![]() ![]() Don’t get me wrong, it’s mostly about them, but you also have a whole host of supporting characters with their own back stories, motivations, and goals. Sometimes she can be a bit of a doormat, but she is set on working hard and climbing the ladder legitimately.īut it’s not just the story of Ji Xiang Kong and Qiu Ying. She struggles a lot but is very determined, and it’s really inspiring watching her chase her dream. Though she starts the show not understanding much about the game, she eventually discovers her love for commentating and sets her sights on being a professional commentator. What makes Gank Your Heart so great is that it’s more than just a romance drama where the woman supports the man during his career. ![]() They’re also both extremely supportive of each other’s dreams. They have contrasting attitudes when it comes to dealing with the harassment they face – both online and from others in the industry – and they make quite a formidable pair when they’re together. Both Ji Xiang Kong and Qiu Ying are forced into a few different professional situations, and I love seeing how they adapt to their new environments. One of the things that made the show so interesting, aside from the premise, was the character dynamics. I’m not all that familiar with competitive gaming, so I’m not sure how accurate the portrayal is, but the tournament scenes are actually really exciting, considering you’re just watching people play video games. It was a non-stop ride from start to finish and it was often extremely hard to stop for the night to go to sleep. As soon as you think they’ve solved one problem, another one pops up, either in the form of a new professional rival or an unexpected love interest. There is a lot going on in this show, from internal power plays to family drama to multiple romances to underdogs fighting against the system. In fact, I’ve already rewatched all 35 episodes and it was even better the second time. The “happily ever after” is implicit here, it’s hard-won. At least in a lot of American media, the couple just getting together is the endgame and you never get to see the relationship itself. Ji Xiang Kong and Qiu Ying have a nice slow burn of a relationship, starting out as enemies, moving to friends, and then finally to more.īut their issues don’t stop once they get together and we get to see them handle things as a couple, which is nice. I mentioned in my review for Super Star Academy that is often difficult for me to get into canon (heterosexual) couples, because I feel that the development usually isn’t there. You can hardly fault Qiu Ying for gazing at him adoringly. But as things escalate outside of their control, they become friends, allies, and eventually more, and their romance is extremely sweet to watch unfold. Their relationship involves a lot of back and forth, with both sides refusing to give ground even as they both deal with professional rivals – his in the form of a vindictive manager trying to force him from the team and hers in the form of a jealous coworker out to sabotage her career. In doing so, she runs afoul of Ji Xiang Kong, who sees right through her methods and decides to mess with her. Qiu Ying has only recently been transferred to esports and knows nothing about iConquer, so when she is sent to cover the international championship, she resorts to slightly underhanded means in order to secure the coverage that her boss is demanding of her. Our two lead characters for this story are Ji Xiang Kong (Wang Yibo), a professional iConquer player, and Qiu Ying, a streamer who works for an esports website. ![]() It’s centered around the China league for iConquer, a fictional, multi-player fantasy game similar to World of Warcraft. This show, however, focuses around gaming and other online industries. My previous three binges – The Untamed, Oh! My Emperor, and Super Star Academy – were all fantasy shows ( xianxia and wuxia) with a focus on supernatural abilities and martial arts. Gank Your Heart is the first realistic C-drama that I’ve watched so far. I’d heard very good things about Gank Your Heart just in the scant few weeks that I’ve been dipping my toes into The Untamed fandom, and I decided it was finally time to check it out. Instead of watching a Xiao Zhan vehicle, I settled on a Wang Yibo one. ![]() I’m continuing my spiral into Chinese dramas, but this time I’ve done a bit of a pivot. ![]()
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