reading 2ha is such a fun experience bc u start off going “wow! this is some of the most depraved shit i’ve ever read!” but u also have to force urself to read thru ur tears every twenty chapters
I think that if the final round of the shizun fuckets tournament ISN'T Mo Ran vs Luo Binghe then something is very wrong with the people voting 😂
Yeah you’re right it would honestly be a huge upset if anyone else even managed to make it that far. Hopefully it was seeded well so they match up in finals instead of semifinals. The two hydrogen bombs in a sea of coughing babies. Although I gotta say I love the additions of shizun fuckers outside of Chinese media fandoms. I hope Yuuri makes it at least a couple rounds, truly inspired submission whoever did that one. Sadly I don’t know if tortall has enough pull for Daine to get anywhere but I am Hoping. She deserves it. Daine and Numair are theeeee most narratively satisfying Tamora Pierce romance in my opinion, closely followed by Alanna’s daughter and her crow-turned-human boyfriend.
Mo Ran should win but I know he’s not going to just because 2ha has been denied a successful adaptation so far. But he fits the trope better! Tbh!!! There’s a reason why modern au bingqiu fics sometimes make Shen Yuan a TA or something but modern au ranwan writers always gotta make chu wanning mo ran’s professor or something, just for the accurate vibes.
Oh my god I just remembered that I’m pretty sure the 2ha translation is fully out now, the last volume was in December, I gotta read the whole thing ASAP now that it’s entirely available.
Justice in the Dark was so good im still so sad it got 8 episodes then shut down and never finished airing. Not only was it eons better than i thought any Silent Reading adaptation would put into it (from set design, aesthetic, music, casting, script adapting from the complex relationships to the genuinely heavy nature of the cases and character histories, the scenes, action choreography etc). It was better acting portrayals than i thought i couldve even hoped for.
Luo Wenzhou in particular was better than anything i even imagined in my mind as the ideal portrayal of him.
And Tao Ran? As a Tao Ran fan? He was exactly, exactly perfectly exactly as I imagined in my head when reading. Could not have been happier, impossible.
Fei Du? Well of course. I knew his actor was competent beforehand, unlike the other cast. And he did so well it felt immediately like the ever familiar Fei Du come home.
I wish somehow justice in the dark had what The Spirealm got, or joy of life 1, and all got released at once or leaked at once just for a day if only for a day. The rest of those episodes exist finished and polished and just can't be seen.