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halfcactusPotion Witch
90-chapter webtoon about a woman who's a pharmacist by day and vigilante witch by night. A good, tight, case-centered story with het romance and equal-opportunity emotional hurt/comfort. The ML is an ex-nepo baby who's managed to eke out a living as a cop. Due to his lack of physical endurance, his duties are mostly paper-pushing are cat-feeding. He and the FL are equally competent investigators, but the FL is physically stronger, which I thought was very nice.
Interestingly enough, the first half of the story is about unpeeling the layers of the ML's family trauma while the FL remains opaque and unaffected until the last act that reveals her. I loved the little found family beats between the FL and ML, and the ML's relationships with his estranged brother and his privileged nepo baby peers.
Cons: Disappointed that the 2FL's storyline didn't really go anywhere outside of being a plot device. She's seen at the beginning as being unhappy with her family situation and abusive towards her employees, but nothing comes out of that?
Meg Cabot, "No Offense"
This was a Valentine's Day read: librarian x sheriff romance with small-town mystery/case elements that felt far too short for either storyline to land. The apology pies were pretty cute, though.
Unveil: Jadewind ep1
Only saw ep 1, which was was an hour long..... I like how the FL is written like a ML? She fills some sort of leadership role as a palace-appointed investigator and is good at martial arts. The ML is a physically weak astronomer who can deduce information with math which can be really funny if the drama leaned more on humor. Didn't continue bc ep1 didn't really grab me, which is normal with cdrama but I just have too little patience these days to give 30-episode shows a chance.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya (2026)
Surprisingly, not bait!!! The yuri was real!!! The characters not so much. Iroha's character actually felt like the ML in a 90s/2000s anime... The concept of a tired student who brings home a manic pixie dream robot that proceeds to follow her around at school... The trajectory of their relationship... I really wish they'd done better in developing her arc. I was so invested in her family backstory but it doesn't feel like the movie particularly cares about the characters as people. I did like the sibling relationship even though the relationship progress never translates into action when it matters.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
I totally need to rewatch this bc I wasn't looking at the screen the first time and only started paying attention to ep4 (a really good episode) and missed so many fun visual details. I didn't read the original novella(s?) so I don’t have much to say about the show except that the performances were interesting—especially among the older Targaryens, they had such flavorful interactions and I could actually recognize them by the energy they brought in (I kept forgetting who everyone else was). And the music was great… AND it was nice to see texture again after years of living on cmedia lol
90-chapter webtoon about a woman who's a pharmacist by day and vigilante witch by night. A good, tight, case-centered story with het romance and equal-opportunity emotional hurt/comfort. The ML is an ex-nepo baby who's managed to eke out a living as a cop. Due to his lack of physical endurance, his duties are mostly paper-pushing are cat-feeding. He and the FL are equally competent investigators, but the FL is physically stronger, which I thought was very nice.
Interestingly enough, the first half of the story is about unpeeling the layers of the ML's family trauma while the FL remains opaque and unaffected until the last act that reveals her. I loved the little found family beats between the FL and ML, and the ML's relationships with his estranged brother and his privileged nepo baby peers.
Cons: Disappointed that the 2FL's storyline didn't really go anywhere outside of being a plot device. She's seen at the beginning as being unhappy with her family situation and abusive towards her employees, but nothing comes out of that?
Meg Cabot, "No Offense"
This was a Valentine's Day read: librarian x sheriff romance with small-town mystery/case elements that felt far too short for either storyline to land. The apology pies were pretty cute, though.
Unveil: Jadewind ep1
Only saw ep 1, which was was an hour long..... I like how the FL is written like a ML? She fills some sort of leadership role as a palace-appointed investigator and is good at martial arts. The ML is a physically weak astronomer who can deduce information with math which can be really funny if the drama leaned more on humor. Didn't continue bc ep1 didn't really grab me, which is normal with cdrama but I just have too little patience these days to give 30-episode shows a chance.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya (2026)
Surprisingly, not bait!!! The yuri was real!!! The characters not so much. Iroha's character actually felt like the ML in a 90s/2000s anime... The concept of a tired student who brings home a manic pixie dream robot that proceeds to follow her around at school... The trajectory of their relationship... I really wish they'd done better in developing her arc. I was so invested in her family backstory but it doesn't feel like the movie particularly cares about the characters as people. I did like the sibling relationship even though the relationship progress never translates into action when it matters.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
I totally need to rewatch this bc I wasn't looking at the screen the first time and only started paying attention to ep4 (a really good episode) and missed so many fun visual details. I didn't read the original novella(s?) so I don’t have much to say about the show except that the performances were interesting—especially among the older Targaryens, they had such flavorful interactions and I could actually recognize them by the energy they brought in (I kept forgetting who everyone else was). And the music was great… AND it was nice to see texture again after years of living on cmedia lol
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