Kaleidoscope Universe

Ruler: Master of the Mask

To start, I have to say that Ruler, had been one of the recent sageuk series that I’ve enjoyed very much. It’s been a while actually since I’ve been able to enjoy a sageuk series at least since Love in the Moonlight. But then again LitM don’t really focused too much on the politics and light enough to enjoy so that’s that. And LitM was pretty to look at so there’s another point.

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When talking about the plot of Ruler, one would have certainly talk about its many characters... no? And to be honest, since I've read many opinions on what they think the series's story was about... I have to say the Ruler's story was not just about Seon, or some says it's Yiseon, or Hwagun, or Gaeun or Daemok. The Ruler's story was actually as it is. It's the story about what it is to become a Ruler. But we'll get back to that last point later.

Crown Prince Lee Seon

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Yiseon/Lee Seon the fake King

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Han Gaeun & Kim Hwagun

I'm combining both of them since there's already a post on them that already covered enough of them so I don't think there's much left that I could add to it. To be honest, I don't think either of the two girls are lacking compared to each other.

Title: Retribution
Series: 군주-가면의 주인 | Ruler - Master of the Mask
Characters: Kim Hwagun, mentions of Crown Prince Lee Seon, Daemok
Summary: Hwagun has had enough. She would hesitate no longer.

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Title: Families
Series: 힘쎈여자 도봉순/Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Characters: Ahn Dongsuk, Ahn Cheoldo, mentions of Ahn Minhyuk
Summary: Bloodties is not something you could easily cut off, after all....

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Title: Throne
Series: 화랑/Hwarang - The Poet Warrior Youth
Characters: Mumyeong/Kim Seonu, Yeowool, Park Banryu, Seok Dansae, mentions of Sammaekjong/Kim Jidwi
Summary: The fight for the throne of Silla turned out not to be as simple as he thought it would be.

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Title: Throne
Series: 화랑/Hwarang - The Poet Warrior Youth
Characters: Mumyeong/Kim Seonu, Yeowool, Park Banryu, Seok Dansae, mentions of Sammaekjong/Kim Jidwi
Summary: The fight for the throne of Silla turned out not to be as simple as he thought it would be.

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Title: Throne
Series: 화랑/Hwarang - The Poet Warrior Youth
Characters: Sammaekjong/Kim Jidwi, Mumyeong/Kim Seonu, Kim Wehwa
Summary: The fight for the throne of Silla turned out not to be as simple as he thought it would be.

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MOZU: Mozu no Sakebu Yoru, Maboroshi no Tsubasa

Writing this, partially due to a certain post on MDL on what the person stated as the series being a 'disappointment'. To be honest, until now I'm a it bemused at how people would immediately call a series being a disappontment once the ending did not meet their expectations. I saw it before when someone was talking about Triangle, and I saw it now on this short season. Frankly, I feel that the MOZU series were done well. And saying that the screenwriter do bad in setting the pace of the plot would be called a disservice to them.

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MOZU: The Movie

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Cos I need to post this somewhere...

Revisiting the Kindaichi drama franchise.... I have to say that I do still have some preferences. And not so surprisingly, it doesn't change much. And one can basically sum it all based on the 'era' of the series. Like my fav Kindachi is in this order (most fav to least): Domoto Tsuyoshi > Yamada Ryosuke > Matsumoto Jun > Kamenashi Kazuya. That said, each series had its good parts and not so great.

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Title: Interesting
Chapter Title: Different
Series: ガリレオ/Galileo
Characters: Utsumi Kaoru, Yukawa Manabu
Summary: Something seemed off today...

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Title: Interesting
Chapter Title: First Morning
Series: ガリレオ/Galileo
Characters: Utsumi Kaoru, Yukawa Manabu
Summary: It's not as if she had any image of how her first night or morning would come to be...
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