Douluo Continent (simplified Chinese: 斗罗大陆; traditional Chinese: 鬥羅大陸; pinyin: Dòuluō Dàlù) is a 2021 Chinese television series based on a fantasy web novel of the same name by Tang Jia San Shao, starring Xiao Zhan and Wu Xuanyi. It premiered on Tencent Video, CCTV, and WeTV on February 5. It was successful despite its data suppression.
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Plot
Based on the novel of the same name, "Douluo Continent" tells the story of Tang San, who lost his mother at a young age, overcame many difficulties with his perseverance and strength.
Tang San (Xiao Zhan) lives with his alcoholic blacksmith father Tang Hao. Tang San yearns to know about his mother, but Tang Hao never talks about his wife. When Tang San attends a Spirit Awakening ceremony with Spirit Master Su Yun Tao, he discovers that his Spirit is Blue Silver Grass, which he is told is the most common of useless spirits. Tang San's Spirit Strength, however, is exceptional—and he discovers he has a second Spirit, which he keeps hidden and only reveals to his father. Tang Hao tells his son that only by becoming the strongest and most courageous man of Douluo Continent, he would be qualified to hear of his mother. Tang San goes to study at Nuo Ding Spirit Master Academy, where he befriends fellow student Xiao Wu (Wu Xuanyi) and Spirit theorist Yu Xiao Gang (Chen Calvin), who suspects Tang San has a second spirit, and teaches him about Blue Silver Grass being not useless as most other Spirit Masters claim, and how to gain power as a Spirit Master. Running into trouble with highborn student and bully Xiao Chen Yu (Wang Kai), and to avoid entanglement with the Spirit Hall organisation that virtually controls Spirit Masters on Douluo Continent, Tang San and Xiao Wu leave Nuo Ding academy, where they meet several other powerful and enigmatic Spirit Masters on their way through the ranks of their profession.
Background
Tang Jia San Shao used traditional Chinese culture and historical stories as the blueprint and motif to create the original Chinese IP "Douluo Continent" through online literature. Tang Jia San Shao invested a lot of emotion in the creation. The male protagonist in "Douluo Continent" is based on the author himself, and many other characters are also from relatives and friends around him, taken from real life experiences.[1]
Cast
Main
Xiao Zhan as Tang San
Han Hao Lin as Tang San (young)
A former young prodigy of the renowned Tang Sect. Wielder of dual martial souls, Sky Hammer and Lan Yin Grass.
Wu Xuanyi as Xiao Wu (voiced by Qiao Shi Yu)
An orphan girl whose martial soul is a rabbit.
Supporting
Shrek's Seven Monsters (史莱克七怪）
Gao Tai Yu as Dai Mu Bai (voiced by Wei Chao)
Liu Mei Tong as Zhu Zhu Qing (voiced by Li Shi Meng)
Liu Run Nan as Ou Si Ke
Ding Xiao Ying as Ning Rong Rong (voiced by Liu Qing)
Ao Zi Yi as Ma Hong Jun (voiced by Su Shang Qing)
Shrek Academy (史莱克学院）
Calvin Chen as Yu Xiaogang / Grandmaster (voiced by Wang Kai)
Qiu Xin Zhi as Frander, founder and director of Shrek Academy (Shi Lai Ke)
Zhang Wen as Liu Erlong (voiced by Ma Hai Yan)
Zhong Zhen Tao as Tang Hao (voiced by Xuan Xiao Ming), Tang San's father.
Zhu Zhu as Bi Bidong
Huang Can Can as Hu Liena / Qian Ren Xue (voiced by Lu Xi Ran)
Bao Xiao Song as Prince Xue Xing
Shen Xiao Hai as Ning Feng Zhi
Wen Sheng Hao as Ju Dou Luo
Wang Yi Fan as Ye Zhiqiu
Liu Jiao Xin as Dugu Bo
Ren Qing Na Mu as Dugu Ya
Li De Xin as Yu Tianheng
Production
The series production for Douluo Continent was first announced in 2017. On November 1, 2018, preparations for filming were ready and by the end of 2018, preparations for filming had begun. Filming began in January 2019 until July of the same year.
Xiao Zhan and Wu Xuanyi were first announced as the main characters of this series on December 28, 2019, together with the release of the official poster of this series featuring the two main characters.
