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Apr. 11th, 2025 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
douqiInterview with Xen Wu/Wu Chuanxin
I posted here that Xen Wu/Wu Chuanxin, the director of baihe live action adaptation When We Met (去年烟火, pinyin: qunian yanhuo), was scheduled to appear on a livestream hosted by Wu Yanling of the Juzi Niannian team. An official recording of the whole session is available on Bilibili (under the cut, because it autoplays), and makes for interesting viewing. There are no English subtitles available at the moment, but if any comm members are interested in trying their hand at subtitling, I think this would be a nice-sized project.
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Won't Let You Go Again (错过十八岁) round-up
I initially posted about this mini-drama featuring Han Jiale and Jiang Shuting of girl group SNH48 here. For ease of reference, here's the official synopsis again:
I've now watched the whole thing and it's definitely about as much of a GL as Douyin will let you get away with. Neither the acting, writing nor production value is particularly great (even relative to other mini-dramas I've seen), and one of the episodes is basically a (I think unintentionally) hilarious adaptation of, all things, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, so calibrate your expectations accordingly. It also has an open ending, if you mind that sort of thing.
The original episodes can be viewed via this playlist on the show's official Douyin channel. There is also a multi-language (including English) subtitled version available on one of the YouTube channels that licenses and aggregates mini-dramas from the various Chinese short video platforms. Since the subtitles are almost certainly MTL, I'm not going to link specifically to that here, but you should be able to find it by plugging the show's Chinese name into YouTube.
I posted here that Xen Wu/Wu Chuanxin, the director of baihe live action adaptation When We Met (去年烟火, pinyin: qunian yanhuo), was scheduled to appear on a livestream hosted by Wu Yanling of the Juzi Niannian team. An official recording of the whole session is available on Bilibili (under the cut, because it autoplays), and makes for interesting viewing. There are no English subtitles available at the moment, but if any comm members are interested in trying their hand at subtitling, I think this would be a nice-sized project.
( Read more... )
Won't Let You Go Again (错过十八岁) round-up
I initially posted about this mini-drama featuring Han Jiale and Jiang Shuting of girl group SNH48 here. For ease of reference, here's the official synopsis again:
thirty-year-old Lin Huaide (played by Han Jiale) travels back in time to secondary school, and tries to save her then-best friend Ji Nian (played by Jiang Shuting) from committing suicide. In the process, she ends up changing their lives and those of their classmates.
I've now watched the whole thing and it's definitely about as much of a GL as Douyin will let you get away with. Neither the acting, writing nor production value is particularly great (even relative to other mini-dramas I've seen), and one of the episodes is basically a (I think unintentionally) hilarious adaptation of, all things, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, so calibrate your expectations accordingly. It also has an open ending, if you mind that sort of thing.
The original episodes can be viewed via this playlist on the show's official Douyin channel. There is also a multi-language (including English) subtitled version available on one of the YouTube channels that licenses and aggregates mini-dramas from the various Chinese short video platforms. Since the subtitles are almost certainly MTL, I'm not going to link specifically to that here, but you should be able to find it by plugging the show's Chinese name into YouTube.
