The Furious Yama trivia
Unfortunately of the two seasons of "The Furious Yama!", only season 1 and the first episode of season 2 is accessible to non-members on youtube. So, as a consolation, I'll compile my favorite trivia from all the available episodes I watched! (Some information requires rewatching, so I'll update this post if there's more things I notice)
Spoilers below:
The name of the daughter of the previous King Yama, Yan Xiaoluo 阎小罗 is supposed to follow the basic naming conventions of the people in the underworld. Yan is Yama, Xiao is little--Yan Xiaoluo is basically little Yama. (She protests that she's technically queen, not Yama, but Mengpo then calls her Yama Queen instead)
This naming scheme is explained in Mengpo (Granny Jiang)'s episode (s1 e7) where the recently deceased and deified guardian, Zhan Xiaogui 战小癸, thinks Mengpo somehow knew her name--when in actuality, Xiaogui's name is a phonetic pun on xiao 小(little) and gui 鬼(ghost).
Heibai Wuchang are functionally Xiaoluo's stand-in fathers. Though they're fashioned as her royal advisors, they can get sad when she avoids them or reacts to them in fear, and they want the best for her as a promising ruler
Lord Black (or Black Impermanance) is more of the strict, "practical one", while Lord White (White Impermanence) is more passive to the whims of his young majesty
SWK's the reason she gained a cowardly disposition after crashing through the doors she was peeking through when she was a little girl. The scare seemed to deeply traumatise her.
She also gained a catharsis in shooting up images of him in her adulthood. By then, he's already the Buddha of Victorious Strife
SWK is very chilled down, he seems to hold a human form for Yan Xiaoluo during their mission together (though Xiaoluo can see through the disguise passively). And he gives off a very grand-uncle vibe "You're the new 'job title'? How are you? How's your father?"
He doesn't live in Water Curtain Cave anymore, it's been 2000 years since he went to the underworld, and what he actually did was extend his kingdom's life expectancy to 1000 years then
His old strategist was the last monkey in that cave and his immortality didn't let him reincarnate, instead it made him an undying shadow of his former self
His advisor was so far gone, yet he never could fathom his king ever threatening to kill him; so he says "You are a fraud aren't you. My king will never betray us". The episode is self-contained and only 7 mins but the writing establishes the depth of SWK's well-intentioned devotion to his subjects pretty well
The advisor also says "You are a pet of heaven!" so his last contact with SWK might have been during the time SWK lost against Erlang Shen and his sworn brothers
After realising who Xiaoluo is (the little girl he spooked back then), and after she proved herself resourceful and bold, I think he takes her as his student offscreen and they train in-between episodes
He taught her bilocation, then taught her how to transform her own appearance. From what little shown, they got a pretty cute master-student relationship
The Heavenly King, Li Jing, seems to have been replaced by his first son, Jinzha, or in this donghua, Li Junzha.
It's such an interesting adaptational choice--the pagoda is no longer functionally to subjugate Nezha; when Jinzha loses it, Nezha's pretty indifferent to it.
The pagoda's context in Nezha's most famous origin, Investiture of the Gods, was that it's Li Jing's possession in order to ensure Nezha won't commit patricide. Yet in this story, it's been misplaced, and Nezha doesn't care--he and Jinzha get along. What an uplifting development. What happened to Li Jing?
Nezha's played Diablo
Hell tokens exist, and I've no clue how they're supposed to work
This girl's a fan of the Great Sage
Nezha and Erlang Shen are not on amiable terms--rather they are aware of each other formally. It seems Nezha is gungho to pick fights with him, while Erlang regards him as crazy
Bai Longma (here he's called Lord Guang Li) seems to be living his best life
Somehow, he already knows Yan Xiaoluo is SWK's apprentice
The Western Dragon Kingdom remember SWK's encounter with Ao Guang for armor, so when someone else asks them for armor to borrow, they get flashbacks and immediately bent down in fear.