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The visual chemistry is insane

The story is pretty good. Acting is decent too. The actor playing Shen Mo is so pretty. The only issue I have with the drama is the it's too fast paced. There are some nuances that you cannot get unless you have read the novel. The director should've added some more details. The ost is good too. I wish they had added more Ji-Mo moments post memory loss. One problem with the production was that the actors weren't given enough time to familiarise with eachother. Intimate scenes are very good but in some places the actors were definitely uncomfortable. They've been on my feed for some time and their intimacy level looks more natural now than before. I hope they'll soon do another drama.

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Came for the Heartbreak, Stayed for the 8-Episode Survival

The story itself is very familiar, but even before I started watching, I had a few expectations. I knew there was no way this was going to have a happy ending. I expected it to be mature and, more than anything, to leave that kind of lingering emotional ache that stays with you long after the story ends.

Honestly, I started this drama because I was in the mood for something deeply heart-wrenching. I wanted to finish it feeling emotionally wrecked, heartbroken, and haunted by the story for a while.

But somehow, it gave me none of that.

The ML was the only character whose emotional ups and downs were explored to at least some extent. But when it came to the two female leads, the drama barely made any effort to get inside their heads.

The FL had so many layers that could have been explored, yet none of them were really brought to life. From beginning to end, she was kept almost completely stoic and emotionally detached. By the time the drama finally tried to show a little more of what was going on inside her, it ended before there was enough time to actually understand or feel it.

And the SFL is a whole different story. There was almost no sense of what was actually going on inside her. Her loneliness, how her feelings for the ML developed, why they developed, when it happened, or how she eventually came to love him so intensely, none of it was properly established.

Throughout the entire drama, the SFL felt more like a plot device than an actual character. At times, she honestly felt like a joke.

And the funniest part is, after struggling my way through the whole thing, I didn’t finish it feeling heartbroken. I finished it thinking, “Well, thank God that’s over. At least it was only 8 episodes.”

I went in wanting my heart to be shattered, and somehow came out just feeling relieved that I survived this pointless drama.

This might genuinely be my biggest disappointment of the year.

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Chemistry Without a Script to Match

Let's just say isn't going to be a series that stays in my memory for very long.

I finished Kiss or Kill and my first thought was honestly: What did I just watch? And what was this actually about?

And to be clear, I don't need a series to explain everything to me. I actually like stories that leave me with questions, make me confused or force me to figure things out myself. I don't even necessarily have to "like" that kind of storytelling.
But with Kiss or Kill, by the end, I simply... didn't care enough to look for the answers.

The premise had potential. Undercover investigations, a criminal organisation, secret identities, betrayal and two people with a complicated history could have made for a pretty entertaining thriller. And Nie Chuan and Lin Yan have enough chemistry to make their relationship work despite the rather messy writing.

Unfortunately, the further the series went, the more disconnected everything felt. The later episodes become increasingly rushed, some plot points seem to exist without ever becoming particularly relevant, and the constant flashbacks — especially the artificial-looking ones — repeatedly pulled me out of the story instead of adding to it.

There were definitely moments where I could see the potential. I just never felt like the series actually made much of it.

So no, I wouldn't say I particularly enjoyed Kiss or Kill. But it did at least manage to keep me watching until the end, which is probably the nicest thing I can say about it.

I finished it. I moved on. And honestly, I already feel like I'm forgetting what happened.

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You Maniac is a breath of fresh air in the Thai Industry

If you’re looking for a BL that feels different from the usual ones, please give this one a chance. You Maniac brings such a fresh vibe and atmosphere that it genuinely stands out from the crowd.
The characterization is one of its biggest strengths. The characters feel interesting, layered, and thoughtfully written, and watching their relationships develop is incredibly engaging. The series also has a beautiful aesthetic, cinematography, and color grading that give it a distinct visual identity. Every frame has a certain mood that pulls you further into the story.
And then there’s WilliamEst. Their acting and chemistry are absolutely amazing. They bring so much emotion and naturalness to their characters that their scenes together are easily one of the highlights of the series. Their chemistry feels effortless, and you can genuinely feel the emotions behind their interactions.
What I love most is that You Maniac doesn't feel like it's trying to be just another BL. It has its own identity, its own vibe, and something different to offer.
If you're tired of watching the same BL formula over and over again, go watch You Maniac. Give it a few episodes and let yourself get immersed in its world. You might just find your next obsession. ❤️‍🔥
Definitely worth giving a chance!

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we should know!

Early Spring is an engaging Chinese drama that draws you in right from the start. The story follows a secret, troubled relationship between a young woman who leaves everything behind to work in Beijing and her boss. Their relationship is plagued by emotional walls and poor communication—issues that ultimately lead to a painful breakup after six years together.
​The drama’s greatest strength is the undeniable, electric chemistry between the leads, matched by performances that convey every nuance of their inner conflict. A special mention for the actress who plays Lumi, i love her!
​However, the writing stumbles in a few areas:
​The Female Lead: While her fragility feels like an intentional character choice early on, it lingers for too long. Except for a few moments, she remains somewhat flat and struggles to assertively confront him.
​Lack of Backstory: Although the male lead's motivations are clearer, his family background is barely explored.
​A Rushed Ending: Despite delivering a happy ending, the final stretch feels hurried and lacks a proper sense of pacing to fully resolve their underlying dynamics.
​Verdict
Despite missing some deeper character development, The Early Spring remains a magnetic, emotional watch driven by incredible chemistry and remarkable acting.

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I Came for Vincent and Fei Foon, Stayed for the Plot

Yes, AI was used in some scenes. I tallied it up, and including the intro, those scenes barely total 15 minutes.

There have already been a million comments about this during the on airs, so I'm not going to spend this review debating the broader AI controversy. I do, however, want to talk about whether its use actually added anything to the story, because I think that's a more interesting question from an artistic perspective. I'll get into that later.

But if you're here for a good time, handsome men, guns, high stakes, and enough angst to keep you emotionally invested for nine episodes... stick around.

My First BL
Ash was my very first BL, and not for one moment do I regret it. As a C-drama/K-drama lover, I typically avoid watching shows while they're airing because I prefer to binge everything without the stress of waiting for the next episode. Somehow, Ash broke that rule. The drama had fun TikTok edits, so I thought, Why not? Before I knew it, I had watched the first two episodes and was spending the next two months anxiously waiting for Fridays so I could get my hands on the next episode. The addiction got so bad that I started watching reaction videos from the male leads and even their livestreams. I was hooked.

Now, onto the characters and plot, without giving too much away.

***Minor Plot Spoilers Ahead***

Vincent/Hui Leok To
Let's start with Vincent/Hui Leok To because... wow.
He is probably the most delicious looking male lead I've had the privilege of ogling. I could write an entire epistle about his looks, but I'll keep it simple: the camera literally could not find a bad angle.
And the versatility! Look out for the CEO look, the college heartthrob look, and, of course, the heartbroken look. Every era somehow came with its own flavour of handsome.

Character wise, however? Vincent, my man, please learn to think before you speak. This man acts and speaks first and thinks later, and it inevitably comes back to bite him in the ass. You wouldn't know he was a lovestruck fool if he could just keep his mouth shut for five minutes. Halfway through the show, I had written an entire mental epistle listing all his offences and explaining why Fei Foon absolutely did not deserve to be subjected to this man. And yet... Only a saint like Fei Foon could love him. However, he did finally redeem himself which I’m glad about.

Fei Foon
Fei Foon, on the other hand, is a baddie. A classic beauty that put the term “damsel in distress” to shame. I loved him through every era: thug, cop, wanted criminal... every time he appeared on my screen in a new phase of his life, I genuinely thought, Surely he cannot get any more handsome and somehow, he did.

Character wise, Fei Foon was the more consistent of the two. You could tell that all of his patience, tolerance and softness were reserved for one particular person: Vincent. Regardless of how undeserving Vincent was. Regardless of how many times Vincent hurt him. Regardless of how much frustration this man caused... One simple "I'm sorry" and Fei Foon would be right back there.
Sigh! Fei Foon. Please stand up. But honestly, that's also what made their relationship so compelling.

The Plot
One of the things I loved most about Ash was that romance wasn't the sole focus of the story. It wasn’t just a story of two handsome men falling in love or lust… There was an actual plot involving both Fei Foon's and Vincent's worlds, and those worlds eventually became a source of conflict for their relationship. I loved trying to make increasingly ridiculous guesses about where the story was going with every episode. And the funniest part? I was actually wrong surprisingly often. I also appreciated that there weren't really any wasted characters. Almost everyone who appeared on screen served a purpose, whether it was moving the main plot forward or contributing to the romance.

As someone who grew up watching Hong Kong shows, I also enjoyed seeing elements of familiar Hong Kong storytelling and culture woven into the drama: wealthy families treating marriage as a transaction, the concept of mistresses, pineapple buns, and other little details that made the world feel familiar.

The Limitation of Nine Episodes
This is probably the biggest "what if?" I have about Ash. With only nine episodes, each running around 45 minutes, I think the production team had to make some very difficult decisions about what to show and what to cut. And in many cases, I felt they chose to tell rather than show. We get glimpses of so many different storylines and character histories that, in a longer drama, could probably have been expanded into episodes of their own. There was so much potential sitting underneath the surface. Ms. H is probably the best example of this for me. We're told that she is this incredibly tough woman who is willing to sacrifice even her own family in her pursuit of power. That's a pretty ruthless description. But when I actually watched Ms. H on screen, I sometimes struggled to reconcile the character we were told she was with the character I was actually seeing. This is where I really wish the drama had had more time to show us her deeds rather than tell us about them. Give me the scenes. Show me what she did. Let me watch her make those decisions and see the consequences. Let me understand for myself why everyone is so afraid of her and Ms. H isn't the only example.

I would have loved to see more of coming to terms with internalised homophobia, the psychological toll of being undercover or how watching the people you love being killed by your own family shapes you as a person. These are the kinds of things that were touched upon, but there was clearly much more underneath them. Honestly, I could probably name several other storylines that made me think, "If this were a 16–24 episode drama, this could be an entire episode on its own." But at the same time, I don't necessarily see this as a failure of the drama. It's the limitation of the format.

The production team had a finite amount of time and had to decide which parts of the story deserved the most screen time. Given that constraint, this may simply be the best version of Ash we were going to get and I'm totally fine with that. Would I have loved more? Absolutely! Do I think the story suffered because some things were told rather than shown? Maybe? But did it stop me from enjoying the drama? Not even remotely.

The Use of AI
I think it's important to talk about the use of AI in Ash, but I want to approach it from the perspective of artistic valuerather than the broader debate around AI.

The question for me is simple: Did the use of AI bring something to the story that traditional human effort couldn't have achieved? In Ash, I unfortunately don't think it did. There were two particularly important scenes where AI was used to introduce the backstories of major characters and for me, these were probably the worst places to use it because these scenes were supposed to carry emotional weight. Rather than being absorbed in what I was being shown and feeling the emotional significance of these moments, I found myself going oh that’s what happened but emotions wise I was unmoved. The emotional impact I should have felt was therefore almost nonexistent which saddens me as I believe those were very important moments.

Ironically, I think this is one of those situations where telling rather than showing might actually have worked better. Earlier, I talked about the limitations of having only nine episodes and how the production team sometimes had to choose between showing us something and simply telling us about it. In these particular scenes, I think leaning into that approach could have preserved more of the emotional weight. Sometimes, you don't need to physically show a character's past for the audience to feel it. A well written conversation, narration, flashback using the actual cast, or even carefully constructed dialogue can allow the audience to fill in the gaps themselves. Our imagination can sometimes do a better job than a visually distracting representation.

So while I don't have an issue with the mere existence of AI in the production, I do question the artistic decision to use it in these particular moments. For me, the issue isn't simply "AI was used." It's "Did using AI make this scene better?"
In these two cases, I personally don't think it did.

The Romance
Another thing I really liked was that we don't begin with the two leads meeting for the first time and slowly falling in love. They're already in some form of relationship when the story begins. That's not something you see as often in dramas, where the usual formula is: they meet, they fall in love, obstacles happen, they get together, happily ever after. Ash does things differently. In fact, the nature of the "relationship" between Vincent and Fei Foon is itself an important part of the plot. And I really enjoyed that.

Were There Plot Holes?
Hmm… Episode 7, I'm looking directly at you. Would I call this a plot hole or a poorly reasoned concept? We all know the scene I'm talking about. 👀 Was I questioning the laws of physics and common sense? Absolutely. Did I still keep watching? Obviously.

At some point, you just have to suspend your disbelief and let the fiction do its thing. Thankfully, for me, this moment wasn’t enough to detract from the overall story.

The Directing/Editing
In some scenes, the choice of the cut had me questioning the skill level of the director/edit team. For the NC scenes, I’m willing to forgive as I can convince myself maybe censorship led to them making questionable choices as to how to show them. If you watch the BTS clips, you would know how much better they were and those scenes never made thee Final Cut. However, for actual scenes that had nothing to do with the NCs I was so annoyed about the continuity errors. I don’t want to be nit picky but surely the edit team could have done better….

Final Thoughts
Ash will always have a special place in my heart because it was my very first BL and honestly? What a way to enter the genre. I came into this drama expecting to watch a couple of episodes because of fun clips I saw on TikTok. Instead, I ended up spending two months looking forward to Fridays, watching reaction videos, checking out livestreams, obsessing over the characters, and developing very strong opinions about a fictional man's inability to keep his mouth shut. The emotions it evoked inside me reminded me of when I was 8 years old watching Mexican telenovelas with my mom. The cliffhangers every episode almost drove me crazy. I found myself watching episodes multiple times which is something I’ve never done for any airing shows .

So no, there will be no downscoring from me
I also desperately want to see Leo and Kingston on my screen together again, so if this drama does well enough to make that happen, I'll consider it a personal victory.

10/10 solely because of the actors and the plot.

And did I mention that I LOVE the intro song?

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As a fan of angst stories, this speaks to my soul.

The hate for this drama is so forced. For those who hated this drama u were too harsh.
Horrible FL? It's character development. Sadly, this drama didn't show much of the part where they were together in high school; they went through trauma and pain.
Cold ML? Everything happens for reasons, don't forget how charming Song Yan was before breaking up with Xu Qin.
Second chance? It's always been my favorite trope.
If u dont like these kinds of plots or characters, i guess FOMH is not for you. I personally loved this drama way too much, the conflicts were way too relatable to real life.
My Song Yan remains a good man to his family and dignity. I even rewatched episode 23 many times, i cried ugly and giggled dumbly watching them have a happy ending. My parents <8
I strongly recommend u guys listen to the OST 灯火万家 by Wang Heye!

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An Eternally Dreadful Love

At first, 58 episodes seemed perfectly reasonable. The drama introduces a huge cast—Mo Yuan and his disciples, Zhe Yan and Bai Zhen, Li Jing, Xuan Nü, Yan Zhi, Zi Lan and the different clans—and makes it seem as though all these characters will have stories of their own.

Unfortunately, most of them are barely developed after the opening arc, even though many are more intriguing than the main couple. Instead, the drama spends countless episodes repeating the same cycle: Ye Hua refuses to explain himself, Bai Qian misunderstands him, Su Jin schemes, and Ye Hua suffers or sacrifices himself. It is especially frustrating to see ancient, highly respected gods behaving with less emotional maturity and common sense than ordinary adults.

The title “Three Lives, Three Worlds” also feels misleading. Si Yin, Su Su and Bai Qian are not truly three different lives, but the same person under different names and circumstances. I expected the same souls to meet across three genuinely separate lifetimes.

The visuals are also strangely inconsistent. The physical sets, costumes and locations show that real care and money went into the production, which makes the poor CGI even more confusing. Even by 2017 standards, many of the creatures, battles, magical effects and heavenly landscapes look surprisingly artificial—sometimes more like video-game cutscenes than part of the same beautifully designed world.

I later learned that the novel begins when Bai Qian meets Ye Hua and A-Li again, revealing the past through flashbacks. That structure makes much more sense. In the drama, the audience already knows everything and simply waits for Bai Qian to catch up, turning potential mystery into endless delay.

The music, cast and fantasy world are memorable, and the opening episodes make it easy to understand why the drama became so popular. My disappointment comes from how much potential it had. There was enough material to justify 58 episodes, but instead of exploring its fascinating world and supporting characters, it reduced everything to one repetitive romance and then rushed through the ending.

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Pretty Threads, Loose Ends

Connecting to You has such a cute and genuinely interesting premise. The idea of seeing the invisible connections between people as coloured threads is probably the thing I liked most about this series. It gives the show a visual identity of its own, and I especially liked that the colours and even the way the threads change can tell us something about a relationship without the characters having to say it out loud.

And yet, the more I watched, the more I felt like the series didn't quite know what to do with its own concept.

Chia Kai's ability is fascinating, but I wanted the story to actually explore it more. Why does he have no thread connecting him to anyone when he clearly isn't as isolated as the series makes him out to be? He has his grandmother, friends and people around him, and even complicated relationships are still represented by threads. If the point was that Chia Kai was emotionally disconnected from everyone, I needed the story to show me why. Because he is actually quite open and approachable, which makes his complete lack of connections difficult to understand.

The same goes for his ability itself. He suddenly loses it, which made me think we were finally going to learn something important about where his powers come from — only for him to get them back after bumping heads with Ta Wei. That's it. Apparently all it took was a sufficiently dramatic headbutt.

The romance has a similar problem. I really liked Chia Kai and Ta Wei together, and their everyday interactions are genuinely sweet. But emotionally, I often felt like the series was skipping steps. We go from Ta Wei distrusting Chia Kai, to working and living together, to an accidental drunken kiss, to realising they have feelings for each other, and finally to discovering that they actually met as children.

All the ingredients for a meaningful romance are there. I just never felt like the emotional development had enough time to catch up with them.

I also wasn't completely convinced by the childhood connection being used to explain why their thread was so special. It's a cute idea, but because the series had spent so much time making that thread mysterious, I wanted the answer to feel more meaningful than simply finding out that they had crossed paths years ago.

Still, I can't say I didn't enjoy the show. It's warm, funny and easy to watch, and Chia Kai and Ta Wei have a lovely chemistry. The supporting cast also adds a lot of charm, and I liked that the supernatural ability wasn't just there for the romance but could actually be used in the police cases.

In the end, though, Connecting to You feels like a series with a really good idea that needed more time and a little more confidence in its own worldbuilding. I kept seeing glimpses of a much more interesting story underneath the cute romance — and I wish the show had dug a little deeper.

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All the Omegaverse Tropes, None of the Logic

No kink shaming here — I genuinely understand the appeal of the Omegaverse. A world where biology determines social hierarchy, where instinct and humanity blur, where the question of free will versus fate is built into the very rules of existence — that's a concept with real potential. After ABO Desire showed what the genre can do when it subverts its own tropes, I had hopes that Knot might go somewhere interesting.

It didn't.

The most obvious problem is Phatsa. A Pure Omega who has somehow grown up completely unaware that Alphas, Betas and Omegas even exist — in a world entirely built around that distinction. The explanation offered in episode six doesn't really help. His father knew, his mother knew, the people around them knew, and yet Phatsa somehow grows up completely clueless. Naive protagonists can work. But a Pure Omega, in a world where being one makes you incredibly valuable — and potentially a target — being this naive needs to make sense.

But my bigger issue is what the series does with its own premise.

Knot builds a world with strict biological hierarchies, bonding bites, Pure Omega bloodlines and family dynasties obsessed with producing rare offspring — and then repeatedly romanticises the consequences of that system. Nakhun bites Phatsa without consent, and suddenly they're bound together by biology. Phatsa has no real choice but to stay, because leaving means death. Yet the series treats this increasingly like a romantic bond rather than something deeply coercive.
And then we get Nakhin and Ongsa, whose storyline explicitly argues that people don't have to follow the rules of the ABO system. An Alpha doesn't have to be with an Omega. You don't have to be controlled by your instincts. You can choose who you love.

Great.

Except the main couple's entire relationship is built around the fact that one of them doesn't get to choose.
The third couple makes this contradiction even harder to ignore. Another bite, another person with no choice, and another character essentially being told to accept it as fate and adjust their perspective. At some point, the pattern becomes difficult to read as anything other than the series genuinely not seeing the problem.
And then there is the whole Pure Omega breeding obsession. Nakhun's father specifically wants a Pure Omega for his son because their child could potentially become an Enigma.
What we're describing is a family deliberately seeking out a person for the reproductive value of their biology. And the series still presents the outcome as if everyone simply made their own choices.

I'm sorry, but... what?

What saves Knot from an even lower rating is that the leads do have chemistry, and honestly, that might be the real acting achievement here, that the actors deserve some credit for playing all of this with a completely straight face.

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Surprisingly, I miss this after finishing it weeks ago so here I am

First I have to say: This is the first ever review I write here because I think it deserves to be given a chance (only if you like heavy angst tbh)
I thought this is just a bad drama at first, but I wanted to give it a chance regardless, even when I finished it and was in so much pain, but as I actually let some time past I missed it? there were definitely some scenes I loved, and there was some fresh vibes that is hard to get in other dramas, I skimmed through the nonspoilery reviews before watching and I expected it to be awful, but actually it wasn't that bad after I sat with it!?
it helps that I wasn't on online hype train before it came tho, just watched it out of curiosity and did have an emotionaly rollercoaster time with it.
I usually start republic era dramas and never finish them, that's why I still wanted to give this a try to see if I just don't like the era or there's a chance I will enjoy it, this was the first one that actually made me watch till the end.
Now onto the actual quality:
one thing I didn't see in the reviews is the talk abt action, come on the action was actually pretty good! even tho I did wonder how the hell QY was able to perfectly fight with anything despite being a doctor lol, IK he was in prison and all but anyways, the action really had good choreography for the whole drama tbh.
the music composition itself was SO GOOD, I love the OSTs of this drama, part of why I keep missing it after weeks of finishing it is the OST, both the vocalized songs and the instrumentals, I even added them to my playlists to listen regularly, however, yes there are times the editing on the drama is bad and they're not using the amazing OSTs well.
and on the characters, I think everyone can say the focus of the character writing was really qinyi, he grew well despite all the bad treatment, I think they did want to signify that bad treatment shouldn't justify a person with questionable choices or sth, bc they kept paralleling Qingyi with others over how everyone is miserable but chooses differently. Susu tho..... most of the time I'm just shouting in my head "GIRL WHY". Granted there are usually reasons but a lot of times it's just for the sake of hurting Qingyi and audience let's be fr lol
the script writing was definitely one of the weakest parts of the drama tho, yes I agree with most of the reviews, it had so much potential and they could deliver the same story and events with a better execution, I wouldn't even say the plot is bad, no the concept and plot are also part of the potential, it's mostly the execution of the story that is oscillating between decent and terrible throughout the 40 episodes.
Personally for me it was like this:
first few episodes -> too tropey... as if they literally tried to put all the sloppy fanfictions tropes of love-hate into it.
around the middle 10 or so episodes where they move actual high stake plot -> wait it actually got good!?!?
the transition between first arc and second arc (the 6 years jump) -> ....... sloppy writing.....
towards the end-> ?!?!?!?!!? WHY IS IT SUDDENLY SO TRAGIC
you could have done well with less self-sacrifice advertising please...... T_T

All in all tho, if you do like angst (and can handle miserable sad lives) this does deserve a chance.
PS: if you liked banana fish the anime despite how shitty ash's life is, you probably will like Murong Qingyi's suffering too (you probably are a masochist like me lol).

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Why Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy Represents My Childhood Dream

I know many fans hated it, and I understand their frustration, but some people did like it... (Most fans seem to be against it, but not all of them either.) Anyway, it's probably never getting a sequel, so I prefer not to hope for one. But what matters is that I loved the movie, especially because in terms of visuals, it's the most impressive one for me. And as a fan of Sword Art Online, this was the closest I could get to a live-action.

I really liked the universe, both in its seriousness and its quirkiness—the whole concept of scenarios, rewards and powers/skill level-ups mixed with divine intervention, social commentary, cosmology (the constellations) and Korean mythology/folklore (the Dokkaebis and of course the dangerous yet lovely Bihyung), the video-game-like visuals/angles, and the characters. Especially Dokja, since he was pretty emotional and relatable to me and exactly the kind of character I like. I actually teared up at some point between all the action.

There was at least something to be said about the tragedy of bullying, his reason for hating the ending, and his bond with the others at the end as they begin to rewrite the ending. I also liked what started between Dokja and Jonghyuk when they smiled to each other at the end, especially since Jonghyuk was the apathetic guy.

Will I read the manhwa? Most likely, once it's over. And the anime as well. But I don't think I would hate this movie, though I'm curious to know what I'll think.

Also, hot take, I guess, but I saw what the characters look like in both the novel and the manhwa, and I'm not really sure what's wrong with the casting choices because they seem pretty fitting to me. And as for differences like using guns, I love snipers, so yeah. (The only other character who used guns was Jonghyuk because he could swap between weapons.) I mostly played gun characters in MMOs on top of other games and I like support types too (Sangah).

Whether it was a creative choice or something they did to make filming easier, who knows. This was planned as a 5-parts movie adaptation of a big novel, but I was suspicious as whether this was possible from the get-go. I also read that Jisoo is a bad actress, but that just seems like idol hate to me because she wasn't bad at all. In fact, the whole cast acted very well, including the kid. Jisoo's role was short since she appeared pretty late, yet that's exactly what made her impactful. Her storyline and the parallels between the characters of Dokja, Jihye and Hyeonseong were very enjoyable to me, as it created a strong theme of guilt, redemption and friendship.

And Dokja making Heewon's character more important was such a nice detail, I loved the scene where she had her "entrance on stage" with the Statue of Justice behind her. Then the teamwork in the final boss fight and the otherworldly scenery genuinely gave me goosebumps, I was never so excited watching a movie and I really wish I could have seen it at the cinema.

In the end, it was a chaotic, emotional, enjoyable experience. Even if the next part never happens, it was a memorable experience on its own. Of course, it would be more memorable if it were developped further as this movie had a lot of action and surely far weaker storytelling than the original that's considered a masterpiece, and massively disappointing as an adaptation for tons of people, but I wanted to share my opinion as I found beauty in it. I'd say it's an "embrace the magic" kind of movie.

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