Mo Dao Zu Shi

or 魔道祖师

TOTALLY BERSERK TOTALLY..

been searching for "therapy" since Yuri On Ice is taking a looooong break. Saw someone kept posting about some Chinese comic

now i am not really a fan of Chinese culture but being an old school era kid, i watched China's TV series of Journey To The West and grew up with Chinese sword-fighting TV series and even Dream Red Chambers (ya, i know, i don't chase all the time but i felt the lead actor is cute)

and there is one thing i do not go for things that are close to my heart or disassociate with things close to my heart for fear of being in too deep

like now

so ya, Mo Dao Zu Shi is one of them. My Chinese sucks i can tell you, i can only pass off with casual Mandarin conversations. Being in a country which has an exciting mix of different cultures - you can tell the moment i open my mouth and guarantee you need one minute to figure what i'm saying

but i cried. i laughed. Ever since i stumbled upon MDZS i died.

Never has any BL been so close to my heart: growing up in the "world of wuxia", listening to traditional Chinese music..oh, did i mention, long-silky-hair, fair-skinned, handsome, youthful scholars who are also excellent in sword-fighters, strategy and magic arts? heeeeeeeelp

The animation doesn't disappoint either and that is a surprise. i am a fan of every scene of it! Oh, Han Guangjun....oh dear, because i have always fallen in love with the variation of that..famous..Chinese..strategist..whose name..i can't..remember..Chu Liu Xiang? oh dear, i mixed up. My brain is fuzzy at the moment.

Btw, i think that animation was awarded the best animation in China..? if it's true, then of course it should!!

so there are many sources to the novel (which led to a comic book and animation series!!!!) and one of them is an "audio-book". i cannot read Chinese and my Chinese is bad as i said, so the audiobook helped me a lot. i can't make out the terminologies of wuxia and magic but the storyteller's voice says A LOT - and by the way, there's only ONE guy to narrate the SMUT SCENES - my brain shot right out of my head. And yes, i laughed and cried - CRIED LISTENING TO AUDIOBOOK - CHINESE AUDIOBOOK EVEN!!!!

Sidetrack: my dream one day is to do and send a recorded narration of The Tortoise and The Hare in Japanese to my Japanese teacher one day


i love MDZS!!!! 《魔道祖师》加油!!

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