Here's what I've been reading an watch recently:
Lunar New Year Love Story written by Gene Luen Yang drawn by LeUyen Pham— This YA graphic novel about a Vietnamese young woman living in the East Bay. As the title suggests its romance focused. As a person who has spent most of my life in the East Bay I loved seeing familiar landscapes in this. I also loved the lion dancing! I also liked how the characters in this had community: friends, grandparents, uncles ect.
Marvelous City eps 1-4 — This is a Chinese show about cities. Each episode follows an actor/singer around their hometown as well as two ordinary residents. I found it a little hard to follow at first because it jumps between people frequently but I like cities and most of the actors. It got easier once I understood the format better, and started watching in slightly longer chunks. There’s an episode in Xi’an (aka Chang’an)! Otherwise I was not familiar with the cities featured. The Chongqing episode featured some really cool underground tunnels and also a cat falling asleep on Xiao Zhan! The whole thing made me want to eat noodles.
Ancient Detective eps 1-14 — I’d heard of this show but was under the impression that there were no women in it. But![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
satsuma mentioned that there are some awesome women, so I decided to check it out! It’s a very fun and tropey show, with a lot of wuxia and mystery tropes. There are several excellent women but I wish they had more screen time. The romances are very “we just met and now we are deeply in love” which is not my favorite, but overall this is a fun show. (content note: offscreen child death)
( Eva Evergreen, Once Upon a Unicorn,Making Transcendents and Our Song )
Lunar New Year Love Story written by Gene Luen Yang drawn by LeUyen Pham— This YA graphic novel about a Vietnamese young woman living in the East Bay. As the title suggests its romance focused. As a person who has spent most of my life in the East Bay I loved seeing familiar landscapes in this. I also loved the lion dancing! I also liked how the characters in this had community: friends, grandparents, uncles ect.
Marvelous City eps 1-4 — This is a Chinese show about cities. Each episode follows an actor/singer around their hometown as well as two ordinary residents. I found it a little hard to follow at first because it jumps between people frequently but I like cities and most of the actors. It got easier once I understood the format better, and started watching in slightly longer chunks. There’s an episode in Xi’an (aka Chang’an)! Otherwise I was not familiar with the cities featured. The Chongqing episode featured some really cool underground tunnels and also a cat falling asleep on Xiao Zhan! The whole thing made me want to eat noodles.
Ancient Detective eps 1-14 — I’d heard of this show but was under the impression that there were no women in it. But
satsuma mentioned that there are some awesome women, so I decided to check it out! It’s a very fun and tropey show, with a lot of wuxia and mystery tropes. There are several excellent women but I wish they had more screen time. The romances are very “we just met and now we are deeply in love” which is not my favorite, but overall this is a fun show. (content note: offscreen child death)( Eva Evergreen, Once Upon a Unicorn,Making Transcendents and Our Song )
