like a blossoming rezubian romance than anything to do with aliens or missing persons or cults or repressed memories or whatever else.
Maybe it's about the "boyfriend" who was never supposed be there, whom there was never room for in our tomboy-ish protagonist's life, because - ya know - she likes gals.
If I have any real complaint, other than a nonsensical take on human psychology after the revelations of season 2 episode 8, it's that I wished to connect with the characters for longer. Never touched the manga and don't know how faithful this is to the source material, but I could have done with more than this 16 episode run. Still an easy 8-9/10 from me. Watched it twice in just a few days. Dreamy good aesthetic for my tastes - the whole overgrown and desolate metropolis stuff is sick.
I fuckin love it just as much as the 1st if not more, worth the wait. the ending really does make sense. Everything…
I also love this, but hesitate to say the ending makes sense. Conceptually, yes it does - but when delving more deeply into the psychological thrusts of face card game creators, it becomes more and more difficult to level what happens with any sensible notion of human behaviour, psychology, morals, ethics.
Story - moderately interesting Characters - bang average so far Leads - quite compelling so far Chemistry - rather promising Aesthetic - looks alright to me... middle of the pack Dub (visuo-audio sync + suitability) - very good for ML, fine for FL Production - fine but with the typical low quality voice recording sound engineering which plagues a lot of Cdrama from time to time, particularly prevalent in some scenes of episode 1, where original audio recording is unclear.
Overall - it's a solid start... not immediately auspicious but it's warming up and, perhaps most importantly, the connection between the leads is already beginning to bubble in its subtle and fun ways.
I like the concept of the ending, although it could have been better explained and there's no effort to reconcile the seeming incredulities of various outcomes. Souls, intel and knowledge was shared in both directions of time and in the end both protagonists "won". Unclear direction and some swiss cheese writing undercuts the concept - would have been easy to show that Do Jun and Hyun Woo look like two different people, for example.
I will check this out! Definitely. Hope the best for Chen Yu Qi acting because of her "track records". Please…
She was fine in Ashes of Love but I didn't pick up the sort of charisma and presence you'd expect from a FL. As a side character it was fine though. Let's see, I guess.
Maybe it's about the "boyfriend" who was never supposed be there, whom there was never room for in our tomboy-ish protagonist's life, because - ya know - she likes gals.
"Where is my space in this?" --- poor lad.
Characters - bang average so far
Leads - quite compelling so far
Chemistry - rather promising
Aesthetic - looks alright to me... middle of the pack
Dub (visuo-audio sync + suitability) - very good for ML, fine for FL
Production - fine but with the typical low quality voice recording sound engineering which plagues a lot of Cdrama from time to time, particularly prevalent in some scenes of episode 1, where original audio recording is unclear.
Overall - it's a solid start... not immediately auspicious but it's warming up and, perhaps most importantly, the connection between the leads is already beginning to bubble in its subtle and fun ways.