dangermousie | Arang and the Magistrate

Short version - I like it. I am not obsessed about it the way I am about Faith (heroic fantasy is more my thing than dark fairy tales) but it's very very good and I want to watch more and I am already attached to the characters. It doesn't hurt that LJK and SMA have amazing chemistry. I can't wait to see how he will start to care for her (and for the world in general - seemingly his mother's loss made him shut off caring or deep feeling but her connection to his mother seems to snap him out of it). And visually, it is gorgeous. It really does remind me of a fairy tale (in both feel and set-up and situations - the identity-seeking ghost, magistrate for a night, curses of full moon etc. It feels like a very well developed world with its own mythology) - only darker, more haunting, more beautiful, more grown up - the way fairy tales feel when you are a child. Rememeber when I said Faith was like a wuxia/fantasy cdrama? Well, that's nothing in comparison with Arang. Arang is truly a fantasy cdrama, even if in Korean. I feel like I'll see Hu Ge and Ariel Lin at any moment.