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Okay. So back in the day, I started out as a book blogger, but it’s been a long time since I’ve written reviews and media analysis with any sort of focus, especially once I discovered how much more fun it is to write fan fiction. But since a lot of my friends are watching the current Lost Tomb series (Reunion: The Sound of the Providence) and talking about The Lost Tomb series in general, I thought I would dust off my old skills.
The original Lost Tomb series aired in 2015. I thought I would do a post talking about the iterations of the series, but there is a lot of information, so I’m just going to link to a few sources. The show is based on a popular Chinese web novel series. You can get English translations of the first six books for Kindle (and possibly paperback). There is apparently going to be an American comic book adaptation from Image Comics out in the winter, and the art in the linked article looks really cool!
Given that this is a lot bigger property than I expected, and given that I don’t have anywhere near the familiarity with how it is viewed in China (although I gather that it is extremely popular), I’ll contain my review/round up to my experiences with watching the shows and reading the novels, if and when I get around to reading them — I did buy the books.
Please feel free to leave comments and ask questions and have a fun discussion, but note that this will clearly be very spoilery, so I’ll put everything under a cut. And I’ll be taking character name info from mydramalist.com.
Be aware — this first post is very long as I’m summarizing the episodes. Okay! So let’s go!
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The original Lost Tomb series aired in 2015. I thought I would do a post talking about the iterations of the series, but there is a lot of information, so I’m just going to link to a few sources. The show is based on a popular Chinese web novel series. You can get English translations of the first six books for Kindle (and possibly paperback). There is apparently going to be an American comic book adaptation from Image Comics out in the winter, and the art in the linked article looks really cool!
Given that this is a lot bigger property than I expected, and given that I don’t have anywhere near the familiarity with how it is viewed in China (although I gather that it is extremely popular), I’ll contain my review/round up to my experiences with watching the shows and reading the novels, if and when I get around to reading them — I did buy the books.
Please feel free to leave comments and ask questions and have a fun discussion, but note that this will clearly be very spoilery, so I’ll put everything under a cut. And I’ll be taking character name info from mydramalist.com.
Be aware — this first post is very long as I’m summarizing the episodes. Okay! So let’s go!
( Read more... )
