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  1. For Asian Movie Night we watched "Oracle of the Dragon".

    One of those shows that the voices were added after it was filmed. Also, the subtitles were likely compiled with AI and some of it just didn't work out.

    I would give it a miss.

    #cdrama

    themoviedb.org/movie/1731443

  2. For Asian Movie Night we watched "Oracle of the Dragon".

    One of those shows that the voices were added after it was filmed. Also, the subtitles were likely compiled with AI and some of it just didn't work out.

    I would give it a miss.

    #cdrama

    themoviedb.org/movie/1731443

  3. Anyone watching #cdrama Blossoms of Power?

    Am I imagining it or is it an update/mashup of Scarlet Heart with The Double?

    Super tough princess gets reborn, assumes new identity and chance for revenge plus has to choose to marry one of five princes. Jeremy Tsu is one. Vengo Gao is a guest star.

    Former Univ of Victoria architecture grad & dishy shirtless ML He Yu is actually pretty good as the sickly Crown Prince.

  4. Anyone watching #cdrama Blossoms of Power?

    Am I imagining it or is it an update/mashup of Scarlet Heart with The Double?

    Super tough princess gets reborn, assumes new identity and chance for revenge plus has to choose to marry one of five princes. Jeremy Tsu is one. Vengo Gao is a guest star.

    Former Univ of Victoria architecture grad & dishy shirtless ML He Yu is actually pretty good as the sickly Crown Prince.

  5. LuLei is such an interesting youtuber.

    Based in a village in Fujian, he demonstrates traditional southern chinese crafts, wordlessly. Often following Ming dynasty tracts. You just watch in amazement.

    This 22-minute one shows the six months it took to make a traditional mileage drum.

    #cdrama #china

    youtube.com/watch?v=UIMWDh73bi

  6. LuLei is such an interesting youtuber.

    Based in a village in Fujian, he demonstrates traditional southern chinese crafts, wordlessly. Often following Ming dynasty tracts. You just watch in amazement.

    This 22-minute one shows the six months it took to make a traditional mileage drum.

    #cdrama #china

    youtube.com/watch?v=UIMWDh73bi

  7. I finished the #cdrama #lighttothenight. I enjoyed it despite the darkness it explores. It’s not for everyone but if you want an adult themed storyline that raises a lot of questions you may enjoy it.

  8. I finished the #cdrama #lighttothenight. I enjoyed it despite the darkness it explores. It’s not for everyone but if you want an adult themed storyline that raises a lot of questions you may enjoy it.

  9. The fights of this movie! They managed to both make them exagerated and fun, _and_ unusually realistic. The way the characters jump in and out of the fight, what they do when they fight, and how they react to their opponent is totally believable for four nobodies (though Toad is positioning his hands right here). Sometimes I really, really wish I could show you a clip instead of a still!

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #FightChoreography #donghua #CDrama

  10. “When Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s funerary army was excavated outside Xi’an from 1974 onwards, the terracotta figures emerged from their burial pits in vivid polychrome and then, almost immediately, began to lose their colour.

    The pigments on the armour, trousers and faces were laid over a thin lacquer ground that had survived two millennia underground at constant humidity but began to flake within hours of exposure to dry #Shaanxi air.”
    #china #cdrama #archeology

    storiedcolors.com/color/han-pu

  11. “When Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s funerary army was excavated outside Xi’an from 1974 onwards, the terracotta figures emerged from their burial pits in vivid polychrome and then, almost immediately, began to lose their colour.

    The pigments on the armour, trousers and faces were laid over a thin lacquer ground that had survived two millennia underground at constant humidity but began to flake within hours of exposure to dry #Shaanxi air.”
    #china #cdrama #archeology

    storiedcolors.com/color/han-pu

  12. “In the five-phase cosmology codified during the Han dynasty, yellow corresponded to tu (earth, the central element, the colour of the loess plateau where Chinese civilisation had taken root).

    From there it was only a short step to claiming the colour for whichever family currently held the Mandate of Heaven.

    The Sui and Tang courts established yellow as the imperial colour in the seventh century…”

    #cdrama #costuming #china #histodons
    storiedcolors.com/color/imperi

  13. “In the five-phase cosmology codified during the Han dynasty, yellow corresponded to tu (earth, the central element, the colour of the loess plateau where Chinese civilisation had taken root).

    From there it was only a short step to claiming the colour for whichever family currently held the Mandate of Heaven.

    The Sui and Tang courts established yellow as the imperial colour in the seventh century…”

    #cdrama #costuming #china #histodons
    storiedcolors.com/color/imperi

  14. Fun fact: if you saw this video, and had a shot for every cauldron you saw, you'd be drunk somewhere around here. They're everywhere. These ones are in a sorry state, and look like flower pots, but that's just because they Are Symbolical.

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #FunWithSymbolism #donghua #CDrama

  15. CW: Eye contact (Nobody donghua)

    Since I mentioned eye shape in my former toot, note that there are five different shapes in this picture. The style may be simple, but the team are still giving this a lot of nuance.

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #CharacterDesign #donghua #CDrama

  16. CW: Eye contact (Nobody donghua)

    Everything you do as an artist comes with a backpack you can never completely take off. If I, a white storyteller from Europe, say something the continent's history of colonisation and supremacy will add to the punch - regardless of intention. For ex: if I drew eyes this slanted I'd immediately reinforce prejudice about Asian people. That Chinese animators do is not an excuse...
    ->

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #Storytelling #donghua #CDrama

  17. @liztai The English title has been changed to ***Royal Betrothal***.

    Viki suddenly added it yesterday — as Viki tends to do. Three episodes released yesterday, and two today.

    The subtitles are not at Viki’s old high standard but still an order of magnitude above Mango’s — the Mango subtitles literally have the Emperor giving one of his loyalists the informal name “ear-pimp”. It seems Mango’s AI translator is uncensoredly literal.

    #cDrama #RoyalBetrothal

    Not particularly impressive so far. The production reportedly lost its original backer and had to find a new one. It shows in a mix of production values that make it seem quite campy at times.

    Here’s the updated MDL page.

    mydramalist.com/779022-yu-ting

  18. @liztai The English title has been changed to ***Royal Betrothal***.

    Viki suddenly added it yesterday — as Viki tends to do. Three episodes released yesterday, and two today.

    The subtitles are not at Viki’s old high standard but still an order of magnitude above Mango’s — the Mango subtitles literally have the Emperor giving one of his loyalists the informal name “ear-pimp”. It seems Mango’s AI translator is uncensoredly literal.

    #cDrama #RoyalBetrothal

    Not particularly impressive so far. The production reportedly lost its original backer and had to find a new one. It shows in a mix of production values that make it seem quite campy at times.

    Here’s the updated MDL page.

    mydramalist.com/779022-yu-ting

  19. Dang! I'm actually a bit impressed that every piece of clothing the group uses for their impersonation stint, has a logical way to show up. Even the Sha monk's pearls that Weasel wears were carefully introduced* - and they are nine, as they should be.

    (*I won't tell you exactly how)

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #Storytelling #donghua #CDrama

  20. Heh. Juxtaposition and all that... Fun fact: Swedish diplomats once were infamous for insisting at shaking hands at every possible moment. Diplomats from other countries talked about "the bloody Swedish handshake". Every time I see this sequence I wonder if this is some kind of reference 😅

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #donghua #CDrama

  21. This may sound weird, but this movie is full of great hands and feet! Both are things we see so often we quickly recognise if something's wrong. But, also since we see them often, the brain blanks them out in the pattern bank. As an artist you tend to go
    "Eerrr... there's _five_ fingers, right?"
    as soon as you put the pen on paper.

    Also; A+ to character design for not cutting corners by cutting off the pinkie.

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #CharacterDesign #donghua #CDrama

  22. If you're wondering why the yaos thinks Xuanzang, or in this case Toad, is such a snack it's because they want to cheat. Xuanzang has spent ten lifetimes studying and meditating, and this gives him superpowers in his own right. The yaos hope to bypass all that tedious training by eating him, and gaining all that power that way. Kinda' reminds me of AI bros.

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #donghua #CDrama

  23. Fun fact: once you get past the origin stories in Journey To The West, one of the first things that happen is that someone tries to steal Xuanzang's kasaya. Here the opposite happens - they're given one. How the group gains knowledge and how they pick up clothes for their roles work in parallell.

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #costuming #donghua #CDrama

  24. I'm not sure you agree, but _no way_ this monk is fooled! He plays along for shits and giggles. Or rather, he adheres to the idea that anyone can attain buddha nature; a leaf, a stone, a snake etc. As long as they do their training diligently they'll reach their goal. That includes four ragtag yaos, and if playing dumb is the price for helping them along... so be it.

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #donghua #CDrama

  25. I usually blur eye contact (because why not? why sit on a chance to be kind?), and _boy_ does this movie make me work for it! The characters are talking to the camera all the time. This is one of the reasons the story hits you in the chest; you're treated as you're part of it. But I have to admit it's a small relief to have a character I can leave as is.

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #cinematography #Storytelling #donghua #CDrama

  26. Wu Jinyan Chen Zheyuan's The Empire as Bethrotal is rumoured to air July 28 on Mango 🥭 (sigh). Hopefully it will also appear on iqiyi. Sometimes that happens. Stunning poster tho.

    #Cdrama

  27. I've seen this movie quite a few times now, and _every_ time this scene opens I go
    "Didn't I see this house in 'Havoc In Heaven'*?"
    So it's probably intentional. Also, the team could safely make this reference, since Shanghai Animation made both movies - only 60 years apart.

    And there's another cauldron!

    (*recommended for everyone who's into animation - available on YouTube)

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #Animation #donghua #CDrama

  28. Here we have it. The stone* that symbolises Weasel's entire training. Not just in keeping quiet, but in getting how, as a nobody, you can become a True Somebody. It's then allowed to be a detail in the background, instead of being put front center at every move. This makes it a load bearing point instead of a cheap mcGuffin

    (*he's to sharpen his spade against it every time he wants to let lose his mouth diarrhea)

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #Storytelling #donghua #CDrama

  29. When I say the team has worked hard on closing every loophole in the story I mean it. There are extremely few of them. This also means we get a part were the group practice their respective parts. It's not without complications. I'm somehow reminded of Shakespear's self insert* in a Midsummer's Night Dream - a director who deals with a lion actor afraid of forgetting his lines.

    (*you can't convince me otherwise)

    #NobodyDonghua #LittleDemonsFromLanglangMountain #Storytelling #donghua #CDrama