Guardians of the Dafeng has premiered amidst excessive reputation and combined critiques.
Guardians of the Dafeng tells the story of a modern-day employee, Yang Ling, who unexpectedly finds himself within the fantasy-filled world of the Dafeng Dynasty. There, he goes by the title of Xu Qi An, an evening watchman tasked with supervising officers and fixing instances for the individuals of Dafeng. Using the data and abilities from his life within the fashionable world, together with scientific data and deductive reasoning, he efficiently cracks a collection of weird instances, incomes the fame of a grasp investigator in Dafeng.
Dylan Wang performs Yang Ling/Xu Qi An. Xu Qi An is a constable on the Justice of the Peace’s Workplace in Chang’an County, Jingzhao Prefecture, of the Dafeng Dynasty.
The C-drama has generated immense buzz in China. Earlier than its launch, Guardians of the Dafeng had over 5.9 million reservations on Tencent Video.
Inside simply 4 hours of its teaser video launch, it garnered almost 20 million views. The hashtag #Guardians of the Dafeng rapidly trended to the highest of real-time discussions, claiming the #1 spot. On the day the premiere date was introduced, a number of associated subjects about Guardians of the Dafeng dominated Weibo’s sizzling search checklist and ranked first on Weibo’s Drama Affect checklist. Amongst them, the hashtag #Guardiansofthe DafengPremiere peaked at #2 on the recent search, whereas #Guardiansofthe DafengPromotion reached #3.
Moreover, the collection has been bought internationally to air in a number of international locations and areas throughout Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The C-drama is airing on Ok+ in Vietnam, Disney+, Astro in Malaysia, Viu in Singapore, ELTA in Taiwan, Rakuten Viki, MOA in South Korea, and NewTV on YouTube. It’s also reported that greater than 30 model sponsors have invested within the present, indicating the present has been anticipated to be among the many all-time hits even earlier than its premiere.
On the afternoon of its premiere day, Guardians of the Dafeng hosted a grand launch occasion. The occasion supplied an early reveal of the story’s starting. That night, Dylan Wang, who performs Xu Qi An, joined a stay watch celebration after his live performance, watching the present with hundreds of viewers, which in flip boosted the drama’s reputation.
After its launch, Guardians of the Dafeng continues to retain reputation, with all metrics skyrocketing. On the premiere night time, the CCTV Kuyun viewership for the drama reached 1.27, which ranked the drama first amongst all TV dramas airing through the night timeslot. On Tencent Video, the in-platform reputation index rapidly hit 26,087, securing spot in Tencent Video’s “Like to Watch Membership” whereas dominating the general rankings, drama rankings, and fantasy drama rankings. By the second day, the recognition index had climbed additional, surpassing 27,000.
Moreover, the collection topped charts throughout authoritative platforms similar to Maoyan, Douban, DataWin, Vlinkage, and Lanying.
As its reputation soared, Guardians of the Dafeng sparked widespread on-line discussions. Since its official announcement of the discharge date, the present, (as of December 30, 10 a.m. CST) has amassed 841 trending subjects throughout the Chinese language search community, together with 509 Weibo sizzling searches, 105 of which made it to the principle trending checklist. #GuardiansoftheDafeng has accrued over 4.3 billion views on Weibo, sustaining the highest spot on Weibo’s Drama Affect checklist.
On Douyin (TikTok), the collection has appeared in 153 entries on the trending subjects checklist, with #GuardiansoftheDafeng garnering almost 2.5 billion views. Even earlier than its broadcast, it had already secured a spot on the Douyin Movie and TV Chart, turning into the one waiting-to-be-broadcast collection on the checklist.
Speaking about worldwide reputation, as of December 30, Guardians of the Dafeng ranks ninth on Viu’s checklist of Trending Chinese language Drama in Singapore.
Furthermore, the Chinese language drama additionally received awards of Most Anticipated Drama and The Most Anticipated IP of the Yr on the Tencent Video Star Awards 2023 (December 17, 2023) and Weibo Imaginative and prescient Convention (November 2024), respectively.
Nevertheless, regardless of the drama’s enormous reputation in China, the critiques are usually not solely constructive. After its launch, many Chinese language viewers have been evaluating Guardians of the Dafeng to Pleasure of Life, starring Zhang Ruo Yun.
They be aware similarities between the 2 in phrases of plot and dialogue and say that the collection fails to achieve the extent of Pleasure of Life. Feedback like, “Having simply completed the primary three episodes, it’s first rate total, however let’s not evaluate it to the primary season of Pleasure of Life — it would not measure up,” have been circulating.
Moreover, the lead actor Dylan Wang’s supply of traces has come underneath criticism, even trending on Chinese language social media for this difficulty.
Though the combat scenes within the collection have been praised to some extent, they’ve additionally drawn criticism from some viewers.
As a drama tailored from a novel, the collection’ deviations from the unique work have additionally brought about dissatisfaction amongst followers of the novel. They argue that the intensive modifications to the plot might have undermined the essence of the unique story.
In abstract, the reception of Guardians of the Dafeng has been sharply divided. Whereas some viewers discover the collection extremely pleasant, others are dissatisfied with the extent of its adaptation and its total high quality. Nonetheless, the collection has efficiently attracted important consideration and has develop into one of many most trending subjects on-line in latest days in China. It stays to be seen whether or not the drama’s critiques and rankings will enhance additional or deteriorate with the upcoming episodes.
Supply: Phoenix Leisure