Seeking a Beauty in the East Sea - Ch. 1

[GuerillaBae]

Wouldn't be surprised if whole bit in the beginning about preventing a flood, and "incurring the wrath of the holy court" was taken straight from the story of Focalors and Furina

I have about as much hoyo brain rot as the next girl but "incurring the wrath of the heavens for intervening in their plans" is like a xanxia staple. If anything the entire plot of Genshin (people seeking knowledge/power forbidden to mortals and the Heavens destroying them for doing so) is nothing more than a variation of the same root theme.

The reason emperors were so revered and called literally the sons of heaven was because they were considered the closest thing to a God on earth. To defy the emperor was to defy the mandate of the heavens themselves and subsequently the gravest sin imaginable.

Really, any sinocentric fantasy is probably going to have such an element, and it's just a little culturally dismissive to write it off as "taken from Genshin"

 

[himi-cat]

Good Sirs,
What use does a fish/mermaid have for clothes?

Not being cancelled due to censorship rules?

 

[WindOcean]

Not being cancelled due to censorship rules?

Tabi also didn't get cancelled:
https://mangadex.org/chapter/d583770f-6093-4c47-ba14-d3a66c4fb727/5

Clothing also gets very heavy underwater etc.

 

[himi-cat]

Tabi also didn't get cancelled:
https://mangadex.org/chapter/d583770f-6093-4c47-ba14-d3a66c4fb727/5

Japanese versus Chinese censorship rules?

Clothing also gets very heavy underwater etc.

True, but . . . did you notice the whole fantasy theme this story has? I'm not sure these characters are really following the laws of physics as we know them . . .