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Joy of Life chinese drama review
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Joy of Life
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by xS0uth
Sep 13, 2020
46 of 46 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

Feels like an Anime showing

I'm kind of torn on how I feel about this one.

I'll spoil one sentence that was said in the show to summarize how I feel about it, and it was said by the Emperor... and he said the ML's life so far has been too easy thus far.

This is how I feel about the series overall. That one sentence can kind of summarize it too well. I felt kind of unimpressed by it since it did feel like our super smart ML just happens to know everything and have an answer to everything, guided or not... my one line summary would be: it feels like I'm watching a classic mainstream anime but in real life acted version.

Likes:
- Acting was good
- Enough interesting scenes to keep me interested, like parts making you wonder what'll happen next
- Visually not bad, but expected from a modern day series

Dislikes:
- I didn't really enjoy the theme of a return to a point back in time at the start, but I guess overall it fit into the story alright.
- Everything is way too easy for the ML and even in any points of danger or what not... he simply outspeaks the other.
- The music was not to my taste. They tried to bring music that you'd see in more "current day" type of dramas in my opinion into it and the humor that went along just wasn't to my taste either... it felt forced... like they were making some really "witty or funny" joke, but it really felt like a okay... cmon... to me. I guess I personally just prefer a more to the point and follows a main storyline more so rather than slice of life interactions.
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