Chinese Manhua Animations (and Short Animated Features)
Starting this thread for must-see modern Chinese animations: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that manhua was invented in China before it became popular in Japan in the form of manga. So, a lots...
View ArticleNing Zhongze taught Linghu Chong??
i found this skill description in game did Ning Zhongze really teach LHC to beat TianBoGuang? i think the person who taught LHC to beat TBG was Feng Qingyang?
View ArticleThe King's Avatar 《全职高手》 - Yang...
OMG OMG OMG, they're turning the Chinese Street Fighter into a live action TV series! http://www.dramapanda.com/2017/06/te...announces.html Quote: The King's Avatar 全职高手, which is based on a novel by...
View ArticleWhere the LSF (Gu Long) main heroes fall on MA scale with JY's CONDOR TRILOGY...
People often remark how difficult it is to compare the martial arts levels of characters in the Gu Long and Jin Yong because the two authors wrote and portrayed martial arts so differently in their...
View ArticleYu Doi Nam: would you have liked to see him fully restored as a martial artist?
Yu Doi Nam (Mo Dong Hero # 3) spent twenty years as a cripple after being assaulted by Mongol mercenary warriors seeking the Dragon Sabre. Decades later, the medical knowledge of Yu's martial nephew...
View ArticleCrime doesn't pay...but did being a wuxia warrior?
While many wuxia protagonists enter the wulin life for such ideals as honor and justice, probably many more wulin warriors did it because they had to make a living and didn't have any better options...
View ArticleNothing Gold Can Stay...
I wonder if anybody is watching this? The title was what really caught my attention, because of the poem. Regardless, the story sounds interesting: It tells the story of a woman whose resilience and...
View ArticleMurong Fu's ego
How could Murong Fu, with such a huge ego, allow Wang Yuyan to guide him while he is fighting?
View ArticleTrying to get into wuxia
So, I'm a wuxia virgin and trying to get into the genre and use it to improve my Chinese skills. Somone suggested I read Jin Yong's Tian Long Ba Bu. Jin Yong is supposed to be the god of wuxia, whose...
View ArticleCould a naive SPT learn KHBD
To learn Kuihua Baodian, it requires the practitioner to have no sexual desires. Luohan Fumuo requires the practitoner to be free from desires and a naive Shi Po Tian was able to learn it. Could SPT...
View ArticleDid Yeung Ding Teen and Cheung Mo Gei end up doing somewhat similar things?
The 33rd Leader of the Ming Cult, Yeung Ding Teen, by most accounts, was a reasonably competent leader who was able to direct the cult effectively during his lifetime. YDT, however, left the cult in a...
View ArticleLin Yuantu brain fart/plot device/loophole
Now, I think it is safe to assume that Lin Yuantu was mentally strong enough to resist having KHBD/BXJF turn him into a crazy genderbender like DFBB. (since no mention of anyone in Jianghu or Lin...
View ArticleAnymore good Wuxia/KungFu/Hand-to-hand combat TV series Coming Up?
Doesn't have to be Jin Yong stuff, but better fights and stories than your typical XianXia! Romance is fine, but not at the expense of plot and fighting scenes!
View ArticleTop 10 Jin Yong Weapons
We know that Gu Long had his list of top weapons, but how should the weapons in the Jin Yong novels be ranked. Here is my list and reasons for their ranking: 10: Miao Renfengs (MRF) sword. Able to...
View ArticleIf HYS' wife lived to old age...
What would HYS be like with her around? Would he still be as eccentric and aloof? I wonder how much he actually loved her. Third edition makes her seem like a trophy wife, at least as the reason he...
View ArticleTsui Yin Manor Revisited (with a few more opponents for Kiu Fung thrown in)
Kiu Fung famously survived a fight with 200+ wulin warriors at Tsui Yin Manor, and many believe that had he not needed to divert some of his attention to diverting Ah Chu, he could have defeated the...
View ArticleFa Mun Lau vs. Soo Siu Ying examined more closely
In THE GOLDEN ROC KINGDOM volume of the LUK SIU FUNG series, Fa Mun Lau dueled (with chopsticks!) the Ngor Mei Sect acolyte Soo Siu Ying. The duel was inconclusive: neither Fa nor Soo decisively won...
View ArticleWhat is Dugu Qiubai's no sword?
Powerhouses like Xu Zhu and Xiao Feng don't rely on weapons, so is this the same as Dugu Qiubai's no sword stage? Did he only just reach their level?
View ArticleLuk Siu Fung and Sai Mun Chui Sheut vs. full-powered Dook Go 1 Hok
In Book 1 of the LUK SIU FUNG series (THE GOLDEN ROC KINGDOM'S TREASURE), Luk Siu Fung was of the opinion that Ngor Mei Sect Leader Dook Goo 1 Hok's martial arts were at a level beyond his own and Sai...
View ArticleXWXG & QKDNY
Both Xiao Wu Xiang Gong & Qian Kun Da Nuo Yi was able to replicate another skill. Was there any relations in the novel between these 2 skills? XWXG had 8 levels and JMZ took 7 of them. QKDNY had 7...
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