Wei Wu Xian and Lan Wang Ji are two completely different people from two different worlds. Lan Wang Ji is from the prominent Sect of the Gusu Lan. Due to his great achievements and reputation, he gained the title Hanguang-Jun, which means the light holder. He is seen as a hero, the role model of everyone in the cultivation world and is known to appear wherever chaos is. While Wei Wu Xian, the Yiling Patriarch who uses demonic cultivation, is a name that everyone fears. He has done many heroic things in his life, but also really cruel ones, such as killing thousands of people and even causing the death of those who saw him as family. However, the two who are totally different in nature as ice and fire, are good friends who consider each other as soulmates. In the end, Wei Wu Xian was "killed", after he became too evil for the world to exist, by the only survivor of the Yunmeng Jiang Sect, Jiang Cheng, who was once like a brother to him. At least that is what the legend says. Sixteen years after his so-called “death”, Wei Wu Xian suddenly reappears at the Mo Village. Between the boundary of good and evil, is Wei Wu Xian really as evil as the legend says and is Lan Wang Ji really that righteous as people claim him to be? And how much of the legend is actually true?
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Brilliant series
The DVDs arrived well within the time frame and in good condition. Just as a warning I didn't receive any of the six postcards meant to be included, so watch out if this might bother you! Picture quality and English subtitles slightly less than what you can get on Youtube and Netflix but passable. Mainly I make a habit of buying a DVD for a series I enjoy as a backup and to show a bit of support for those involved.For the series itself, I can just say it fully deserves its popularity. Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo have fantastic chemistry in this and tend to steal any scene when they're together. That's saying something as the standard of acting and the characterization is very good in The Untamed, some of the best I've seen. The first two episodes do wonders for setting up the world, plot, and introduce Wei Ying as a very fun and likable protagonist. A lot of pretty scenery and characters, add to that nicely choreographed fights, political intrigue, and mystery and you've got one of the best dramas out of China in recent years (and there's been a fair few excellent ones recently).One criticism seems to be the drama is a bit slow off the ground. It is, but I guess that as I generally am a fan of slow-burning stories I didn't mind as to me the first 10-15 episodes were just so amusing. I guess not all us in the Western part of the world have short attention spans.Compared to the anime adaption of the story Mo Dao Zu Shi (can't comment on the books as haven't read them), I feel the pace of the plot and characterization in The Untamed is much more superior. That might be to so with me liking Xiao's portrayal of Wei Ying so much, the fact the dramas way longer and thus more content or the fact I'm burned out on anime - I'm not sure. I just know I really struggled to watch the anime and didn't enjoy it nearly as much. As for the movie tie-ins to The Untamed, I didn't think much of The Living Dead and thought it offered very little to the universe and seemed very inadequate. As for Fatal Journey, I found the opposite, it was brilliant and well worth watching to find out more about the Nie clan's history.
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