Audience reviews
11 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Otaku_Senpai
This is my thoughts on all three seasons... not only season three.
I don't know if I am alone in this but I was confused right from the 1st episodes. Yes the show looked good with mostly its 2D hand drawn animations and I want to give it a high score but cant. While the art style and character design is beautiful, I got confused with character names and their faces. A lot of the character have similar faces, with subtle differences that I found it hard to pick up on. In anime we also have generic faces but often they are distinguished by different hair color, different clothes and eye colors. But here they have similar hair color, similar clan robes and similar eyes. So you can see how hard a time I had remembering who was who. Another aspect with the core story, Wei Wuxian is reincarnate…
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Some stories you hate to see end, and this is one of those.
Like the first two seasons, the art work is simply masterful, especially in the character designs and backgrounds. All the animation is CG, and the 2D was great throughout. The 3D though, slipped back into some of the cost saving problems that beset the first season. There are some clunkly looking sections, especially as the season continues. It wasn't a showstopper, by any means. but it did get a tad distracting.
There was more slippage in the narrative writing. At times, this season was hard to follow, as it was not always apparent whether you were in the current time, or stuck in another flashback. It was like the writers were doing stream of consciousness, would get half way through a scene, slap themselves in the forehead,…
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MDZS was a very enjoyable series overall.
Strong points of the series:
Good world building and setting, nuanced characters with interesting backstories, beautiful art style, good integration of the musical instrument bits, nice political tension between clans, coherent events through time, great voice acting in the original language and Japanese dub.
Weak points of the series:
Could have been slightly gayer, and the animation could have been better (there are also some 3D animation bits here and there which always breaks the immersion for me personally, on a positive note they weren't that bad compared to 3D scenes I've encountered in other animated series...)
*side note, The immersive animated ads with product placement and the MDZS characters really cracked me up!
Final verdict:…
Read at the sourcecyborgtheory
Plot: 10/10
Animation: 10/10
Pacing: 2/10
MDZS is a complex story with many layers and characters. It is tragic, funny and shocking. The animation is superb and underrated - I wish the anime was more widely available in the West. However, the plot is extremely rushed in this season and it barely makes sense if you haven't read the book beforehand. There is very little time to process or make sense of such a intricate plot. Even in the last episode, they're rushing to cram in 5 different scenes with many different emotions. If the pacing was better, this could have been a 9/10 or 10/10.
Read at the sourcebanichan
When compared to season 1 and 2, this season has both areas where it does better and other areas where it's not as good.
The main areas it falls a bit short are:
- The story is definitely a bit rushed. I think this could have been 2 seasons but was crammed into one, making the Yi city arc VERY fast, and resulting in some sped up pacing that was noticeably too fast. They also rearranged some of the storyline - it didn't bother me too much, but I got a bit confused having already been familiar with the original chronology.
- I actually found the art to still be really high quality, but there was a much heavier use of CG in this season, and occasionally that could be a bit obvious. I did find that the team did a really good job of integrating the CG elements with the hand-drawn elements s…
Read at the sourceLovely_Hollow
I can't express how much I love this story. The plot was amazing and the characters were all so unique and well written. (Beware there is going to be A LOT of spoilers.
In the final season we got to see Xiao Xing Chen and xue yang's backstory. I loved they way they animated the characters and the way they did the backstory. And the part where Xue Yang stares at the piece of candy Xiao Xing Chen gave him while he bleeds out was so heart touching.
Discovering Jin Guan Yao was the one behind the death of Nie Mingjue was AMAZING. Who would of thought that the guy that killed Wen Ruohan was actually a evil piece of shit. And to add even more of a twist at the end we find out that this whole thing starting from Wei Ying being ressuracted to finding the body of the zombie arm and the death of J…
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I love this series so much, and I'm saddened that this is the last season. I am planning on reading the novel, though!
As usual, the art is beautiful, and I envy the artists that can create these fantastic characters and scenery. The sound design is perfect too, and the songs played suit what is being shown. The opening and ending songs are very calm, and the art shown along with the music makes me very happy to watch the show.
But I was sometimes confused concerning the characters' multiple names (birth/given name, courtesy name and title) and the timeline of the events, but hopefully, reading the novel will help clear things up.
I will be rewatching this series many times, and I would recommend this series to anyone interested in adventure/mystery/action types shows.
Read at the sourceA-Ssist
Hello! Just a random watcher/reviewer. This is my first time of doing a review, so forgive me if this review is not helpful or rather not full of context or such.
First off, this Anime might be my first Chinese Anime adaptation that I've watched, and heck it was kinda worth it. It was recommended by a friend of mine who have already finished the novel long since the last chapter ended. So while watching, I have someone who could give me some additional info's that wasn't included in the anime. Although I loved the series, there were just some things I've noticed, especially this last season.
I'm kinda shocked how many people rated the anime 10/10, well nonetheless here's my review.
Story telling: 5/10
Although I'm not a novel reader or first of the MDZS franchise, the episodes for this…
Read at the sourceNiek23
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SERIES!!! There is no other way to describe how amazing it is. Soo catchy, amazing characters and story. It is just brilliant, PERIOD!
BUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTT...... In this last season I AM MISSING THE KISSING AND CONFESSION SCENE. Like for real, EXCUSE YOU, THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!! [could y'all like add it in or something?! It would be super appreciated] My hopes were up because of the amazing scene presented in the manhwa and novel, it literally makes the story soooo much better. SO WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LET ME DOWN LIKE THIS??? I FEEL CHEATED ON :((( Honestly I was going to make it a 8 for overall score, buttttttttt it's just so amazing I just had to make it a 9!
(I RECOMMEND for everyone to give this series a try; best would be to try out the first season and…
Read at the sourceJulio_Yifan
Before ushering my criticism, I would like to register that despite the flaws, this is a well above average show and is worth watching. I particularly like the artwork and overall aesthetic of the show.
That being said, I'm somewhat disapointed with the final season. While i would rate the first 2 seasons of this show among the best in anime in the last decade, this final season dropped significantly in quality.
Firstly the story in this season is rushed. For the sake of comparison, in the live action version the story in this season accounts for half of the show runtime, while here it is compressed into less episodes than the first season. This leaves significant characters without proper development. Many moments are robbed of their due emotional payoff. Also some of the transitions wi…
Read at the sourceGleefulViolin
This final season along with the previous two seasons are truly masterpiece!
Mo Dao Zu Shi series is the first donghua I've ever watched, but I knew it's the best donghua ever made. Thanks to Mo Dao Zu Shi, the past several years I have been fangirling over WangXian (Lan Wangji x Wei Wuxian). All started with the first season, then I read the original novel.. And then manhua version (I skip the Untame, because it's the least accurate adaptation of the original novel--and live action version isn't my cup of tea).
Compared to the first two seasons, this final season shows more of WangXian's relationships. Not explicit or anything, because it's donghua.. But it gives huge satisfaction to me who are watching Mo Dao Zu Shi because its BL elements. But worry not for non-BL fan, you won't be ma…
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