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Judging purely from the trailer: Darn, I really don't like loud, over-enthusiastic riders. I prefer calm ones like Ace. Oh well, hopefully the story makes up for it. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

Honestly, off the top of my head I can't think of a single Xianxia that didn't do the the whole, one of the pair dies and the other looks for them for years and years and either 1) never finds them, 2) maybe finds them but it remains unclear, 3) finds them in a usually disjointed way. Why can't they be solidly HE or solidly BE? They always feel like bad ends to me with a random happy end tacked on at the very end that doesn't flow very well, or rarely a happy end with a random bad end tacked on. --UNTAMED SPOILER --The only Xianxia (it is a Xianxia isn't it?) that I think I've watched that doesn't do this is the Untamed because they're both clearly alive at the end, but separate temporarily to do their own things. Which probably only happened since it's technically not a romance and just friendship.

I think....I'm getting (am definitely) tired of Cdrama endings. Is there some kind of formula outside of censorship that they have to follow for their Xianxia and sometimes Wuxia drama endings? Oh well, at least it was good overall minus some issues.

He's not even doing anything about the actual murderers? He just wishes death upon his friend/brother of many years even though he had no fault? The girl made her own decision as a consenting adult to be involved despite people persuading her not to? They've only been together what, a few weeks? But that's enough to throw away his friends and family? What utter nonsense and such poor characterization. Napat gave no indication in earlier episodes that he was such trash and was fairly loyal. If anything he should be going crazy trying to go after the murderers, not harass his friend at every occasion. Annoying. Not to mention on her dying breath his girlfriend asked him to appreciate and recognize how many people loved and cared for him, but instead ignored her wishes to be a maniac instead. I don't care if he's grieving, that's just not right.

Dropped this after two episodes but decided to give it a second chance and now I'm on episode 7 (still not really enjoying it, but have committed to finishing it), but wow, that one friend is such trash and his anger makes no sense and is so misplaced.

The end of episode 9 TTOTT I really wish his whole family witnessed that scene and not just his sister, they would have instantly understood how much he loves his school and life there. Also that song that played during the ending scene is great and so emotional, I ended up buying it lol

This show is right up my alley and I enjoyed it except for a few details but, phew, finished, and all I've got to say is this is why communication is important kids.....you can avoid a whole lot of angst, blood, and tears that way....

Sorry, I know Japanese so I watched it raw :( Honestly though, I don't think you'd be missing much if you went straight to watching the movie. It felt like a very small intro to Tori's character, his abilities, and the cop, but mainly focused on the four cases within it. You can try and watch the raw? You might understand more than you think you will. Anyway, I wish you luck and hope someone subs it some day soon!

Haha, I'm admittedly disappointed that I'm responding to you after I said I wouldn't, but I just wanted to explain something real quick in case you didn't know. The reason I, and perhaps others, perceive you as being upset is because your comments have things that can be perceived as personal attacks and antagonistic, ex, " If you're so delicate as to need to...." is a personal attack, as such, it feels like you're coming from a place of emotion, even if that's just mild irritation. If you don't want your comments to be seen that way you should avoid aiming any of your arguments at who you're talking to, and only comment towards what they are saying; keeping detached and logical is the best way to have a good conversation. Of course, there will always be people who try to degrade what you're saying regardless of how you phrase it because they aren't interested in what you're saying. I'm by no means trying to change the way you comment, I just thought you might be interested in why I thought you were upset. Anyway, I'm really not going to respond anymore, promise! I honestly don't mind continuing, I just hate when the comment section is filled with long debates that no longer have anything to do with people's opinions on the drama itself, hence why I'm disappointed that I once again lengthened it. Cheers!

I'm not sure why you're so upset, the type of crime is a very small part and isn't something I would consider a spoiler considering it's the first thing you find out at the beginning of each episode, and I didn't mention any details either about any other aspect. Other than mentioning the rape, the rest of my comment could be considered positive. Besides, I don't like to know every aspect of a show like you've assumed, but when it comes to something like explicit rape scenes, then yes, I would like to know ahead of time. Enough people think this way that most shows post warnings at the beginning of each episode, I can't recall if this one did. On that note, if you normally avoid anything to do with a show before watching it, I'm not sure why you're looking at comments on the show in the first place as normally there are lots of small aspects revealed as people talk about it (of course important plot points have spoiler warnings). This show doesn't really have that simply because most people haven't been able to watch it yet. If I get more feedback asking me to mark it as a spoiler I will, but I won't change it based off of one person as I think more people will benefit from knowing, especially those with PTSD or the like. I think it's important you understand that a lot of people want to and need to know if something has certain triggering material in it. I'm sorry if my comment upsets you, but I honestly can't understand why. I feel like I've been polite to you, and you've been rude from the get-go, though that might just be my interpretation with a lack of visual cues. I hope you'll go about your day and not worry about a random comment on the web, as that's what I'll be doing unless someone else adds something. Hoping the rest of your day is a good one, goodbye.

If I had known beforehand that almost every episode would have it, I likely wouldn't have watched it, but I had no way of knowing that. The one episode that wasn't like that also gave me hope. All I can really do is warn others so that they don't accidentally watch it without knowing what to expect. Besides, I stick by what I and Its Liane said, that the sheer amount of rape was unnecessary and honestly lazy. There were four episodes and they should have each been unique stories and crimes, but I don't feel like that's what I got. But meh, to each their own, I mainly only posted my original comment, once again, as a warning to others.

Same, it was really disappointing, especially since the premise was fairly interesting.

This made me...incredibly uncomfortable. Why is it that when there's violence towards women it always has to involve r*pe? (Seriously, three of the four episodes involved it) Not to mention it was overly explicit. I'm fragile and it was kind of traumatizing to watch. I will say the acting was overall good though and watching a favorite actor play a psychopath is always fun. Oddly though Tori didn't play a very big role in this, maybe because this acts as more of a prologue to the movie and only introduces his character? The episodes mainly showed what terrible things happened that made the star of that episode choose to request another's death, and of course, as these things usually go, there tend to be misunderstandings.

Agreed

I don't know how or what to rate it >-<'

What happens when you put Kamen Rider and Super Sentai actors together? Something very strange....JK, that's unrelated. However, Takahashi Fumiya super reminds me of Kamiki Ryunosuke, looks and acting style.

You know it's going to be a good dystopian movie/show when they throw Imagine Dragons into the mix

I really like Japanese ones. The two I mentioned are both kind of dramatic in Japanese style, but have really good messages they want to get across. In Gakkou no Kaidan the main girl has really nice character development. 3 Nen A Gumi is really good, but if you're not used to the style I would suggest watching the first couple of episodes first, it gets better (imo) promise! I liked it straight from the crazy beginning though XD

Happy Holidays and stay safe!!

Overall I liked this drama, but it had some flaws. I really liked WWX as a character, but there were some things I didn't like that mainly pertained to his powers I guess? Like that thing he did in the first episode where he froze people, he only did it there and never again so it seemed kind of odd. I also wasn't a big fan of the black smoke, though I can't really explain why, hmm. I read the book after and know he controls corpses and I'm assuming censors wouldn't allow that here, and I guess they did the best they could as I can't think of something else they could have done instead; I just personally wasn't a big fan of it. Maybe they could have just had him control people with his flute? Or maybe that wouldn't be allowed either, hmm, not sure. They also made him fairly weak when he was in bad mode sometimes, even though he was supposed to be over-powered. He was only supposed to become weak/frail once he was revived in the weaker body of MXY. It just seemed to me what he could do and how strong he was wasn't very consistent. LZ on the other hand seemed to be fairly consistent. (I'd like to note despite the flaws in his writing, WWX is still my favorite, he's just so happy)

I also didn't like the beginning CGI with the battle, with the tiger seal flying around, and particularly the cut off hand. It just felt very clunky.

Also found the ghost arm thing turning into a sword to be kind of weird, instead of just making it a possessed sword to begin with and going the route of whoever touches it loses control and gets their life force sucked out or something. I feel like a lot of the spots I felt were disjointed and didn't make sense were areas where they originally tried to stay true to the book, but weren't able to. Not entirely their fault, but it would have been nice if it was polished up a little bit more.

The acting of both Yi Bo and Xiao Zhan wasn't all that great in the beginning(still good, they were just awkward in some scenes), mainly in the Cloud Recesses part when WWX is visiting as a student. However, one of my favorite things in this drama was actually being able to see the actors grow throughout, I felt like they got so much better as time went on and they filmed more and it felt really special to see them grow on-screen.

Something else I liked is that, upon reading the book, I realized just how hard the writers worked to get the essence of the book across, even though they were bogged down by censors. Not only that, they also improved upon the book to the point I'm glad I watched the drama first, because the drama really fleshed out the side characters and made them feel important whereas the book barely talks about anyone but the mains. If I had read the book first, I doubt I would have felt much by way of what happens to the Wen siblings and other things, because the book simply didn't talk about them enough to know them.

Honestly I probably would have rated this an 8 or 8.5 from the first 1/3 or maybe even the first 1/2, but after seeing the acting get better and other things become more interesting in the later half, I bumped it up to a 9. In the end, this is just my opinion, if others don't agree, no worries, after all, we all have one, I just decided to bite the bullet and share mine.

I want to post my opinion of this drama here in case future watchers are interested in what I think, please don't attack me :)

I was originally going to post this as is, but realized some things might be considered spoilers even though I mainly only mention scenes in the first episode, so I'm going to post it below instead so I can mark it as a spoiler.