the depiction of Hoolay vs Mutok(?) are pretty different
Uh, making a race/species' defining trait being "eat raw meat and kill sapient creatures for fun, also go into crazy bloodlust" is dehumanizing. The prioritization of animal instinct and valorization of animalistic language is textbook case of dehumanization.
he had Moze spike her opponents with laxative to win her the match
I mean it would've worked if the story didn't also act like Jiaoqiu was a good doctor. At least make him somewhat ignoble since he's using his medical knowledge for harm. Like, guy has medical knowledge beyond his moral capabilities and people are rightfully scared he might go to the dark side completely.
But no, instead he's depicted as a noble person who sacrifices himself and it's like...uh...no.
Could MHY be trying to avoid accusations of depicting domestic disunity in Space!China?
But it's space!Ancient China... Like Xianxia and Wuxia depict that stuff all the time.
But if they're trying to avoid that problem, then they can just ... not set up internal warring factions or breaking trust between alliance members and make it a giant center piece of Feixiao's "darkness". They should have written a different type of conflict in that case.
MHY just hired shitty writers, and also their policy put story consistency at too low of a priority.
At this point I'm not even certain they hired writers... Literally even Lofter fangirls write better than this. There is no way whomever wrote this is a professional.
How much of that is the VA's contribution?
It's less that Jing Yuan is good and more a case of everyone else was shit. The characters that got the least focus escaped character disembowlment by shitty writing and looked better by contrast.
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Uh, making a race/species' defining trait being "eat raw meat and kill sapient creatures for fun, also go into crazy bloodlust" is dehumanizing. The prioritization of animal instinct and valorization of animalistic language is textbook case of dehumanization.
I mean it would've worked if the story didn't also act like Jiaoqiu was a good doctor. At least make him somewhat ignoble since he's using his medical knowledge for harm. Like, guy has medical knowledge beyond his moral capabilities and people are rightfully scared he might go to the dark side completely.
But no, instead he's depicted as a noble person who sacrifices himself and it's like...uh...no.
But it's space!Ancient China... Like Xianxia and Wuxia depict that stuff all the time.
But if they're trying to avoid that problem, then they can just ... not set up internal warring factions or breaking trust between alliance members and make it a giant center piece of Feixiao's "darkness". They should have written a different type of conflict in that case.
At this point I'm not even certain they hired writers... Literally even Lofter fangirls write better than this. There is no way whomever wrote this is a professional.
It's less that Jing Yuan is good and more a case of everyone else was shit. The characters that got the least focus escaped character disembowlment by shitty writing and looked better by contrast.