Finally remembered the last thing!

     After I failed to remember my last MDZS thing to add it to the previous "oh I forgot some stuff" post, I finally remembered it.

    It's that I was stunned to see that Crunchyroll has added the animated version of MDZS to streaming.  They didn't exactly put any effort into its presentation on the page for the series, though:  there's literally no description of the story (I can only think of one other show I've ever clicked on that left that space entirely blank, and that was something that was simulcasting so I had assumed they had no idea how to describe its story) and for the first two seasons the episodes have thumbnails and titles but no episode summaries.  Then for the final season and the quasi-fourth season (made up of mini episodes of things that happened during the earlier seasons that apparently they just left out) they have episode summaries but no thumbnails.  Everything about the show's page on Crunchyroll is just sort of "wtf." 😰  (Okay, actually, it seems like episode summaries are only available on the console version of Crunchyroll, as I just went to the version on my computer to double-check something and found no access to episode summaries at all.  Which is particularly weird all around, but maybe I'm just failing to navigate the PC version correctly.)

    The second time I clicked on it to have a look at the wtf-ness of it all (several days later than the initial time), I noticed something appalling in the descriptions of the episodes in that final season:

    As far as I could tell, the animated version combined the confrontation in Jin Guangyao's treasure vault with the Second Siege of the Burial Mounds.

    Now, maybe that's Crunchyroll being stupid.  Maybe it's just the episode description that combined them, and that single episode contained both events.

    But...uh...I fear that is not the case.

    Not that I can even fathom how in the world the story would work if you tried combining those events.  (How and why would they then end up at Lotus Pier afterwards?  More importantly, how and why tf would Su Minshan have sabotaged everyone's cultivation without the trudge through the Burial Mounds?  It makes no sense whatsowhomever!)

    My resolution not to torment myself with the animated version was redoubled on seeing that episode summary.

    (Not that I trust Crunchyroll to have translated it all that well, either, but at least the summaries they do have all display the correct character names.  Then again, they obviously only decided to add it to their service because MDZS is so popular, so obviously they would have looked up enough of a plot summary to know what the proper character names are.  But after seeing what they did to season one of Heaven Official's Blessing and after they decided to start translating Lingzi's name as Raiko for season two of A Herbivorous Dragon of 5,000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized...well, I've lost any faith in the idea of them doing a decent job of translating a Chinese animated program.)