Just finished it, it was nice and had a cast of likable characters and I learned a bit about Korean legal system, but.... The murder mystery at the core of it was disappointing.
Im 28, I always knew I was a child deep in my heart because I'm really enjoying this one >.
Same happened to me with all of fiction. when I was a teen/early 20's I could get really hyped with fiction, and get really invested into it. In fact, the works I saw, read and played then still remain the most important and defining fictions of my life. But as I got older, I stopped experiencing the elusive "hype" and I just meh into most things.
A couple of years ago, I reconnected with my old friends who are still into anime and manga franchises we were into back then, and they fangasm over events and characters like we used to. But all I could thing about was "damn, you guys still into that?"
Tried even rewatching these titles, only to find out many of them are rather lackluster to me now.
This is all rather sad, and I sometimes wish I could turn back the clock to late 2000's or whenever and enjoy these games, anime, tv shows, books, visual novels and manga again. To freeze time and stay there forever. But then, even if I turn back the clock, it won't change anything. Because the issue is with my brain, this is what changed, not the times.
kdrama fans is such a broad variety of people those who ridiculed the type of drama may not even like alchemy…
of course, it also has a lot of faceslapping, junior you dareee, legacies of grandmaster, secret power pills, hitting pressure points to magically heal oneself and "dual cultivation" if you know what I mean, wink wink
as for accusations throw at this drama, they are right as this is obviously mimicking chinese fantasy fiction, but no show should be disliked or canceled because of that. I find it bizzare, because I come from noveling background, and most chinese authors are very happy to hear that westerners like their xianxia novels or even try to write their own. It's flattering that someone liked chinese culture so much to imitate it.
You forgot to mention where you copied the first half from.Also, laughable how you said that japanese world written…
I don't know what "point" you're refering to. As for the entire debate regarding cultural appropriation, I don't care about that. I don't care about this drama "alchemy of souls" either, as I literally haven't seen it, and I was just browsing when I saw your comment.
You copied the first half from immortalmountains.wordpress.com , then edited to fit your message. A careful reader will see that first part of your post, before the "---" is written rather eloquently, while the second half is filled with repetitions as the same point was beat over and over again. At the very least you should have credited them.
All I did was pointing out that you first did a copypasta, second you misinterpetated the facts about japanese language and fiction to fit your narrative. Xianxia, xuanhuan and wuxia "genres" don't exist in japanese language and mentality, and if they are named, it's only in relation to chinese fiction. For example, Dragonball has all the markings of xianxia and wuxia, but no one refers to it by these words you mentioned (sentien hsien and bukyo). In fact, I never heard these terms.
the first sentence reads: 武俠小説（ぶきょうしょうせつ）とは、中国文学での大衆小説の一ジャンルで、武術に長け、義理を重んじる人々を主人公とした小説の総称である。
translation: Wuxia novel is a genre of popular novels in Chinese literature, and is a general term for novels whose main characters are people who are good at martial arts and who value in-laws.
I repeat: I don't care about cultural appropriation, if koreans want to produce their own xianxia wuxia whatever, they can. But please don't falsify reality to protect your favorite show.
Let's set some thing straight here.1. wǔxiá (武俠) - literally translated as "martial heroes" (martial as…
You forgot to mention where you copied the first half from.
Also, laughable how you said that japanese world written in katakana, literally transcribed from English word fantasy, is some kind of different category from western fantasy. No, it's the same thing as in the west. A japanese can call wuxia, xianxia or xuanhuan a "fantaji" in the same way an American can call it fantasy, cause there are swords and magic. it's not a term reserved for xuanhuan alone.
LOTR is fantaji, attack on titan is fantaji, mo dao zushi is fantaji too. But the three form classification of xianxia, wuxia and xuanhuan you copied from wuxia wiki doesn't exist in japanese fiction.
I like dramas with psychopaths. It’s much more interesting than the amnesia trope for sure, however I’d agree…
She's psychotic with grandiose narcissistic personality and fantasy darkness hallucinations. As for her ideology, it makes no sense if you try to take her explanations at face value. It makes more sense if you consider how she kills people if only she hears about them doing even one bad thing because the darkness hallucination tells her and then thoroughly enjoys the process.
Definitely not the most internally consistent or deep portrayal of killer in fiction, but quite original and entertaining.
The murder mystery at the core of it was disappointing.
A couple of years ago, I reconnected with my old friends who are still into anime and manga franchises we were into back then, and they fangasm over events and characters like we used to. But all I could thing about was "damn, you guys still into that?"
Tried even rewatching these titles, only to find out many of them are rather lackluster to me now.
This is all rather sad, and I sometimes wish I could turn back the clock to late 2000's or whenever and enjoy these games, anime, tv shows, books, visual novels and manga again. To freeze time and stay there forever.
But then, even if I turn back the clock, it won't change anything. Because the issue is with my brain, this is what changed, not the times.
as for accusations throw at this drama, they are right as this is obviously mimicking chinese fantasy fiction, but no show should be disliked or canceled because of that.
I find it bizzare, because I come from noveling background, and most chinese authors are very happy to hear that westerners like their xianxia novels or even try to write their own. It's flattering that someone liked chinese culture so much to imitate it.
You copied the first half from immortalmountains.wordpress.com , then edited to fit your message. A careful reader will see that first part of your post, before the "---" is written rather eloquently, while the second half is filled with repetitions as the same point was beat over and over again.
At the very least you should have credited them.
All I did was pointing out that you first did a copypasta, second you misinterpetated the facts about japanese language and fiction to fit your narrative. Xianxia, xuanhuan and wuxia "genres" don't exist in japanese language and mentality, and if they are named, it's only in relation to chinese fiction. For example, Dragonball has all the markings of xianxia and wuxia, but no one refers to it by these words you mentioned (sentien hsien and bukyo). In fact, I never heard these terms.
In fact, japanese wikipedia has an article on wuxia.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/武侠小説
the first sentence reads:
武俠小説（ぶきょうしょうせつ）とは、中国文学での大衆小説の一ジャンルで、武術に長け、義理を重んじる人々を主人公とした小説の総称である。
translation:
Wuxia novel is a genre of popular novels in Chinese literature, and is a general term for novels whose main characters are people who are good at martial arts and who value in-laws.
I repeat: I don't care about cultural appropriation, if koreans want to produce their own xianxia wuxia whatever, they can. But please don't falsify reality to protect your favorite show.
Also, laughable how you said that japanese world written in katakana, literally transcribed from English word fantasy, is some kind of different category from western fantasy. No, it's the same thing as in the west. A japanese can call wuxia, xianxia or xuanhuan a "fantaji" in the same way an American can call it fantasy, cause there are swords and magic. it's not a term reserved for xuanhuan alone.
LOTR is fantaji, attack on titan is fantaji, mo dao zushi is fantaji too. But the three form classification of xianxia, wuxia and xuanhuan you copied from wuxia wiki doesn't exist in japanese fiction.
Definitely not the most internally consistent or deep portrayal of killer in fiction, but quite original and entertaining.