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media: Are You OK (You Yao)
I finished watching the donghua version of Are You OK and I am very pleased with it.
The basic premise is, what if there were just a shitton of transmigrators? What would that do to the world? If you've ever read 1632 by Eric Flint (I realize there may not be a lot of overlap in audience here) it's kind of like that, except that instead of a group getting physically yeeted to, well, 1632, it's transmigration en masse to a fictional wuxia setting.
The main character as much as there is one is Lou Zhu, transmigrator, businessman, in charge of verifying the identity of new transmigrators. Because all transmigrators must be properly registered, of course. The emperor is...very interested in them.
While Are You OK starts out as a comedy, it gets pretty serious by the end, and really does follow through with the implications of what might happen if a wuxia world got access to modern tech. And because the transmigrators aren't the only ones allowed to have grievances against the emperor, we have his brother Prince Yu ad another notable character.
Things I liked about the adaptation: streamlined many of the events from the novel in a way that mostly worked, added some new plot points which tied different sections of the novel together (the novel is actually a series of interconnected short stories). The donghua also added a couple more female characters, one completely donghua original and one a major expansion of a background non-character.
Things I didn't like in the adaptation: a lot of the visual anachronism gags left me confused about how much modern technology Liang was already supposed to have. Prince Yu and Li Ke's relationship felt underdeveloped compared to the novel--although this probably shouldn't surprise me too much. From the donghua, you wouldn't guess that this was originally a danmei, and to be completely fair, it was kind of hard to tell in the novel, too. But Prince Yu and Li Ke were the two I shipped the most and all of that is pretty much gone.
Okay I said that about the anachronism gags but I will never get tired of Lin Kai, leader of the martial alliance, constantly showing up fifteen minutes late with bubble tea.
The donghua is available free to watch on iQiyi. So far there's only one season (which covers somewhere between a third and half the novel, I think) but there's a preview for season 2. The novel is locked on jjwxc and taken down by the translator, but if you're interested, let me know.
The basic premise is, what if there were just a shitton of transmigrators? What would that do to the world? If you've ever read 1632 by Eric Flint (I realize there may not be a lot of overlap in audience here) it's kind of like that, except that instead of a group getting physically yeeted to, well, 1632, it's transmigration en masse to a fictional wuxia setting.
The main character as much as there is one is Lou Zhu, transmigrator, businessman, in charge of verifying the identity of new transmigrators. Because all transmigrators must be properly registered, of course. The emperor is...very interested in them.
While Are You OK starts out as a comedy, it gets pretty serious by the end, and really does follow through with the implications of what might happen if a wuxia world got access to modern tech. And because the transmigrators aren't the only ones allowed to have grievances against the emperor, we have his brother Prince Yu ad another notable character.
Things I liked about the adaptation: streamlined many of the events from the novel in a way that mostly worked, added some new plot points which tied different sections of the novel together (the novel is actually a series of interconnected short stories). The donghua also added a couple more female characters, one completely donghua original and one a major expansion of a background non-character.
Things I didn't like in the adaptation: a lot of the visual anachronism gags left me confused about how much modern technology Liang was already supposed to have. Prince Yu and Li Ke's relationship felt underdeveloped compared to the novel--although this probably shouldn't surprise me too much. From the donghua, you wouldn't guess that this was originally a danmei, and to be completely fair, it was kind of hard to tell in the novel, too. But Prince Yu and Li Ke were the two I shipped the most and all of that is pretty much gone.
Okay I said that about the anachronism gags but I will never get tired of Lin Kai, leader of the martial alliance, constantly showing up fifteen minutes late with bubble tea.
The donghua is available free to watch on iQiyi. So far there's only one season (which covers somewhere between a third and half the novel, I think) but there's a preview for season 2. The novel is locked on jjwxc and taken down by the translator, but if you're interested, let me know.