Heaven Official’s Blessing’s Xie Lian will be a little different in Season 2 of donghua.
Heaven’s Blessing donghua’s official Weibo account has announced that the original voice actor for the scrap-collecting god Xie Lian Jiang Guangtao will be leaving the film for “personal reasons”. Deng Youxi will now voice the role of Xie Lian, and the voice actor wrote a note on his personal Weibo account, promising to work hard on the production. This announcement makes fans hope that Season 2 of the hit BL donghua will air soon.
Recent scandal of voice actor Xie Lien
Although the official reason for Jiang’s departure is “personal reasons,” it is likely due to the voice actor’s recent scandal. At the end of 2022, authorities arrested Jiang for embezzlement of about $2 million in public funds. As a result, his studio Houlang Studio terminated his contract with him. Besides his work in Heaven Official’s Blessing, Jiang has also voiced characters in other popular danmei series, including the TV series versions of Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire, Liu Yao: The Revivalization of Fuyao Sect , Qiang Jin Jiu and Mo Dao Zu Shi or Master of the Ma tu.
Heaven Official’s Blessing, one of the works of beautiful knitting writer Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, received a donghua adaptation in October 2020. Haoliners Animation League made the donghua cartoon and aired 11 episodes, ending. on January 2, 2021. Donghua released a niche special episode that premiered on February 14, 2021. Notably, Heaven Official’s Blessing became Funimation’s first donghua dub with Howard Wang voices Xie Lian and James Cheek as Hua Cheng. The trailer for Season 2 was released in November 2021, giving fans a glimpse of Emperor Jun Wu and Ghost City. Fans expressed excitement to see Huacheng in his kingdom, sitting on the throne as the Crimson Rain Seeking Flower.
What is the blessing of the heavenly official
Spanning all three realms, heaven, the human world, and the ghost realm, Heaven Official’s Blessing follows the soft-spoken Xie Lian, who in her previous life was the much-loved Crown Prince of the kingdom of Xian Le. However, tragedy struck, causing Xie Lien to be expelled from heaven twice before ascending to heaven three times. While investigating the human realm, Xie Lian meets a mysterious man wearing a red robe and covered with silver butterflies, who seems to have known Xie for a long time. Heaven Official’s Blessing has been licensed for official release in English, with permission from Seven Seas Entertainment.
Season 1 of Heaven Official’s Blessing is available now on Crunchyroll. Season 2 is currently in development, no release date has been announced yet.
Source: Twitter