Faren donghua has the BEST Chinese fansub group from the mainland China since EP 124. Why they are the best? Their audio volume is just right when you use bluetooth headphones.
On Android/Google TV box, the volume slider only has a few steps. With a BAD fansub group,the audio is too loud if you increase a volume step, and too quiet if you decrease it.
iQiyi has shifted into high gear for donghua series. Their most recent series "Over the Divine Realm" has the most sexy looking female character in red I ever seen. And the red umbrella she carries with sword hidden in it is like the most awesome matching costume set I ever seen designed.
Out of all donghua characters I ever seen so far from any company (Tencent BiliBili iQiyi) I'd say iQiYi won first place for most sexy female CGI character with this series. Tencent and BiliBili have some serious competition in this sector now.
Just look at this face: So pretty yet calculating/cunning, slim body, normal-sized breasts not commically oversized. Easily beats donghua version Ning Yao, Medussa from Fights Break Sphere, Nangong Wan from Journey to Immortality, Li Muwan from Renegade Immortal, or any female lead in any of your favorite donghuas:
After LWY traveled back in time, everyone was debating whether she loved WWY or JL moreš
I found this kind of choice rather cliche after being familiar with the classic story White Snake. Of course White Snake chose her BF over her sister Green Snake.
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Ju Jingyi is not only pretty, but she can maintain a slim figure at 32 means she could reach 60 and still have the same slim figure.
Other actresses like Judy Garland (Dorothy in the original Wizard of Oz) and Zhao Wei (now banned in C-ent), they were so slim and pretty when young, but became fat and ugly nearing 50. Ju Jingyi looks like someone who will remain eternally slim even as she will turn 90 in the very very very far distant future.
She's also quite agile in real life. In her latest drama Eternal Fragrance, in the first few episodes, she plays a playful tomboy. At one point she entered a building and there were some steps down from the entrance. She got down those steps real fast without even looking down once. Other actresses would have needed to pause and look or they would have tripped and fallen. That scene amazed me the most how she was so good with her foot work.
If anyone is wondering what is Chi Apotheosis, it's when ppl with magical powers touch their palm on the back of the person in front of them to make a human pyramid to channel all their Chi to the one guy in front at the tip of the pyramid or triangle.
The drama I Am Nobody was about this one guy who had an ultimate move called Chi Apotheosis, but nobody knew what this power was. He only used this move in the climax of the drama to break the energy barrier to save his beloved.
This drama was quite popular and released a few years ago. It seems GJM liked that kind of climatic ultimate move/scene and tried to replicate it in VoS with Ji Ling attempting to break the time barrier exit by "Chi Apotheosis".
Now I know many ppl will say Chi Apotheosis is a common/well known move found in a lot of wuxia or xianxia series. But has it ever been used as the ultimate move of the drama climax or just an afterthought of some unimportant battle scene? It's becoz I Am Nobody was the first drama to make use of it AT the drama climax that GJM thought so too!
For fans of the donghua, some info I obtained via AI chat bot Deepseek
If it was me they hired as chief marketing director, I would hold off the release of the spinoff donghua until a few weeks before the Dec 2026 theatrical release. People need a reason to be hyped up leading to the movie's premiere. Or maybe they are doing just that. That's why I couldn't even find a teaser nor trailer for the spinoff series that's supposed to have been released sometime this past May or June.
By the way even though the same studio is animating both Fanren and Shrouding the Heavens, I do believe Fanren the donghua is the superior product becoz they have more creative freedom working under contract for BiliBili than for Tencent.
For fans of the donghua, some info I obtained via AI chat bot Deepseek
Finally Fanren gets a donghua movie. BiliBili now into making "donghua" movies but maybe only for a select few donghua series. They're not as rich as Tencent which has infinite cash to spend from gaming revenues.
Tentative title is The Lost Track in the Vast Sea (ēęµ·čæ·čøŖ) for Dec 2026 release.
Of course take it with a grain of salt. It all came from a chat bot which may not necessarily provide the accurate info.
Also, the thing is to get the cinematic feel, they will use different techniques on donghua movies which could backfire. If you look at the donghua movie of Shrouding the Heavens made by the same studio as Fanren, the movie CGI models (especially the FL) look blurry and less distinct or colorful from the donghua series version. Something to keep in mind Han Li may appear different/more crude in the donghua movie version all becoz they wanted to achieve a cinematic feel.
EDIT: NVM Deepseek is telling me the donghua movie will actually release in theaters. This is HUGE news. In this case the CGI models may look even better NOT worse than the ones used in the series and may not be re-used in future episodes of the series probably to keep it exclusive and probably becoz more detailed models take longer to render which is not suitable for weekly episode releases.
For fans of the donghua, some info I obtained via AI chat bot Deepseek
There's supposed to be a spinoff donghua series. It's related to the nascent soul that took over Qu Hun's body and destroyed it. He is the ML's evil master in the spinoff.
They said they would release this spinoff donghua series in Q2 2026. Now is Q3. I wonder where did it go?
very beautiful sets, i loved the nature and adventure and how the main character was roaming the world finding…
Exactly. This drama made me feel like all cultivators are ethereal beings or elemental spirits that mostly live outdoors. Plus that ethereal ambience background music helps with the mood.
Can someone explain to me how in EP 3 the FL is all cozy with two other female students often holding their hands. Do they know that she is a girl while all the males so far don't know?
Drama renewed my interest in Guo Jingming works after Ice Fantasy left a bad taste in my mouth over a decade ago. I wonder when will be the next epic GMJ fantasy drama or movie?
Just finished the drama. I thought the ending was very much like Douluo Continent (the donghua). It's a happy…
Ending so ripped off Under One Person/I Am Nobody where everyone was doing Chi apotheosis on Zhang Chulan (everyone that died transfered their spirit energy to Ji Ling to enable him to open the exit once inside the time tunnel). But it was better done with more fancy poses and people wearing way more fancy costumes.
Gnosticism generally believes that when we die, our souls journey to the moon and get stuck there unable to go beyond. If we fail the moon test, then we are thrown back down to Earth for another reincarnation cycle.
This knowledge (or belief) is generally widespread if you belong to some secret sect or society (or if you ask an AI chat bot). I don't think anyone can make it big in the commercial world, unless they are members of such sects. GJM is probably a sect member. That's why he used the full moon to reincarnate the fox spirits in this drama.
Remember there are over 100 million Chinese Communist Party members in China. That's more than the population of certain countries. It's not a wild imagination to say most publicly successful people in China are members of some brotherhood or secret society. (And you can pick them out if you carefully analyze the ideas in their works)
Just finished the drama. I thought the ending was very much like Douluo Continent (the donghua). It's a happy ending but some elders perished.
What I hate thought is those dramas that are much ado about nothing where nobody really dies except maybe the main bad guy in the end. Aka The Last Immortal I'm looking at you!
BTW, I don't think it's possible to experience drama withdrawal symptoms for this drama if you've watched it recently as the next Ju Jingyu drama is currently airing.
On Android/Google TV box, the volume slider only has a few steps. With a BAD fansub group,the audio is too loud if you increase a volume step, and too quiet if you decrease it.
Out of all donghua characters I ever seen so far from any company (Tencent BiliBili iQiyi) I'd say iQiYi won first place for most sexy female CGI character with this series. Tencent and BiliBili have some serious competition in this sector now.
Just look at this face: So pretty yet calculating/cunning, slim body, normal-sized breasts not commically oversized. Easily beats donghua version Ning Yao, Medussa from Fights Break Sphere, Nangong Wan from Journey to Immortality, Li Muwan from Renegade Immortal, or any female lead in any of your favorite donghuas:
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BTW I've mixed feelings what I will nickname this drama when it flops, which I'm pretty sure it will. THE ZERO or perhaps THE NONE!!
Deepseek says the fan community estimated a box office somewhere between 55-280 million USD.
BTW, info on the movie can be found here:
https://kisskh.at/35477-a-record-of-a-mortal-s-journey-to-immortality/discussions/153196-huge-news-animated-fanren-movie-in-theaters-dec-2026-spinoff-donghua-in-production
Other actresses like Judy Garland (Dorothy in the original Wizard of Oz) and Zhao Wei (now banned in C-ent), they were so slim and pretty when young, but became fat and ugly nearing 50. Ju Jingyi looks like someone who will remain eternally slim even as she will turn 90 in the very very very far distant future.
She's also quite agile in real life. In her latest drama Eternal Fragrance, in the first few episodes, she plays a playful tomboy. At one point she entered a building and there were some steps down from the entrance. She got down those steps real fast without even looking down once. Other actresses would have needed to pause and look or they would have tripped and fallen. That scene amazed me the most how she was so good with her foot work.
The drama I Am Nobody was about this one guy who had an ultimate move called Chi Apotheosis, but nobody knew what this power was. He only used this move in the climax of the drama to break the energy barrier to save his beloved.
This drama was quite popular and released a few years ago. It seems GJM liked that kind of climatic ultimate move/scene and tried to replicate it in VoS with Ji Ling attempting to break the time barrier exit by "Chi Apotheosis".
Now I know many ppl will say Chi Apotheosis is a common/well known move found in a lot of wuxia or xianxia series. But has it ever been used as the ultimate move of the drama climax or just an afterthought of some unimportant battle scene? It's becoz I Am Nobody was the first drama to make use of it AT the drama climax that GJM thought so too!
https://awnchina.cn/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/%E5%87%A1%E4%BA%BA%E4%BF%AE%E4%BB%99%E4%BC%A0%E4%B9%8B%E7%80%9A%E6%B5%B7%E8%B0%9C%E8%B8%AA.jpg
https://awnchina.cn/mortals-journey-franchise-makes-big-screen-debut-a-mortals-journey-to-immortality-mystery-of-the-endless-sea-set-for-december-2026-release/
By the way even though the same studio is animating both Fanren and Shrouding the Heavens, I do believe Fanren the donghua is the superior product becoz they have more creative freedom working under contract for BiliBili than for Tencent.
Tentative title is The Lost Track in the Vast Sea (ēęµ·čæ·čøŖ) for Dec 2026 release.
Of course take it with a grain of salt. It all came from a chat bot which may not necessarily provide the accurate info.
Also, the thing is to get the cinematic feel, they will use different techniques on donghua movies which could backfire. If you look at the donghua movie of Shrouding the Heavens made by the same studio as Fanren, the movie CGI models (especially the FL) look blurry and less distinct or colorful from the donghua series version. Something to keep in mind Han Li may appear different/more crude in the donghua movie version all becoz they wanted to achieve a cinematic feel.
EDIT: NVM Deepseek is telling me the donghua movie will actually release in theaters. This is HUGE news. In this case the CGI models may look even better NOT worse than the ones used in the series and may not be re-used in future episodes of the series probably to keep it exclusive and probably becoz more detailed models take longer to render which is not suitable for weekly episode releases.
They said they would release this spinoff donghua series in Q2 2026. Now is Q3. I wonder where did it go?
Gnosticism generally believes that when we die, our souls journey to the moon and get stuck there unable to go beyond. If we fail the moon test, then we are thrown back down to Earth for another reincarnation cycle.
This knowledge (or belief) is generally widespread if you belong to some secret sect or society (or if you ask an AI chat bot). I don't think anyone can make it big in the commercial world, unless they are members of such sects. GJM is probably a sect member. That's why he used the full moon to reincarnate the fox spirits in this drama.
Remember there are over 100 million Chinese Communist Party members in China. That's more than the population of certain countries. It's not a wild imagination to say most publicly successful people in China are members of some brotherhood or secret society. (And you can pick them out if you carefully analyze the ideas in their works)
What I hate thought is those dramas that are much ado about nothing where nobody really dies except maybe the main bad guy in the end. Aka The Last Immortal I'm looking at you!
BTW, I don't think it's possible to experience drama withdrawal symptoms for this drama if you've watched it recently as the next Ju Jingyu drama is currently airing.