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Whether Ne Zha is Chinese Naruto or Chinese Bart Simpson will go down as the great scholarly debate of this project

Yeah Ao Bing's little heel-turn is poorly written thinking back on it, I appreciated that they gave him some inner conflict but the execution was definitely wanting.

I think the combination of mythic battling and fart jokes might make more sense in Chinese culture, Journey to the West is similar from what I could get through of that. Most of the book is extremely dense theological descriptions of various deities that I was never sure if the author invented on the spot or sourced from another text and expected the reader to be familiar with, but it's also a children's comedy adventure story with jokes about fornication, male pregnancy, and at least one instance of Sun Wukong pissing to insult someone, similar to that scene with the trap conga line in Ne Zha. Some canonical Western Literature can be like this too, like the scenes upon scenes of dick jokes in Shakespeare. On the other hand though the mythological Taiyi Zhenren apparently isn't anything like the drunken and flatulent version from the movie. It really takes a LOT of liberties with the source material.

Sticking with Vivo as my Vegas prediction