I hope everyone quits complaining about the CGI. It's Youku, "small time" company with tight budget. Only rich companies like Tencent with almost unlimited budgets can afford and deliver quality CGI on par with Hollywood, and they also specialize in video games so of course CGI is their specialty.
If you guys want an example of REALLY bad CGI go watch Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities by CrotonMegaHits. Their CGI looked like done by amateurish high school kids using Microsoft Paint bundled with almost every version of Microsoft Windows instead of a professional suite like Adobe Photoshop...
Finally finished the whole 8-book series (excluding the so-called 'part 2'), god damn 2446 chapters, that took…
No romance? But in the donghua (earlier episodes somewhere between 1-26) didn't Han Li already slept with Nangong Wan becoz of the seductive gas released by the creature they killed? That counts as romance doesn't it?
Yang Yang has serious leg injury:https://inf.news/en/entertainment/067f5a2ee3bb63fcc49e69e3df178950.html(This…
IMO, I don't think they want to wait 2 years for Yang Yang to recover to do S2 of Fanren. There are lots of other projects waiting for him by then. This type of actor is not difficult to land another SS grade project! Momentum of Fanren will unnecessarily stalled.
Betcha if they substituted Yang Yang with another Yang like Yang Xuwen, who's just as popular in C-ent, or hell even Xiao Zhan which btw I'm not a fan of his, there will be virtually no backlash or complains!
Plus seeing someone like Xiao Zhan isn't even a BIG MEGA star like Wu Jing (at least not at the box office), they could recruit him for S2 of Fanren for real cheap...
I can relate. It happened to me too. First it was my left shoulder. I did a stretching exercise maybe too excessive and it started to hurt for 6 months. Then after came my left hip. I just sat on the edge of the bed watching Douluo Continent anime for 1hr. When I got up, there was an excruciating pain radiating down all the way to my toes that was ON 24/7 and lasted 2 years. I thought the pain would never go away and I didn't want to get surgery. It wasn't a mild pain either. It was the kind of pain someone with weak tolerance for pain would need to take pain killer meds.
Miraculously the pain eventually went away (with me doing absolutely nothing about it).
It was some kind of nerve impingement from the hip that made the rest of the leg in pain. Thankfully I could sort of walk and didn't need crutches like Yang Yang.
So I just reached the end of the drama in donghua…
Which episode of the donghua was this? I'm only on EP 24 of the donghua. I haven't watched the live action yet (don't want to spoil it for myself). The BIG Q in my head had always been how many episodes of the donghua I should watch before I am safe to embark on the live drama...
Make sure you watch this clip by selecting the 4K quality.
It's done by the same animation studio as Fanren, which is Original Force (Bilili and Tencent both outsource their particular donghua series to this same company).
In fact is mean to compete with Fanren. You can see it's almost the same story, style, and settings as Faren. But Tencent made it more fun by making the CGI characters sing:
Not to mention Tencent is the master of fights choreography more so than BiliBili which is why I thought the fights in Zhe Tian looked more impressive than Fanren even though both are animated by this same third party company Original Force...
Here is the quality of the donghua, for those who said it's shitty😂 You can see all the complex emotions on…
I guess you haven't been seeing too much donghua animations. This series (Shrouding the Heavens) is done by the same animation studio as your beloved Fanren. It's visually superior to Fanren becoz Tencent enforces quality control on this third party studio wheras BiliBili just lets them do whatever they want with minimal supervision:
Remember this is by the same studio. If you think character expressions are impressive in Fanren, then Tencent forces them to work overtime in Zhe Tian to make them even more realistic!
the animation get better as the donghua get more popular, so as the you watch more, you will see. tencent do not…
Tencent has an almost exact series as Fanren called Zhe Tian (Shrouding the Heavens). It's at Ep 123 now vs Fanren at Ep 157 latest. And it's also animated by the same studio that's making Fanren, and that studio is Original Force.
I think Tencent planned on hiring Yang Yang to adapt the live action as their donghua ML looks almost like him. But another company beat them to it hiring Yang Yang to do Fanren instead.
In Ep01 of the donghua when older Han Li was fighting a water beast with some flag formations, the MC also uses this fighting style in Zhe Tian and he also rides a flying boat...
The reason I think Zhe Tian is superior to Fanren becoz the male CGI characters are more handsome and the CGI ladies are all very pretty. BiliBili is after all a relative newbie to CGI animations so their characters don't have the years of beautifying experience as Tencent. Also in Fanren Han Li's sister is a mortal, whereas in Zhe Tian, Ye Fan's sister is a cultivator and Tencent also added a Genshin Impact twist where Ep01 starts out with the sister looking for her missing/lost brother not to mention going around picking exotic fruits like in Genshin Impact.
I think an alternate title could be “How Han Li avoids romantic entanglements” 🤣
Not really, I think he wants to reach Godhood before he settles down with his hugely accumulated harem (by then).
If there is a real life person that avoids romantic entanglements on the silver screen, that would be Jet Li and also rhymes with Han Li! I never seen him cozy up to a girl other than Miss 13 Auntie in Huang Fei Hong.
Im on EP 11 of the donghua. I like Shrouding the Heavens (Zhe Tian) better though. Anyone watch this donghua series besides me? Tencent hired the same Original Force studio to animate their series. Plus the MC in Shrouding the Heavens actually looks closer to Yang Yang than Han Li in BiliBili's donghua series.
BTW, can you imagine how hard it is for Original Force studio? They have to juggle between animating 1 episode of Fanren for BiliBili and another episode of Zhe Tian for Tencent each week!
In China, the discussion volume of The Immortal Ascensionon the YOUKU platform has reached 1 million. As a comparison,…
That explains why I was able to source S1 EP01-76 of the donghua circa 2020 in 4K (2160p) from a Chinese website. The usual thing is that for some other less popular IP, the show usually disappears from the sharing community after one week, much less 5 years after it was first aired!
do any know when YOUKU will release soundtrack on Apple Music? also yeah it went up 8.4
It's already up on AVirtualVoyage dot net for free via some MEGA file sharing account. You have to open the blog post titled drama OSTs that was posted recently. It's in 320kbps MP3 which is the highest quality for this type!
BUT of course, if you really like the music, you should support the company as well by purchasing...
I held off watching the drama. I have all 30 eps in full glorious 4K/60fps on my HDD. I just don't want to spoil it for myself as I prefer to watch the donghua first to familiarize myself with the story. I find dramas like Douluo Continent /Land of Warriors watch better if you've already seen the anime.
Well, I just started the donghua anime series. I'm on Ep6. It seems pretty meh to me. I don't even know why the anime became so popular! I am excited as ever to watch this live action drama afterward though...
(BTW, ppl are sharing/refreshing the anime due to the drama having aired recently. You can grab ep1-76 of the anime in 4K before the hype fades away and ppl stop sharing them. Meaning the best time to catch up on any old anime series is soon after they aired the drama)
This is the FIRST modern movie I watched in 1080p at 2X speed. The norm for me is 4K at normal speed and at 60fps if I can source it. Shows how much respect I had for the sequel (and I even watched the first part in 4K/60fps!)
If you guys want an example of REALLY bad CGI go watch Mirror: A Tale of Twin Cities by CrotonMegaHits. Their CGI looked like done by amateurish high school kids using Microsoft Paint bundled with almost every version of Microsoft Windows instead of a professional suite like Adobe Photoshop...
Betcha if they substituted Yang Yang with another Yang like Yang Xuwen, who's just as popular in C-ent, or hell even Xiao Zhan which btw I'm not a fan of his, there will be virtually no backlash or complains!
Plus seeing someone like Xiao Zhan isn't even a BIG MEGA star like Wu Jing (at least not at the box office), they could recruit him for S2 of Fanren for real cheap...
https://inf.news/en/entertainment/067f5a2ee3bb63fcc49e69e3df178950.html
(This is NOT old news but posted today Aug 25, 2025!)
I can relate. It happened to me too. First it was my left shoulder. I did a stretching exercise maybe too excessive and it started to hurt for 6 months. Then after came my left hip. I just sat on the edge of the bed watching Douluo Continent anime for 1hr. When I got up, there was an excruciating pain radiating down all the way to my toes that was ON 24/7 and lasted 2 years. I thought the pain would never go away and I didn't want to get surgery. It wasn't a mild pain either. It was the kind of pain someone with weak tolerance for pain would need to take pain killer meds.
Miraculously the pain eventually went away (with me doing absolutely nothing about it).
It was some kind of nerve impingement from the hip that made the rest of the leg in pain. Thankfully I could sort of walk and didn't need crutches like Yang Yang.
It's done by the same animation studio as Fanren, which is Original Force (Bilili and Tencent both outsource their particular donghua series to this same company).
In fact is mean to compete with Fanren. You can see it's almost the same story, style, and settings as Faren. But Tencent made it more fun by making the CGI characters sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpFpANTkArc
Not to mention Tencent is the master of fights choreography more so than BiliBili which is why I thought the fights in Zhe Tian looked more impressive than Fanren even though both are animated by this same third party company Original Force...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jbt6DgW_dps
Remember this is by the same studio. If you think character expressions are impressive in Fanren, then Tencent forces them to work overtime in Zhe Tian to make them even more realistic!
I think Tencent planned on hiring Yang Yang to adapt the live action as their donghua ML looks almost like him. But another company beat them to it hiring Yang Yang to do Fanren instead.
In Ep01 of the donghua when older Han Li was fighting a water beast with some flag formations, the MC also uses this fighting style in Zhe Tian and he also rides a flying boat...
The reason I think Zhe Tian is superior to Fanren becoz the male CGI characters are more handsome and the CGI ladies are all very pretty. BiliBili is after all a relative newbie to CGI animations so their characters don't have the years of beautifying experience as Tencent. Also in Fanren Han Li's sister is a mortal, whereas in Zhe Tian, Ye Fan's sister is a cultivator and Tencent also added a Genshin Impact twist where Ep01 starts out with the sister looking for her missing/lost brother not to mention going around picking exotic fruits like in Genshin Impact.
If there is a real life person that avoids romantic entanglements on the silver screen, that would be Jet Li and also rhymes with Han Li! I never seen him cozy up to a girl other than Miss 13 Auntie in Huang Fei Hong.
BTW, can you imagine how hard it is for Original Force studio? They have to juggle between animating 1 episode of Fanren for BiliBili and another episode of Zhe Tian for Tencent each week!
BUT of course, if you really like the music, you should support the company as well by purchasing...
Well, I just started the donghua anime series. I'm on Ep6. It seems pretty meh to me. I don't even know why the anime became so popular! I am excited as ever to watch this live action drama afterward though...
(BTW, ppl are sharing/refreshing the anime due to the drama having aired recently. You can grab ep1-76 of the anime in 4K before the hype fades away and ppl stop sharing them. Meaning the best time to catch up on any old anime series is soon after they aired the drama)