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Jentry Week
Day 2: Cosplay
Maybe you'll catch the lovely family during the next convention?
Post-Con Shenanigans:
#jentry week 2025#day 2: selfie/cosplay#mr cheng#mr cheng jcvtu#jentry chau mr cheng#jcvtu mr cheng#cheng lan#cheng lan jcvtu#xiao lan#jentry chau xiao lan#xiao lan jcvtu#honorary mention (again):#kit jcvtu#kit jentry chau#jentry chau kit#jcvtu kit#jentry chau vs the underworld#jcvtu#jcvtu fanart
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like this post if you want your daughter back
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“Family Portrait”
When you find a painting of your BF’s deceased wife and kid and start to realise some things-
Angela (pink haired woman) belongs to my friend and the woman and child in the portrait belong to me (I haven’t named them yet)
#WHY IS IT SO BLURRY WTF#freshie txt#freshie art#lmk#monkie kid#lego monkie kid#digital art#lmk oc#lmk Angela#lmk ocs#lmk Jiehong#lmk au#monkie kid au#monkie kid oc#Lego monkie kid au#Lego monkie kid oc#the girl looks a lil like Xiao lan from jentry Chau vs the underworld
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Someone recommended to me the show Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld, and I figured it looked interesting so I watched it. And I have some thoughts.
It is the most obvious lesson on why not giving stories enough time to play out messes with the pacing so badly. In this day and age of "you'll get about eight episodes per season and there's no guarantee you'll even get renewed, and it's more than likely it'll just get dumped", if creators want their story to be for sure be told onscreen without cancellation cliffhangers, they gotta cram it into as little time onscreen as possible. And the art suffers for it.
In my opinion, Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld is a genuinely good and compelling show. But it's good, not great. And that's because of the pacing. Almost every single glaring flaw (mostly the character arcs and dynamics, and a ton of loose ends), boiled down to an issue of the story not being allowed to play out long enough. It feels rushed and cramped, and it's basically the perfect object lesson on why stories need to be given enough time to play out.
There are many stories I adore that get cut short, that despite having a loving and dedicated fanbase, were left on a cliffhanger with no resolution. A lot of that being because they were Netflix originals. Which Jentry Chau vs the Underworld is. And this is the result of that threat. And that's depressing.
Jentry Chau vs the Underworld is a good story, with many elements to it that I absolutely love. But it's so, so cramped, and the obvious result of trying to get a story told in as little time as possible, in order to try and get it finished at all.
The love for the project is obvious. There's so much there to be expanded upon and allowed to give their aspects of the story so much more weight. But they just don't have the time to make that impact.
:(
(Also I didn't watch the trailer, but after finishing the show I saw it out of curiosity. Now, I'm no expert, but IMO that's Bad Advertising. Honestly, if I had watched that before the show itself, I might've just dismissed it right then and there.)
(Fuck you, Netflix. For many reasons. One of them being this.)
#ok but the intro is FIRE (pun intended) (probably one of the best I've ever seen)#and the whole thing with Xiao Lan coming back to life but it not being a good thing because the afterlife has become her home#is AMAZING I legit cried#jentry chau vs the underworld#fiction analysis#jcvtc analysis#rant#mountainous flowery rambles
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currently Unwell about cheng and xiao lan
#jentry chau vs the underworld#ough. the dad and daughter ever.#remember when moonie said that the world moves on? yeah. not for cheng#it didn't really seem like he had anything other than xiao lan. he never truly did even after fusing with the mougai. and he waited YEARS#LITERAL HUNDREDS OF YEARS#only to have to wait for ANOTHER HUNDREDS OF YEARS#AND NOW BE TORTURED#to be with his daughter in the great beyond.#is that not the most HEARTSHATTERING THING YOU HAVE EVER HEARD 💔💔
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Jentry Chau Vs Netflix
So, I watched Jentry Chau Vs. The Underworld.
If you like beautiful (and unique) animation, complex storytelling, themes of coming of age and grief, and references to my favorite band (shout out NCT127), this is a story you should definitely check out. I would recommend it highly, even though I'm going to critique later on in this review.
Complex People and Complex Love
Gugu was a very complex character whom you could both hate as someone who was clearly manipulating Jentry in an almost unforgivable way after doing the unforgivable to her family. And yet, the series opening literally had Gugu sacrificing her life for Jentry, so no matter what was revealed, you always had to handle the uncomfortable reality that Gugu really loved Jentry.
And therein the series explored complexities in love and life, an understanding that comes with growing up and brings on its own grief. The people who raise us, our heroes, turn out to have their own lives and worlds too, their own motivations, that are often not exactly altruistic. We are not at the center of their world as much as we, as children, thought we were.
Jentry's wrestling with her relationship with Gugu was complex and interesting. The handling of Gugu's character was consistently the best in the series, and I loved it even if I'm still not sure I like Gugu. That's a good character--someone you're left pondering the legacy of.
Grief
Jentry working through her grief was a major theme of the series--grief for her parents, and grief for Gugu, not just in terms of her actually dying (which does happen), but in terms of her understanding of who Gugu was and who her parents were.
Jentry's grief journey contrasts with Gugu's grief for Iris and of course Cheng's for Xiao Lan. Which is why Jentry reaching out and healing her inner child through saving Xiao Lan was ultimately a beautiful way of handling her arc. She saw a child who was scared and didn't know what was going on, and destructive in that pain, and saved her.
If you look at the series, Gugu was scared and didn't fully understand the consequences of her actions and destroyed Jentry's family as a result. Kit was scared and didn't understand how to be human and was destructive in that pain.J entry too grieves Kit and projects that fear onto the possibility of losing Michael, which leads to a rift in their relationship. And some of that fear is not understanding who they wanted to be. To quote C.S. Lewis after the death of his wife:
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Grief and fear intertwine in many ways in Jentry Chau, including through Moonie allowing herself to be possessed by the Mogui to get her husband back. This also then leads to Gugu's second death.
Gugu's farewell at the end had me full-on sobbing. In a sense, Jentry's entire arc throughout the story is a symbolic way of working through her grief for Gugu, settling with her accepting via choosing to focus on Gugu's love for her, and carrying her memory on in a literal form (the necklace). After accepting Gugu loved her, Jentry loses her fear of the underworld and her powers, and her fear of losing the people closest to her as well.
A Soul Is What You Choose
Jentry's ultimate power isn't burning, but it's being able to see people for whom they want to be. Kit and being human. Ed and being scary. Michael and joining the band.
In a world where everyone, demon or human, is trying to be what they think they need to be, trying to please others, Jentry asks them to be who they want to be, to live how they want to live.
The Best Character and the Worst Writing: Kit
Kit is by far the most compelling character. He's continually sympathetic (while Gugu is somewhat not), conflicted, and torn between how desperately he wants to be human and the inhuman acts he believes he has to commit to be one. Plus, he doesn't understand what it means to be human, nor the complexities of human relationships.
The scene where he helps Jentry create a skinsuit is really a metaphorical sex scene--like fairly obviously. It isn't subtle.
It starts in a bedroom (and yes, animators know what they're doing when they choose setting and objects).
Then we have talking about looking under layers.
Then we have some yonic symbols and this.
Like. And he uses a knife (a traditionally phallic symbol), and the next thing we see is cloth falling... with literal the next frame being clothes (ie, clothes coming off).
Sticking a brush (another traditional phallic symbol) in a vat of wet paint (yonic).
Kit: I've never done this before. It's strange. Jentry: I stand by what I said in class. You do have a soul, and you're more human than you know.
Also note the hand clasped position.
It ends with them literally "becoming one" in Kit embodying a Jentry skin to help Jentry uncover the truth--in other words, they help each other be human.
Which is why what happens next really doesn't make storytelling sense, and is actually kinda offensive.
Love Triangle: What Not To Write
The love triangle pretty clearly was supposed to represent Jentry's links to the supernatural (via Kit) and her links to the human world (via Michael). Great potential for a love triangle, a trope I generally hate because it's almost never well done.
This was not well done. What makes it even more frustrating is that it had a ton of potential to be well done via the thematic and symbolic potential.
Having Kit suddenly go aggressive ex who can't take "no" for an answer was lazy writing, nonsensical within the characters they'd set up, and offensive. Offensive, primarily, because you absolutely should never introduce a triggering element like, oh, harassment and controlling men if you don't plan on dealing with it in the story. And they didn't. At all.
The only reason that element was there was to resolve the love triangle in a clear way--oh, Jentry should be with Michael because Kit acted threatening, even though he never had before. That's just bad writing, because if there's a clear choice in a love triangle, you gotta actually write it. Make Michael the more compelling love interest. (More on how they didn't do this later.)
The entire sequence with Kit makes no sense. Jentry tells him he's actually "hundreds of years old," parroting Tumblr-esque anti arguments about Twilight and every other paranormal love story ever. Except, the story had always explicitly framed Kit as a child being abused by Cheng and "parented" by puppets. His journey to understand who he was, that he mattered, that he could be a human too, was clearly a coming-of-age story.
You don't tend to end coming-of-age stories with death, but they did, pretty much because after the threatening scene there was no coming back.
Plus, Jentry's treatment of Kit actually was pretty bad. Now, there's never an excuse for a threatening ex, but--Kit was right about her hypocrisy in terms of how she treated demons like Ed and himself, something that Jentry isn't really asked to reckon with.
If they wanted Jentry to end up with Michael, that's fair, but her decision was taken away from her because they just decided to stamp Kit with a lazy and offensive development and then kill him off in a redemptive death that emphasizes everything that can go wrong with that trope.
Michael Deserved Better
I feel like they didn't know entirely what to do with Michael. He started off with a cool arc, torn between his desire to be a band geek and his talent for football. His indecision leading to conflict with Stella and Jentry was also a great flaw, especially given that he also has visions of the future. An indecisive teenager with precognition has a ton of potential.
But, Michael's arc vanishes after the festival. Instead he's just... kinda there. Jentry chooses him because she wants to be a normal, human girl. But this isn't a good reason, because she's not (and arguably, he's not either!). Yet this isn't unpacked--the idea that everyone in this triangle is both human and supernatural, to varying degrees.
One interesting idea I spotted during the scene where Kit (as Jentry) gets asked out by Michael is that--well, it's a romantic-coded scene with two men, even if Kit turns him down for Jentry.
But it also coming on the heels of the metaphorical sex scene kinda seemed to almost hint at a throuple. Plus the scene after Kit's death where Jentry views them as merging, and where Michael expresses that Jentry views them the same. This would have actually been a very interesting turn for the story to take in future seasons, if they get those (especially since Stella x Tokki is apparently a thing?).
Because ultimately:
Netflix: The True Enemy
Honestly, almost all of the writing flaws I've talked about come down to the writers just not having enough time. If they had a guarantee of further seasons, they wouldn't have needed to rush to finish the love triangle. They wouldn't have needed to kill Kit. They wouldn't have needed to abort Michael's arc and conflict with Stella.
And really, Netflix continues to disappoint me in emphasizing just how much they focus on profits and money over art. They prefer fast food over an actual nutritious meal. They give shows like one season to get record ratings and if they don't, they get axed. Of course writers are going to rush to cram their story into a single season, because there's no guarantee of another season. Series aren't given any leeway to explore their interesting elements, or to find their footing. It's bad for art. However, Warner Bros exists so Netflix can't fully win the crown for worst example of capitalistic corporations killing art just yet.
I continue to be disappointed that series with no actual story that the writers want to tell (merely a concept of a plan) get renewed for seven seasons based on the writer's reputations (that they then tank with their terrible non-writing) while interesting stories with beautiful art and animation, complex ideas on grief and growing up, have to scramble to beg for another season.
#jentry chau vs the underworld#jentry chau#jentry chau kit#michael ole#jctvu#jctvu gugu#jctvu kit#jentry x kit#jentry x kit x michael#hamliet reviews#paintedflame
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HEY WAIT A MINUTE (spoilers for Jentry Chau vs The Underworld
Just realized we never saw Michael talk with his parents about them totally knowing something about his visions! HUH??? like there was a whole month after the cheng/xiao lan catastrophe at the game, so they definitely had time to sit down and discuss that before the finale happened
i am burning to know what said. what was revealed
WE NEED SEASON 2
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Jentry Chau vs the underworld....
Okay. So I saw the whole thing in a day. And I have... mixed feelings about it. But long story short, oh god I loved it. So, just my personal opinions and rambles. And a whole bunch of spoilers down here 👍
Okay so- first off. Jentry. Amazing character. I liked her. Until like... the last few remaining episodes. She became kinda.... eh. So pretty thoughhh
Michael, he was okay. He's quite nice. But my personal choice. Is Kit. He is so sweet. Makes human skin? Craftmanship is amazing. His emotions and struggles were so well portrayed. I would at least appreciate the things he did if I was in Jentrys' place.
Stella, okay. So... I just really hoped that she wouldn't end up with Jentry. It just feels so forced and weird to me.
The music is SO SICK has got to be my favorite part of this show. I need to know more KATSEYE songs. I kind of do but. I need more. They put in so many good music.
The visual is quite nice. The effects are gorgeous. The animation.. overall very good. The characters! Gi looks so pretty
My main question is, how is Jentry in Korea? Exchange student? Are her parents born in China but just lived in Texas(or somewhere else)? Is Jentry born in China or in Texas(somewhere else)? Also, if she's in Korea... how tf does all her friends have dyed hair??? Korean school of arts let's you dye hair? It's not restricted? How many other high school don't restrict that?
I feel like they could've just... killed off both of Jentrys' parents and not go through the extra three(? I think) episodes. And instead made the finale of the main plot more longer. Cause the finale didn't- couldn't give me that strong feeling the show gave me at the beginning of it. And it felt kind of unnecessary.
There's also a lot of things that are left unsolved(that may or may not be because I missed information from the show by not paying enough attention to detail)(plus, looking at how it is... it doesn't really look like the story could have a season two to me). Like the fortune telling powers. How his parents knew about the fortune telling powers. Kits' parents, are they also just human skin or possessed(?) humans? The reason for how Stella was able to make all those paper talismans, how Xiao Lan was able to use the powers of the golden emperor as soon as she wore it even though she probably didn't know what it could do(which means she wouldn't be able to use it) and even if she did know what it could do, she's just a little girl who only used the powers right now- how is she so good at using them and how is she in perfect control of them?? How does gugu and Cheng know each other so well, there must have been a starting point. We still don't know why gugu's sister is in the jail. And I need confirmation if the yin yang guy really is gugu's ex.
And just some additional background stories for the other characters would've been nice in my opinion. Like the ghosts in Gugu's house. We get to see them during the scene where Jentry's mom(Moonie) is looking for her old self. In the newspapers, but that's all cut off(one of the ghosts sound like Gummigoo??) I want to know more about Kit. And oh my god! Kit!! That's really the end of him?? Just like that? Also, when did the little switch happen? It happened without nobody else noticing. How did he find the timing to go in Jentrys' place? Did they plan it before hand? No, it doesn't seem like it. Oh my god- Kit! I love you Kit I'm sorry
And the more Jentry tried to make lessons, the more I don't like her. It gets stranger and stranger. It doesn't fit in. Herr motives kind of change... like she said she wants her life to be normal, so she can't be with Kit. Okay. Okay... a bit sad. But understandable. But when Michael has the powers to see glimpses of the future it's okay? That amount of weirdness is okay? Uh.. alright.
One last thing before I go(I have a lot more to say but uh... memory issues). Jentry 100% was scared when she first met Ed.
Overall, very nice show. I enjoyed it a lot. Though, it was very predictable tbh- haha. I could tell what was going to happen. A lot of this stuff just sprouted so.... yeah. Don't take it seriously
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jentry chau vs the underworld spoilers
so does cheng just. have his daughters dead corpse on him at all times. or does he just pull it out of a portal when its convenient. did xiao lan have a proper burial or did cheng KEEP it?? if so does he stink like a corpse??
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