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I think it will be quite hard for any "powerful ageless being falls for plucky mortal" kdrama to ever eclipse Hotel del Luna in my heart, but Tale of the Nine-Tailed is a perfectly enjoyable and fun expression of the form if powerful ageless beings falling for plucky mortals is the trope you're here for.

If, on the other hand, the trope you're here for is "semidivine being has complex relationship with chaotic neutral-to-evil younger brother whom he loves but wishes would stop acting out his abandonment issues via elaborate vengeance plots," Tale of the Nine-Tailed is a fantastic example of the form. I'm so angry this show made me care deeply about a murderous eternal enfant terrible who has spent six hundred years acting out over the tragic death of his puppy!

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