It is so fucking wild that Cityboy Log exists and stars an idol who plays himself and promotes his group in the show. Also the fact Jaejun has kissed two different boys in the show and that they are genuine kisses and not the barely touching of the lips most idols do. Insane this show exists. I love it
A lot of people in mainland China are perfectly capable of getting around the so called 'Great Firewall of China' and interacting with the internet beyond it but the thing is a lot of them just flat out don't want to or don't really care all that much. Yeah sure the internet is heavily censored, but outside of that non-English spaces have gotten smaller and smaller while English takes over as the lingua franca of the internet, and they may or may not be able to read and understand English very well.
Also a lot of people on the internet beyond the 'firewall' are very hostile to them, they get treated like naive idiots or brainwashed infiltrators for the ccp. I remember a few years back when a lot of Chinese fanfic writers started uploading their stories on ao3 en masse because there had been a big uptick in websites that host fanfiction getting taken down and some people were so utterly vile about it, making jokes about how they could get the fics taken down by mentioning the Tiananmen Square massacre in the comments and things like that.
All because they were apparently offended by their favorite tags having more non-English works that can very easily filter out so they don't have to look at them at all. Because God forbid a fanfiction website that already greatly skews towards English fics have more works in other languages, right? That's like the only thing I miss about fanfiction.net, it had way more non-English fics, well that and more stories for certain fandoms than ao3 does.
And it's not like a lot of tech companies and other governments don't censor the internet to some extent or another, China isn't unique in that regard, it's just particularly infamous for being so heavy-handed and easy to use as a red herring.
Arata Misu In TAKUMI KUN 4: PURE (2010).
Kijima Rio In THE NOVELIST (2018).
Yoden Ryoji In SEI NO GEKIYAKU (2020).
Kusakabe Ritsu In BOKURA NO MICRO NA SHUUMATSU (2023).
Segasaki Mizuki In TAIKAN YOHOU (2023).
Yamase Kazuma In 25 JI, AKASAKA DE (2024).
Jang Ki-Yong playing a character with supernatural abilities, but is no match for the tiny, headstrong, independent female lead who completely upends his life, but also gives it new meaning during a time when he thought life was pointless...is my jam apparently?
Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:
Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)
Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)
Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.
But in Japanese it scans as:
Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)
Psycho (short for psychic)
Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.