The Untamed: The Official Artbook (Hardcover)

The Untamed: The Official Artbook (Hardcover)

A beautiful artbook and guide for the explosively popular Chinese live-action drama available on Netflix!

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!

Biographical Notes:

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (MXTX) is a globally renowned and New York Times’ bestselling author whose works are often cited as the most well-known of the modern danmei genre. Originally self-published in Chinese via the novel serialization website, JJWXC, her current titles include The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, and Heaven Official’s Blessing, all available in English from Seven Seas. Her series have enormously popular multimedia adaptations and have been published in numerous languages around the world.

Title Notes:

DELUXE HARDCOVER: combining material published in an artbook and two separate booklets in China.

The 2019 live-action series The Untamed, inspired by the novel series Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi, was a primary driving force behind the current global popularity of the danmei genre (Boys’ Love from China about romance between men). It was one of the most popular dramas in China with over 9 billion views on Tencent Video, gained a huge global fanbase.

The novels have been published in numerous languages and also inspired a comic/manhua (published in English from Seven Seas), an animated adaptation, audio dramas, and more.

Perefect for fans of the live-action show itself or the novel series it’s based on, as well as fans of the other works of MXTX; other works in the Chinese fantasy genre (xianxia); historical fantasy from China focused on martial artist heroes (wuxia) like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Boys’ Love/danmei; action-fantasy; Asian live-action dramas.

This book is unrated, but is appropriate for general audiences.

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