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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Word of Honor

 Just finished watching 36 episodes of Word of Honor, a Chinese drama that was extremely popular this spring. It's part of the wuxia genre, and also a BL romance that managed to get past the censors. So much of it went over my head, such as the use of poetry in the dialogue, but it had a lot of complex characters in the secondary characters as well as the OTP. This review (in two parts) gives some background on the production and the genre. There's so much that the translations cannot even begin to convey. Here's an explanation of the multiple meanings of the characters' names: