Bilibili’s New Documentary Finds China’s Lesser-Recognized Wild Facet

Chinese language video streaming platform Bilibili, perfect identified for its animation and video games content material common amongst Chinese language post-millennials, has launched the primary episode of The Hidden Kingdoms of China final week.

The Hidden Kingdom of China is Bilibili’s flora and fauna documentary sequence produced in partnership with Nationwide Geographic. In step with the corporate, the display is going from the easiest mountains and plateaus to the thickest tropical jungles and bamboo forests to show the name of the game lives of iconic animals. Many of those animals are China’s vital cultural symbols: massive panda, Tibetan fox, snow leopard, and golden snub-nosed monkey.

Thru Nationwide Geographic, the display can be to be had in 172 nations and 43 languages.

“When Bei Bei, the loved US-born massive panda, departed from the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Zoo to transport again to his new house in China on November 19, many of us expressed their disappointment and want to peer extra pandas. There’s a shared international hobby in those charismatic bears,” stated Leo Zhang, the pinnacle of Bilibili’s highbrow belongings cooperation middle.

“Now’s the very best time to unlock the documentary. The primary episode confirmed the intimate depictions of pandas of their local habitat.”

5 days after freeing the primary episode of the display in China, Bilibili has already recorded 4.3 million perspectives and 30,000 “bullet chats” – Bilibili’s signature real-time target audience comments covering on-screen content material.

The Hidden Kingdoms of China used to be produced via Brian Leith Productions for Nationwide Geographic and Bilibili in cooperation with the China Flora and fauna Conservation Affiliation. The five-episode display can be launched in weekly installments on Bilibili beginning in November 2019.

The display is one amongst many industry offers that Bilibili has had with top-tier global TV channels, together with the United Kingdom and Japan’s public broadcasters, the BBC and NHK. The Chinese language corporate additionally has a six-year company courting with Discovery, and a China particular of the First Guy Out survival sequence – First Guy Out of China – is predicted to head at the Discovery channel in 2020.