Seven Seas Entertainment
2024
312
Hardback
Danmei/BL Fantasy/Artbook
Xmas Gift
A beautiful artbook and guide for the explosively popular Chinese live-action drama!
The Untamed is an adaptation of the bestselling fantasy novel series Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi, also published by Seven Seas.
This stunning hardcover collection is a full-color guide to the rich world of historical fantasy The Untamed. This live-action drama series – an adaptation of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s New York Times bestselling novel series Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi – became one of the most popular dramas in China with over 9 billion views and fans located all over the world, including those introduced to the series in English on Netflix. This full-color hardcover (300+ pages long) is an art-and-text guide featuring beautiful shots from the show, character features, cast interviews, explorations of fashion and settings, illustrations and concept art, song lyrics, and more!
When it comes to my thoughts on the artbook for The Untamed, let me start with the positives. It has lovely pictures that mix concept art with scenes from the series and some wonderful detail on the costumes, props and general look of the series. I also liked that information about the soundtrack was included. The interviews were sometimes interesting, sometimes middling, but where this book sadly falls down is with the appalling editing... or rather lack thereof. The book is riddled with errors. One notable one is on a character profile, where the character's names are given, only they are names for the wrong character -- it's a copy of the information for the character on the previous page. There were other instances too, and it's a shame as it ruins an otherwise excellent book. Since it's such an expensive volume, I would have excepted them to take the time to check it properly, especially since it's picture-heavy, so there wasn't even that much text to proofread. It not for the lacklustre editing, it might have received full marks from me, but as it is I can only give 4.5 stars.
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