Los monos chinos

This time we have to write about… whatever, it is a free post, and it’s a bad topic because the hardest thing to me it’s to have to make decisions…

Anyway, I thought about two options for write, the first one was about my problem of compulsive purchase of books, but for petition of my friend Tamara, I will write about the Chinese series I am watching know.

It’s called Mo Dao Zu Shi, or the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation. It was first a BL novel and this year was released an animation and a live action series (last one called The Untamed). The history takes place on a fictional Ancient’s China with mystic powers, paranormal events and zombies -it’s not as weird as it’s sound, those things make sense on that world-. 

The protagonist is Wei Wuxian, an energetic, smart, talented, but a quite stubborn and arrogant guy who, in spite of his good intentions, manages to ruin everything, or at least that’s what you thing at the start (middle of the series, really), but soon you understand that the Great Mess has more relation with the ambition and thirst for power from the Leaders Men, than with him. 

His counterpart (and boyfriend) was the mild-mannered Lan Zhan, whose greatest regret was don’t stay by his side when the things got crazy and is determined to put everything right on this second change together.

It’s a very good series -apart from the gay ship, the one that was censored in the two adaptation… because it’s China-, with an interested storyline, world’s construction -they have beautiful and epic locations- and character’s development.

PD: the Holy Trinity: Lan Zhan, Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng