Preliminary review: I’ve been keeping up with Tian Guan Cifu since the manhua has started being translated, so I’ve been a fan for many years of this series. It was my first real dip into Chinese BL, as well as Chinese manhua to begin with, it’s very much been my favorite since. I haven’t had a chance to pick up the books yet, so I cannot speak for the literature that relates to this adaption. But I solely believe this second season is MUCH better done than the first. The animation is quite better, the pace, and the understanding is a lot more smoother and easier to digest this time around as well. I was incredibly disappointed by season one, with some of the designs being drastically different than what I was used to seeing in the manhua, or in promotional art, and with how the pacing of the story was being shown. I had waited an incredibly long time for the adaption, and was hopeful that season two would be much better. Which so far - it is. I will say that I recommend either reading up on the books or the manhua before watching the donghua, as you might get really confused. My complaint with the adaptation is that they sort of expect you to know whats going on, or so it seems, so you definitely might be confused as a first time watcher. Season two picks up exactly where the special off, so I was also very pleased with that. Minus the characters being changed to look very different again, I have no complaints thus far into the second season.
