Wo Shi Jiang Xiaobai

Ten years ago, Jiang Xiaobai lost all his memories due to a traumatic event he no longer remembers. Now working as a trainee in Editorial Office No.2 of Wen Zheng Magazine, a literary periodical based in Chongqing, he is excited to begin a new chapter of his life: in two days, he finishes his probationary period and officially starts his job as an editor. He gives no thought to his recurring dream of a girl whose face can never clearly see.

That evening, one of Jiang Xiaobai's seniors passes him the task of rushing to the airport to escort the idiosyncratic rising author Tong Li, who has returned from America to launch her first serialized novel in Chinese. As punishment for this senior reneging on his own duties, Jiang Xiaobai replaces him as Tong Li's new editor. Though they get off to a rough start, Tong Li soon recognizes Jiang Xiaobai as someone precious from her high school days. Before they know it, the wheels of fate are set in motion, as Jiang Xiaobai slowly uncovers clues about a long-forgotten girl from his past.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Tong, Li Main

Jiang, Xiaobai Main

Mu, Xiyu Main

Xiaomin Supporting

Wen, Wen Supporting

Xiyu's Mother Supporting

Lu, Yu Supporting

Xiaojiao Supporting

Yang, Gang Supporting

Xi, Lin Supporting

Xiang, Kai Editing

Hao, Xianghai ADR Director

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Jun 13, 2020

SarutoKen

Recommended

我是江小白 is a story about LOVE, REGRET and MEMORY. There is this guy Xiao Bai suffering from amnesia because of what happened ten years ago in school. And there are these two girls Xiao Li and Xi Yu who both seem to have a connection with Xiao Bai. What happened in the past is the biggest mystery of this anime, and Xiao Bai’s long path to recover his memory makes you go through various emotions – impatience, frustration, and sadness but also empathy and happiness.

Not only is the story really heart-warming and enjoyable, but the pacing is also really good, making you entertained until ... the very last episode of the season. There are so many twists in the plot, I was really surprised and didn’t foresee at all what was gonna happen – I am usually not that naïve.

Furthermore, you get deep immersion in the characters’ inside personalities and get to understand more and more every one’s motive.

And the most important for me, music plays an important part in this anime, as we soon learn (in episode 1 or 2) that Xiao Bai and Xi Yu both used to play in a band together… This is great opportunity to enjoy some beautiful Chinese songs completely in match with the overall atmosphere.

Art is good and background drawings are enjoyable, as much as daily life’s details, but as Chinese people say 美中不走 the characters are made with CGI and I can understand many will find it bad and unnatural. I definitely can’t say I love CGI in general, but I don’t hate it either. I don’t think the average quality of animation here is a major issue as I personally got used to it after the first two episodes.

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Overall, this anime is evidence that you don’t need extraordinary animation and techniques to make good anime – story, characters and OST are more important. I had a good time watching 我是江小白 and I hope you will as well, I also watched the OVA and the second season in a row, but be careful the second season has not be translated into any western language, so you won’t be able to see it until you speak Chinese (fortunately I do).

PS: The end of the first season isn’t really satisfying, so just consider the OVA that comes after as part of the first season and watch it in a row ;p (well you probably will anyway, craving for knowing what happens right after season 1). Regarding to the second season, it is enjoyable as well but not absolutely necessary.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 28, 2020

Elfsire

Mixed Feelings

Plot - I seem to have seen a fair few time skip animes lately.
Essentially this plot follow our MC who has selective amnesia he is an editor for a magazine company. He meets an author who they are publishing. But she is familiar to him. This anime is about unraveling who she is and what it is he has forgotten. We pan between past and present. Its twist ending is very your lie in April....
This anime has musical elements and a nice focus on literature.

firstly this animes soundtrack and music is amazing and to be honest it was the only saving grace for ... me.
But this is where my compliments will end.

This anime isn't bad... however its ugly.
And this sounds cruel but its really badly used cgi for the entire thing... characters walk like insects which are more lankier than a clamp character.... faces at times are hillarously bad.
As a musician the scenes where they focus on the band are just irritating because they should of stuck the singer on bass.... because she doesn't play the guitar to the music at all... but thats a musical nit pick.
Its really difficult to get into the heartfelt story when your characters look crossed eyed half the time.....the doodles of the mc are actually amazing and prettier then the anime itself...
If this anime had been produced with less cgi on the characters it would probably rate higher. The setting is lovely the scenery in this anime is beautiful.

The ending also lowered the score for me. Its a twist ending where its very unclear what actually is reality and what happened. You don't get any real life payoff ... its left hypothetical and with to much unanswered.

The story and sound are the best parts... if this was ever remade it would probably be 100 times better. The story is beautiful, emotional and well thought through. It is clear it had a lot of love put into it. Its just a shame the ending and the visual side was a mess. This anime carries a romance tag when its not really a romance anime in the sense the main focus isn't love its ... forgiveness and regret. Rey is telling her story because she holds regret.
I guess watch this anime if really don't have much on also its in Chinese so if your use to Japanese ... it may be jarring to get into at first.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 18, 2018

Heikor

Not Recommended

This anime is not as bad as it sounds (I was surprised, I thought it was going to be really bad, but it's pretty decent in its history)

story: 7
The story has a lot of cliche breaking of generally Japanese animes, it gives you the certainty of what is going to happen but goes by a different way thus making the story to be unpredictable and interesting.

Art: 1
The art of the anime is extremely pathetic in all respects, character design is pretty bad, ambiance is very bad, the "cg" is much worse than some "full cg" anime in 2014 considering that the "cg" improves considerably each ... year

Sound: 4
The "ost" is quite decent but when they put the opening (which happens a lot) made the scenes quite cool and with a much bigger impact, but the ost has nothing much in them.

Character: 7
The characters are very organic, the dialogues are very cool and realistic as the relationship of the characters is well written.

Enjoyment: 5
It was very fun to follow this anime but could have been better ..

Overall: 4
An anime with an interesting story, very cool characters and very precarious technical parts but I still recommend it is a really cool story.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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