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Guilty binge despite its many shortcomings
This is one of those series that has enough flaws that you know you shouldn't be enjoying but yet can't help but to keep watching. The obvious and successful draw here is the brotherhood between our main leads. Although the acting isn't the greatest, the bond is endearing enough for me to find myself continually rooting for them and smiling at their scenes.
Positives:
- As mentioned, the brotherhood bond works. There are additionally a nice abundance of other interesting characters (almost too many). They both show character growth through the series and validate reasons for their individuality.
- For those who love action, there's plenty of it in this series to be satiated. The special effects are a hit or miss but nothing offensive.
- The plot moves relatively swiftly and while the lore is not necessarily unique, it was still interesting.
Negatives:
- One of the glaring downsides is the majority of the female characters - particularly the female lead. She didn't give a good impression from the beginning and she didn't have any character growth throughout. She also had zero chemistry with the ML but alas, her healer role was necessary. I just wish they stopped casting women in the series to be so... minimal and love hungry.
- The dialogue was too childish at times for a group of assassins. There are better ways to convey the message other than literally saying "I don't want to be a bad guy".
- It's another one of those series where despite huge and glorified attacks, people die from the tiniest cut on the throat.
- Because the cast was so huge, characters just popped in and out of scenarios and there's not much attachment to them.
Overall, it's definitely still a great low-stress entertaining series to watch. I did skip through almost all of the romance scenes which thankfully didn't last too long at a time. And although the ending was abrupt with too many missing plot holes, I did appreciate how it ended.
Positives:
- As mentioned, the brotherhood bond works. There are additionally a nice abundance of other interesting characters (almost too many). They both show character growth through the series and validate reasons for their individuality.
- For those who love action, there's plenty of it in this series to be satiated. The special effects are a hit or miss but nothing offensive.
- The plot moves relatively swiftly and while the lore is not necessarily unique, it was still interesting.
Negatives:
- One of the glaring downsides is the majority of the female characters - particularly the female lead. She didn't give a good impression from the beginning and she didn't have any character growth throughout. She also had zero chemistry with the ML but alas, her healer role was necessary. I just wish they stopped casting women in the series to be so... minimal and love hungry.
- The dialogue was too childish at times for a group of assassins. There are better ways to convey the message other than literally saying "I don't want to be a bad guy".
- It's another one of those series where despite huge and glorified attacks, people die from the tiniest cut on the throat.
- Because the cast was so huge, characters just popped in and out of scenarios and there's not much attachment to them.
Overall, it's definitely still a great low-stress entertaining series to watch. I did skip through almost all of the romance scenes which thankfully didn't last too long at a time. And although the ending was abrupt with too many missing plot holes, I did appreciate how it ended.
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