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Story
A university professor and a detective are drawn together – and find themselves fighting against supernatural enemies, including the elusive Black Robe.
Based on the book Guardian (2012)
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About the show
Guardian (Chinese: 镇魂; pinyin: Zhèn Hún) is a 2018 Chinese web series starring Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong. An adaptation of the 2012 fantasy-danmei web novel of the same name by Priest, the series was released on the video platform Youku between June 13 and July 25, 2018. It follows a detective and a professor who investigate supernatural phenomena. Though the novel depicts their relationship as romantic in nature, the web series depicts the relationship as a platonic friendship with homoerotic subtext as a response to Chinese laws prohibiting depictions of same-sex relationships on television.
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The series was widely popular on the internet, and received a total of 1.8 billion views in its streaming platform by August 2018. That same month, Guardian was pulled from Youku amid a crackdown on "harmful and vulgar" internet content, but was later re-uploaded.
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Seasons
Ended 2018 · 1 season · 40 episodes
