Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
We've got way too much stuff going on.
I have the feeling that all the platforms
actually hired the same fortune teller.
And that person told them
this week just throw out your drama
or this week just promote your drama
it's the best time of the year.
So everybody decided to do it same time.
Let me run through the stuff i've collected during this week
You'll get an idea about why I am so stressed.
First dramas that have aired.
The ones we talked about that will air did air such as
My Superhero, Huan Ying Guang Lin, and
also one day after that was Legacy, Chuan Jia
The Yu Zheng studio.
min guo setting drama
on that same day which is May 19th,
Ping Lan Yi Pian Feng Yun Qi
Defying The Storm, that is being aired on Mango television.
Also went live
It is another min guo, Republic of China setting
specifically right on the brink of the japanese sino war.
That one is led by Huo Yitian and Zhang Ruonan
talking mainly about on the male lead's end the fighter jet pilot
back then and on the female character's end
first is the Beijing located universities moving to the south,
which is a huge thing in chinese history back then
and also protecting historical artifacts,
which is also another big thing that happened during this time.
So this story has a very heavy historical weight
I've actually been very, very up to date to its episode.
I binged 8 episodes yesterday,
cause it's my job
in some ways, It's better than I expected
that in some ways, it does look like a very limited production.
If it's worth talking about, i'll make video on it.
As i'm making this video,
two dramas should be live right now,
which goes live on, May 20th in china
520 I love you Day,
one of them is on Youku
one of them is on Mango,
the Youku one is
Ni Hao A, Wo de Ju Zi Lian Ren, A Robot in the Orange Orchard
A contemporary drama that's led by Liang Jingkang and Sun Qian
The female lead is appears to be a robot,
high end AI that is hired or invented whatever for the male lead.
But turn out actually she's not she's a human
pretending to be an ai
if you look at the trailer,
I don't know how that could even went through
if you're human pretending to be a robot
and people actually don't realize you're human, like how ?
they can just poke you and see you bleed.
and they can tell you're a human.
Then the other one on mango that also goes
live today is the second season of the drama,
Yi Ye Xin Niang
The Romance of Hua Rong, Two.
I vaguely remember this title,
but i've never watched the first one.
Now, the second one is live,
it's led by Yuan Hao and Zhao Zhaoyi
Both actors have shown up multiple times
in previous mango television productions.
Seems they have a long term collaboration.
So if you've watched the first season and liked it.
well, now you have the second one.
Then tomorrow.
So as this video goes live on saturday,
a drama should have also just gone life,
which is yet another production of
Fa Yi Qin Ming, Medical Examiner Doctor Qin,
but this is not the Zhang Ruoyun original one.
This is the 3rd or the 4th one in the whole franchise.
I can't even remember.
And this one is led by Zhang Yao,
the actor who was the lead of Yi Cun Xiang Si, Love in Between
from the trailer, at least it's his real voice,
so let's hope he didn't get dubbed
Then one day after that
which would be May 22nd
An Ye Xing Zhe, Day Breaker.
We've been talking about this for a long time
since it started shooting last year
Li Yifeng, Song Yi
and they release a trailer during this week.
It looks actually really good and Li Yifeng acting
as a normal human in contemporary time just looks
hundred times better than his fantasy period drama zoned out.
Look of that Jiao Ren character earlier this year.
For all the actors who are a little bit serious of their career
stay away from Tencent s+
Period fantasy drama
then one day after that on the 23rd of May,
this is no stop of drama airing
is the drama i've talked about last week.
I said likely they're gonna air it very very soon and I yeah i was right
Shuo Ying Xiong Shui Shi Ying Xiong
one of the two Heroes I mentioned last week,
the one with Zeng Shunxi, Liu Yuning, Yang Chaoyue
and the director of Dong Gong(Goodbye My Princess), and Si Teng(Rattan)
Let's wait and see whether its fighting
things are gonna get rant or get praise.
And then as if that's not enough,
another drama is supposed to air a couple
of days after that on May the 27th.
A contemporary romantic drama led Zhuang Dafei, Ren Youlun
Er Jin Zhi Lian Ai, Binary Love
This is a story about two people knowing each other since
high school one helped the other to get through the
college exam and actually get to a really good score.
They both enter a really prestigious university.
And in the university their story continues
campus romantic story
that also would involve a lot of computer science mathematics because
it's called binary love as you can imagine.
So i'll keep an eye out for this one and hopefully it's a watchable one.
oh Let's take a breath,
we're only halfway through today's stuff,
because during this week,
both youku and iqiyi have started promoting their from now on
till like 2024 dram plans
prospectively going out this quarter
next quarter till the end of this year,
next year, 2024 quarter one literally.
So I was bombarded with too much stuff.
And if I go through all the dramas, they've mentioned,
this video is gonna be 1 hour long and really not that meaningful
because a lot of projects
they're so far away in the future that
if you get pregnant today
by the time that drama goes live
your kid would be talking already.
Let's just talk about a couple of things that have thrown out
more solid stuff that looks like more likely to come up.
Closer to now
first trailer released dramas, Hu Xin, Bac from the Brink,
i've also talked about these projects many times before
fantasy period drama led by Zhou Ye and Hou Minghao
They've released the conceptual 520 I love you day.
Pretty trailer that doesn't tell you what it is about
just 2 pretty people in the drama kissing and stuff.
Basically the drama wants to remind you that it exists
also similar thing is a drama released similar trailer
which is Qian Qiu Ling
Another period fantasy drama
doesn't even have an english title yet
led by Tong Mengshi and Zhang Yuxi
looking like just another fantasy drama, exactly.
Like every other fantasy drama you've seen before.
Then there's also a drama that has released a trailer
that I haven't heard about before.
And i'm so sorry, just by looking the trailer, i'm intrigued,
I cannot wait.
I really really want to watch this drama because
first it's a contemporary drama.
Second it's 2 male leads drama.
that I didn't know this before
looking super exciting called
Desire Catcher, Bu Meng Ren, and guess who are the leads
Zheng Yecheng, Xin Yunlai
just looking at that.
I'm super happy.
And then when I look at the trailer
oh it looks good
and I think it's original sound.
No dubbing, at least in the trailer,
it's their own voice
Xin Yunlai plays a policeman.
And Zheng Yecheng plays a master of hypnotizing.
So that's why it's called desire catcher or
chinese title is more like dream catcher.
It has a lot to do as hypnosis,
the two guys coming together and figuring out stuff,
looking very exciting
Then a couple of other dramas have also officially started promoting.
There are at different stages,
not sure exactly whether they're ready to come out or
a the end of like post production that type of stuff.
Number one is called, Hei Bai Mi Ma
it is the second collaboration that I think i've mentioned once before,
between Wang Ziqi and Su Xiaotong
the Imperial Coroner couple this time they are in contemporary time.
It's a crime drama,
yeah they're gonna come together again and looking cool,
you know there's gonna be fights,
there's gonna be gun fights
gonna be crimes and all that stuff.
I think the english title is Chase the Truth.
I know a lot of people really hope they can get together,
but they're not a real couple in life and they also come together
to promote their drama with a
like their own selfie phone video recently]
in the video,
you just feel the viable really good buddies and colleagues,
but not the that type of~
I don't care.
I want to get a good drama.
I think that's more important than fantasizing about CPs
Also a drama has started promoting during this week.
And just because of who are leading it,
it makes a lot of people excited
A drama that has just started rolling called Qu You Feng de Di Fang
going to where the wind is blowing.
That would be the title's meaning.
Don't think it has an official title yet.
And the interesting thing about this project is
it's gonna be led by Liu Yifei and Li Xian
Somehow I never imagined these two can be paired up,
but they are
uh intrigued for sure,
but can we just see this drama and this drama?
First?
the dramas both of them leads that is kind of on the
brink of airing but still not hearing a confirmed news.
The other thing about this drama that may be interesting is
it's gonna be written by the pair of script writers
who wrote this drama and this drama.
So if you like these writers' style and the type of story they do,
you're gonna get very excited.
If you don't
well huge landmine potentially ahead.
And as if that's not enough during this week,
also a drama started promoting
that made a lot of people very happy.
They basically are telling you we start rolling now
this is for real,
it's on the desk,
it's green light, we're gonna make it,
but exactly when not yet, probably
because some main actors are filming
other dramas right now and everybody knows that,
but they're gonna do it.
and with the original cast.
It's a drama that was popular a couple of years ago.
Everybody's waiting for the second season.
Can you guess which one it is?
Young Blood, Da Song Shao Nian Zhi 2
Everybody of the original Qi Zhai 七斋's people are gonna come back
and they made this video of them
If you watched the first series,
you know
how they were trying to learn how to be
the bottom of the society people and shake all the time.
So they each were shaking in their video.
And you can tell it's all filmed at different locations,
Good Luck to this production.
Then during this week, because iqiyi and youku were going crazy,
they were announcing projects,
prospective projects long into the future.
There are at least two projects that will be very exciting for my audiences.
So i'm just picking it out
out of the iqiyi package.
Number one is the third series of Da Jiang Da He
Like A Flowing River that will still be led by
Wang Kai, Dong Zijian, Yang Shuo, also Yang Caiyu
not a big fan of that, but hey, when it comes out,
I still will check it out.
And there projecting to air it on iqiyi
first quarter 2024 and something
also with that kind of excitement is the third series of
Nirvana in Fire
Yes, it's also on iqiyi's table is
on Zheng Wu Yang Guang's table.
It's gonna have their stardom team of the best three directors directing.
They've announced they are definitely making it happen.
It's also looking at the very end of 2023 or 2024.
There's no news about exactly what the story
is gonna be about who are the leading cast.
Another reason to just stay alive,
not dying,
no matter what
you know stick through life so that you can,
you can see
these things in the future.
And to wrap up
the drama Xian Wei Da Yuan, which I don't think,
even though last time I talked about it,
I did say there's an english title.
I don't think they have a finalized one yet.
So right now we don't know
Zheng Wu Yang Guang production that finally involves Hu Ge
after nirvana that many years
started shooting for real.
and they've even had a lot of leaked photos online now
because of how high profile this project is.
And zhang xincheng definitely is filming that.
So in his video of starting the second series of Young Blood,
he has the hair and look and even like it.
I think they literally filmed it on the same day
when he filmed that video for young blood 2
And then Xian Wei Da Yuan
with the opening ceremony
and they're aiming at putting this thing out october the first this year.
So they don't have months and months of time shooting.
They probably will wrap it by end of june or something.
That means if Zhang Xincheng can jump right into making.
Da Song Shao Nian Zhi
Who knows?
And this is just like as 1/4 of all the
dramas that's been promoted during this week.
That's why I cannot talk more.
This video is gonna get way too long from youku.
and iqiyi, a lot of things to look forward to
and way too many dramas for me to watch.
I think yesterday I watched 16 episodes of drama
that comes from four different dramas.
Some are old dramas that are wrapping up,
some are new dramas that just came out
and it's just gonna get worse from today onward
yeah just after I complained
about too much crap and nothing you wanna watch in dramaland
Ten dramas happen.
I guess that's like a classic case of
be careful what you wish for, Hey?
anyway, that should wrap up to this video
hope you have a great weekend
and it's May 20th and this morning it started snowing again.
Just after i've washed all my sweaters and packed up my winter jacket,
I love planet earth.
This is the greatest place i've ever chosen to incarnate in.
and that's totally said with a sense of sarcasm.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video
meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.