Which sites ratings and reviews do you find reliable and would recommend then? P.S. I asked both ChatGPT and Google Gemini which website or reviewer it would recommend that gives reliable ratings and reviews for Korean dramas and both of them recommended MDL. In fact Google Gemini called MDL the "Community Gold Standard".
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Homophobia runs deep on MDL so even after years of asking they refuse to add GagaOOLala.
This drama is actually Xianxia. For some weird unknown reason MDL does not have/allow a Xianxia category in the…
It is widely accepted that Xianxia is a sub-genre under Wuxia and that Wuxia as a genre came first. You’re right that Journey to the West has immortals, Daoist cultivation, and heavenly realms. But that doesn’t mean Xianxia as a genre existed back then.
Immortal mythology came first. Wuxia became a defined literary genre earlier (Tang roots, fully formed by the 20th century with writers like Jin Yong). Modern Xianxia developed much later, especially in web novels, by combining Daoist myth + Wuxia structure + systematic cultivation tiers and power progression.
Journey to the West is better described as proto-Xianxia — it inspired the genre, but it wasn’t written within a Xianxia genre tradition because that category didn’t exist yet.
So immortal fantasy predates Wuxia, yes. But Xianxia as a defined genre does not.
P.S. I asked both ChatGPT and Google Gemini which website or reviewer it would recommend that gives reliable ratings and reviews for Korean dramas and both of them recommended MDL. In fact Google Gemini called MDL the "Community Gold Standard".
Immortal mythology came first. Wuxia became a defined literary genre earlier (Tang roots, fully formed by the 20th century with writers like Jin Yong). Modern Xianxia developed much later, especially in web novels, by combining Daoist myth + Wuxia structure + systematic cultivation tiers and power progression.
Journey to the West is better described as proto-Xianxia — it inspired the genre, but it wasn’t written within a Xianxia genre tradition because that category didn’t exist yet.
So immortal fantasy predates Wuxia, yes. But Xianxia as a defined genre does not.