Is this even good?

0nnen said:
It’s not perfect but definitely deserves more than 3/10. What’s your problem dude?

Fuchsia said:
I'm not finished it yet, but so far it's been quite decent.

The only thing I specifically dislike is the overemphasis on bl and sol elements, this is a complete waste of the wuxia genre.

I'm a big Xianxia and Wuxia novel reader, if this were a novel I wouldn't give this series a second glance, the plot itself is just ehh, there's just so much superior competition. I would say, based on what I've read thus far, that this anime is enjoyable for it's technical aspects (animation, sound) rather than its plot and characters.

Phantomnocomics said:
@Xiao_Xingchen

wait!, there is actually someone like you in mal?!

this is madness, escape while you still can, there is only darkness that gravitate you to it

protect your sensible intelligence!

but in all actuality, good writing!

Botan-Chan45 said:
it's so boring i can barely watch 7 episodes without dreading a long 25+ min episode of nothing happening. It's complete garbage and i can barely understand the 8.68 score (also the several gintama and bnha entries).

Xiao_XingChen said:

The novel is far better than the donghua, the donghua is still good but it left lots of details and explanations from the novel, and there are quite some changes that were done in the donghua too.
Also where is "overemphasis bl" came from? the donghua has absolutely zero BL moments, there's no romance, even in the novel it isn't the whole focus, it takes 5% of the story only, and it progress extremely slowly, it's more like an innocent BL, it's not forced or rushed. The donghua doesn't even show a trace of BL between the MC and the ML, since in China they prohibit from showing BL on TV, due to the Chinese government which is very strict on that stuff.
And don't mind if I ask what is "sol"?

From the mutual flirtation along the way, Wei Wuxian slowly realizes that Lan Wangji, a seemingly haughty and indifferent poker-face, holds more feelings for Wei Wuxian than he is letting on.

Fuchsia said:

I mean, i'm only 4 episodes in and there's already quite a bit of hinting towards this, not to mention the synopsis.



When I said bl I didn't mean the guys are literally fucking, more so that they're flirting and such.

Sol is slice of life, something that I believe, and have seen, too much of ruin a wuxia/xianxia. That's not to say it's unneeded in the genres, because it clearly is, but I've just noticed at least so far a bit of an emphasis on it, which is odd given the plot.

Xiao_XingChen said:

Don't judge based of the synopsis because let me tell you it isn't what is going to be presented in the donghua right away, the situation in the donghua is different from that of the novel. The production team of the donghua has to tone down even the innocent cute moments between the MC and ML, and make it look like a bromance. This is no typical BL, when everything is right in your face, and I get what you mean by BL, I didn't assume that you're meaning by "sexual content", even flirting there's none, it's more like the MC teasing to trigger a certain someone (even in the novel it's like that, so basically the BL in the novel is extremely slow), but that's the MC's nature with serious people, and he likes to mess around and joke around. There's no BL, specifically this is not even considered a shounen ai, and shounen ai is the innocent/pure love version of yaoi. That's what I meant there's no romance, meaning that there's no shounen ai elements.

Fuchsia said:

You're trying awfully hard to let us know that there's no bl. Sorry buddy, but there might as well be :')

Xiao_XingChen said:

Sigh, the novel is BL but the donghua isn't, it's not my opinion, it's a fact. You can ask anyone who watched this, due to Chinese censorship there's no romance between the MC and ML shown, not even a kiss to consider it a bit shounen ai. Watch the whole thing and you'll see that this is no BL.

Fuchsia said:

Again, sorry bud, but there doesn't need to be scenes with overt bl for something to be considered bl, or at least have bl elements :p

Phantomnocomics said:


i like how this is a discussion of something that shouldn't be

nice, infinite IQ right there!

Fuchsia said:

Again, sorry bud, but there doesn't need to be scenes with overt bl for something to be considered bl, or at least have bl elements :p

Xiao_XingChen said:

I consider it BL if there are lovey-dovey moments, holding hands, flirting mutually, or at most a kiss. However I won't ignore Lan WangJi's feelings for the MC (if you consider that BL that's up to you), it's unrequited and it remains like that for so long due to the MC's death, the ending song lyrics of the donghua convey it, the sadness, the mourning that Lan WangJi went through. I just love how the BL isn't typical, it's so slow, and the MC is so oblivious when it comes to romance, it's funny when reading the novel. Even if the donghua is not BL there are subtle traces of hidden feelings.

Fuchsia said:

Lol. As I said, there doesn't need to be overtly bl moments (kissing etc) for something to be considered bl. I'm not the first one to consider this a bl anime, even if the bl elements are for the themes.

chi4ko said:


I loved the SoL bits! I know everybody just wants to watch fights all the time, but those silly and peaceful moments were really charming. Even if you dislike them, they are still needed in the series for a balanced composition (considering how things escalate), please don't call them a waste of time!

Xiao_XingChen said:

The conflicts starts happening in episode 8, the first 7 episodes are "the calm before the storm", it gets tense and eventually

Botan-Chan45 said:
how bad does your anime need to be that it needs 8 episodes to get good.

Botan-Chan45 said:
Type right next time you dolt, and no its not mature understanding like Ashita no Joe or Hajime no Ippo.

Botan-Chan45 said:
how bad does your anime need to be that it needs 8 episodes to get good.

Xiao_XingChen said:
Your hating comments on the donghua and your only reasons are solely "nothing happening", "complete garbage", or "how bad does your anime", such common words used by trolls who aren't capable of giving even a proper explanation, so mindless. You keep using "your blah blah", and on other post your reply "ur chinese propoganda of wxiching" , "Try another time china man" (your assumption of me being "china man" is the epitome of your ignorance, like you got a thing against Chinese people? I'm smelling a racist). Also we're talking about the donghua here not me, and the only thing you're doing here is spewing nonsense everywhere like always, as expected from a low-leveled troll, who lack severely in common sense, can't even give one logical argument, and only knows how to use common words used by trolls and twist words of others, and when someone comment on this donghua you go subjective, ignore their logical point and call them idiot, when you're here the only ignorant one who only knows to call others idiost because it's much easier for you than give a constructive criticism.

Botan-Chan45 said:
Why are you stalking me? Also if this is the quality of dinhoe then i shouldnt watch anymore should I? Completely boring and tedious to watch, something that even a lowly series like Mars Destruction can beat? Also I harpoon any series that has unjustified scores, not just donhua shit.

Botan-Chan45 said:
how bad does your anime need to be that it needs 8 episodes to get good.