Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Heavy-Crit
I’m honestly just burned out on how much low‑effort content gets pushed out lately. So many shows feel like recycled ideas dressed up with a gimmick, and Outcast unfortunately falls into that pattern for me.
You can usually tell when a series is produced by a Chinese studio — not because the art is bad (it’s often quite strong), but because everything around it struggles to keep up. The pacing, the narrative flow, and the overall structure tend to be the first things to slip, and Outcast is no exception.
The early episodes give the impression that the show is about to go somewhere bold, but the story loses cohesion as it goes on. Plot threads pile up without enough payoff, and the momentum that the opening promised just doesn’t hold.
I also don’t really understand the overwhelming prais…
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The Outcast is an anime that stands out with its mix of supernatural elements, interesting story, and great character development. It is based on a Chinese webcomic and brings a fresh perspective to the genre.
The action scenes in this anime are high-quality but not very frequent. When they do happen, they are well-done and exciting. Each fight feels important and is carefully designed, making them enjoyable to watch.
The animation gets a 7 out of 10. It is good and fits the story well, but it isn't the best out there. The characters look unique, and the supernatural effects are creatively shown. Sometimes the animation quality drops a bit, but it stays good enough to keep viewers interested.
The story earns an 8 out of 10. It follows Zhang Chulan, a regular college student who gets inv…
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“Hitori no Shita - The Outcast” is what happens when You have too many ideas, don’t know how to prioritise them so You just throw everything at the wall to see what sticks.
Spoiler alert!
Nothing did.
There isn’t much to say about the plot itself. There hardly is any. We follow Chou Soran on his journey to… nothing to be honest. For all of the show he doesn’t have any kind of goal. He’s just there to react to what’s happening to him and around him. He’s the worst kind of protagonist - passive. For most of the time he talks big but rarely he is able to put his money where his mouth is, and the moments he is able to rise up to the occasion… he does so by pulling a new technique out of his ass. No build up, no prior training shown, nothing. He just has this skill that could have been useful…
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HUMOR - it has some funny slapstick moments, but they're added in awkwardly, totally disrupting the build-up of tension sometimes. I don't think this series is as bad as some people think, because I don't think it takes itself too seriously. I mean, Dumbledore and Snape show up in the second season randomly with no explanation.
PLOT - the only interesting thing about the plot is wanting to find out about Houhou's past. They keep inventing random reasons to push back the reveal, ie that Soran has to be the next Tenshi. It's predictable though.
CHARACTER - I did like the MC a bit in the beginning, but it quickly devolved into him somehow being way trickier than everyone else and powering up suddenly, and everyone around him either despising him or remarking on how amazing he is. The same…
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This anime was very refreshing to watch. It provided enough action to keep me tuned in while also providing enough comedic relief to bring out a few laughs. Personally I don't like the amount of fan service in todays anime. In my opinion, this anime would've been just fine without it.
At first glance, the plot seemed odd and different, but then by the second episode, things fell into place. It cleared up a lot of the, why is this like this or how come those things are doing this, etc., etc.. The groundwork has been laid with great action sequences, which have implied that they are only going to get a lot more action packed and suspenseful. The plot is starting to come together and can makes you start to guess what might happen next. Lastly the characters are not perfectly defined yet, bu…
Read at the sourceKatieThairu33
I really don't get why people are hating on this anime so much! Maybe they don't get the wuxia theme jokes. Yes, quite a few jokes are about him being a virgin. But it's more than that. He has a goddamned seal on his d*** to make sure that he remains pure and has good cultivation. And the way it's discussed is funny. I, for one, enjoyed every second of the comedy aspect of this show. I have to say season 2 is remarkably better than season 1.
The fights are AWESOME! I love them. Especially in season 2. I was really impressed with how varied the character design was and how even the characters in supporting roles get so much attention and even their own ending credit songs sometimes.
In my opinion, people are not judging the anime as a standalone but comparing it to other great animes in…
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Don’t listen to the other reviews. It’s one of those anime you need to watch after a few episodes to judge for yourself. As I a picky anime fan, I had to binge watch this. The characters are interesting and leaving you wanting more especially Fou Houhou. There are some bits that are funny (not sure if that’s my dark humour) give it a good watch before really playing any attention to the reviews.
I live in the UK and have only been to Japan once. So at the time of visit, it wasn’t included in Shouen Jump. But after watching the second series it is and that alone, left me wanting to re-subscribing to more English translated Shouen Jump.
Read at the sourceDarkargel13
For me ,every second of their scene was really great. I really appreciate how they're do the scene more unique and in reality (in short AWESOME). They handle how to make the fighting scene more clearly in every movements.
And i liked how the graphics gets great base on thier abilitys in the movie.
Those funny pick up line i love it too.
And i loved how the story goes. And I realy hate book that i need to read it's to boring for me so i better watch it that's give me more excited.
That is why i can't wait for the next episode i really want to know who really is Fuu?. Why she doesn't age?. And what is her relation to soran's grandfather?.
Good Luck,
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I don't understand why so many people give it a bad review, this anime is good. My only problem with it is that it only have 12 episodes and no manga to continue.
I saw someone saying "Chinese Zombie Stuff", but only one character uses zombies as weapons, all the rest have different superpowers, and the story is about them, or more precisely about the grandfather of Chou Soran.
I think the plot was cool, and the development was just right. I even like the characters, usually the emotionless steriotype still have some level of emotion, this one is really a psycopath. That doesn't mean she is evil, she just don't understand what are feelings. She could be called a Tsundere, since she beats the main character, but different of all the Tsunderes out there, Soran, the beaten main character,…
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Oh boy, lots of polarizing opinions here. Oh dang it, now I have to pick a side. OR NOT.
Obviously everyone's entitled to their own opinions. There can be a lot of reasons why someone won't be able to enjoy this. Perhaps they don't understand the culture, perhaps they find the art style to be not of their liking, perhaps they thought the story was stagnant, etc. I could probably list 100 reasons here but since I'm not a mind reader and I'm a lazy bastard, I won't.
Honestly it doesn't matter what everyone else's opinion is. This isn't a game on steam where you read tons of reviews to determine whether it's a good game or not. For anime, ONLY YOUR OPINIONS MATTER! And I really hope everyone remembers that. So go ahead and watch the show, and don't be afraid of going in face first into a…
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Well what have we got here? it's the seasonal worst anime award time and you guessed it, Hitori no Shita wins that award hands down. If you ever wanted to experience pain I would recommend sitting on a bed of nails or walking into a fire because this show will actually rot away your soul.
Story 2/10
I won't lie when this show first came out I was sitting on the fence. It starts off as a zombie anime but then does a full 360 and turns into a superpowered Kung fu shitfest. The story pacing is probably one of the worst I have ever seen. (Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen even worse than SAO.) I watched each week because I felt like it was slightly interesting and the ingredients were there for something great. After week 12 of the anime, I sat waiting for the next episode to see how thi…
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I'd recommend giving it a chance, with only 12 episodes for this season, what do you have to lose besides a few hours you would have spent being unproductive anyway? Personally I liked it obviously because I gave it an 8 overall and see a lot of potential if they continue beyond season 1. I also liked the art and animation styles. The story follows Chou who is an "Outsider" (someone with supernatural abilities). He catches a lot of flack about being a virgin but is actually a straight up bada**. Like most anime the whole thing revolves around random bad guys popping up complicating the mc's life and pushing him to reveal more and more of just how far his potential goes. While it is a bit slower paced at points that is to try developing the back story and characters alongside the current ev…
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Before writing down anything here, I’d first like to say that all audiences should go to watch the unedited completed version of this anime which has a half-hour-long 11th episode and 43-min-long 12th episode AS WELL AS THE ORIGENAL MANGA that has already been updated to nearly 200 episodes. Plus if you can speak fluent Chinese I highly recommend you to watch the Chinese cover and you can discover more unique sides of this anime.
To begin with, I have to state that the anime is INDEED disappointing. The enjoyment and the overall score highly depend on my view to the original comic instead of the animation. A few points of this anime were about to make me to drop the series. What came out first was the absence of so many frames that turned continuous scenes into some PowerPoint or ‘moving…
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Story 9.5 Art 6.5 Sound 7 Character 8
Hitori no Shita: The Outcast has an amazing story that is sadly poorly written at most parts with bland art and decent sound. Most of the characters are cheesy yet well thought out at the same time.
The biggest negative trait this anime has is a middle school immunity level and poor start. While this anime might be an acquired taste and take self-discipline the creators did not have; If you can handle the flaws it is an amazing Anime. While I was bored at moments others caught onto me fairly solidly. My favorite part being balancing slice of life, laughter and Action fairly well.
If you can not find anything good or even ok to watch; you should watch this.
Overall 7.85
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Finally, china blessed us with another Zombie stuff.
There's no secret to the success of animes like this,either you need to have tons of fan service like "high school of the dead" or such hype that will make it widely popular even before it start airing,like what happen to "Kabaneri of the iron fortress" and having a logical plot is irrelevant for such genre.
But unfortunately "Hitori no Shita: The Outcast" got none of it but still there're few surprising element in it,at least I thought so at the beginning.
PLOT- (BIT SPOILERS)
It's a tale about chou the strongest of all outsider (People with supernatural power but are good for nothing),a man who can defeat dozen of fierce warriors in expense of few scratches using some ancient style but he's long death and a corpse now so the plot focu…
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Rumor has it that they use Hitori no Shita: The Outcast to torture prisoners. And from time to time masochists watch it on lonely nights too.
Story
3/10
The creators either tried too hard to make something complex out of poor ideas or they came up with an idea that was so complex they failed to materialize it. Hitori no Shita is definitely not an anime you die waiting for a new episode every week, but you do die waiting for something interesting to happen while watching it.
Art & Animation
2/10
Fine backgrounds, reason why it's 2/10 and not 1/10. The animation is so awkward even the movements of the mouths and eyes are weird and off. It doesn't even look like a group of people put any effort into it, the lack of fluidity is so visible it hurts. Maybe it's the very first project of a br…
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First off, if by reading the synopsis you thought this was a show about zombies (a la Highschool of the Dead)...it's not. It's about "Outsiders"--seemingly ordinary people with extraordinary abilities. One of those Outsiders is a girl who can control zombies, but she is NOT the main character.
Secondly, if you haven't started watching, I must pre-warn you of this part in the 1st episode which caused a fair number of people to give up in disgust. It's the scene where Houhou is trying to bury the MC, Soran, and he just sits there like an idiot. Why doesn't he just get up and run away? See, in the original webcomic (which I checked out), that pit is supposed to be much deeper than shown in the anime (it's over Soran's height even when he's standing up and he likely had to jump to get over it…
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People are giving this show much more credit than it deserves. The title of the anime is spot on tho, Hitori no shit.
I don't usually get triggered by anime, but this is a new low.
We follow in the footsteps of a "virgin" Chou Soran a heir to some powerful family. One sudden day the grave of his grandfather is pillaged and he has to find out why. On his way to his dear grandfathers grave, he finds goku, no wait i mean Fuu Houhou. Fuu just like Soran, are supernatural humans who can freely control their Ki and use Martial arts as their weapons, called outsiders. In a world filled with people like them Soran is extremely special and is headhunted by many evil organizations, but fret not, during the story you will find out why, but not really :)
This anime is trying to be something origin…
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I just read some reviews and I'm disappointing, but is your free opinion of course...
At first it seems an ordinary anime zombie, but IS NOT ... the story changes completely as they pass episodes (I say no more for spoilers avoid ) ... I say after seeing all the anime and hope you have a 2nd season because it has been in the best part of the plot. It is the anime that most surprised me this season: D I give it an 8 for this season, pending the second season that will rise this score ;)
I'm writing this because if someone is thinking to watch this anime or not, you need to try because will change your opinion in each episode. I just will said the anime have accion, drama, magic and a dark history that you will put in front of your monitor until you finish this anime :D I hope a 2a season :…
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It seems like everyone forgot that another anime about psychics existed that isn’t called Mob Psycho 100. This time it’s a Chinese-Japanese led project fulfilling our dreams of being able to called this anime a Chinese cartoon. OK all jokes aside this series does have something interesting to offer as it incorporates both martial arts and psychic powers to give us a predominantly action focused show.
***Note I’ll be using the translated names as I watched the Japanese dubbed version with English subtitles.***
The start of this show at one point led me to think that it was another zombie apocalypse show like High School of the Dead but only to realise that certain people can manipulate the corpses freely. Our main protagonist Chou Soran in the dead of night, is making a visit to his grand…
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