#Chinese Drama - 2019

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The Untamed | S01E22

Chinese Drama - 2019, 50 episodes

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Cdrama: The Untamed (2019)

Oh na na na

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ap8w26rPTBE

[sapphired17]

Put Your Head on My Shoulder: A Review

After falling into C-drama slumps for a few months, I recently picked up an anticipated title and recommenced my journey with My Girlfriend is an Alien Season 2 (2022). I also wrote a review on the first season of My Girlfriend is an Alien (2019), which I quite loved as well. Looking back, I don’t think I have appreciated this series enough. Put Your Head on My Shoulder (2019) was one of the…

[ohmyitsfaith]

Fics about dramas masterlist

I can’t trust the fall  —Written with @ttheweirdguypp​

A story about two rivals, who through their years of high school realize that there’s more to the other than what they originally thought. In other words they fall in love ​

Happiness Actually  —Written with @ttheweirdguypp​

Inspired by Love Actually, Happiness Actually follows the lives of six high school couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic year of high school, in China.  —Finished book

Guardian bingo 2023

A collection of stories and other art about the famous chinese drama, Guardian  —Ongoing series

The Mystery of the Ancient Blade

An adventure that includes a mystery, scruffy detective, an ancient being, an ex-tomb raider, their friends, and of course lots of chaos —Ongoing series

Dearest, you said

A series of stories from the lives of Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan and Wu Xie.  —Ongoing series

The effects of the love potion —Written with @dual-domination, @meluci-fer, @sagittariusdarkarrow, @victorian-pirate​

What started as a joke, became a fic. It has everything you may need: Weilanxie, enemies to lovers, Robin Hood AU, knights, regents and thieves, a mission and of course the ominous love potion.

About promised, planned and pressed kisses of prom night —Written with @ttheweirdguypp​

A story about how Win wanted to kiss his boyfriend all night, but was always interrupted

About promises and proposals  —Written with @ttheweirdguypp​

A story about how Sound teased his boyfriend which ended up causing Win to propose​

More stories: Main Masterlist

[thedramagarden]

Prince Of Tennis (2019) | Chinese Drama

[lifewithaview]

Andrew Koji in Warrior (2019) The Itchy Onion

San Francisco, 1878. Ah Sahm, a newly arrived Chinese immigrant with serious fighting skills, is introduced to Chinatown's most ruthless tong, the Hop Wei, by Chao, a fixer. After impressing Young Jun, son of tong leader Father Jun, Ah Sahm is branded and taken to a brothel, where he befriends Ah Toy, a courtesan with connections. Later, in search of a woman who left China two years earlier, Ah Sahm crosses paths with Mai Ling and Li Yong, followers of the rival tong leader Long Zii, who is trying to avoid an opium war with the Hop Wei, a war that Walter Buckley, deputy to San Francisco Mayor Samuel Blake, actively promotes. Meanwhile, after two Chinese laborers are killed by white thugs, police sergeant "Big Bill" O'Hara is tasked with creating a Chinatown squad. Enlisting southern-born cop Richard Henry Lee, Bill soon finds that the hostility between the Chinese and white dock workers, whose unofficial leader is Irish tough Dylan Leary, is unlikely to end anytime soon.

[i-remember-yyou]

[limecello]

Team TBR Challenge Review/Rant: The Legend of Hao Lan

​(This is the synopsis from Wiki) Betrayed by her family and her first love, Li Haolan finds herself in desperate circumstances. Her father, State Censor Li He, arranges marriage between her and the far-older Yu Ping, who treats his other wives brutally. When she tries to circumvent this fate by begging her first love, Prince Jiao, to marry her, Li Haolan’s stepmother, Gao Min, orders her killed…

[squeakygeeky]

Calling all BL academics! You should check out Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific Issue 49, June 2023. It's devoted to Thai BL and it's Thai scholars, publishing in English, and available free. So basically everything I ever wanted.

Thai Boys Love (BL)/Y(aoi) in Literary and Media Industries: Political and Transnational Practices - This is the introductory article. One interesting takeaway is that there's a market for western M/M romance in Thailand and I'm dying to know what sort of titles have gotten Thai releases.

Chinese Historical BL by Thai Writers: The Thai BL Polysystem in the Age of Media Convergence - I didn't read this one. It's about the phenomenon of Thai writers writing danmei set in ancient China.

Authorial Revisions of Boys Love/Y Novels: The Dialogue between Activism and the Literary Industry in Thailand - This one was super intersting. It was about how the backlash to certain problematic tropes affected both revisions to Y novels and their tv adaptations. It uses Jittirain as a case study and includes passages from 2gether that were rewritten.

Boys Love (Yaoi) Fandom and Political Activism in Thailand - This article has a lot about Not Me, both about the backlash to the novle due to it being originally a GOT7 fanfic (allegedly) and the political context for the series. It also discusses a few other series related to the youth movement and marriage equality.

Heterosexual Reading vs. Queering Thai Boys' Love Dramas among Chinese and Filipino Audiences -This really only covers up to 2019 and as we all know everything is changing fast. I'll be interested in future scholarship that covers the current period. Basically expands on some of Baudinette's work.

Provincialising Thai Boys Love: Queer Desire and the Aesthetics of Rural Cosmopolitanism -I just skimmed this since I'm not familiar with either series mentioned or the rural culture of Isan.

[rivalsforlife]

Ace Attorney 456 Tokyo Game Show Information Masterpost

Since I haven't seen all the information collected in one place, this post SHOULD be a comprehensive review of everything revealed today - though please let me know if I missed anything important.

New Trailer and Release Date

We got a new trailer for the 456 collection, which covers (most of) what I'm going to say in this post, and a release date of January 25, 2024!

New Features

Language Support: These games are now available in seven languages: Japanese, English, French, German, Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese, along with voice dubs for each of these. These are some of the first times some of the games (in particular 5 and 6) are officially translated to many of these languages.

DLC: The previously DLC-exclusive cases Turnabout Reclaimed and Turnabout Time Traveler will be added to the game for free, along with previously DLC-exclusive costumes. You can dress up Phoenix in the Tigre outfit from the beginning!

QOL: As well, any of the quality of life features from the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles have been added to the 456 collection. This includes an episode/chapter select unlocked from the start, so you can skip straight to your favorite sections, autoplay and story mode, and a backlog/history to review recent text.

Art Gallery: The game will also include an "art gallery" which includes concept art for the games. This will also include special artworks commissioned exclusively for this collection, some of which are unlocked after beating each game and unlocking each trilogy.

Orchestra Hall: There is also an "orchestra hall" where you can listen to what seems to be the full soundtrack for all three games (though I haven't verified this), along with orchestral tracks from the 15th anniversary and 2019 orchestra concerts.

There are also two new "trilogy exclusive" songs: "Apollo Justice - A New Era Begins! 2024", and "Trucy's Theme - Bring It In, Everyone". The new "a new era begins" remix might possibly be what they're playing in the trailer. "Bring It In, Everyone" is distinct from Trucy's main theme, "Child of Magic" (listed earlier in the soundtrack list), so I have no idea what that one will be like.

Animation Studio: This new feature allows you to play around with character models, setting up different backgrounds and sprites and settings, to create whatever scene you want. This doesn't seem to have a text feature, so it just seems kind of like a worse objection.lol but with 3D sprites. (Although I'm sure the objection.lol people will find a way to rip the models in like... five minutes of the game's release)

Preorder Information

It seems we overseas people will only have the collection available digitally, but Japan seems to have physical copies along with a lot of preorder bonuses! You can find the official page here.

This includes the following:

Game Software: You can order this standalone, or with the other preorder goods, or seemingly just the goods on their own without the software included.

Original Drama CDs: Two new drama CDs are being developed for this collection! As far as I can tell, one involves the Gavinners attempting a one-night-only revival of the band (which goes poorly...), and the second involves Taka fleeing the courtroom.

Evidence and Items Set: This includes ten pieces of evidence available from the games, along with some original illustrations. As can be seen above, this includes things like the photo of Apollo and Clay from Dual Destinies, six ID photos of major characters, and a signed poster of Klavier.

As well, a new sleeve box drawn by Takuro Fuse, the character designer for 5 and 6.

That should cover everything, but please let me know if I missed any news!

[psychic-waffles]

who is that little gay boy in ur pfp because I love him

anon i am kissing you square on the mouth

he is my most favouritest sopping wet cat Yang Ze played by Ji Chen in L.O.R.D Critical World (2019) - an absolute nonsense (affectionate) chinese fantasy series that I truly could not explain if I tried and tend to just introduce to people by watching this clip cos that pretty much sets the tone

He's Hot! He's Gay! He's Traumatised!

He's a prince in hiding leading a rebel organisation and trying to avenge the deaths of his parents and save his country (which sometimes puts him at odds with the main character he's in love friends with) and he's handling all of that responsibility and conflict of interest Really Well™

he's pretty much always having the absolute worst time and spends a full half of the scenes he's in tearing up or full blown sobbing his eyes out

literally the only times he's happy is when he's with his boyfriend bestie who he swears brotherhood with whilst naked in a pool which they broke into and then nearly get caught in

also when his boyfriend bestie asks him to buy him dinner he responds by doing this - normal heterosexual behaviour

also he's just straight up beautiful and the only man in this drama who didn't have to wear a wig

he is fully the most compelling character in the show and I promise i'm not just saying that cos i'm biased

in conclusion, i love him

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The Untamed | S01E13

Chinese Drama - 2019, 50 episodes

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Cdrama: The Untamed (2019)

😻 kadhal sonna kaname 💞#theuntamed tamil edit #yizhan #wangxian #wangyibo #xiaozhan #cdrama #shorts

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VwnIEt9PJ9s

[maria-taiwin]

I'm seeing people denying the actual importance and good quality and merits The Untamed had just for their personal issues.

Folks, you can have your personal tastes, you can repeat the usual discourse novel vs drama all over again, but it's really dumb and blind denying the actual facts: how this drama even after 4 years is still a major hit in cn charts, it won a lot of awards in mailand - many of the most important critics' awards - its popularity count billion views, millions got literally obsessed, not just normal liking, and started a community of content creators. A chinese artist managed to get her paintings based on The Untamed to a museum exhibition in the homeland. Two chinese olympians skaters did their program at China Gran Prix of Figure Skating with The Untamed soundtrack in 2019.

Many international people discovered the danmei genre or cdramas in general thanks to it and approached into this large world after seeing and loving it. Finally this genre got the big deserved attention and not anymore underrated. Thanks to The Untamed's popularity, the english amateur translation of Scum Villain, first in hiatus, then restarted and finally finished. Tencent ordered 2HA's live action right on the crest of The Untamed's popularity. And so on.

The impact that The Untamed had and still has, in Asia and beyond, is truly big and unparalleled. There's no doubt this drama has a special place in many fans' heart and even changed our lives for how much it had rearranged our brains.

Seeing people having trouble admitting these actual facts, attempting to deny it (I've read the crazy opinion that The Untamed is loved mostly by westerns in order to miscredit his true chinese heritage and uh my god???) and spreading fake news, misinformations and biased opinions without even watching the drama, dismissing the good stuff it had, is truly surreal and dishonest. You may not love it, it's your business, but do not pretend it's not loved or worthy of people's love and spread bullshit for simple envy over its success D:

[mirageofadesert]

Looking back on my first year as a c-drama fan!

This year I fell - first down a flight of stairs - and then (because I couldn't walk properly for a few weeks) down a rabbit hole of cdramas!

In total, I have watched 28 dramas since May. I actually finished 17 of them. I re-watched 8 of them at least once. My most rewatched show is Till The End Of The Moon, followed by Love Is Sweet and The Untamed!

Shows I loved

Till The End of The Moon: This drama triggered my hyperfixation, and I still love it so much. Tantai Jin became my new obsession.

Love is Sweet: This one surprised me because I don't usually care for romantic dramas. It made me more open to different genres.

The Untamed: I watched this for the first time in 2019, and now I can appreciate it even more.

The Sleuth of Ming Dynasties: It took me several tries to get into the drama because the political setting was too complicated. I'm glad I didn't give up. Wang Zhi became one of my favorites!

New Life Begins: I was just looking for something light in between and was quite surprised how much I liked the show.

Things I learned as a newbie:

Cdramas are an acquired taste. Sometimes it's worth going back to a drama that you initially gave up on.

To avoid spoilers, it's best to skip the intro and especially the outro.

I love my characters unhinged.

Apparently it is okay to share leaks from filming.

Never believe anything that comes from yxh accounts.

Shippers are toxic in any fandom.

C-drama fans are a bit older than K-pop fans, but they can be just as unhinged and have trouble distinguishing between how to treat actors and the fictional characters they play.

My ADHD is better regulated when I watch shows in a foreign language while reading the subtitles. I don't get bored watching TV, which is rare!

Shows I dropped, and what I learned from it:

Hidden Love: I still don't like romances that have no significant plot beyond the relationship. Especially if I don't care about the characters at all.

Back from the Brink: Sometimes dramas that start well become an unwatchable, rage-inducing mess halfway through, and it's not worth sticking it out to the end.

Beauty of Resilience: I'm a character-driven audience. If the characters aren't compelling and the story isn't interesting, I don't care about the show.

Ashes of Love: I hate childish FL with baby voices and naive personalities. I need better written female characters. I'm on my 3rd attempt to watch this show and I only have a handful of episodes left, so I'll actually make it to the end (eventually).

I've dropped a lot more shows and actually watched some to the end that I didn't like very much in the end, but those are the ones I learned the most from.

What will stay with me:

Tantai Jin: I'm still obsessed with this character. He is everything I need in a fictional character.

Luo Yunxi: This will come as no surprise to anyone who follows me, but my obsession with TTJ soon extended to Luo Yunxi.

Bai Lu & Sun Zhenni: While I appreciate both of them as actors, it's their fun and uninhibited personalities that made me fall in love with them!!

Costumes: I adore the detailed costumes and hanfu styles, and do prefer costume dramas to modern ones.

Food & drinks: I'm now looking into more Chinese foot now and how to cook vegetables in more interesting ways. I also bought "moon cake stamps"... so wish me luck!

New online acquaintances: I have made some new friends online who I can fangirl with to my heart's content!

What I'm looking forward to in 2024:

I'm really looking forward to Luo Yunxi's upcoming dramas, Follow You Heart, Shui Long Yin and Immortality (🤡). I'm also looking forward to Sun Zhenni's first leading role!

There are still many dramas I want to watch, but haven't found the time for. Like A Journey to Love, Goodbye, My Princess, Nirvana in Fire, Then Miles of Peach Blossoms and The Blood of Youth.

I'm not sure what else I'll post here next year. Probably more reviews and content related to my favourite actors. Let's see if something triggers my hyperfixation soon!

Happy New Year!

[vocaloidfactoftheday]

Which Vocaloids have Twitter?

as twitter slowly burns to ash, a question that may have crossed your mind is "how many vocaloids are still using twitter?"

just for fun, i've put together a list of every official vocaloid twitter account i can think of! this list includes account handles, when the account was made, the language the account promarily posts in (usually the vocaloid's native language), whether the account is still active, and any other notes i think are interesting.

these are organized by vocaloid release date, not twitter account creation date.

Hatsune Miku

Japanese account (cfm_miku) created January 2010, English account (cfm_miku_en) created February 2014

both accounts are still active

Camui Gackpo

Japanese account (GackpoOfficial) created July 2023

active

GUMI

Japanese account (GUMIfromMegpoid) created November 2016

active

SONiKA

English account (SonikaVocaloid) created July 2009

inactive since November 2012

SONiKA was the first Vocaloid to have an official Twitter account!

Lily

Japanese account (DjLily_Vocaloid) created February 2011

inactive since April 2011

there are only 20 tweets.

SeeU

SeeU doesn't have an official Twitter, but a Twitter account was made to promote and celebrate her 10th anniversary (SeeU10thAnniv)! it was made in August 2021 and posts in Korean and is still active!

Tone Rion

Japanese account (tonerion) created October 2011

inactive since August 2012

OLIVER

English account (vocaloid_oliver) created November 2011

he also has a Chinese account (Oliver__China) created in July 2021, but that account still frequently posts in English

both accounts are active

his main English account was inactive for a while, i believe between 2017 and 2020, but he's back on the net!

CUL

Japanese account (CUL1224) created June 2021

active

Bruno and Clara

Spanish/English account (V3BrunoClara) created August 2013

inactive since December 2021

they shared!

IA

this drama queen has had 4 accounts. one is IA_Official (Japanese account, created July 2019, active), another is IaWorldpage (Japanese/English account, created April 2014, inactive since August 2014), the third is the account she shared with her little sister ONE, IA_ONE_Official (apparently deleted?) and last is IA_GLOWB (English account, created July 2022, active).

these accounts are largely focused on IA as a CeVIO and Vtuber/virtual artist rather than as a Vocaloid.

Aoki Lapis/Merli

neither individual Vocaloid has a Twitter, but i-style Project, which was focused solely on them, had a Twitter account under the handle i_style_vc3. it has since been deleted.

Luo Tianyi

interestingly, Luo Tianyi has only a Japanese Twitter account (LTYjp), created in January 2018 and inactive since August 2020

none of the other Vsinger characters seem to have Twitter accounts. this is probably because Weibo, which they DO all have accounts for, is more widely used in China than Twitter. (and at this point? i'm jealous of them.)

AVANNA

English account (VocaloidAvanna) created August 2012

inactive since new year's day of 2014. her last tweet was: "Wishing everyone a wonderful 2014!"

YOHIOloid

English/Japanese account (YOHIOloid) created April 2013

inactive since September 2013

in case you didn't know, yohioloid was released on september 10, 2013. his last tweet (out of a total of 5) was made on september 15, 2013.

MAIKA

mostly English and only sometimes Spanish account (VocaloidMaika) created September 2013

inactive since October 2022

Macne Nana

Japanese account (macnenana) created June 2009

inactive since June 2020

Macne Nana was released for VOCALOID3 in 2014, so this account must have been initially made for her debut as a GarageBand and Reason plugin

anonkanon

Japanese account (Anon_Kanon) created February 2014

inactive since June 2015

flower

flower has 2 accounts! both are Japanese. the first one, v_flower_jp, was made in April 2014 and has been inactive since June 2021, except for 2 tweets in April 2022 about flower's CeVIO release. flower's second account, Ci_flower_, created for the CeVIO release, was made in March 2022 and is still active.

Tohoku Zunko

Japanese account (t_zunko) created July 2011

active

Rana

Japanese account (rana_0909) created June 2014

inactive since September 2022

Xin Hua

her Twitter account was XinHuaOfficial, but it was...suspended for violating the Twitter Rules!? what did she do?????

unity-chan! (Kohaku Otori)

Japanese account (UnityChan_PR) created December 2013

active

it should be noted that the account was made when she first debuted as Unity Japan's mascot, and this account mostly focuses on promoting the Unity engine. she hasn't posted anything about her Vocaloid release in quite a while.

Xingchen

English/Japanese/Chinese account (quad_stardust) created December 2015

active

this account mostly posts in English, though the bio is Japanese and the tweets and retweets sometimes contain Japanese or Chinese. i assume most Chinese posts, like the Vsingers, are made on Weibo instead.

Otomachi Una

Japanese account (otomachiuna) created May 2016

active

MATCHA and AZUKI

the project they were created for, Project 575, has a Japanese account (project575) created in May 2012. this was for MATCHA and AZUKI's private V2 voicebanks.

this account has basically been inactive since late 2017, but they do still diligently post happy birthday messages each year for the main Project 575 characters

LUMi

Japanese account (ava_lumi) created June 2017

inactive since June 2021

Mirai Komachi

Japanese account (miraikomachi_PR) created May 2018

active

this is kinda similar to unity-chan where Mirai Komachi, as a character, is essentially a mascot affiliated with Bandai Namco. but unlike unity-chan, she still seems to frequently acknowledge her existence as a Vocaloid.

Haruno Sora

Japanese account (harunosora17) created May 2022

active

MEIKA Hime and Mikoto

Japanese account (himemiko_jp) created June 2019

inactive since June 2021

Hime and Mikoto shared the account and would frequently sign off tweets with their respective emojis and katakana characters; Hime's was 👹 and ヒ and Mikoto's was 😈 and ミ.