How was your experience though? Because I am coming here after watching Eternal love. So just wanted to know if…
X'D I didn't see it since I paused at the episode 20 which turned out to be from second season and not first. And since I saw snippets of that. And they were in Royal palace and everything looked somewhat more serious. And Royal surroundings are often not something I know as being good news.
I've just finished TMoPB and am so glad to have made it through. And that they kind of made the end alright. But at this point asides of finishing Mo dao zu shi (again, via anime, dungua and audio drama) I really don't want to see any of them anytime soon. Unless some reliable person gives green light on the tragedy and cruelty parts. I've had enough of those throughout all livetimes X'D
How was your experience though? Because I am coming here after watching Eternal love. So just wanted to know if…
Hmmmm....... I readed to a point where the episode was missing (or rather the second season one was there instead).
On one hand the beginning was really amusing. On the other hand ..... there's the usual strain of unnecessary drama X'D. And them misunderstanding each other out of nowhere! And them failing to figure out some basic dynamics. But then again I also know it's easy to say from "outside" the situation.
I have switched to "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms". Which is rather beautiful. And yet the ugly and cruelty sure are heavy. To a point where after going through "Mo dao zu Shi", "Ashes of Love" "Heaven Official's Blesing (Novel)", this one halways through and "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms"........I'll finish the last one named and I'll keep the first in line close to my heart. But from then I'll likely be.........avoiding most of the Chinese historical (fantasy). (- _ -') The beautiful visuals and good couple acting can not make up for the misery those dramas insist on. And unlike "Mo dao zu shi/The Untamed" - where the suffering actually had reasonable causes most of the time - there's just too much ......... "making an elefant of a fly". It's on the "pathetic" level of "dying by running your head into a wall" X'D And often performed by characters who are otherwise oh so clever. It's exhausting and annoying most of the time beyond reason. As if life wasn't challenging enough.
So, in terms of that, this drama here seemed a tad milder than what I had seen before. Probably due to a "modern" person being involved and having more sense.
I can recommend to give it a try, I guess? If you are willing to go on after having seen other such works, then you might like it.
from the fanmade video that ive watched as a trailer it looks like the girl is absolute has no say in the relationsship…
That's not quite it. She's simply a shy Japanese girl. It's not easy to overcome shyness and all the more if things are stigmatised to some extent when it comes to women and physical contact. Even in Europe there's still somewhat of a stigma on this. Thanksfully it's slowly dissolving.
Unlike many other characters of her type, she does properly have a will of her own and a life of her own. They put emphasis one her relationship with him, but it's not like there's nothing else. Once she enters work life she's bound to drop more of her shyness and get more and more comfortable within their relationship exchanges.
A shy, empathetic, honest and somewhat careful character can be an abolutely wonderful thing. Every character type comes with their strengths and weaknesses. In her case, she's handling herself VERY well. She has all reasons to be insecure but she makes her own decisions nevertheless. She's facing her challanges and withdraws at her own pace. That's pretty good :) He has more to learn, in a sense X'D Though for HIS type of character, he, too, sure is doing quite well, too. It's not tough for such a passionate man to handl himself, especially not when power is added to it. It's an explosive mix.
This is so confusing. I was trying to watch "Eternal Love" (known as "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms") And ended up here with "The Eternal Love" instead X'D
Oh my, if Ashes of Love is basically the best, then I should stop looking. The Romance is beautiful and the scenery and acting and so on, where it IS beautiful. But then you have that ridiculous toxic level that comes and poisons all of the good unnecessarily and made me want to just drop it halways through.
If anyone knows beautiful romance with fantasy and pretty scenery and costumes, Happy Ending AND a LOW level of toxic behaviour, please let me know! All that killing, breaking of people, separating them on purpose for pointless jealousy and insecurity reasons. I'm so sick of it I could .... cough up blood X'D to say it in the genre language!!!
I love "The Untamed" regardless of the tragedy and blodshed and the middle being really hard to bear (I've not seen what they made of the end yet). But we have a stable, dedicated male couple who keep reaching out for each other. And they barely get separated from outside. There's a grumpy uncle and there's that past life tragedy, but asides of that, barely anyone steps inbetween them. They tackle things together even while they're on difficult terms. Due to restrictions in China and the pair being gay, the Romance was cut down in terms of contact. However, it was still amazingly romantic! The way they treated each other with appreciation was/is very very satisfying.
I'm probably trying "Eternal Love" now, because ratings are good. Hoping I'll not suffer again.
Wait, excse me what? There'l be more? Interesting! I hope they tune down BIG TIME on the toxic relationships. AoL was so much fun in the first half and in the human realm parts where the toxic level was kept to an OK level (or low level or partialy no level at all, which is when it was best).
Plus zhu xian, though this is a movie. He is getting all the big novel MC roles
Hoh, you're right! I see his mud smeared, appaled, pained face in the "Jade Dynasty" movie trailer. What did they do to you again, sweetheart? (T~T) I'm not up for more cruelty and suffering. Right now "The Untamed" and "Ashes of Love" are having me at the edge of my tolerance level.
mee too. so despite all the comments that said this drama was good, i am soo scared to watch complicated conflicts…
It's good to OK till the sequence where the human incarnation cycle ends (don't know the episode). Then the veeeery ending is nice-ish. In between the character background stories are very interesting but the toxic level is very heavy and towards the end it's just ..... mad. I mean it makes sense for it to turn mad, but observing that stuff unfolding as a deeply compassionate person is nothing short of cruel. I went through it in more or less one go with night breaks. In the later half it's barely possible to let things sit over night, because you just wonder if characters will die or crumble under their circumstances eventually.
I definitely learned my lesson about receiving very positive asian historical (fantasy) dramas. Admittedly it's not my first time. The ones revolving around court are usually snake dents. "Ashi Girl" is probably the only one that I remember suuuuper positively and fun with a minimum possible toxic level for that genre. Chinese productions will also be extra on the cruelty scale, physically as mentally. Sadly so. The costumes and dance and sceneries are soooooooooooo beautiful! The poetry and often the music, too.
Quality: Very good Visuals: Really beautiful! Audio: Great, but they fail to tune out the background music when they play instruments in their act. Plot: The basic idea is interesting, but the suffering is of grand scale throughout the story! Characters: Very relatable because they have background storied explaining in details why they ended up where they ended up. Everyone is shown in very good and very bad light. At the same time, they often display the grade of maturity of a kindergarden child. (=_=#) The "Immortal" life setting provides some explenation but ..... things are often beyond reason. Character behaviour is a big minus, in a sense. Emotions: Has some of the most beautiful confessions between people. But the (inner)ugly is strong, too. Overbearingly strong almost. Acting: Very very good (minus the mostly non explicit physical intimacy scenes. Aka kissing and further. Those were .... OK) Actors and actresses: .....they probably just went and booked all of their top stars?
Do not watch on bad days or if mentally stable even if the news of the ending type might have lured you! The whole beginning is deceiving. I was very charmed and amazed, the humor was great.....and then it started. Could have cried for or with them non-stop from some point on, out of compassion. Humor goes lost mostly after the human incarnation ending. Maybe just.....stop there? X'D or throw in the last episode(s) if you have to?
Watching him in Untamed and his acting is really good! To think that he pulled off that and now Douluo Continent is coming and there's a band and everything, that young man must not be getting a second of rest. Hope he doesn't burn out. :'( He's quite skilled!
Xiao Zhan is the main in this and in "The Untamed"? Hoh, someone is getting the big main roles of the most popular upcoming animation series! He sure fits!
It's a really good but very mature show. If you're expecting standard romance relationship pattern, you'll be confused. If you expect "fantasy" instead of the normal oddness of life, you'll be confused. If you expect easy answers given by simple characters, you'll be confused. If you see people as one-dimensional creatures that act within their "Character", you'll be confused. X'D Don't get confused! Be open, wehen you start this! Remember, that "normal" is an illusion and most people end up with pretty odd decision making throughout their lives. If that doesn't apply to you, you might simply be still too young or very sheltered or very lucky. That's totally OK! It's just not the case for a lot of people. Not that I'm saying everyone finds themselves stuck in THIS degree of oddness either.
What you may not expect, is a really really really good handling of the suble yet explicit scenes. They're acted out very well. Ofcourse within the setting of the odds that the characters are in. They have totally taken me by surprise with that good acting!
Summery: Go for it and expect nothing, be open for all concepts that meet you as odd and trace them. You may find them not all that confusing. ;D
I really love crybaby mini Takane-doll. That's so Japanese and it's absolutely hilarious! It was a cute drama with a lot of honest feelings and ofcourse a lot of fals pride to be fixed X'D.
The most straining part is obviously that whole uproar about the relationship from the companies side (aka it hence implies it's a scandal in general, too). This is no Japan exclusive. It's just soooooooooooooooooo annoying. When the youngest person is the most mature, you wonder what's wrong with the world. I've been there, I'm still wondering what's wrong with the world. Ofcourse I know what's wrong. Stereotypes. People rely on them rather looking at each encounter individually, not passing judgements before knowing nothing at all.
I wish many many people grew up a little on that particular field. That and communication. Communication being the greater priority.
11 minutes into the fist episode and I'm screaming with laughter! Amazing! It's rare to get such an honest and open approach to sexuality in a Japanese drama of this genre! X'D This could be really fun!
The original is a josei manga made by a woman, of course it's degenerate...Talking serious now, don't judge too…
So true! It's probably not her being in love (as in "having a cursh on sb."), but heractually loving! Love in it's most natural state doesn't make any differences whatsoever. It's unconditional. It doesn't give a damn about the circumstances and doesn't get affcted by the circumstances changing. It doesn't require name tags. It's us who like to tag it for purposes of convenience. And it#s us unneccessarily stumpling over our limited concepts attached to those overly convenient tags, too. Meanwhile love can take countless shapes and be lived in countless ways between all types of people. And it's breathtakingly beautiful to see, whenerver it occurs. Actually, there's nothing more beautiful, in my eyes.
I can really relate to this movie already even by this trailer. Ofcourse it'll matter how they handle it. As you said, it'll probably go into an "After the Rain" direction. Actually I did think they hadn't handled that one in the best way. But it was still a great production. I'm looking forward to where this story will be going.
I've just finished TMoPB and am so glad to have made it through. And that they kind of made the end alright. But at this point asides of finishing Mo dao zu shi (again, via anime, dungua and audio drama) I really don't want to see any of them anytime soon. Unless some reliable person gives green light on the tragedy and cruelty parts. I've had enough of those throughout all livetimes X'D
On one hand the beginning was really amusing. On the other hand ..... there's the usual strain of unnecessary drama X'D. And them misunderstanding each other out of nowhere! And them failing to figure out some basic dynamics. But then again I also know it's easy to say from "outside" the situation.
I have switched to "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms". Which is rather beautiful. And yet the ugly and cruelty sure are heavy. To a point where after going through "Mo dao zu Shi", "Ashes of Love" "Heaven Official's Blesing (Novel)", this one halways through and "Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms"........I'll finish the last one named and I'll keep the first in line close to my heart. But from then I'll likely be.........avoiding most of the Chinese historical (fantasy). (- _ -') The beautiful visuals and good couple acting can not make up for the misery those dramas insist on. And unlike "Mo dao zu shi/The Untamed" - where the suffering actually had reasonable causes most of the time - there's just too much ......... "making an elefant of a fly". It's on the "pathetic" level of "dying by running your head into a wall" X'D And often performed by characters who are otherwise oh so clever. It's exhausting and annoying most of the time beyond reason. As if life wasn't challenging enough.
So, in terms of that, this drama here seemed a tad milder than what I had seen before. Probably due to a "modern" person being involved and having more sense.
I can recommend to give it a try, I guess? If you are willing to go on after having seen other such works, then you might like it.
Unlike many other characters of her type, she does properly have a will of her own and a life of her own. They put emphasis one her relationship with him, but it's not like there's nothing else. Once she enters work life she's bound to drop more of her shyness and get more and more comfortable within their relationship exchanges.
A shy, empathetic, honest and somewhat careful character can be an abolutely wonderful thing. Every character type comes with their strengths and weaknesses. In her case, she's handling herself VERY well. She has all reasons to be insecure but she makes her own decisions nevertheless. She's facing her challanges and withdraws at her own pace. That's pretty good :) He has more to learn, in a sense X'D Though for HIS type of character, he, too, sure is doing quite well, too. It's not tough for such a passionate man to handl himself, especially not when power is added to it. It's an explosive mix.
If anyone knows beautiful romance with fantasy and pretty scenery and costumes, Happy Ending AND a LOW level of toxic behaviour, please let me know! All that killing, breaking of people, separating them on purpose for pointless jealousy and insecurity reasons. I'm so sick of it I could .... cough up blood X'D to say it in the genre language!!!
I love "The Untamed" regardless of the tragedy and blodshed and the middle being really hard to bear (I've not seen what they made of the end yet). But we have a stable, dedicated male couple who keep reaching out for each other. And they barely get separated from outside. There's a grumpy uncle and there's that past life tragedy, but asides of that, barely anyone steps inbetween them. They tackle things together even while they're on difficult terms. Due to restrictions in China and the pair being gay, the Romance was cut down in terms of contact. However, it was still amazingly romantic! The way they treated each other with appreciation was/is very very satisfying.
I'm probably trying "Eternal Love" now, because ratings are good. Hoping I'll not suffer again.
Which means you know the sorce material then? I hope I'll be looking forward to it *lol*
I definitely learned my lesson about receiving very positive asian historical (fantasy) dramas. Admittedly it's not my first time. The ones revolving around court are usually snake dents. "Ashi Girl" is probably the only one that I remember suuuuper positively and fun with a minimum possible toxic level for that genre. Chinese productions will also be extra on the cruelty scale, physically as mentally. Sadly so. The costumes and dance and sceneries are soooooooooooo beautiful! The poetry and often the music, too.
Visuals: Really beautiful!
Audio: Great, but they fail to tune out the background music when they play instruments in their act.
Plot: The basic idea is interesting, but the suffering is of grand scale throughout the story!
Characters: Very relatable because they have background storied explaining in details why they ended up where they ended up. Everyone is shown in very good and very bad light. At the same time, they often display the grade of maturity of a kindergarden child. (=_=#) The "Immortal" life setting provides some explenation but ..... things are often beyond reason. Character behaviour is a big minus, in a sense.
Emotions: Has some of the most beautiful confessions between people. But the (inner)ugly is strong, too. Overbearingly strong almost.
Acting: Very very good (minus the mostly non explicit physical intimacy scenes. Aka kissing and further. Those were .... OK)
Actors and actresses: .....they probably just went and booked all of their top stars?
Do not watch on bad days or if mentally stable even if the news of the ending type might have lured you! The whole beginning is deceiving. I was very charmed and amazed, the humor was great.....and then it started. Could have cried for or with them non-stop from some point on, out of compassion. Humor goes lost mostly after the human incarnation ending. Maybe just.....stop there? X'D or throw in the last episode(s) if you have to?
What you may not expect, is a really really really good handling of the suble yet explicit scenes. They're acted out very well. Ofcourse within the setting of the odds that the characters are in. They have totally taken me by surprise with that good acting!
Summery: Go for it and expect nothing, be open for all concepts that meet you as odd and trace them. You may find them not all that confusing. ;D
It was a cute drama with a lot of honest feelings and ofcourse a lot of fals pride to be fixed X'D.
The most straining part is obviously that whole uproar about the relationship from the companies side (aka it hence implies it's a scandal in general, too). This is no Japan exclusive. It's just soooooooooooooooooo annoying. When the youngest person is the most mature, you wonder what's wrong with the world. I've been there, I'm still wondering what's wrong with the world. Ofcourse I know what's wrong. Stereotypes. People rely on them rather looking at each encounter individually, not passing judgements before knowing nothing at all.
I wish many many people grew up a little on that particular field. That and communication. Communication being the greater priority.
I can really relate to this movie already even by this trailer. Ofcourse it'll matter how they handle it. As you said, it'll probably go into an "After the Rain" direction. Actually I did think they hadn't handled that one in the best way. But it was still a great production. I'm looking forward to where this story will be going.