Huan Cheng

OK, I have a fascination with long hair on guys, so this show grabbed my attention with the thumbnail on Netflix.

The story is High Fantasy with a totally Chinese twist to it. Yes, the ending was annoying on some levels, but they did a second season called Ice Fantasy Destiny which is also quite amusing, although not exactly picking up where this one left off.

As to the ears, well, elves are very popular the world over and rather than the characters being normal mortals, the ears and the hair are a visual cue that what lies ahead is not your average oriental historical fantasy.

I completely love the production and for anyone who has an interest in Chinese fantasy productions, this one twists and turns and surprises one all over the place while telling a story of family complications.

This long running tv show, based on a popular Chinese YA novel, can be seen at Netflix. It is filmed in the look and feel of Narnia covered in snow, but definitely Chinese in computer animation and candy colored, fluffy drama.

The main story is about two brothers, Ka Suo and Ying Kongshi, from the Ice Tribe. They are cursed with a predestined life cycle, and their story is sad, but luckily there is some comic relief too. Most episodes reminded me of Greek Mythology with struggling gods, demi gods and humans full of love, hate, friendship, betrayal. Especially the story of Kongshi, the younger brother, was interesting.

All in all it was thanks to the actors that I watched the show until the end. The brothers, the mother of Kongshi, and the fire princess were fun to watch.

I loved the show for what it was. They definitely invested most of their money in costumes. I enjoyed it but hate the way it ended so abruptly. Since IMDB doesn't show an end year, I wonder if there are more episodes somewhere else.

Really good, couldn't stop binge watching it. I am disappointed that they stopped making it. Seemed like it ended abruptly ):

Quite riveting, except for the drawn-out "moments'. Makes you exclaim "ok, ok I got it can we move on?" I know some people said the wigs were bad, I actually thought the whole costume and makeup was pretty nice. The only one I couldn't get past, and made me chuckle every time he would show up on the screen was the Fire King. He looks like if Wonder Woman and Jack Sparrow had a baby. The other thing is the "memories". I swear, more than 1/3 of this series is "memories". I understand that it fills the episode time but I had already started to skip past at about episode 3. Otherwise, nice series. Especially MMORPG players I bet enjoy it. Loved the idea, pretty much everything, characters are fully fleshed. The end though seemed rushed.