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 apocalib:

Exactly why I'm so bitter, actually. In ep31, we get their first fight against Tian Dou Academy's Second Team and lol, they had Dai Mu Bai ASLEEP because he's recuperating from absorbing his fourth soul ring (along with Fatty). They also almost basically skipped the entirety of them actually fighting the soul beasts to get their soul rings so it makes me wonder if their budget for CGI was low and they had to cut out a lot of the beasts. They had Oscar and Rong Rong fight one on one to with their devices (which are suddenly allowed btw in the tournament) and Zhu Zhu Qing as well until Tang San makes his sudden appearance (was also MIA because he was training his fourth soul ring in the cold/fire springs). They've changed all the exciting action sequences and swapped it for what?

LMAO, omg are you serious?  I remember that fight.  It's ep 69.  It's the first time TS reveals his 10k yr 4th ring obtained from the Pit Demon Spider.  He drops it in the beginning and everyone shits themselves LOL.  The Emperor is pissed that Shrek was turned away and one of the teachers shakes his head in disgust saying, "this should have been the honor of Heaven Dou" hahahaha.  And they win in under one minute when Mubai tricks them by baiting himself, then TS uses the 4th Blue Silver Prison on their whole team and Mubai fucks them up with his Meteor shower.  It's great--one of the most memorable battles because of them being thrown out at Heaven Dou by Xue Xing.  

Awwww, the discussions are rather getting interesting now about both the manhua and donghua adaptations.  I did not read the novel or watched the anime  and i like the posts here which are explained in detail.  Thank you so much all.   Reg.ep.31 which @apocalib has posted, i am also disappointed that i am missing those fights of our team.  So, i am going to watch the anime once the drama ends.  

 icecream2000:

Awwww, the discussions are rather getting interesting now about both the manhua and donghua adaptations.  I did not read the novel or watched the anime  and i like the posts here which are explained in detail.  Thank you so much all.   Reg.ep.31 which @apocalib has posted, i am also disappointed that i am missing those fights of our team.  So, i am going to watch the anime once the drama ends.  

You totally should! Actually, I got impatient waiting for the episodes to air so that's why I started the anime as well. I was actually a brand new fan to Douluo before all of this. Do watch the anime, it's fully subbed on Youtube :) 

@apocalib

Sigh...

It's ironic because I expected that that the CGI and fights would be atrocious and the story adaptation pretty adequate.  It's exactly the opposite for me.  What they should have done was put all there energies into the fights and power-ups because its clearly what people want to see, based on what I gather.  But there's always the budget issue..

Just finish watching episode 31. It is atrocious!! How can they butcher that awesome team battle into this cheap looking one on one? The very fact that Shrek Academy is allowed to use hidden weapon when the opponent only use their soul spirit is so embarrassing. 

I think we should blame the scriptwriter for this abomination. Budget, they should have  known early on that adapting this novel will require lots of CGI. If they could not afford it, then this adaptation should have never entered production stage.

 Major:

@apocalib

Sigh...

It's ironic because I expected that that the CGI and fights would be atrocious and the story adaptation pretty adequate.  It's exactly the opposite for me.  What they should have done was put all there energies into the fights and power-ups because its clearly what people want to see, based on what I gather.  But there's always the budget issue..

Same, the CGI has gotten much better since the episode 1 issue with the spider but it’s just that the budget probably isn’t big enough for the plethora of soul beasts and all the various attacks that exist within the universe :\ 

It’s also disappointing what they did with Titan Douluo tbh. That entire set-up was so cool in the donghua, both because he only came cos his grandson and son got their asses beat and because of the amount of pressure he had Tang San under. I guess at least Dugu Bo is still alright....although a lot of what made him amazing was also watered down lol 

 10katie01:

OP - 'whinny' is a sound a horse makes. I think you mean 'whiny'.

Ah yeah, my bad. Whiny is what I meant

 apocalib:

It’s also disappointing what they did with Titan Douluo tbh. That entire set-up was so cool in the donghua, both because he only came cos his grandson and son got their asses beat and because of the amount of pressure he had Tang San under

Uuuuughhhhh.  That's a punch to the gut.  That's literally one of my favorite scenes in all of DD.  I was just describing it in the comments section.  Tai Tan's test followed by his unswerving loyalty to TH and TS in spite of what happened to the four sects was soooo moving.