Introduction
In his past life, although too weak to protect his home when it counted, out of grave determination Nie Li became the strongest Demon Spiritist and stood at the pinnacle of the martial world. However, he lost his life during the battle with the Sage Emperor and six deity-ranked beasts.
His soul was then brought back to when he was still 13 years old. Although he's the weakest in his class with the lowest talent, having only a red soul realm and a weak one at that, with the aid of the vast knowledge which he accumulated from his previous life, he decided to train faster than anyone could expect. He also decided to help those who died nobly in his previous life to train faster as well.
He aims to protect the city from the coming future of being devastated by demon beasts and the previous fate of ending up destroyed. He aims to protect his lover, friends, family and fellow citizens who died in the beast assault or its aftermath. And he aims to destroy the so-called Sacred family who arrogantly abandoned their duty and betrayed the city in his past life.
(Source: Goodreads)
Audience reviews
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ST63LTH
Tales of Demons & Gods, a Chinese 'anime' adaptation of the popular Martial arts Manhua and Light Novel by the same name is quite underwhelming. After reading the Manhua and checking if the adaptation was any good, I can confirm that the series follows the story line of the Manhua very closely but the camera angles and shots make watching it so and so. Overall, would have loved the adaptation to be in 2D but there may have been time restrictions that permitted the used of 3D rigged animation instead.
Story: 7/10
Nie Li, the protagonist travels back to the past after dying by defending the Glory City and being overwhelmed with demon beasts, he maintains his knowledge and uses it to elevate the influence of Glory City and its people to avoid catastrophic events from destroying Glory City. A…
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Would like to point out there is a manhwa or light novel for this anime. If anyone doesn't like the cgi animation you could read this. Both of these adaptations are very similar.
I enjoyed the animation, even though the stories are short. I guess i am a sucker for cultivation centered anime/donghua. I think this series is better to binge all at once, this is what i am doing with season 4 right now.
The story is great, so are the characters. The cgi is kind of bad but that is just the way these donghua often are animated.
Although this isn't as good as doupo changqiong, ze tian ji, quanzhi fashi or douluo dalu, I would still say it is a solid 8, if only for the story it follows and the fact it is one of the more accurate light novel adaptations.
Once again if the cgi bothers you just…
Read at the sourceAI_is_the_future
This is a hidden gem. It's laying under layers of "unusual" approaches, but hides amazing deep world and unique story told in a light-hearted comedy with romance style.
Layers hiding the gem are:
-Art - 3D art is not great, but you can get used to it after a while
-Language - don't get scared of Chinese language, you will stop noticing it after a few hours/series
-7min episodes- I found a source that combined whole seasons in one video (40episodes), it would be pain otherwise
If you can get over this and the bit childish dialogues/approach, then you get a deep world with solid mechanics. The combination of magic, alchemy and family branches works very well together. Story is about MC that died after his city got destroyed, but his memories transport few year back to past (younger) himsel…
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I stumbled across Tales Of Demons And Gods primarily by mistake due to a recommendation on a website. The visual premise was similar to Naruto, so I thought why not try this chinese ;anime; out?
The show uses a lot from spiritual concepts originated from China. The plot is very vague and not well expressed. It's hard to understand why Nie Li lacks soul power as its not even described properly. That's mostly due to poor world building and my lack of knowledge about Taoism. Also, notice how Nie Li is a genius and has only begun to be noticed now.
The Art is pretty mediocre as they have used 3D animation. I tried reading the Manhua and the character sketches were way better. However, its not too bad after around 5 episodes. By the end of the series, I could hardly notice the flaw in animat…
Read at the sourceMoonchips
This is the first anime that made me look for the manga, then the light novel. The plot is captivating for my preference and easily made me look pass the flaws of the animation. Unfortunately, the author did not complete his story and has decided to drop it... which is severely depressing it'd take years for me to move on.
Animation wise, 7mins episode, this shit is undeserving to the story. 3D animation does look good but not very smooth. Doesn't have unnecessary flashy scenes and keep to the plot, which is something i cannot find in many anime. First few episodes move at a very slow pace, since 5min playtime each. However, after completing all 40 episodes. I wouldn't want them to replace the animation since i find it rather appropriate. However, i urge them to standardize an episode to…
Read at the sourceGimmeDatDonut
Yaoshenji, or Tales of Demons and Gods, is one of those new Chinese anime that I really want to like, but really can't bring myself to. As an adaptation of a popular web-novel and manga, it already has really good plot behind it. However, the choices that the animation studio has chosen have severely undercut this massive advantage.
One of the most glaring problems is the length of each episode. Episodes are around 7 minutes long on average, but if you consider that the opening and ending animations take up 2 minutes, then you're left with just 5 minutes of actual storyline per episode. While this comes out to about 200 minutes of total animation (around 10 episodes of a normal length anime), it severely limits the amount of information that can be added in a single episode. As such, each…
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