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it's taken for granted you can buy them, and have been previously shown in multiple dramas. I don't remember dramas showing you can take them off, but it's taken for granted by cnetizens, you sometimes just watch the hashtag gets lowered really fast (I think removing it cost more than putting you on it lol) You can also nuke tags by the way, which is really questionable, so weibo users are always calling weibo and its CEO names.

....that's because people always incorrectly blame censorship when a lot of it are their assumption/speculation.

they are, it's on the calender. it's honestly kind of rude, normally you'd fast track on last update day, so wednesday, but for this drama, it's monday, get them money and still keep the viewcounts, gg tencent.

Again, you are underestimating Sword and Brocade's two leads, Wallace Chung have couple extremely popular dramas under his belt, one of them a Gu Man adaptation. Both the leads have market amongst the Chinese aunties. S&B's novel is actually more well known than Minglan's, it's a shame that they didn't seem to adapt it super well, ah well, the drama outperformed its expectations.

When you look at how popular a drama is from cnetizen side, it's very often just weibo/douban which is young and female dominated, there are lot more people than that. Case in point, this week, we are going to see flurry of new tv dramas that's broadcasting, Cheng Yi's new drama is the least competitive of them all. A thriller that just started with a stellar cast, a Sun Li drama (tv rating queen), a daylight entertainment (production company, dramas all tend to be decent quality) family drama, and another family drama that looks like tv audience will love.

You can divide the viewcounts by ep number, that makes it bit fairer for shorter dramas. I want to restate that MHH is literally the top airing drama for iQiyi this year, by a very large margin. Expecting YAMG to match up is really high expectations.

I actually like that arc, but i think it got more boring in second half, but if you look at viewcounts, most people didn't drop it. Well done comedy is actually pretty hard to come by, and it has the widest audience reach. It's actually getting more views during summer than before. It is definitely the most watched drama for iQiyi, period, by a very large margin.

My Heroic Husband is not a high profile project but you severely underestimated tencent's ambition with it. (tencent pictures produced it and sold it to iQiyi) The ip is not a big ip but it's still medium level, the ML is actually very very well known as a comedian, probably the most well known for his age, even looking at actors. FL have a fairly popular character from Disguiser (pretty popular drama). Both ML and FL were likeable supporting characters for Joy of Life which was very popular. Joy of Life here function like a smaller version of Honor of Kings and bought them audience.

I really wouldn't use MHH, it's probably the most profitable drama this year.

one click means +1 view, even if you watch trailers, it'll count, lot of people might rewatch the episode, then there's those that might have clicked on it from front page or from games.

...no, it's just used neutrally to differentiate between the older actresses and younger ones. 85 flowers used to be small flowers too, but then they got older and there's newer generations so it end up being dependent on age.

Hua Dan is a chinese opera term, they tend to be naive and happy go lucky characters, different from Qing Yi who tend to be serious and mature. In drama world, the characters they play are similar to this too, and more broadly speaking hua/flowers tend to be more popular.

Gu Man didn't write about aerospace stuff because she's not an expert in it and the book is from Jing Jing's point of view so she's not privy to the details. That's different from a drama. I really do think Gu Man wanted more and proper details of aerospace stuff to make her characterisation more believable, not an exchange for consultancy, they could have totally skipped that like the novel.

that basically mean like every drama this year is a flop i think? i know everyone have high expectation for the drama, and i'm sure people will only admit it's popular if it's 5B, but below that is hardly a flop, seriously.

anyways, it's 1.5b at the moment.

that's unfortunately really common with cdramas as well, and not just a tencent drama issue, nor is it recent by the way, I've seen it few years back.

Why Honor of Kings because it's the biggest game in China, it's convenient and have many underage players. There's been many news about kids spending too much money on the game and then parents calling and demanding money back.

Did you know that China is also closing down a lot of tutoring classes that absolutely devastated the educational industry? Or that China have been fining and slapping wrist of multiple mega corporations due to monopoly and other stuff?

I totally get you being upset, but these things aren't really related like you think it is.

Just started Remebrance of things past, slice of life of daily struggles of few girls living in Beijing, it starts off quite sad but has mostly uplifting tone.

.....falling into your smile is a youku drama, buddy, and the issue have always been big for anyone that read chinese web novels, plagiarism is literally first thing linked to the title of the novel, the production team just didn't care. Long Ballad and Ancient Love Poetry both got slammed for miscast (different reasons though), cnetizens slam dramas for miscast all the time, especially historical with romance as focus "historical idol" dramas. Rebel Princess got that treatment, and it's an exclusive youku drama. (Youku bought it, not produced it though, I should note) cnetizens have gotten used to tencent putting in the biggest money and casting the biggest star and using them all wrong. Legend of Fei could have been a great wuxia, where did they spent all the money, and what was the director and writers doing?!

Kris being exposed is just him stepping on his own foot, he had multiple people expose him before, no one called the police on him. He called the police for blackmail and dragged his sexual assault in himself, that's hardly a cover up. *facepalm*

oh MHH have some downvoting issue with its author saying the wrong thing at the wrong time before the drama aired, the second half wasn't as interesting for some as well too thus 6.4, if it maintained its initial momentum, i think it would have gotten 7+, Joy of Life was stuck at 7.9 for the longest time, so I don't think MHH would go any higher.

Yeah AA still doesn't have translation, it's not a platform production or one that iqiyi/youku deem international platform might be interested in, so one have to rely on fan translation, and AA is probably harder to translate than even your average republican drama due to content.

Rebel got 8+, and its tv ratings did really well, viewcounts not as well as it could have, but since it's a big drama, it's still top 10 this year for iqiyi. Hengshan Hospital has subs?! wow, I didn't watch it but it sounded interesting.

As for Longxi, while I like the cast and director and general feel of the drama, I'm fairly worry about its viewcounts. Oh well I think it should have decent douban score though. I spent too much time poking at douban and watching cdramas, so it's always nice to discuss it :D

douban is actually picky on romcom and fluffy dramas, not everything else. Other genre will depend how well characters or plot is written, whether there's plagiarism scandal or if main cast have outrageous scandal. If the drama star popular actors and is average, the rating will likely hover around 6.

There's actually been ten 8+ dramas, 2 of them 9+ this year (Minning Town and Awakening Age), so it's actually on par with last year, but half of those likely won't get watched by international audience, then 3 of them aren't popular enough, the remaining 2 are word of honor and imperial coroner.

If you look at just statistics, a lot of the well rated dramas didn't do too well due too niche/small budget etc. (some did fine though, in the range of 7 and 6) it's the big dramas that tank in ratings, for good reason IMO. Oh well, even the drama that's doing best this year (My Heroic Husband) isn't consider a hit drama by some, so this year has been all around abysmal statistics wise.

6.4 is a decent score if your fav is a romance honestly. Nirvana in Fire frequently gets nitpicked as inflated score actually lol. It appeared during a time when a lot of popular (high tv ratings) dramas had really messy stories, so people were really happy to see a well produced and well written historical drama.

Recent 8+ dramas from my memory that international audience might like: Word of Honor (BL, BL dramas ratings are usually bit higher and this was right down its audience's alley), Hikaru no Go (youth drama), CrossFire (esport/friendship drama). Well produced school dramas usually get you 8+ too (the ones that's focused on friendship, not romance).

douban ratings have been inflated and also somewhat manipulated in last few years (this year's downvoting is fairly apparent), there's about handful of 8+ dramas every year but they are very often genres that international audience aren't interested in. Good romance dramas are more likely to get the 7+ range.

It's doing fine, there's just a lot of expectation for the show due to Gu Man + Honor of Kings + two popular stars. See how it goes next week with vvip episodes and after Olympics ends.

just for this drama, it's clear from the novel that Gu man found aerospace engineering romantic, so why is it so much of a surprise that she decide to elaborate on it in the drama with proper consultant? i really don't think ccp had anything to do with this.

she's not in the classmate's Wechat group, which is a whatsapp like app. Yu Tu found her high school account (real account) through the QQ high school group, which is like....skype or discord (online instant messaging that's not tied to phone numbers)