Hunter2022

TF these show producers play such cruel tricks. Twin Mirror Cities (anime version) managed to finish S1 in just 4 episodes! CPC not doing enuf to stop companies like Tencent from torturing viewers of dramas. They should implement a rule where S2 is not allowed unless it's a standalone sequel not the continuation of S1!

Only 5.9/10 on Douban (so far). Joy of Life had 7.9. I found SSS to be rather boring. Too much politics not enough fights. It has the typical Tencent rich company trademark where the SFX are perfect but everything else falls apart. When MC weilded the sword at the Wudang waterfall... Only Tencent could pull off that kind of SFX. But everything else is weak. Im also wary of anything that is immediately labeled S1. China banned long TV series so these guys r playing the trick of breaking into seasons. Look at Joy of Life. That show was literally half of a drama. I hate watching something that isn't complete. Douluo Continent at least did this right. Theres another season of that coming but at least part 1 was a complete drama.

The anime is supposed to be released on WeTV this week!

I like how they rehatched the same plot though. In 2020 the group of bandits died off one by one. In 2021, the idiot villagers perished one by one slowly...

Douban ratings:

6.7/10 - Worm Valley (2021)
8.2/10 - Lost Caverns (2020)

Not as good as the previous (2020) part even though it's the same actors/actress. 2020 was very action-oriented. This one they often spent 2 episodes just talking.

No need. It's a Tencent production. Tencent is a very rich company. All their productions are like this level of quality, even the terribly rated ones.

Yup, I too dropped this drama coz of the FL. But the other reason is it seems mainly to promote some bad and very addictive MOBA games under Tencent holdings.

The first time I saw the FL was in 3Lives3Worlds. My God what an annoying character she was. Sob* Dijun Sob* Dijun. That all she ever had going on in the entire drama!

What's up TV shows based on MOBA games? Mobile Legends has an anime series now in addition to YAMG being just a giant advert for King of Glory/LoL Wild Rift. I thought Tencent and Moonton were competitors. How come WeTV now showing the new Mobile Legends anime!?!? I'm confused. Did Tencent invest in Moonton? Is this y Tencent showing a Moonton cartoon series?

FBS S1 only got 4.4/10 on Douban vs Douluo Continent's 6.4/10. It's not a secret the investors don't want to spend too much money to make FBS S2.

Ever Night didn't live up to the hype. So in season two, they reduced the budget. Hired less famous stars. Half arsed the CGI. The end result, it sucked more than S1.

Fights Break Sphere trodding down same path. S1 didn't live up to the hype. So they axed Wu Lei to save on the cost of hiring him, etc.

Good things not all sequels will get the half arsed treatment. Xiao Zhan coming back for Douluo S2 means we can expect better things to come...

Na Lan Yan Ran was hot. Even hotter than Xun Er. Me dont think Mermaid actress all that pretty. Person who cast Zhu Qing did a good job. She looks like the anime version too...

Only a 3.6/10 on Douban. I have never seen a drama with such terrible score. Even the most recent one with that Korean guy as Duan Yu did better with 4.5/10...

Xiao Zhan literally becomes a spider later on with spider legs coming out of his back. He walks around with it like Doc Oc in Spider-man. Plus his eyes becomes this freaky dark color all around. Should give anyone with arachnaphobia plenty of nightmares...

Personally, I don't how they gonna do S2 of the drama. They pretty much took everything from the entire donghua and crammed all that into S1. Hu Lie Na and her sister became one person. The slaughter city arc where Tang San saved/teamed up Hu Lie Na by tying a rope to her, they moved it to the sandstorm city in the drama. The part where Xiao Wu "died" and gave her red soul ring to Sang Tan, that already happened in S1 when she gave all her soul power to Tan Sang and was left with no soul ring afterwards. They pretty much left nothing over for S2 yet they're gonna do another season...

Same here. I watched the drama first. I always thought the anime looked like an extension of Fights Break Sphere (really horrible show IMO). That's y I avoided it all this time. But the drama changed my mind and I gave Soul Land a look after finished the drama.

S1 drama pissed off a lot of donghua fans. Not because of hate for Xiao Zhan, but the story seemed too divergent from the source. I have watched all 170 of the donghua and can confirm this is true.

The drama is supposed to be something different otherwise no point in repeating the same stuff. But it is just too diferent. In the long run this is not too good for the production company as they are selling out long term loyal fans of the original IP to rope in newbies who never heard of Soul Land before.

The best way to resolve the conflict would be to create a movie out of this IP that is slightly different from the donghua yet not too different like the drama. This can reconcile the loyal fans and also attract new audience to the franchise.

Xiao Zhan for S2 means good news. The sequel will be the same or higher quality.

OMG, did Jackie Chan just do a live action skit at the end of donghua episode 169? Puke puke vomit vomit. I'm JC's biggest ANTI-FAN. Thank god it was only a short skit. Otherwise I would have boycotted this whole series...

Anyone here read the novel? (I haven't). So let me ask you this... In the novel is Tang Sang spider-man, batman (utility belt), and superman (blue laser eye beams, flight from mother's soul bone)? The same Tang Sang as portrayed by Tencent?

For those who don't know, S1 drama ends at Ep108 in the anime. It means you can skip to Ep109 (there are 160+ episodes to the anime so far...) to glimpse at S2.