Category Archives: TW & C dramas

Immortal Samara with Yang Zi and Cheng Yi Abruptly Premieres and Early Netizen Reviews Complain About Cheesy FX, Too Many Side Characters, and Female Lead Visuals

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Well, this is either an attempt to slide a less than well-made C-drama under the radar or Youku ran out of marketing dollars midway through the year. This Wednesday the high profile xianxia C-drama Immortal Samara with Yang Zi and Cheng Yi premiered kinda out of nowhere with the first five episodes released on streaming. This drama isn’t Yang Zi’s … Continue reading →

C-drama Love Like the Galaxy Douban Audience Ratings Debut at 7.4 as Initial Complaints Drop Off Thanks to Simmering Chemistry Between Leads Wu Lei and Zhao Lu Si

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Well, one way to temper small(ish) complaints is to pour so much onscreen chemistry on the viewers that everyone is fanning themselves and no one has time to notice the other stuff anymore. C-drama Love Like the Galaxy is off to 18-episodes aired through three weeks, a glacial pace compared to other streaming high profile dramas which tend to drop … Continue reading →

Zhang Zhe Han Wins Japanese Audience Favorite Overseas Actor and Word of Honor Takes Favorite Overseas Show

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Well this is meta and fairly awkward all around. Japanese entertainment magazine Screen has been holding a Overseas Television Show Awards for years and this year 2022 is the 8th annual edition. The votes are in from Japanese viewers and C-drama Word of Honor took Favorite Overseas Show with another C-drama The Untamed in third place. For the Favorite Overseas … Continue reading →

Sequel to Hit Xianxia C-drama Ashes of Love Reportedly in Prep with Willian Chan to Replace Male Lead Deng Lun After Tax Evasion Scandal

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So I’m of the mind to just scrap this project but then I’m not the key demographic so maybe there is an appetite for a second serving. C-ent is reporting that the in prep sequel to super popular fantasy period C-drama Ashes of Love will still go forward despite a blip on the male lead casting plans. Ashes of Love … Continue reading →

C-ent is Reporting that Bai Lu and Luo Yun Xi Have Been Cast as Leads in the Next Drama Adaptation in the Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles Peach Blossoms Series

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There is new casting news in C-drama land and its another shuffle of the musical chairs of actor and actress pairing. The third drama adaptation is coming in the Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles Peach Blossoms series. The first Eternal Love (三生三世十里桃花) starred Yang Mi and Mark Chao with the second one called Eternal Love of Dream (三生三世枕上书) saw … Continue reading →

Love Like the Galaxy with Wu Lei and Zhao Lu Si Gains Positive Review Traction 10 Episodes in After Rocky Start

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C-drama Love Like the Galaxy was high profile prior to airing because it was adapted from the novel by the same writer as The Story of Minglan and had two reuniting leads Wu Lei and Zhao Lu Si who costarred in The Long Ballad though not as the OTP in there. I got interested due to the bit of pre-airing … Continue reading →

C-drama The Legendary Life of Queen Lau Reportedly Removed from Streaming After Complaints of Japanese Cultural Influences to Costumes and Food

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Dang, I hope the rumors are not true and that C-netizens are targeting Love Like the Galaxy next, because I’m caught up on that one and its growing on me. But back to what just happened to a recently aired C-drama The Legendary Life of Queen Lau, which premiered in June and just finished airing. From the outset C-netizens criticized … Continue reading →

Yang Mi and Gong Jun are Equally Stunning in First Character Posters for Xianxia Period Drama Fox Spirit Matchmaker

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So I majorly did this even if it’s like a mashup of previous drama costumes and also even costumes from these two stars own prior dramas. It’s just so eye catching and gorgeous, the first character posters of Yang Mi and Gong Jun in the upcoming C-drama Fox Spirit Matchmaker. Yang Mi going from the pure white ethereal fox goddess … Continue reading →

Crystal Yuan Swapped Out with Zhu Xu Dan in Upcoming High Profile Xianxia Drama Fox Spirit Matchmaker with Yang Mi and Gong Jun

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C-actress Crystal Yuan (Yuan Bing Yan) is the latest celeb to be association with tax evasion in Mainland China’s crackdown on tax dodging. It’s not for her personal income tax payment but a company caught underreporting income and therefore underpaid taxes and she was an executive director, manager, and shareholder in that company. Reportedly her ban will not be as … Continue reading →

Love Like the Galaxy Premieres to Critical Dumping from Critics and Viewer Complaints About Wu Lei Being Too Skinny and Zhao Lu Si’s Terrible Own Voice Dialogue Reading

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This isn’t a total dumpster fire (yet) but it’s certainly the leading news story in the C-ent rags this week with the premiere of big budget period C-drama Love Like the Galaxy hitting like a sack of bricks. It’s predecessor drama A Dream of Splendor with Crystal Liu and Chen Xiao was a massive hit and even more impressive was … Continue reading →

C-ent Reportedly Planning First Dual Female Lead Period Drama Starring Yang Zi and Li Qin as the Gender Swapped Counterpart to Two Male Lead Dramas Like Word of Honor and The Untamed

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So this could either be a big hit or a hot mess, but more from the fandom side then the drama actually being bad. C-ent is reporting a big potential casting news this week, the first ever dual female lead big budget period drama. The two leads are reportedly going to be Yang Zi and Li Qin, and together each … Continue reading →

Popular C-actor Xu Kai and Rising Actress Yu Shu Xin Cast in the Highly Anticipated C-drama Adaptation of Chinese Paladin 6 Titled Sword and Fairy

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I’ve only recently gotten the appeal of some of the rising and popular young actors from the past 5 years, since after 2015 I really stopped watching C-dramas and without watching it’s hard to like or dislike anyone. So it’s basically with the era of Chen Xiao, Lin Geng Xin, Li Yi Feng, Yang Yang, Zhang Han that I left … Continue reading →

Yang Mi and Gong Jun Start Filming Highly Anticipated C-drama Adaptation of Fantasy Anime Fox Spirit Matchmaker

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The musical chairs combination of C-actor and C-actress pairings has landed on Yang Mi and Gong Jun for the high profile fantasy C-drama project Fox Spirit Matchmaker (涂山小红娘). The two will star in one of the three segments in the source anime’s story line called the Yue Hong chapter (月红篇) taken from the names of their two characters. She’s Tu … Continue reading →