Recently Finished Drama – #CrossFire

I am sad that this drama doesn’t have official English subs (I watched with horrible subs😭). I didn’t expect this show to be so good, so addicting, so captivating. I went in to get a glimpse of my new bb, Leo Wu 😍, but I ended up staying for the entire 36 episodes and enjoyed the roller coaster ride of emotions I didn’t think Cross Fire would deliver.

Cross Fire is an esports drama that has fantasy element in it that showed us what esports were like during its beginnings (2008) and how much it advanced in the present (2019-2020). It remains a niche industry and still is tough to make a career out of it and that’s how the drama takes us on a ride – go through whatever these characters went through as they chose to be professional gamers.

Esports drama is a new genre for me. #GoGoSquid briefly touched it but many of its esports scenes did not pass censorship and were eventually cut. I warmed up to the video game concept over time. Even if e-sports is not a genre I understand well, Cross Fire has the common themes of camaraderie, teamwork, perseverance, romance, and character growth. There are minor scenes that were suspension of disbelief, but most of the time my heart would feel so proud at the characters’ progress throughout the series. I love the squads that formed! They were not perfect individuals. The squads went through highs and lows of breaking up and making up. But end of the day, they are one team with one goal and one dream.

I will miss you so much 2008 and 2019 squads! Thank you for such a heartwarming show. When you won, I cheered and cried with you. When you lost, my heart broke into pieces with you.

Hopefully Leo Wu would star in another drama I would be interested to see *cough* modern romcom *cough* He’s soo beautiful!! 🤤🤤 And such a great actor! He cries and my heart cries with him! Fun Fact – to anyone who has seen #NirvanaInFire, he was bb Fei Liu!

Tagging – Thank you Haru! @harunomasu for constantly tagging me and spazzing to me about how great Cross Fire was and that made me eager to start it! And @horangi – my spazzmate throughout the show as Haru became busy with work! I love you both! 😘

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    It’s my pleasure to spazz about the drama with you too, Fam <3

    When I first watched it, I'm not sure about the quality too and how good it will be. But we end up getting so obssessed that we do many crazy things because of this drama XD

    Example exhibit A:
    Certain person decided to give up sleep and binge-watch from episode 27-36, even though eps30-36 at that time have no subs. So that certain person understand nothing, and yet still cried, lacking sleep, and ended up getting sick

    Example exhibit B:
    Certain person didn't get access to sub and ended up becoming a bot to translate the subs manually via Google Translate, and have to cope with bad translation

    Example exhibit C:
    Three people now on a withdrawal after the drama ended XD

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      😂😂😂😂😂 Oh my, Haru! The things we did for Cross Fire. Love knows no limit! Those exhibits were indeed on the extreme end of the spectrum of obsession and loving! 😂😂😂😂

      Hopefully Cross Fire would have official subs released soon. It’s a pity that it’s underrated internationally😭😭😭😭😭

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        IKR. The crazy things we do for this drama XD

        Somehow, I think it’s better Cross Fire is not that big internationally. I like that Cross Fire is doing good nationally and yet not too big to attract crazy fans

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    I forgot to add this gif!!!! One of my most favourite squad winning moment. Leo’s such a great actor!😭

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    he has his drama with dilraba about to come out

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    I guess now it’s done, I can start watching. 😀
    I did not really read through your post just to save me from spoilers or high expectation. 😀
    Regardless of which drama, so glad to hear a fellow drama fan found a great drama that become a favorite.

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      Hope you`ll enjoy the ride as much as we did, Bogo!!!😆😆

      Yes, spazzing together is always a great thing! I`m glad to have found you all beanies to spazz dramas with!🥰

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    For e-sports Chinese dramas, I’ve heard that Yang Yang’s “The King’s Avatar” is pretty good, too, but I have not watched it myself yet 😉

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      I heard it was good too though. I`ll see when I can check it out.

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      King’s Avatar is also very good, but I must admit that I don’t invest as much feeling as I did with Cross Fire. I kinda like Ye Xiu but he’s not my fave (despite him being the main character). King’s Avatar has no romance though, but the friendship theme is really strong. Some of the characters are lacking in depth and some of them are simply just bad for the sake of being bad. It’s understandable since it comes from a 1700+ chapters novel. Ye Xiu is your all-around amazing guy who can do anything in Glory (the game) world. Your usual Gary Stu

      Overall, King’s Avatar is really good. I hope you like some of my fave characters from there when you watch them 🙂

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    Not about the show but…
    Can you teach me how you put the text in-between the pictures?😅

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    Fei Liu grew up so well! 😍

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    I’m so glad I watched this show!! Thanks to @harunomasu for spazzing about it and getting me interested. I was hesitant about the esport subject but I have a thing for time travel shows and while this isn’t true time travel, it does have communication across timelines (a la Signal). The acting and chemistry is great and the plot stays engaging throughout most of the show. It gives me the feeling of a sports anime. If you are into this genre you will no doubt love this show. And if you are not, the show covers themes of youth, passion, dream pursuing, friendship, and teamwork – things we can all relate to or reminisce about. Unless the remaining 4 months of 2020 brings a surprise, I think this will be my favorite drama of the year.

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      You’re welcome! I’m so glad that it got you interested to watch it 🙂 Sorry for all the nonsensical rambling and spazzing that I do in the beginning m__m

      Very happy to know that you like the drama. All the feels and the pain we go through is definitely worth it! XD

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        Never, never apologize for spazzing!!! Even when I don’t watch the drama it’s fun to read what you feel about it.

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        Lol Gigi is right Haru. Never apologize for spazzing! You know how pretty much the content of my 100K posts are spazzing right? 🤣🤣🤣 There would be nothing left of me to say if spazzing is banned 😅

        Anywaysss group watching and spazzing with beanies is always fun. Especially if the show is super fun and engaging. The feels are all over 😭😭😭

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      I still think about Cross Fire to this day 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 too many feels this show brought for an esports drama.

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        I still can’t move on Fam T.T
        No shows I’m watching is good enough. It’s hard T.T

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    baby FeiLiu lost his baby cheeks 🥺, he has grown up so much ^^’
    will wait for subs to be out to watch it (or in 2021 since I already have so many things to do/watch ^^’)
    thanks for your posts about it 🙂

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      Auuuugh that’s one of the reasons I didn’t live spazz it here on db, Kudo. Cuz the subs are horrible 😭😭😭 The first two episodes have finally decent subs now on YT, but they haven’t posted anything passed that.

      But yessss Leo grew up well 🤩 He’s so beautiful! That first gift 🤤🤤🤤🤤

      Lol. My list are growing too! Cdramas come out every day 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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