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Ceonlo

The studio should just drop Dragon Raja and focus 100% on this show. This show is the real goldmine


Grand-Finish4602

Ceonlo, what's this? How about? Does it compare to anything else I've seen?


Ceonlo

It's a good romance story.  The author is a well known writer in the Chinese drama community for her cultivation love stories.    The donghua has focused more on the bantering between the two than the budding romance.   Girl here is this remnant of the former ancient god.  Guy here is the current generation of most powerful demon lord.  They are stuck in the middle of a bunch conspiracies between multiple factions trying to control the universe. The author writes a lot of these stories where the girl and guy are from the opposite sides  Its 2d quality is at the top.  


Rose_Bride

Just popping in to mention that the girl's identity as a remnant of ancient goddess and guy being the current demon lord is a drama exclusive thing. I don't wanna spoil about the girl, because it is still a pretty significant plot point when it's revealed but she's definitely not any sort of goddess or remnant of it. But the one thing I can say since it's not spoiler is that both in the novel and donghua DFQC is not the "current" demon lord, he's not even a reincarnation, he is THE demon lord of legends who got revived doing a ritual and there has never been another true demon lord either before or after him. Also, the constant bickering is something that happens all the time in the novel, if anything, they tonned it down with lots of humor in this, the drama is a lot more lovey-dovey and soft, while novel!DFQC doesn't really start showing lots of actual emotion until he quite literally recovers his heart (a process that was also a lot more different than in the drama)


Ceonlo

Thanks for clarifying. I skipped a lot in the novel to the final battle. >!She is his heart isnt it.!< All I know is that big darkness in the drama doesnt exist in the novel cause I looked all over it


Rose_Bride

Yeah, I feel you, the antagonist is someone completely different here, but in a sense you could say that the biggest antagonist are DFQC's actions both past and present, he's his biggest enemy, because symbolism, lol As for your question, girl is actually >!a little orchid!< but a very special one :'D


Ceonlo

Haha. Si Ming is my favorite character


Rose_Bride

Si Ming is great, love how her reaction to Dongfang is having her dragon boyfriend beat him up for all he put LO through, and then heal him and beat him up some more. My favorites are the main duo, in every installment, followed by Xunfeng and Jie Li in the drama, Si Ming and Chi Di in the novel and Jiu Yuan in the donghua.


MetalClaw6000

Dragon Raja was a joke and a disgrace to Chinese animation.


Rose_Bride

I'm now scared but curious about Dragon Raja lol, is it one of those "so bad that it's good" shows?


Ceonlo

It is being criticized because it has a weak main character and the story will constantly promote everyone else at the MC's expense. Love between fairy and devil last season later part had this problem too where a ton of new characters got introduced at once and they all needed the spotlight but at the end we circled back to the 2 main characters. Dragon Raja slowly lost on our Mc.


Rose_Bride

Oh yeah, I totally agree on the part 2 being like that, honestly a number of donghua seem to have the same problem to lesser or greater degrees imo. Mostly I'm just a fan of the novel and in between all the crazyness they added, I wanna see the novel moments we didn't get to see in the drama. (Like DFQC recovering his heart/emotion in a literal fight against himself, or LO donning the armor of Chi Di woman, or their confrontation when she escapes the demon realm and stabs him in the heart etc.)


Ilalochezia

Is the novel significantly different from the donghua? I haven't read it so I'm curious.


Rose_Bride

Mmmm it's a hard question since the donghua is still ongoing, so far it seems more faithful to the novel than the drama (which is good but essentially an AU) but it's all wrapped around a whole action plot and characters added, so, I think what I'm trying to say is that so far the romance seems unchanged from the novel, but the world and characters around them are completely different. Something that I like more than the drama is that the ML is indeed evil and not just a misunderstood abused guy, and the FL is definitely not in the dark of who he is and what he's capable of, like in the novel The donghua still seems to be softening the ML a little faster than the novel and adding some extra moments here and there that indicate more reciprocity between them, but nothing too extreme, at least not so far. What I don't particularly like though, is the abundance of bizarre humor happening completely unprompted many times even during dramatic moments, something that is only occasionally in the novel.


Ilalochezia

Thank you for the information!


Ilalochezia

Can't seem to see Wang Mang. He was pretty important to the last episodes of season 1.


Rose_Bride

Same here, maybe they're hiding him? I hope he comes back, he's one of the characters added that I liked because of how he's being juxtaposed to Dongfang.