Since you love to be embarrassed, I did actually count based on 81 dramas that started and finished airing within 2024 (you can go and count yourself from dramapotatoe's pinned on twitter if you STILL don't believe) and this is LITTERALLY how it goes: Focused on the female character: 23 dramas Focused on male character: 32 dramas Focused on both/neutral: 26
conclusions: Women do not have a priority or privilege whatsoever in the c-ent industry. Just bc you only watch super popular romance with resourceful and famous actresses, the rest of the dramas are not gonna magically vanish. Hope this helped.
1: That's statistically not true at all. I can litterally count. 2: Most of these historical romance and xianxia shows you watch are adapted from jjwxc novels. That's a platform for women web novel authors so of course women are gonna write about women's journies and their growth. 3: One of the very 1st fundamentals they teach you at writing (if you take a cours) is that every story HAS to have ONE protagonist who leads the narrative. That doesn't mean the other characters are gonna be useless and unimportant, it's litterally just basic storytelling logic. Even the romance dramas you consider couple centred have only one of those 2 chars as the protagonist.
these platforms always trying to pit women against eachother and to create rivalry between them while I'm always thriving and squealing in joy everytime they air pretty girls' dramas at the same time like idk to me that means this is gonna be the month of beautiful women
the way there's still no official poster is crazy 💀 I personally love art posters but it's very odd for a cdrama bc the illustrated posters are usually what they go with in the very beginning of their announcement and they tend to make something with the leads on it after a few months of filming lol
It's absolutely insane when you think about the fact that lu yuxiao litterally became famous and they've still not aired this ijbol (someone removed her from this page but she was like not officially but for 90% confirmed as yu shiguang here)
shut awwppp tjr and dudu look so cute tgt 😭 it's just a collab stage but you can really see the spark in dudu's eyes when she's comfortable with her coworkers :(
cdramas have been doing gross master student romance for 160 years and old ass immortal man + 20 y/o girl cps…
Also I'm sorry but none of these ppl who are concerned abt sq's age could even tell she was in her late 30s if her age wasn't all over the internet 😭 people always have a crazy perception of women's aging when they actually don't even change much up until 40, let alone rich celebrities who have the privilege of good diet, good skin care and stable workout routine. You'd think victoria was 50 with the way ppl are talking while you see the pics of her and dyx in one frame and they litterally look the same age lmfao
cdramas have been doing gross master student romance for 160 years and old ass immortal man + 20 y/o girl cps (with completely messed up and very toxic power dynamics) have been all over xianxia since the dawn of time and you get attacked and told it's fiction and not serious if you open your mouth but GOD FORBID a grown woman over the age of 30 is paired up a a fully grown adult man who's younger than her!
I don’t want any delays with MM but it seems like FP has a way bigger promotional budget than MM. I see a lot…
Is that really the case though? Having followed both of these projects from the beginning I'm gonna say it's just that MM did most of the promo earlier (you can't deny that they did quite a lot during filming and a short while after wrap up) while FP's team was super secretive and completely radio silent pretty much until this week probably bc they're abt to put it on air. It's just that their pr teams chose different tactics and timing to promote imo
"what do these lowly ants' life and death have to do with me? but, if these ants gather in a group, they can take down even the highest of obstacles." OKAY DIALOGUE (tr credit to @/yueyawans on twt)
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Focused on the female character: 23 dramas
Focused on male character: 32 dramas
Focused on both/neutral: 26
conclusions: Women do not have a priority or privilege whatsoever in the c-ent industry. Just bc you only watch super popular romance with resourceful and famous actresses, the rest of the dramas are not gonna magically vanish. Hope this helped.
2: Most of these historical romance and xianxia shows you watch are adapted from jjwxc novels. That's a platform for women web novel authors so of course women are gonna write about women's journies and their growth.
3: One of the very 1st fundamentals they teach you at writing (if you take a cours) is that every story HAS to have ONE protagonist who leads the narrative. That doesn't mean the other characters are gonna be useless and unimportant, it's litterally just basic storytelling logic. Even the romance dramas you consider couple centred have only one of those 2 chars as the protagonist.
You'd think victoria was 50 with the way ppl are talking while you see the pics of her and dyx in one frame and they litterally look the same age lmfao