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A big talking point around Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld is the concern about it getting cancelled after the first season. Many people seem apprehensive about starting the show because they don't want to get invested in something that's going to leave them hanging. Many other people are pointing out this is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy; people don't watch the show because they're afraid it will get cancelled, and then it gets cancelled because not enough people watched the show.
I'm going to side-step that argument and make a different one: you should watch Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld because it's still a great show even if it does get cancelled after its first season. While it would be awesome for this show to continue, what we have right now is a rather complete story that doesn't leave you hanging. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger and there aren't really any loose threads after the finale. If someone told me Jentry Chau was intended to be one season only from the beginning, I'd believe them.
I'm not saying Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld shouldn't continue. I really want it to. What I'm saying is that you're not risking as much by watching the first season now as you may think it you are. The people that made the show have voiced that they want to make more, but they clearly made the first season to stand on its own in case they can't.
So please, watch Jentry Chau vs. the Underworld. It does not need more, but I and everyone else who's watched it really want more.
I've been rotating this thought in my mind for a while: People in fandom have a very weird fixation on age gaps.
There's a tendency to instantly assume an age gap is always bad or problematic but it's not the case at all, especially in fiction and doubly so for a human/non-human ship.
The most recent example would be Kit and Jentry (from Jentry Chau vs The Underworld).
Let's start from the general topic: When is the age an issue?
Most rational people acknowledge age gaps are pretty common in real life. Between adults, an age gap isn't as much of a problem because we're dealing with people on the same stage of life, a 24yo shouldn't have any issues dating a 30yo just by the virtue of one party being older. They're both years into adulthood there's no moral or legal argument to make there.
A 30yo dating an 18yo raises eyebrows because we recognize the difference between their lives experiences, it's still not immoral or illegal but many would find it suspect due to a potential power imbalance compounding with financial dependence or adult life experience. It still doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is exploitative or abusive just because of the age gap but the probability of it is way higher.
The age gaps between minors can be similarly suspect just as in a case of a minor and a freshly minted adult. Things like that need to be carefully evaluated on a case by case basis.
Now, to the point: fictional characters dating non-human/long lived/immortal characters when is it problematic and when it doesn't matter at all?
The fictional narratives often play around with what age means for an immortal character, how they perceive the passage of time, how they grow and change with time, if at all?
In case of Kit, the narrative positions him in a similar spot to Michael who's a regular highschooler. He behaves in ways consistent with a teenager too, socially clumsy, not very developed emotionally and impulsive just like Jentry. The only mark of his age we can see is the compounded trauma he carries with him.
He has no social advantage over other characters, no financial advantage, no maturity advantage as his lived experience in society is so different and fragmented he cannot reliably pull from it to have an upper hand in any way.
That's why it personally drives me a bit crazy when people pull the age gap card as if it matters when it's the least relevant part of why he should never be together with Jentry. With so many other, serious red flags about him, throwing an absurd "pedophile" label diminishes the angles of possible character interpretation. It makes people miss out on all of the things that are actually wrong with him that should be talked about more and are leagues more interesting.
LESS FREAKING GOOOO
I JUST FUCKING FINISHED JENTRY CHAU HOLY SHIT I ORDER EVRRYONE WHO SEES THIS TO WATCH IT RN THIS IS A WORK OF ART I FUCKING LOVE YOU KIT PLEASE BE MY WIFE
If I had a nickel for every time I obsessed over an animated Korean twink who happened to be non-human and is also in a fan favorite ship that never became canon due to bad writing only for the love interest to get in a terrible rushed relationship with someone else I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
hello jentry chau fandom
paintedflame is the only thing keeping me sane (they went to therapy and lived happily ever after trust)
anyway uh ep. 6 spoilers down here
lil screenshot redraw
heck yeah man
heyyy guys me and my jcvtu discord server (<- invite link) are going to host a jentry week in march and we're holding a poll to pick the prompts rn. there will be 2 per day, so only 14 will end up in the final lineup
vote below!!
JENTRY CHAU FANDOM ARISE
WE NEED YOU RISE RISE RISE
The real thematic lesson from Jentry Chau Vs The Underworld is don't ever find out a single thing about your girkisser aunt's past
ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜so happy for you pgjshssj
been getting into yaoi lately
i just downloaded tumblr (yes yes im 10 years late to the party) because i was desperate to find people talking about fandoms noone knows and sharing their thoughts and i just want to say thank you. you had a thought. i enjoyed it very much. would not have thought of it myself. i have wondered about the wings from the beginning and i just accepted my fate of living in the dark. until now. the post wasn't long enough actually please have more thoughts. I LOVE THOUGHTS
reposting my big brain moment i made on discord (kind of long post but only because i suck at paragraph formatting)
so yknow kit's wings (wing) in the intro?
there is one (1) wing only
now why is that significant? because of this guy:
this is the biyiniao, a bird from chinese mythology that has one (1) wing and one (1) eye. it needs to join up with a partner to fly or, yknow, basically do anything that requires a whole body. without its other half, the biyiniao is incomplete.
now who does that remind us of hmmmmmmm. i wonder who else feels incomplete and lacking a certain something, such as a soul? his name begins with a k and ends with an i t?
also he's literally holding his soul in the image so that just further proves my big brain moment
+ the side profile only shows one of his eyes HMMM
anyways as a chinese guy i am so insane about all the chinese mythology in this show this is so cooooool
Posting here because TikTok flagged me for being under 16 (like bro I’m close enough)
Anyway jentry chau peak and I’m crying
Day 5 of Jentry Week: Angst and Powers!
I would've named the Angst prompt 'From Cradle to Grave' if it were its own post lmao.
I know, I know, I'm super late. Whatever, I'm busy and these take me forever, esp the ones with lighting and all. I'm very slow lol .
![Jentry Chau Fanart From The Holidays Bcuz It Did Well On Instagram :] (i’ll Get This Printed Later](https://64.media.tumblr.com/fb2d400442d2d475beed13d011563d06/4db7810fd99559dc-75/s500x750/9369df7aa8f1d696a4961275780b4a5fa35ef2f4.png)
jentry cheng thingy thangs as i slowly develop the plot more. some alt diyu outfits + something she'd wear in korea and she may or may not dye her hair there
i also figured she'd be very pale. this girl has literally never seen the sun in 15 years FREE HER
hello jentry chau fandom
paintedflame is the only thing keeping me sane (they went to therapy and lived happily ever after trust)
anyway uh ep. 6 spoilers down here
lil screenshot redraw
been in phase lately where i refuse to draw characters in outfits they actually wear in canon.
more jentry as i try to find a way to consistently draw her.
idk their ship name sorryyyyy but here's stella x jentry hehe
Silly shitpost based off this image
Watching Jentry is like watching old Cartoon Network 🧡
the only consistent thing about my artstyle at this point is the overuse of pinks and purples tbh.
anyways more jentry chau <3
" it's something cosmic // it's symbiotic "
-symbiotic by starset
watched jentry chau. i like it. kit and jentry make me ill
I need more ppl to watch this show
diversity win: the shapeshifting demon your gugu hired to impersonate your parents is supportive of your bisexuality