Audience reviews
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GPDonghua
This donghua is an old one. I've finally gotten around to watching it. I remember when this first came out, almost 10 years ago, when the manhua was at the height of its popularity This donghua is adapted the manhua by the same name and is one of my all-time favorites. I once spent about 2 years translating about 250 chapters (chapters 69-331) under the name Yue Er. Considering that this donghua has 2 seasons out, I will also talk a little bit about S2 in this review.
Before I being my review, I would also like to point out something out. This was among the first attempts by AC.QQ, now owned by Tencent, at breaking into the animation/donghua market, so some of the poor production quality can be attributed to this.
Plot Summary: Feng Xi, our MC, is a run-of-the-mill new college student lo…
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A disaster. There is no other way to describe Yaoguai Mingdan. And since I really wish to see chinese animes to shine, I'm being biased and merciful, which should tell you a lot about me calling Yaoguai Mingdan a disaster. But the truth remains whatever we wish for :
This show is a disaster, and there's not a good thing about it, in whatever aspect you look for.
Take the dialogues for example. Dialogs are a good support of information, for the story, the characters, the events, the relationships and so on. Here, dialogs were so poorly thought that they are often used to fill the sound space. At best, it's a bit confusing but with little or no consequences, but at worse, it's fully misguiding the viewers into believing something that the authors themselves didn't mean to tell.
Hell, somet…
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English name: Monster List. There are 3 arcs, 6 episodes each from 18 episodes, each episode around 10 minutes long, except for the first episode which is 20 minutes long. The donghua is set in a world where unbeknownst to humans, there are monsters that take on the form of humans, co-living with humans. A storytelling driven by fate and promises.
In the first arc, it starts off with hot seductions on men from a spirit monster girl called Hehuan, absorbing their life force and killing them. The protagonist Feng Xi's life changes when turns out his new girlfriend Su Jiuer, is also a monster wolf girl. Su Jiuer knows Feng Xi had long forgotten who she really was, they were together before. Vulnerable right now, she wants to protect him from other monsters. When Feng Xi and Su Jiuer crosses…
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Spoiler-free review
Yaoguai Mingdan itself is a good series, but the anime is a good but flawed adaptation. Let me explain: this anime is based on a Chinese manga, which they call "manhua".
There have been complaints about the voice acting in this anime. Truth be told, though the voice acting sounds polarizingly different than Japanese anime, it accurately portrays the voices of Chinese people.
It should be noted that the when compared to the manhua, the art style in this anime is severely lacking in detail. But first time viewers probably won't notice.
The backstory behind the characters is rather deep, and isn't tackled very much in this season. The anime ended up covering the weaker part of the story from the manhua only to end abruptly before things could get interesting.
Howeve…
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Yaoguai Mingdan, when I first came across this anime? Chinese cartoon? I was wondering how you would write it in Japanese, but then I realized that this is a Chinese anime? Cartoon? Well, since it is supposed to be anime I will refer to it as an anime in this review.
So, animation and character design… I was not expecting a super high fidelity CGI and amazing animation quality for this anime, and I think that’s a really good expectation to have with this anime if you are looking into it. The character designs are a quite imperfect compared to modern Japanese anime and can seem off and drawn by amateurs. But maybe that's just “Chinese” style animation, but the animation itself is not an eyesore, what is was the fact that episode 12, 13, 14, I could only find them in 360p. Ouch, otherwise…
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