My 1st Chinese manhua series:
https://acts.webnovel.com/2017/5840187/index.html
OMG, this is what I mean by Chinese media emphasizing substance over style (Japanese anime tends to do the polar opposite) and the results really show.
Sword Art Online Has A Chinese Knockoff That Does Things RIGHT: (watch in above link)
(Lol, Westerners thinking r very stuck in the 90's where China made cheap knock-offs just to gain industrial experience, but no longer the case...)
Also worth checking out:
Note that a big difference between Japanese and Chinese anime is the theme, and the audiences it is aimed at.
Where it almost certain that in Japanese anime, a series is aimed at a younger audience that are in their teens. One of the themes that often come back here is the highschool settings almost EVERY Japanese anime has. Around a good majority of Japanese series, you can't seem to go around the fact that highschool life, to at least a certain degree, is heavily involved as the setting in story development. Outside of that, this theme becomes less irrelivant, and becomes more out of place if you thread into more 'mature' topics. Code Geass is a great example of this, while overall a great series, the highschool setting of Ashford Academy didn't really combine with the overall theme of politics and war. As a matter of fact, if you would cut out all the 'happy friend' scenes and the time he was 'Lelouche Lamperouge', would it make that much of a difference to the overall story arcs?
Furthermore for the audience, the Japanese highschool theme and/or the 'character becoming stronger' themes were things that I could relate to as a teenager; teenage characters dealing with teenage character stuff in their teenage lives. Even in more mature series like Jormungand or Black Lagoon, there plenty of occassions that characters act well below their age, though they are supposed to be 20-30ish with pretty important positions. This stuff would be enjoyable if I was a teen, now that I am well into my twenties, not so much...
This is where Chinese series and Korean Manhwas do a better job in attracting a more mature audience. They are dealing with mature topics that concerns adults. The adult relationships apparently play a big role in Korean Manhwas, which is sometimes over the top, but still encapsulates some stuff you would have to deal with an (South-Korean) adult in his twenties. Surprisingly, adultery is a major topic: The ''Oh you have to work again? Well, I feel so neglected!'' or the ''A man and a woman can never be friends'' are recurring themes.
Quan Zhi Gao Shou is about a 25-year-old eSports gamer who gets kicked out of his team in favour of a younger and more prospective member, because he has passed his 'expiration' date as a professional player. Meanwhile, all this guy has known his whole life was playing and knowing the ins and outs of a video game... The character doesn't have an education or any particular labour skills aside from that. Therefore, he ends up penniless and is basically on the streets (if it weren't for a gracious internet cafe owner to provide him shelter at that moment) at the start of the series. That stuff is some cold hard reality that some of us as adults can all too well relate to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzrHGbCW-E
i would watch;p
