Amor entre Fada e Demônio (2022)

Romance Comedy with a bit of angst...

I never thought there would come a day when I would like body-switch scenes in a drama. I usually find those scenes cringe and cheesy, but it was done so well in this drama that I was practically looking forward to such scenes.

The cast carried the comedy part of the drama so well. I guess it's because both of the leads have a fun dynamic and personality in real life. In the heavy sad scenes of the drama, I was amazed by the improvement of Dylan Wang's acting. He really came a long way from his previous drama meteor garden. On the other hand, Yu Shi Xin's acting is a bit lackluster for me when it came to heavy scenes.

Overall, I truly enjoyed this drama. The visuals and the effects are insane. I wish that it didn't deteriorate at the end though. Also, I was hoping the story gets to showcase the new power acquired by the male lead more.

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Simply put, there's much to praise in 'Love Between Fairy and Devil,' and while I don't intend to reiterate what's already been said, I'd like add my own unique opinion.

To begin with, here's a spoiler-free synopsis:

The tale follows Lan Hua, an immortal fairy who inadvertently releases Dongfang Qingcang, the enigmatic leader of the moon tribe, forging an unexpected connection that binds them. Dongfang Qingcang's quest to sever this link and unleash his malevolent forces forms the crux of the storyline.

Visuals hold tremendous weight in this genre, and 'Love Between Fairy and Devil' truly excels in this aspect. The CGI, often a point of contention in xinxia dramas, is used expertly and never too much. The meticulously crafted costumes and set design further elevate the visual grandeur of the show.

Pacing, a key factor in lengthy series, is a strong suit here. The middle portion of the drama strikes an ideal rhythm, effectively propelling the narrative forward. While the initial stages might have taken a while to gain momentum and the conclusion lingered somewhat (perhaps intentionally), the middle span felt like a breeze. The side plots deserve applause for their engaging nature, intricately woven into the main storyline. Each subplot serves a purpose, ensuring that no screen time feels wasted.

While the overarching plot adheres to familiar xianxia tropes, the execution is anything but formulaic. The drama consistently subverts expectations, infusing freshness into established themes. Whenever they introduced something I thought I had seen a thousand times before, they suprised me with a different spin on it. . The climax, although it was expected that she would sacrifice herself, still had a satisfying impact

Turning to performances, my personal bias towards Yu Shuxin and Wang Hedi may be evident, but it's hard to deny their chemistry. Yu Shuxin's portrayal of the delicate yet determined Lan Hua is commendable, particularly in emotionally charged scenes. Wang Hedi, though dubbed, conveys his character's demeanor with a fitting stoicism, and his moments of emotional vulnerability are truly compelling. His expressions convey such a heartwrenching loss - it's hard not to believe him.

The show's original soundtrack deserves a special mention. Its resonance is so profound that people unacquainted with the drama know a few songs, a testament to its captivating quality.

In conclusion, 'Love Between Fairy and Devil' is a gem worthy of acclaim. While it traverses familiar territory, its unique execution, coupled with impeccable visuals, masterful pacing, and genuine performances, sets it apart. This drama, with its alluring blend of fantasy and emotion, manages to strike chords that resonate with me to this day.

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Uma das melhores séries de fantasia que já assisti!

Uma das melhores séries de fantasia que já assisti e um dos melhores dramas de todos os tempos!!!!!!
Dylan Wang e Yu ShuXin estão maravilhosos, o enredo é intrigante, no início é possível estranhar o comportamento imaturo da protagonista, mas é tudo explicado, o desenvolvimento dos personagens é fantástico, muita ação, muito romance com uma química incrível, trilha sonora perfeita, chorei litros e litros.
Os episódios passaram voando, é daquelas séries que você começa a ficar triste quando percebe que falta poucos episódios pra terminar.
Amei do início ao fim!

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Aesthetically pleasing, funny and unexpectedly emotional drama

I have a few negative things to say, and I will say them first.
✘ Regarding the male lead:
In the beginning, we get an overpowered villain male lead with deadly ancient powers. He could basically destroy entire realms and no one could stop him. He is ruthless, emotionless, and deadly. Now I'm a sucker for overpowered anti-heroes so the premise was right up my alley. I love it when shows don't just hype up someone, but also DELIVER. In this aspect, the show delivered in episode 9 (my fave episode in the entire show) and then never again. It got me sooo hyped up, but then it fell through. The hero becomes more of a hero than a villain, he becomes emotional and weak. He completely changes his cold and ruthless demeanor I loved. I am okay with having him gain emotions and falling in love as a part of his character development, but I really hated him becoming as weak as any other immortal. He gains his powers back in the very end, but we get to see nothing of it. :(((

✘ Regarding the ending:
The ending was very rushed. The angst that began with him losing his powers and the heroine dying continues up to the last few seconds of the show. The hero returns, they kiss, and the end. We see nothing more of the goddess/Orchid mix of a character. I'm still not sure how that works. We get robbed of seeing him in his overpowered state again and reuniting with his people and others. We see nothing of how others react to him coming back. We don't even get the wedding. I feel like the price we paid with all the angst and heartbreak wasn't worth the 3 seconds of HEA.

That being said... I LOVED everything else.
❥ The whole show was soooo AESTHETICALLY PLEASING, I can't stress this enough:
The cinematography was stunning. The intro and outro art was really something else, just absolutely gorgeous. I absolutely loved the costumes, especially Moon Supreme's armor. The soundtracks are amazing, especially the main theme/opening song (Cut Off Love (诀爱 Jue ai)) - I'm still listening to it now after the show ended, it gives me goosebumps and possibly PTSD to all the emotional scenes, lol.

❥ Some scenes were so EMOTIONAL, they made me cry:
The father-son scenes really opened an important theme of sacrifice. Heroine's sacrifice was gut-wrenching. And finally, the hero's sacrifice probably hit the most, because I really felt he was gonna disappear forever.

❥ The show was really FUNNY too, especially in the beginning! It had so many comic relief scenes that really made you cringe-laugh all the time.

TL;DR: get ready to laugh, cry, have PTSD from this. 10/10, worth rewatching and worth sticking with 36 episodes.

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please don’t come @ me for not giving this 10/10

I LOVED THIS DRAMA. i started watching this drama because of Yu Shuxin. oh my god i did not regret it at all. It was so interesting to watch the scenes where DFQC and Orchid switch bodies. It was very cute to watch Didi copying Xinxin’s behaviors BUT SEEING XINXIN ACTING COLD AND CALCULATING??? OH MY GOD IM IN LOVE. The sound track is also very gorgeous 10/10 i find myself relistening to it quite often. i usually don’t do cp but Didi and Xinxin’s off screen chemistry is so cute. Though my only complaint is that it got boring towards the end when Orchid got resurrected as Xiyun, the ending where they completely skipped Orchid’s journey to resurrect DFQC by using the bone orchid also felt really rushed, they should have shown something similar to when DFQC spent years taking care of Orchid before she can return to a human body again…other than that i loved every part of the plot especially DFQC’s dream of being married with Orchid for 500 years AND the subplot which Lady Chidi and Ronghao was also really entertaining. My favorite arc was when they went to the human world together and DFQC even befriend Changheng as his first friend. Sadly I don’t think I could rewatch it again as it wouldn’t feel as magical as the first time I’ve watched it but I will look forward to the day that Didi and Xinxin works together again on a drama!

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Le Démon ne pourra jamais rien contre l'Amour...

Il y a le royaume des Fées et la tribu de la Lune en guerre depuis des millénaires. le Seigneur de la Lune, le puissant démon Dong Fang Qing Cang a été scellé avec son armée depuis 30 000 ans. La fée Orchidée, tout à fait en bas de l’échelle sociale du royaume des Fées ne rêve que de gagner son immortalité, et sans trop le faire exprès elle brise le sceau qui retient Don Fang prisonnier, le liant à elle par le sceau du cœur. Et voilà notre magnifique démon obligé de suivre la petite fée insignifiante pour essayer de récupérer son armée…
Bon, mon résumé est insuffisant et bancal, mais ça n’a pas grande importance, parce que, même si je n’ai pas tout suivi dans les histoires de guerres, morts, résurrections et récupération des l’âme primitive, ce qui m’a emballé c’est la superbe histoire d’amour entre les deux personnages principaux. Je craignais au début une héroïne cucu et bêtifiante mais pas du tout, Orchidée a la vraie intelligence du cœur et son influence sera déterminante dans l’évolution de Don Fang, à qui elle va réapprendre les sentiments, les émotions, qu’on lui avait arrachées pour en faire le futur maître sans pitié de sa tribu. Autour de l’amour lumineux de Dong Fang et Orchidée s’entremêlent de sombres passions d’ambition ou de haine, ou même d’un amour désespéré qui pousse Rong Hao (un autre personnage du royaume des Fées) aux extrémités de la trahison et de la mort. C’est une histoire à la fois « de bruit et de fureur » et aussi de rédemption par le don de soi, dont la morale ultime est que le destin existe peut-être mais que le cœur peut le vaincre s’il y met suffisamment d’amour et de ténacité !
la fin m’a satisfaite, évidemment, mais j’aurais quand même aimé un petit bout d’explication…
L’OST est très belle, les décors et costumes aussi, et les Chinois (ceux du drama tout au moins !) sont fichtrement beaux (hommes et femmes, si je peux me permettre une classification archaïque et démodée… )
J’ai vraiment aimé ce drama que je me prépare à revoir incessamment sur Netflix, en srt anglais, mais au moins sans les tartines des paroles des chansons de Viki !

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Fantasy Romance with all the pretty and all the emotions but one big flaw

I was fully prepared to drop this after one episode, the overly literal title, the fact that it was Xianxia, which almost never clicks with me. I expected a messy storyline, cringey costumes and bad cgi. Well, there is some bad cgi and there are definitely cringey costumes, but a lot of the time this drama is really, really pretty to the point that you sometimes feel like you look at a painting. The costume and the scenery department went all in on this one and the results are very hit or miss and always over the top, but there is a real cohesive aesthetic, that I actually liked.

The star of this show for me is the cast. I feel like they really found the perfect person or at least a very good choice for each and every main and supportive role. Both, Esther Yu and Dylan Wang handle the numerous personality shifts of their characters really well, especially Dylan Wang impressed me. See, I think male leads are often overrated, people see a pretty boy and are like “He is such a good actor! What? Hey, his character is meant to have no emotions!” Dylan Wang not only has emotions, the stuff he is able to say with a straight face is downright impressive, and he really carries a show that is so extra sometimes that it could have gone terribly wrong. And if you start this drama and you are annoyed by another squeaky, dumb female lead, stay strong. If a female lead ever had a right to be naïve and squeaky, it is that one, and she has a good amount of growth to a point, where she does some pretty badass things.

So how is the writing? This is maybe the most surprising part of this drama. The story actually had very good pacing until the last 6 or 7 episodes. There was always something relevant and engaging happening, there was character development, even the side characters where surprisingly fleshed out, and it is one of the rare dramas that actually succeeds in building up a relationship from “I want to kill you” to greatest love of all time, with all the various stages of companionship to a love that is hard to accept but too strong to ignore. When done right this is a beautiful process that a lot of dramas still mess up, but this one does it right and I think it is worth a watch for that alone.

So why only 8 points will you ask. So, while I just praised the writing I also have to say, that there definitely are messy parts, where things don’t add up, established rules are forgotten or not mentioned again, new rules are made up out of nowhere and just a lot of general “Oh, there is this person/artefact/exception that I just remembered that can help us” to the point of: “Stuff just happens! Tadaaaa!” And while I still would have given the drama a 9, it is that last part that made it into an 8.
I already mentioned the pacing problem towards the end (which might not be a writing but an editing problem), some scenes where drawn out to the point where I had to skip ahead a few minutes, other things that were worth exploring stayed underdeveloped. There was definitely one “I will sacrifice myself for you/the world”-loop too many and I wish the story would have ended a few episodes earlier. But the gravest sin of this drama is the fact that after putting us through an amazing emotional wringer for 36 episodes, it gives us the most half-assed, rushed and anticlimactic ending of all time (see: “Stuff happens! Tadaaa!”). I don’t know what happened. Was the editing team rushed? Did they have to stop filming early? Ran out of ideas? Was the drama supposed to have another ending and they just had to scramble something together? I don’t know. All I know is that it feels awful. You know that feeling when you ride out the last waves of a drama you really enjoyed? Yeah, not here. All the love and emotion I had for a flawed but still lovely drama just hung there, unresolved.

I still think it is worth watching, especially if you like the aesthetic of the promo pics, because at the very least your eyes will get a feast. It’s a fun and engaging Fantasy Romance. Just brace yourself a little for the end.

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A história é boa, o romance é bom mas pra mim simplesmente não funcionou por ser fantasia, sim eu fui trouxa de começar só por causa do hype na dramaland e por ser o Dylan Wang como personagem principal 🤡 (eu não gosto desse nível de fantasia)

O Lord e a fada se entregavam de uma forma onde não se importam com o que iriam perder desde que conseguissem manter a relação deles.

Dylan está a coisa mais linda no papel de Dong Fang Qing Cang o lord maldoso 😍

A abertura é linda e a música é viciante.
Para os fãs de fantasia se joga porque é um prato cheio, eu particularmente não assistiria novamente pelo motivo citado no começo.

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a Common Feiry Tile Become Most Complicated Story

for the First time i tried twice to finish a Drama. Normally i drop dramas for Being Boring but i Finished this only For Dylan Wang. without him all of the Character's was Boring. and first 10 episode was Super Cool. I've watched those episodes few times at once but from episode 11 most of the episodes ware boring. story telling is too slow. from episode 21 I watched 1.5x Speed! Story is like a Fiery Tile.

a Devil fall for a Fiery and fiery Changed him. thay had a lot of Bumps. thay got over all of them together. and then thay lived happily ever after.

that's it. simple but there writing made it complicated. I was Impressed by Dylan Wang's Acting and that's why i tried twice to finish it. in other Words I've finished it only for him and his Performance.

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Que há história foi maravilhosa mas faltou alguns desfechos

a história é muito interessante, e dá umas reviravoltas que deixa a gente muito curioso eu acho isso bom pq vc fica ansioso pra ver o oque acontece com cada personagem...,mais ficou faltando um desfecho para alguns personagens, o senhor chang deveria ter ficado com a fada que lutou tanto por ele,...o dragon deveria ter casado já que essa era sua vontade...e o final ficou faltando também, pela história tão empolgante acho que o final tinha que ter mais deles 2 juntos,um filho para complementar...para ele ser diferente do pai dele...são uns detalhes que seria bom ter colocado na história

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Cheerful fairy and heartless devil

This drama have a very beautiful and touching story. I like both female lead and male lead characters here. Love conquers everything. Xiao Lanhua a plain, cheerful and good girl must bound with the heartless Dongfang Qingcang. With her love for him, she succeed make the heartless devil became a forgiving and loving devil. There's many many people say that Esther voice it's annoying and childish but I mean it's the way she portrayed Xiao Lanhua as cute, plain and cheerful girl. All the costume and CGI are both beautiful. Esther Yu and Dylan Wang both have a very good acting and it's proof when they switching personality and also they have very good chemistry. The other characters it's very good too it's not just like they're in this drama just for the side characters like another drama does.

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