It’s such a delightful contrast to the other (gorgeous, this is not a criticism) danmei covers they’ve been doing, the ones with swirling gossamer robes and blossoms falling gently from trees. Look, we all love the cover, and we’re right to. (And if you want to talk danmei or any other nonsense, find me here at or on Twitter at !) Looking for something in particular? Check out the following tags: If you haven’t seen the whole show yet, tread with caution. Please understand that any fun that gets poked at anyone here is meant only in the most loving and affectionate spirit.

So much of this was absolutely, positively never meant to be paid this much attention to, much less seen by the eyes of native English-speakers.

The crew members working on the props and sets obviously worked their asses off with sub-minimal resources, creating an absolutely wild aesthetic that a friend described as like what would happen if China had invented the Renaissance. Start to finish, all forty episodes were filmed in about a three-month span. Its production was fraught with financial problems and plagued by eleventh-hour censorship decisions.

It was made on a budget of like three dollars and a ham sandwich. Guardian is a 2018 Chinese web drama based on a danmei webnovel of the same name by priest. The Dream of the ‘90s is Alive and Well in Dragon City

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