Английская Википедия:Biao Ren

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Biao Ren or Шаблон:Nihongo also known as Blades of the Guardians, is a Chinese manhua that was written and illustrated by Xianzhe Xu. It was first serialized in the new comics app in July 2015. The manhua quickly attracted a large number of readers and was well received. Since its first publication, Biao Ren has been serialized on online platforms including Tencent Comics. As of March 2022, Beijing United Publishing Company has released eleven tankōbon volumes.

Since its serialization in 2015, Biao Ren has had over two billion readings on 50 mainland Chinese online platforms.

Tencent Penguin Pictures and Colored Pencil Animation Group co-produced an animated (donghua) television adaptation that exclusively premiered on Tencent Video in June 2023. Blades of the Guardians donghua series was animated in Japan.

Plot

Hired fighters called Escorts protect a targets, criminals for whom the government has issued an arrest warrant. On the eve of civil unrest in the last years of the Sui dynasty, a government of fear and terror is gaining power in China, and feelings of hatred and enmity are emerging among some people. A skilled swordsman named Dao Ma travels throughout ancient China with his three-year-old son Qi Xiao and lives with the power of his sword. One day Dao Ma accepts a mission for which he is guided to the city of Changan. He plans to pay off his debt to a therapist named Mo, and when he travels in the western desert, he accepts a simple mission that turns into a critical, dangerous issue.

Production

Файл:Xu Xianzhe's influenced by Takehiko Inoue and Hiroshi Hirata.jpg

Xu Xianzhe's was influenced by Vagabond manga artist Takehiko Inoue and Hiroshi Hirata.

Xianzhe Xu wanted to tell a story of the late Sui dynasty by combining martial arts with western elements. Xianzhe Xu had no art training so he began to practice and hone his drawing skills for four years, and researched the weapons, historical items and history of Sui and Tang dynasties. The art style of manhua Biao Ren is similar to that of the mangas Vagabond, Blade of the Immortal and Beyond the Heavens. The author paid attention to details to present a story that is about emotions and destruction in a dark, historical era of ancient China.

Media

Manhua

The Biao Ren manhua was serialized on the new comics app on July 1, 2015. The work quickly attracted a large number of readers and was well received. The electronic version is now serialized on online platform Tencent Comics. Since the launch of the manhua, it has performed well in the book market. Many readers have called its exquisite paintings and grand Chinese historical background "the light of Guoman". The series has been praised by many of Japan's top manga artists. Rumiko Takahashi, Tooru Fujisawa and the former editor-in-chief of Crayon Shin-chan visited China to help promote it. On April 1, 2018, Beijing United Publishing Company published the first volume of Biao Ren. As of March 1, 2022, eleven volumes have been released. Later, the series was published on Japanese reading platform Mecha Comic. As of August 8, 2019, Shōnen Gahōsha released three volumes Japanese Edition. On March 18, 2020, Chinabooks E.Wolf (華瑞圖書出版社) in Switzerland published the first volume of the German version of "Biao Ren", and as of May 1, 2023, nine volumes has been released.

Donghua

On August 10, 2020, an animated donghua television series adaptation was announced by Tencent Penguin Pictures and Colored Pencil Animation Group, and was exclusively broadcast on Tencent Video in June 2023. Blades of the Guardians donghua series was animated in Japan, and was produced by the Colored Pencil Animation Group (Chinese corporation Chongqing Colored Pencil Animation Design Co., Ltd.; Colored Pencil Animation Japan Co., Ltd.).

Reception

The manhua Biao Ren was very popular in Japan; it has appeared three times on NHK, Japan's CCTV, and was praised as "a world-class masterpiece of Chinese comics". "Biao Ren" tankōbon volume one sold over 100,000 copies within a month of its launch. By 2021, sales of the first ten volumes exceeded one million copies.

The series received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its high-quality production and storyline, and amassed a notable Internet fandom both in China and overseas. The series holds a rating of 9.9 out of 10 on Tencent Video, making it as one of the most-acclaimed manhua series in the world.

On Douban, Biao Ren rated 8.4 out of 10, making it one of the best-received donghua series in China in 2023. Since its first publication in 2015, Biao Ren had been viewed on 30 online platforms over a billion times by September 2018, and over two billion times on more than 50 domestic online platforms by June 2023.

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Results	Ref.
2023	20th China Animation Golden Dragon Award	Best Serial Animation Award (Gold Award)	Biao Ren	rowspan=8 Шаблон:Won
		Best Art Direction for Animation	Zhiwei Deng & Juansheng Shi
		Most Reputation Animation of the Year	Biao Ren

External links

• Biao Ren official manhua website on tencent comics Шаблон:In lang
• Biao Ren official donghua website on Tencent Video Шаблон:In lang
• Шаблон:IMDb title