Comment by lenkite
12 days ago
> The complete lack of Chinese influence on global pop culture
Hah, but in 3D fantasy animation - called Donghua - China has every other nation beat handily - even Japan. There are 3D Chinese animations shows like "Soul Land" and "Battle Through The Hewavens", "Swallowed Star", etc that a significant number of people watch all over the world.
"Soul Land" got animated? Which series? I hope the first, the second (or third?) series with that million-year-old white caterpillar was awful.
In any case: that manhua is one of the least bad stories, but the singular focus on "advancing to the next level" (incredibly popular in Chinese stories, for some reason) gets quite dull after a while. It's just that "Soul Land" manages to somewhat mask it; reading much of anything else Chinese is like going up an endless staircase (get trashed; level-up; reclaim face by trashing the baddies; loop).
Both Soul Land 1 and Soul Land 2 are now 3D animated. Soul Land 2 3D animation is breathtakingly gorgeous esp with 4k.
You can find them both on youtube under tencent animation. And a dozen free sites. Here is a Google Drive Link to 4k episodes of Soul Land 2
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lfIz6Sie2-0D58d6DPCH...
This definitely wins by numbers - my local anime site features chinese 3d shows too and there’s a lot of them. But the viewership isn’t that good still, judging by the comments and voting.