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I think they put all the violence into the trailer lol, it's specifically blood that you don't see much, a lot of events (murder etc) happen offscreen, the drama consist of lots and lots of talking. Totally understandable that you have low tolerance for violence and genre though!

its tv rating is actually doing really well lol, but mostly because tv rating have been terrible lately. It's best rating this year so far for non cctv channels (cctv is national tv station and have a much much wider reach so its rating is usually counted separately) and best for beijing tv and dragon tv this year, probably crack top 10 for cctv 8, but i haven't followed the ratings.

there aren't actually that much gore in crime crackdown, it does cover lot of unsettling events though.

that's really bizarre way to count lol, but fair enough

While love o2o was very popular, its tv ratings aren't actually as impressive as you'd think, the viewcounts wasn't no.1 either, it found huge audience amongst those that like romcom, but there's plenty that don't care for it. That said, it's a drama that's frequently rewatched, to the point that it frequently trends on its airing platform Youku and will probably make it into top 10 at times, competing against new dramas.

As for YAMG, it was significantly less popular as a book even when it came out, it also got criticism for being "too flat", too slice of life basically, that was transplanted to the drama too since the plot was virtually unchanged.

? more than 3 dramas have broke 8500 in 2021, my heroic husband, the rebel, a love for dilemma, my dear guardian and my best friend's story. I should note that 8500 was much harder to break prior to last year's summerish, that said, it's still a considerable feat now.

it's on the faster side, but it's actually the average time for modern dramas, they have less post productions to do + there's less restrictions on modern dramas, esp a romcom like this. The fastest I've seen for tv drama is about 4 months, shortest for web drama about 2 or 3 months?

she definitely did it purpose, Yu Tu's game handle is literally "jade rabbit pounds medicine", they have drama promo pictures that references the game handle too.

she probably dropped the drama, I don't think she watch dramas she dislike till the end (which is for the best honestly). she watches a LOT of dramas in my experience, stuff popular in china and unknown internationally, and stuff that's super underrated overall etc.

small note, gu man didn't pioneered the genre, many people wrote for it before her, some focus more on the romance, some focus more on the game. She did help popularise it though.

no? they are under the name specials

duboku?

there's product replacements, then there's ads before + in middle of dramas, it doesn't have to be drama related. I've seen historical dramas have in drama ads for apps, the characters wear costumes and promote dating app, it's hilarious. Anyways, it can also sell the drama to hundreds of channels afterwards.

I know how product replacement works, and I know the amount of effort tencent went to promote the drama, as I mentioned before, (in game ads + daily task in game + 1 yuan vip + event for money to watch the drama on top of usual promotion AND disney date) I even said that YAMG is doing great and tencent will hold it up as shining example of ip development. IP development is absolutely vital to tencent because it's its basis for drama productions these days. HnK is actually at the stagnant stage, and drama is meant to draw back old players as well as potential new players, I think it's working less well than intended, but even if it's just 100k users, it's still 100k users.

9:30pm, it would have done better if it got the 7:30 to 9:30pm slot (which is ideal city's, for cctv 8 and dragon tv), but yeah I have a sneaking suspicion that they might have purposely slot it in just before prime time ends, also probably 1 ep at a time is better for such a short drama. I do think they expect it'd do decent, but not super well that it's doing. Ideal city on the other hand underperformed, rip iqiyi, you had a good first half of the year at least.

CC is produced by penguin pictures, the parent company of tencent video. YAMG is the first drama I've seen that's produced by three tencent subsidiary, penguin pictures, tencent pictures and honor of kings (the former two both normally produce dramas and they compete against each other) and yeah.

yeah, three channels, i listed them above, TV viewers doesn't really take away web viewers in this case because of audience reach. The ones that's watching tv for it are like my 80 year old grandpa and maybe 60 year old aunts. People under 50 are more likely to watch online. I'd expect a flurry of people watching as it ends because 1 ep update at a time is too painful for binge watchers.

it leaked till 27 eps (which is the last ep in that version), but a lot of scenes were missing. the viewcount per day didn't drop much, and the best selling ranking didn't slow down either, meaning it had no negative effect on it, there's potentially positive effect too, in that more people knew the drama was airing.

I wouldn't worry about YAMG, tencent will do its best boasting about it anyways, because it shows how well they are doing with ip development. Tencent spent lot of efforts reaching out to more people and get them to watch the drama, so they really wouldn't let all their effort go to waste.

it has 12 ep for non vip left lol

16 ep non-vip, 20 ep vip, 24 ep fast track, updates 1 ep at a time daily, airs on cctv 8 + dragon tv (current no. 1 rating of the year) + beijing tv (no. 1 for the station). Viewcount per ep wise, it's about no.3 at the moment even including all the fast track. But this is after its last few episodes got leaked online, the episodes were incomplete so they actually pulled in more members. It's 2nd on the best selling list as of yesterday after soul land donghua. (YAMG is third, I thought YAMG could hold the 2nd spot for a day before Crime Crackdown took over, but it came way too fast)

I should also note that trajectory for daily dramas (tv dramas) are little different from weekly dramas (web dramas that updates 2/3/4 times a week). I watched two iqiyi dramas double their viewcounts in the month after it finished its run on tv. i don't have examples for tencent since their tv dramas didn't do too well this year. (douluo is technically a tv drama but its stats doesn't look like one) The iqiyi tv dramas didn't have fast track though. But even 1.5x would make it 4.5B i think?

tencent immediately changed their restrictions so under 12 can't play the game, so i think that helped. Alibaba sex scandal blew up from victims side and not a regulator thing though, even though they always had horrific corporate culture iirc. Plus, I think they could probably hound on all the big companies at the same time since they spread across so many industries.

crime crackdown will likely do better than rattan and you are my hero and YAMG at viewcount per episodes + selling vip/fast track