Wuxia/Kungfu Series of the Month?

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Perhaps classics is better suited for people who like being nostalgic.

And as "A Step Into The Past", it's already nominated as CSotM some time ago. It's translated.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:33 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i'm not sure if a subforum is necessary, but we'll give the poll some time.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@jholic lol yea, my sentiments exactly.

Just a thought, how about throwing in similar genres from Japanese & Korean dramas in the mix if there's any. It might be interesting.

For us chinese, we fantasize about flying people blowing up moutains with our chi, I wanna see what the Koreans and Japanese equivalents are.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:28 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It's already there. For Japanese, Shinshengumi and the likes. For Korean, Jumong, Dae Ja Young, etc.

I don't mind if we conflate them into WSotM for the moment to avoid large proliferation. But I suppose the genre in Japanese / Korean culture is relatively new. I'm not aware of many Japanese / Korean ancient dramas. Any pointers?

@jholic: How long will the vote be? What numbers are you looking for?

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well, for J-dramas there's NHK's taiga dramas (there's a big list of them on DramaWiki). They've also been around for a long time, since the 60s IIRC. There's also Abarenbo Shogun which is a very, very long-running jidaigeki (period drama) that started in the 70s and ended in 2003 (!). But I don't think there's subs for that.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:47 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm not familiar with Japanese historical dramas. Is there an epic series on the Sengoku period of feudal Japan? That would be interesting to watch. Smile

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

like everywhere, i would split the chin. forum and the SotM (<-- maybe alternated) in Ancient and Modern Series

for WSotM .. where do we get the seeders? Mr. Green

(and if the series is well seeded, why nominate? scratch

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@ueda .. http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Komyo_ga_Tsuji ... as starting point Smile

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:53 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

the numbers doesn't have to be in the hundreds, but i would say a bit more than 17.

if we go through with it, i think we may need to have it last longer than a month. jp drams are about 8-12 eps, so bi-weekly was good. kor/chn dramas are about 16-20, so a longer duration was needed. since wuxia series are much longer, perhaps we may need a WSoTQ (quarter), and have it come out every 2-3 months?

there are a ton of j/k dramas that are historical. for korean, there's emperor of the sea and jewel of the palace. combining them into wuxia is risky. on the one hand, we may garner more support, but on the other, will it just mean wuxia will lose in its OWN sotm? i wouldn't want that to happen.

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 3:13 am Post subject: Post Rating: 2

Ah I see. Thanks. Let's have the poll open for the entire November then.

I see your point. Let's not combine Japanese / Korean ancient drama. WSotQ is fine. Let's do it every 2 month. Average wuxia drama is like 40 eps long. Longer than that would obviously need longer seeding period.

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 3:05 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

This is something I've thought about for a long time, I think it's a good idea in principal. I've tended to only look at the CSOTM as that has the best chance of a martial arts series being voted in but I do also watch Korean and Japanese martial arts series. I'd like to see them all together but I can see that there may be conflict.
One possibility would be to set the CSOTM as one month Wuxia/fantasy/martial and one month pop idol soap.
I only came to d-addicts searching for martial arts material and I'm active on many other sites catering for this genre. Many people come to D-addicts for this but don't take part in the forums due to pop culture debate that predominates so many will not see this poll.

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:31 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:32 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

To add to peacht's idea, it would be cooler imo if we had a WSotM and have it rotate between Korean/Chinese/Japanese wuxia related series. It'll be a pity that the chinese wuxia will only get to shine once every third rotations but this will both guarantee safe harbor of this genre as well as provide feasible alternatives so that it won't be over saturated. Diversify on this and it might appeal to a larger crowd.

@peacht: That's interesting. I never thought that there are dedicated wuxia sites out there with an english speaking crowd. Time for some googling. Wish me luck =)

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:40 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I've been watching "The Condor Trilogy" and loved them. I agree with the previous poster regarding making it a "Series of the Quarter" since the few Wuxia series I've seen are around 40 episodes. I also agree that combining historical dramas into the group would make the WSotM lose its identity.

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm very interested in having a wsotm, which would be eng subs only as for other sotm's, and chinese wuxia only, to cater for fans of the genre. Of course it will take enough fans. What i have is a fair number of jem's things, mostly, since otherwise, until just recently with devilslob, engsubbed series from the 90s or 80s were very hard to find for me.
I'm totally in with the idea of a chinese wsotm, hopefully those subbed versions do exist somewhere out there, or maybe we can work up a group to get interested in it. (No idea who the group Jiang Hu are). My chinese is still not good enough to do any subbing, but it will become so if I get to watch more series Smile

. As a hint to whoever out there might be watching, "wouldn't it be great to next watch that old version of shui hu zhuan" (NB: NOT the japanese version!!). As a totally separate hint to totally other people possibly, who's a fan of "Qie Da Huan Xi?" ? How great would it be to have the modern times series ("part 2" you might call it) with eng subs! Any one got clues if this will be aired in singapore some time?
Anyhow, once again, I'm all for creating some dynamics around chinese wsotm, and I don't oppose the idea of a subforum grouping it with other korean and japanese of similar content. Though seriously, I never caught on to any but the chinese ones.
Cheerio.