How Did You Get Into MDZS/The Untamed?
So my journey was a bit weird, I was going through a phase of reading BL manga during covid lockdown (which I haven’t really done since Uni) and just filtered by most popular BL and lo and behold, The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation popped up. I didn’t read it. Not at least until a few weeks later when it just kept appearing, you know like once you know about something you keep on noticing more? (psych 101 whispers: Baader-Meinhof phenomenon)
Anyway ok, decided to read it, blazed through it also because it’s not finished yet and got obsessed. So I did what the next sane person would do. I watched the donghua. And interestingly enough the manhua and donghua follow a slightly different sequence so I was uncovering more of the story. But then. The manhua isn’t finished either... so there I went to the novel.
The novel took a while to finish, I hadn’t read translated works for quite a while and there was always a sense of discomfort reading a Chinese work translated into English as someone who understands Chinese but probably couldn’t read a 100+ Chinese book in the original language - so there was always the sense of “hmm what word did they use in the original” because mandarin is so nuanced and idk I just wanted to know haha but anyway powered through that.
And at the same time, I was concurrently watching The Untamed on Netflix and slowly falling in love with Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo and yeaaaaa that’s probably where everything came together and exploded.
So yes, I have consumed all forms of 魔道祖师 adaptations and didn’t regret a single one because every iteration had its slight nuances and I love them all (but not equally haha). Just that it went from manhua > donghua > novel > live action.
So what about about you? When did you get into the fandom, what adaptation did you consume? Share your thoughts with me ^^