10 December 2022
China's video sharing website Bilibili released on 10 December the first 2 episodes of the animated adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin. Within hours the movie generated 90 million views on the streaming page. "The Three-Body Problem" is the first book in a sci-fi trilogy that revolves around physicist Ye Wenjie's contact with the Trisolaran civilization existing in a three-sun system, and the centuries-long clashes that follow between earthlings and the aliens. Film, television and radio adaptations of the critically acclaimed trilogy have been avidly followed by China's online community. In January 2022, the final episode of the Chinese audio drama "Three-Body" was released on the online audio-sharing platform Ximalaya, where it received great acclaim from internet users.
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