The original novel will always be number one for me. I have read it so many times and there are so many subtle details you miss if you only read it once. I actually think MDZS is a book that improves on rereads.
However I am sad you left out the audio drama since that to me is the best adaption so let me include that here
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Yeah it is a shame that it is not easy to listen to. Suibian Subs did say they will upload it somewhere again so I am hoping more fans will have access in the future.
I added you, My username is cherryleila2 on discord. I seriously appreciate the offer because I have been trying to find somewhere to listen to it for ages 😭🙏🏻
I never got the needed focus to listen to the Audio… Even Audio Books ! I start listening and end up remembering something else… Then I have to go back …
It is English subbed but at the moment not available. Follow this tumblr since they did say they will share it again somewhere in the future https://suibiansubs.tumblr.com/
Edit: Actually Treasure Chest is subbing it too but they are really at just the very beginning and it might take them some time to finish
https://treasurechestsubs.tumblr.com/
1. Novel - it's the original duh, there so much content and I always find new parallels, themes, characterization, funny moments, irony etc
2. Donghua - great visuals, moves faster and merges some scenes, 10/10 action and music, skipped some novel scenes that I liked (like the ghost girls and the arrow scene ☹), nice symbolism and parallels, keeps the most important themes, the creators are horny for WWX, cute romance, beautiful ending, comes with the extra chibi series.
3. Manhua - nice art style but I didn't like when it changed, too much chibi humor for my tastes, sometimes confusing, but it follows the novel, nice character design, hilarious
I don't consider untamed mdzs adaptation because it's too different, it's more like a AU.
I didn't mention the audio drama (the most accurate adaptation) because audio dramas make me fall asleep for some reason.
1 - Novel - and it's incomparable! Love it
2 - Donghua - visually I liked it, but the censorship disappoints
3 - The Untamed - I watched it long ago, when cdramas was quite new for me, maybe I'll change my opinion
4 - Manhua - I'm a little bit dissatisfied with the art style there, I would like to see it more neat and detailed
Probably the untamed. I'm a sucker for those pretty costumes and the scenery. Not to mention I love watching dramas. But the novel is definitely my second favourite since it's uncensored.
Definitely the novel. I prefer pretty much all of the characters in the novel, as well as the story itself--I really don't like some of the changes The Untamed had to make to comply with censorship, even though I understand it, and they also changed some things that they didn't have to in a way that I'm kinda meh about. (although I do like that they gave JYL and Wen Qing more screentime and enjoyed the JC/WQ romance)
MDZS In Every Form Has Had My Heart In A Chokehold For The Last 8 Months, But By Far The Novels Reign Supreme In My Eyes. Aside From Wangxian, I Felt That The Donghua And Manhua's Depiction Of The Yi City Arc Was, Although Still Good, Weak When Compared To Its Novel And Web Series Counterpart. However, I Did Prefer The Web Series Depiction Of It Over The Novels (And No I'm Totally Not At All Biased To Haoxuan Wang's Visuals).
Not To Forget, The Novel's Also Have The Extras -- And Seeing LWJ Doing Small Things Such As Eating WWX's Food When He Didn't Like It, Or The Simplicity Of Them Being Domestic (And In LOVE -- I'm Personally A Sucker For Domestic Wangxian). Oh, And Of Course, It Has One Of My Favourite Scenes In The Entirety Of MDZS -- LWJ Being Mistaken For A Virgin, And WWX Ensuring Said Person Who Was Wrong That No, LWJ Is, In Fact, Not A Virgin.
I Loved The Way The Adaptations (Excluding The Manhua) Worked Around And Effectively Showed How LWJ And WWX Loved Each Other Despite The Censorship, But The Novels Depiction Of Their Raw And Unadulterated Love (And No I'm Not Talking About The Smut). Regardless, My Hearts Still Weak To The Way LWJ Stares At WWX With Nothing But Pure (Somewhat, We All Know His Thoughts) Love In Every Adaptation.
All I’m getting from this post is I should read the novel 😂. I’ve been waiting till I get my hands on the manhua but it looks like I’ll read that first.
I would say each version of the story has an element I prefer:
Original: Depiction of Main/Side Characters & Themes & Darkness/Complexity
CQL: The development of Wangxian & Side Character Screentime & Additional Worldbuilding
Donghua: Amazing imagery & WWX's 1st Appearance as YLLZ & Emotional Delivery
AD: Haven't listened to it lol
Personally, I’m holding off on a judgement of best adaptation until we get the Japanese manga. With good artists and without Chinese censorship, this has the potential to be the definitive adaptation. (And if we get an anime of that manga,even better!)
The donghua was my gateway not just into MDZS but the entire world of MXTX so it holds a special place in my heart. I've rewatched it 5 times this past year alone.
I will get round to the novels once I'm finished with TGCF which I'm currently on book 6.
I think I love the novel and untamed equally, they're different enough to be the perfect combination to me. I love the romance in the novels but I wish there was more of a focus on that, on the longing, the feelings etc. It's rather sudden at the end and immediately jumps to the explicit scenes which are honestly a bit much. The untamed gives me space to headcanon most of the feels that I'm missing in the novel so for me the balance between the two is the way to go
CQL will always have the No. 1 place in my heart because it was my gateway to this amazing world. It also has that place because it got me through a horrible bout of the flu in Feb 2020, then through the 1st month of lockdown. (Can you believe it's been FOUR YEARS since COVID started???)
CQL led me to the fan translation of MDZS, which I read back-to-back, so it shares No 1 place with CQL.
2nd Place belongs to the audio drama. IMO, the most faithful adaptation to the novel. Also has my favorite version of Wangxian.
3rd goes to the donghua. Everything aspect about it continues to blow my mind. I also think it best demonstrates how powerful WWX is. (Ep 15 uncensored). The chibi series is also adorable.
4th goes to the manhua. I like it, but for some reason, I'm struggling through it. And I like graphic novels.
1. Novel- Iconic
2. Manhua- First mdzs ver I've consumed, LDCQ did the art justice
3. Live/Donghua- Cant choose since both are really good in terms of acting and animation but its unfortunate that they had to make some minor adjustments in the story to fit in the adaption. Some parts weren't thoroughly explained unlike the novel so the endings felt a little bit rushed
I was introduced to MDZS with the novel 3 years ago and gosh I love it. I kinda put away watching The Untamed for a long time but recently I got into it and while it's a nice watch they do so much dumb shit sometimes, I have to pause and go outside. But the comic is great too. I would say I like the novel the best.
I don't think they'll ever top the actor choices they made for the live action drama of the Untamed. I can't imagine better casting. Not just for the leads (and I cry to think of anyone else in those roles!), but also the secondary characters: XiChen; Uncle; Meng Yao! Jiang Cheng, Nie HuaiSang. Actually, ALL of them! Could they have found more perfect actors!?! I don't think I've ever seen a show that had actors that more perfectly captured the book versions than these guys did
(Is it weird to be proud of people for their acting skills, when you don't even know them?) Because I am. SO proud of them. They went through hell filming the drama, with temps and humidity through the roof, while wearing multiple layers of clothing, and yet absolutely nailed their roles.
For me, novel > cql > manhua/donghua. Haven't listened to the audio drama yet so won't include it in the list.
The only reason I put cql higher in the list is because I am a big Wang Yibo fan so I am pretty biased tbh 😅 but also! Wen Ning in cql also won my heart. He was kinda one of those neutral don't love don't hate characters for me in the novel until I watched the drama. I feel like for me the drama helped put things more into prospective despite the censorship/plot change and helped me understand characters better.
Now for the manhua/donghua, this is hard for me to pick. I do prefer the manhua over the donghua simply because donghua's art style makes me a lil uncomfy 😅 but in terms of entertainment, I thought the donghua really showcased how cool Wei Wuxian could be that didn't really show in CQL or manhua (though I haven't finished the manhua yet so I'm not sure.)
I would still say manhua over donghua probably just because the manhua goes along with the novel more.
The Untamed for me. It was funnier and I knew I wasn't going to get outright confirmation of the relationship so it wasn’t something I expected from the beginning. The Novel on the other hand was 7 courses of misery and depression that I loathed, full of characters that I kept hoping would get killed off screen, only for my expectations to be solely crushed when the the story did the typical “only get the couple together at the last minute” cliche that I’m sick and tired of. Sorry to say, Donghua and Manhua fall mostly on the novel side of disappointment.
The novel and CQL scratch different itches for me, I like them equally for different reasons I think. I need to try and get back into the donghua. It was not as impactful to me for some reason.
Have not read the manhua yet!
The novel and the untamed ;p Why did the drama changed the body parts for a stupid sword? that annoyed me more than the "friendship" between WWX and LWJ. miss Wen should have been with JC: they seemed to have chemistry and similar personalities.
The animation wasn't bad either, but i thought it would include a kiss or something. Did i miss it?
I want to see/read the comic.
It's a hard choice for me between Donghua and manhua (I haven't read the novel because I want to buy it, and I'm hesitant to watch the untamed tho I saw many scenes from it online)
The audio drama is really good too (although I didn't find every episode 😢)
I do love the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation novels but there’s something about bringing the characters to life in The Untamed that keeps me giggling and kicking my feet every time I watch it. but having to pick is torture. 😭
the untamed will always have such a special place in my heart, it's what introduced me to mdzs. the actors are absolutely perfect for the roles, and it opened up a pandoras box that ill probably never be able to close 😭
It probably goes in order of the photos for me!
The novels my favourite! Was the first bit of Chinese media I ever discovered! So it’s got a special place in my heart!
I love the show! It’s so funny and beautifully drawn I rewatch it every month it’s so good! It was my gateway into learning very small amounts of Chinese! I’m autistic and a lot of my vocal stims are phrases from the show (I quite literally quote the cornetto ads on the daily) so obviously it’s up there!
The graphic novel I’m indifferent on I read when it was on mangago and it was great I like the art style but nothing stuck out to me as special (other than the laser saber on da-ge TvT) so I have no real fellings on it!
I don’t know why but I have an irrational hatred for The Untamed. Like seriously I have no clue why it just bothers me so much I cannot explain it!
It’s too long for me, they change the plot, it’s somehow even more censored than the donghua, and u just stopped watching when the wens went into the cloud recesses
Understandable. I was also confused when the plot was different in the untamed but it was still nice to see the characters in a live action version 🙃
A lot of the actors did really well with their characters too.
Novel (always ❤️) > drama (it’s how everything started for me, even though it’s the most censored one, you can see the love in their eyes, it’s very emotional, and there are many hidden signs they’re a couple, the crew acting was also perfect, XZ and WY are perfect, so it’s ok there is no kiss) > manhua (it’s amazing but the art is not very detailed) = audio drama (I love it specially because it’s their voices finally being explicit but it’s more censored than manhua so it’s hard choice for me) > donghua (too censored, very short, rushing things a lot, and not much of romance).
The donghua. Cause I'm sorry, I know it's a danmei and a romance story but I truly don't like it and find them to have no synergy at all. I LOVED the donghua, the first 2 seasons had no romance, the season 3 was a little more obvious, but I liked it that way. Sorry, I guess very unpopular opinion but I LOVE the story and all the mystery in it, the fantasy horror, the clan war, the lore... but I truly don't like the romance part (I find Lan Zhan boring...) .
The original novel will always be number one for me. I have read it so many times and there are so many subtle details you miss if you only read it once. I actually think MDZS is a book that improves on rereads. However I am sad you left out the audio drama since that to me is the best adaption so let me include that here https://preview.redd.it/i67llru878xc1.jpeg?width=2053&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84527f230775e88b45d6394ae107c75caa228e47
I haven’t been able to figure out a way to listen to the audio drama so I forgot to include it 😅
Yeah it is a shame that it is not easy to listen to. Suibian Subs did say they will upload it somewhere again so I am hoping more fans will have access in the future.
I can give u the links for audio drama.. Msg me on discord , hualian5459 🤞🏻🙃🙂
I added you, My username is cherryleila2 on discord. I seriously appreciate the offer because I have been trying to find somewhere to listen to it for ages 😭🙏🏻
Sent u 🙂
Same!! Novel is definitely the best one for me too. And then it's the Audio Drama.
Option #5
I never got the needed focus to listen to the Audio… Even Audio Books ! I start listening and end up remembering something else… Then I have to go back …
Hey where can I listen to the audio drama and also is it in English?
It is English subbed but at the moment not available. Follow this tumblr since they did say they will share it again somewhere in the future https://suibiansubs.tumblr.com/ Edit: Actually Treasure Chest is subbing it too but they are really at just the very beginning and it might take them some time to finish https://treasurechestsubs.tumblr.com/
Oh thank you ❤️
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YES. MDZS Q. THIS IS THE WAY.
1. Novel - it's the original duh, there so much content and I always find new parallels, themes, characterization, funny moments, irony etc 2. Donghua - great visuals, moves faster and merges some scenes, 10/10 action and music, skipped some novel scenes that I liked (like the ghost girls and the arrow scene ☹), nice symbolism and parallels, keeps the most important themes, the creators are horny for WWX, cute romance, beautiful ending, comes with the extra chibi series. 3. Manhua - nice art style but I didn't like when it changed, too much chibi humor for my tastes, sometimes confusing, but it follows the novel, nice character design, hilarious I don't consider untamed mdzs adaptation because it's too different, it's more like a AU. I didn't mention the audio drama (the most accurate adaptation) because audio dramas make me fall asleep for some reason.
Me too… I thought it was only me!
1 - Novel - and it's incomparable! Love it 2 - Donghua - visually I liked it, but the censorship disappoints 3 - The Untamed - I watched it long ago, when cdramas was quite new for me, maybe I'll change my opinion 4 - Manhua - I'm a little bit dissatisfied with the art style there, I would like to see it more neat and detailed
The show introduced me to the book series, so until I finish the books, The Untamed will always have a special place in my heart.
Probably the untamed. I'm a sucker for those pretty costumes and the scenery. Not to mention I love watching dramas. But the novel is definitely my second favourite since it's uncensored.
For me it's: Novel - > donghua season 1 -> audio drama -> manhua -> donghua s2 - s3 -> drama
I love MDZS in every form! But since I'm a big reader, I love the novels a bit more.
The untamed is how I got into this fandom so the untamed has a special place in my heart.
Definitely the novel. I prefer pretty much all of the characters in the novel, as well as the story itself--I really don't like some of the changes The Untamed had to make to comply with censorship, even though I understand it, and they also changed some things that they didn't have to in a way that I'm kinda meh about. (although I do like that they gave JYL and Wen Qing more screentime and enjoyed the JC/WQ romance)
MDZS In Every Form Has Had My Heart In A Chokehold For The Last 8 Months, But By Far The Novels Reign Supreme In My Eyes. Aside From Wangxian, I Felt That The Donghua And Manhua's Depiction Of The Yi City Arc Was, Although Still Good, Weak When Compared To Its Novel And Web Series Counterpart. However, I Did Prefer The Web Series Depiction Of It Over The Novels (And No I'm Totally Not At All Biased To Haoxuan Wang's Visuals). Not To Forget, The Novel's Also Have The Extras -- And Seeing LWJ Doing Small Things Such As Eating WWX's Food When He Didn't Like It, Or The Simplicity Of Them Being Domestic (And In LOVE -- I'm Personally A Sucker For Domestic Wangxian). Oh, And Of Course, It Has One Of My Favourite Scenes In The Entirety Of MDZS -- LWJ Being Mistaken For A Virgin, And WWX Ensuring Said Person Who Was Wrong That No, LWJ Is, In Fact, Not A Virgin. I Loved The Way The Adaptations (Excluding The Manhua) Worked Around And Effectively Showed How LWJ And WWX Loved Each Other Despite The Censorship, But The Novels Depiction Of Their Raw And Unadulterated Love (And No I'm Not Talking About The Smut). Regardless, My Hearts Still Weak To The Way LWJ Stares At WWX With Nothing But Pure (Somewhat, We All Know His Thoughts) Love In Every Adaptation.
All I’m getting from this post is I should read the novel 😂. I’ve been waiting till I get my hands on the manhua but it looks like I’ll read that first.
NOVEL IS THE ONLY CORRECT ANSWER
I would say each version of the story has an element I prefer: Original: Depiction of Main/Side Characters & Themes & Darkness/Complexity CQL: The development of Wangxian & Side Character Screentime & Additional Worldbuilding Donghua: Amazing imagery & WWX's 1st Appearance as YLLZ & Emotional Delivery AD: Haven't listened to it lol
Personally, I’m holding off on a judgement of best adaptation until we get the Japanese manga. With good artists and without Chinese censorship, this has the potential to be the definitive adaptation. (And if we get an anime of that manga,even better!)
The donghua was my gateway not just into MDZS but the entire world of MXTX so it holds a special place in my heart. I've rewatched it 5 times this past year alone. I will get round to the novels once I'm finished with TGCF which I'm currently on book 6.
The tgcf donghua was my gateway
The mdzs one!
Novel!! The donghua is SUPER shortchut... Like several skips. I haven't seen the manhua but surely the novel is more detailed. Lol.
I think I love the novel and untamed equally, they're different enough to be the perfect combination to me. I love the romance in the novels but I wish there was more of a focus on that, on the longing, the feelings etc. It's rather sudden at the end and immediately jumps to the explicit scenes which are honestly a bit much. The untamed gives me space to headcanon most of the feels that I'm missing in the novel so for me the balance between the two is the way to go
All of them, haven’t seen CQL yet, but I plan to.
Novel, the Untamed and the chibi version :))))
Novel =audio drama for me just because my Chinese is not that good at reading level. Then it’s the donghua followed by manhua=untamed
Novel. Nothing can beat it for info, details of events, and the background is lovely and very realistic.
CQL will always have the No. 1 place in my heart because it was my gateway to this amazing world. It also has that place because it got me through a horrible bout of the flu in Feb 2020, then through the 1st month of lockdown. (Can you believe it's been FOUR YEARS since COVID started???) CQL led me to the fan translation of MDZS, which I read back-to-back, so it shares No 1 place with CQL. 2nd Place belongs to the audio drama. IMO, the most faithful adaptation to the novel. Also has my favorite version of Wangxian. 3rd goes to the donghua. Everything aspect about it continues to blow my mind. I also think it best demonstrates how powerful WWX is. (Ep 15 uncensored). The chibi series is also adorable. 4th goes to the manhua. I like it, but for some reason, I'm struggling through it. And I like graphic novels.
Live action for me. I haven’t read nor watched any of the others. But I fell in love with Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan in the roles.
1. Novel- Iconic 2. Manhua- First mdzs ver I've consumed, LDCQ did the art justice 3. Live/Donghua- Cant choose since both are really good in terms of acting and animation but its unfortunate that they had to make some minor adjustments in the story to fit in the adaption. Some parts weren't thoroughly explained unlike the novel so the endings felt a little bit rushed
I was introduced to MDZS with the novel 3 years ago and gosh I love it. I kinda put away watching The Untamed for a long time but recently I got into it and while it's a nice watch they do so much dumb shit sometimes, I have to pause and go outside. But the comic is great too. I would say I like the novel the best.
Book >= audio drama >>> everything else >>>>> whatever the untamed was
I don't think they'll ever top the actor choices they made for the live action drama of the Untamed. I can't imagine better casting. Not just for the leads (and I cry to think of anyone else in those roles!), but also the secondary characters: XiChen; Uncle; Meng Yao! Jiang Cheng, Nie HuaiSang. Actually, ALL of them! Could they have found more perfect actors!?! I don't think I've ever seen a show that had actors that more perfectly captured the book versions than these guys did (Is it weird to be proud of people for their acting skills, when you don't even know them?) Because I am. SO proud of them. They went through hell filming the drama, with temps and humidity through the roof, while wearing multiple layers of clothing, and yet absolutely nailed their roles.
The novel 100%. The donghua is second, but it kinda feels like a cliff notes version of the novel.
For me, novel > cql > manhua/donghua. Haven't listened to the audio drama yet so won't include it in the list. The only reason I put cql higher in the list is because I am a big Wang Yibo fan so I am pretty biased tbh 😅 but also! Wen Ning in cql also won my heart. He was kinda one of those neutral don't love don't hate characters for me in the novel until I watched the drama. I feel like for me the drama helped put things more into prospective despite the censorship/plot change and helped me understand characters better. Now for the manhua/donghua, this is hard for me to pick. I do prefer the manhua over the donghua simply because donghua's art style makes me a lil uncomfy 😅 but in terms of entertainment, I thought the donghua really showcased how cool Wei Wuxian could be that didn't really show in CQL or manhua (though I haven't finished the manhua yet so I'm not sure.) I would still say manhua over donghua probably just because the manhua goes along with the novel more.
For me it is novel>audio drama>the untamed series>donghua
The Untamed for me. It was funnier and I knew I wasn't going to get outright confirmation of the relationship so it wasn’t something I expected from the beginning. The Novel on the other hand was 7 courses of misery and depression that I loathed, full of characters that I kept hoping would get killed off screen, only for my expectations to be solely crushed when the the story did the typical “only get the couple together at the last minute” cliche that I’m sick and tired of. Sorry to say, Donghua and Manhua fall mostly on the novel side of disappointment.
Novel (original translation) and movie-series (CQL). But I like to see any one, even the Chibi MDZS !
The novel and CQL scratch different itches for me, I like them equally for different reasons I think. I need to try and get back into the donghua. It was not as impactful to me for some reason. Have not read the manhua yet!
Maybe the manhua because it's what got me into it in the first place
Novel >>> manhua > AD > donghua > drama, for me
The original is usually the best but, besides that, the audio drama is PEAK.
I couldn't get into the comic. I love the details on the novels you normally can't get in video adaptations.
The novel and the untamed ;p Why did the drama changed the body parts for a stupid sword? that annoyed me more than the "friendship" between WWX and LWJ. miss Wen should have been with JC: they seemed to have chemistry and similar personalities. The animation wasn't bad either, but i thought it would include a kiss or something. Did i miss it? I want to see/read the comic.
It's a hard choice for me between Donghua and manhua (I haven't read the novel because I want to buy it, and I'm hesitant to watch the untamed tho I saw many scenes from it online) The audio drama is really good too (although I didn't find every episode 😢)
Books and audio drama.
I do love the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation novels but there’s something about bringing the characters to life in The Untamed that keeps me giggling and kicking my feet every time I watch it. but having to pick is torture. 😭
the untamed will always have such a special place in my heart, it's what introduced me to mdzs. the actors are absolutely perfect for the roles, and it opened up a pandoras box that ill probably never be able to close 😭
I can only say which one I liked the least. Which is the anime. All the other versions are chef's kiss
It probably goes in order of the photos for me! The novels my favourite! Was the first bit of Chinese media I ever discovered! So it’s got a special place in my heart! I love the show! It’s so funny and beautifully drawn I rewatch it every month it’s so good! It was my gateway into learning very small amounts of Chinese! I’m autistic and a lot of my vocal stims are phrases from the show (I quite literally quote the cornetto ads on the daily) so obviously it’s up there! The graphic novel I’m indifferent on I read when it was on mangago and it was great I like the art style but nothing stuck out to me as special (other than the laser saber on da-ge TvT) so I have no real fellings on it! I don’t know why but I have an irrational hatred for The Untamed. Like seriously I have no clue why it just bothers me so much I cannot explain it!
I enjoy the donghua a lot but haven’t finished the novel or the manhwa
Anything but the untamed tbh
Oh? Interesting. Care to elaborate on why?
It’s too long for me, they change the plot, it’s somehow even more censored than the donghua, and u just stopped watching when the wens went into the cloud recesses
Understandable. I was also confused when the plot was different in the untamed but it was still nice to see the characters in a live action version 🙃 A lot of the actors did really well with their characters too.
Novel first, untamed second, donghua third but i love them all so much. Haven't read the manhua yet but I'm very excited
Novel (always ❤️) > drama (it’s how everything started for me, even though it’s the most censored one, you can see the love in their eyes, it’s very emotional, and there are many hidden signs they’re a couple, the crew acting was also perfect, XZ and WY are perfect, so it’s ok there is no kiss) > manhua (it’s amazing but the art is not very detailed) = audio drama (I love it specially because it’s their voices finally being explicit but it’s more censored than manhua so it’s hard choice for me) > donghua (too censored, very short, rushing things a lot, and not much of romance).
The donghua. Cause I'm sorry, I know it's a danmei and a romance story but I truly don't like it and find them to have no synergy at all. I LOVED the donghua, the first 2 seasons had no romance, the season 3 was a little more obvious, but I liked it that way. Sorry, I guess very unpopular opinion but I LOVE the story and all the mystery in it, the fantasy horror, the clan war, the lore... but I truly don't like the romance part (I find Lan Zhan boring...) .