#ml Shanghai

[character-fan19]

So I calculated the exact screen time for all the love square ships in the Shanghai special...

Back again! With the Shanghai Special! If you haven't seen my previous post, the link to that is here. For the uninitiated, here are...

Some Ground Rules

Both characters of the ship must be present in the scene for it to count as love square screen time.

At least one of the characters need to be reacting to the presence of the other or doing something with them.

If one of the characters believe that they are talking with the alter ego of the other character it will be counted as screen time for that particular ship

In case of group interactions involving the two characters, it will only be counted if the two characters are specifically interacting with the other or if special focus is given to them.

Screen Time Distribution

For a 56-minute-long special, there was surprisingly very little love square screen time, Adrienette not even getting an entire minute. Maricat and Ladrien are totally absent which is unsurprising and Ladynoir has the most screen time as usual, 73.1 % of the total screen time and Adrienette having 26.9% of the screen time.

In terms of how it affected the overall screen time, it isn't much with Adrienette increasing 0.1% and Ladrien decreasing 0.1%.

Conclusion

This was a very short post, since it was just one special but next one is going to much longer since its season 3. Feel free to leave any observations you made from these pie charts that I may have missed. See you next time!

[mymiraclebox]

The Chinese Prodigious and Zealous

The Chinese Prodigious is an ancient medallion hidden away in Shanghai, China. Hosted within it are eight renlings embodying different human values, allowing those that posses them to transform into their respective animals.

Guarding this Prodigious is a kaire named Mei Shi, who is tied to a magical yellow orb called a Zealous. Mei Shi will test those seeking the Prodigious, and grant those they choose the title of Renren. Renrens are given both the Prodigious and the Zealous, and are free to use the magic within.

When lacking a chosen Mei Shi will merge with his Zealous, allowing him to switch between two forms, both based on a lion. His companion form is a small kwami-like being who can easily hide and observe the world unseen. Their champion form is more humanoid, being that of a giant metallic statue built to fight.

[ultrakart]

Bit of a stupid question here, are you still obsessed with the Miraculous Shanghai special and Fei Wu?

Once upon a time, this character rotated around in my brain like a microwave; this character bounced around my brain like the DVD logo; this character wouldn't stop calling me about my car's extended warranty.

But that was a hot minute ago. I still adore Fei Wu but I wouldn't call it an obsession lol

[alullinchaos]

went to look at the miraculous shanghai special to confirm that fei has black hair and she does but also in the wake of the paris special. I am suddenly so so curious to know if the Supreme has the Prodigious in their universe or if it's still hidden somewhere because there was no Hawkmoth pulling the strings to have it revealed. also if fei in our world is morally grey then would her morality be... the same over there since she's kinda between bad and good??

[crizztelcb]

Ml still didn't show us the French miraculous box, like, that box is not French! at least that's what they say, it is the Chinese box. USA, Brazil, South Africa (I think is South Africa sorry if im wrong) and possibly even Japan have their own boxes so why France still didn't even got mentioned? Does some countries have miraculous and some just don't? Also we need another special or the Shanghai special that they talked about before to bring up the story around the Chinese miraculous box, we know so little about it. Well all that said i came here to say we have an opening to think of animals that could be on the French miraculous box, will go first: a pigeon and a snail one.

[berkut-rigel]

Miraculous Ladybug is the story of a half French-Chinese middle school girl, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who TOTALLY wish she knew more about her Chinese culture and-

Master Fu : Here take these earrings and become a super heroine with the big responsibility of saving Paris from a villain who got his powers from partially my fault

Marinette : Yeaaaah... You see I'm not sure if I'm fit for your thing so I'll just -

Master Fu : It's GENUINE Chinese culture magical powers

Marinette : Vendu ! *

[zoe-oneesama]

Some "Special" Girls! And the late girls.

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[sidsinning]

Very random but if it weren't for some of the huge fuck ups of the writing room not understanding how teenage girls work Marinette could've been a serious contender for greatest magical girl protag

[character-fan19]

Adrienette of Miraculous World: Shanghai is here! Ladynoir will be coming soon.

[gamerkir]

If Knight Owl/ Barbara Keynes is an allegory for Batman then Fei attempts to rob her for laughs and ends up adopted.

Barbara introducing Fei to Olympia/Majestia, Uncanny/Aeon and Jessica/Sparrow like "Look I've adopted this traumatized superhero teen who tried to rob me. Her names Fei. She's your sister/daughter now."

I'm even more excited for that lesbian New York x Shanghai special now cuz I can't wait to hear Fei, Jess and Aeon screeching at the same when they find out Adrienette is canon

[ultrakart]

Wang: Can you pass me the cooking wine.

Fei: kicks the bottle into the air, then kicks it in his direction, the bottle smashes against the wall next to Wang’s face

Wang: why.

(Referencing this vine)

[carpetbug]

rooster rampage

down to four kwamis left! (five if you wanna count liiri) might do the renlings next :3

[justanotherpersonsuniverse]

HELLO ALL. BEHOLD. REDESIGNED FEI.

I had a lot of fun redesigning her. Fei is by far one of my favorite ML characters, unironically. I like the lil lady that wants to murder what can I say. I wanted to give a bit more of a sickly unwell vibe going on with her civilian form considering she lives off of stealing and street conning presumably.

As for RenRen, I just, I just really, didn't wanna use, the red- yellow- and black colors man I'm sorry just, I, said no. So Instead I took inspiration from Glamrock Fre-I mean- Mei Shi. Yah.

Hope you like! This is the design I'll also be using for my PN au.

[doodlegirl12345]

I agree, the reasoning is so bad. Especially since it could be fixed so easily. Just simply make it that Marinette already has plans to visit Shanghai. Maybe make it that the trip was planned in advance before she became Ladybug. So Marinette, while excited, does also feel obligated to go due to all the money that has been spent. You can have a callback to Kung Food, that while she did appreciate Adrien’s help. It made Marinette realize how disconnected she always is to her Chinese heritage.

You can have some of the class wish her goodbye and that’s when Alya drops the bomb that Adrien is going to be there too. Of course, this makes her very happy and even more excited to go. There, you could still have her earrings to be stolen and have Lady Dragon introduced. You can even get some love square moments. But now Marinette’s reason for going is not asinine like the original.

Always weird to see people defend Marinette choosing to waste her parents money to follow Adrien to Shanghai.

“Oh she’s a teenage girl they do weird things.”

First off, that defense is loaded with sexism. Second it isn’t even like Adriens her bf and she’s surprising him. She just hears from Alya that Adrien is in Shanghai and decides to go there to see him? What makes it worse is that she doesn’t even decide to tell Adrien, she tracks his location on Twitter. Like if I begged my parents to go on vacation and they found out I went there to see a girl, I’d be getting my ass beat.

The whole thing is so Bad on so many levels it’s why I still haven’t been able to make myself watch the special

[mymiraclebox]

Why is the Prodigious canonically more powerful than the Miraculouses? Like Nooroo full on says: "It is for good reason that the Prodigious was abandoned in favor of the Miraculous! It was secured in that cave because it is too powerful, too dangerous!" and I just... don't see it?

Like don't get me wrong, being able to transform into animals is an awesome power, but how is it more powerful and more dangerous than the Miraculouses? The Peacock alone can create animals to fight and many other beings, we've seen the Butterfly give the power of shapeshifting to one not even using a Miraculous, and the elemental powers one gets in dragon form is the same as the Dragon Miraculous. And all of this is not considering the many other powers the canon Miraculouses can do, and who knows what the other Miraculouses not seen in the show can do as well!

Then to actually use the Prodigious you have to possess the value each Renling has to even transform! With the Miraculouses anyone with any intent or any values can transform and use the powers by just knowing the right words, words they can order the kwami to tell them with no resistance! Kwamis are forced to the whims of their holders with just a few words, while the Prodigious gets a whole powerful guardian to protect it and deem who is worthy to wield it? Why don't the Miraculouses get that level of protection?

Then finally with the Miraculouses we have the Wish with Tikki and Plagg's Miraculouses. You're telling me the ability to completely destroy the universe and recreate it at one's own whims is less powerful than shapeshifting? That the shapeshifting powers are the ones that needed to be sealed away in the cave but literal universe-ending powers didn't?