Xing Hai Qishi (Knights on Debris)

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Synonyms: Xing Hai Qi Shi

Japanese: 星骸骑士

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Type: ONA

Episodes: 7

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Dec 30, 2020 to Feb 3, 2021

Producers: Tencent Penguin Pictures, D.ROCK-ART

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Source: Original

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.68¹ (scored by 425 users)

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Ranked: #5964²

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Popularity: #11922

Members: 1,583

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In the future world, human exploration of the universe has entered a prosperous era. Machinist Chen Mo originally thought he would successfully reach the new world-the Wild Land in an interstellar spacecraft. Unexpectedly, when he woke up, the Wild Land has become scorched, and his teammates turned into terrifying puppet monsters. Chen Mo didn't know that during several hundred years of sleeping in the dormancy chamber, humans had established an interstellar federation, and the Wild Land had become an abyss. Why am I still alive? ——With countless questions, Chen Mo repaired four robot assistants with different personalities and different functions. With their help, Chen Mo prepared to return to the earth. However, an alien woman appeared, and completely disrupted his return plan...

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Xing Hai Qishi: Xia Ban Ji

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"Fluorescent" by Life Awaits

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Nov 7, 2021

ST63LTH

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In the distant galaxy, on a rogue wild star are 2 transcendent beings; one fights to corrupt the galaxy and the other fights to seal the corruption. Fortunately, the corrupted King of Abyss/hell is sealed in the wild star however, with time the seal will eventually deteriorate; as such the sentient being sends shards of his power into black crystals around the galaxy for descendants to pick up where he left off. Coincidentally, a shard hits earth and humanity studies its origins and capabilities, they plan to send a scout team to the wild star and set up interplanetary colonies on the wild star thus ... beginning the new federation.

Knights on Debris follows Chen Mo, a Chinese scientist who becomes a vessel of the sentient beings dormant powers. He is involved in the operation to scout the wild star; However, things go south when the wormhole his team takes ends up delaying their arrival by 150 years - by this point humanity has already established diplomatic relations on the wild star and become the new federation but it is already too late since humanity on the wild star has been overrun by the abyss and the land is barren. Chen Mo is the only human on the wild star with his robot companions, however things take a turn for the worst when Thorne, a superhuman race are sent to the wild star to rescue a runaway princess. Will they be able to settle interactions peacefully or will the abyss shatter all life?

Story: 7/10
The story is set in a near future world where space exploration has become possible and where species wage war in space. The time-skip aspect caught me off guard and was an interesting hook to the beginning. In the beginning, we are shown little segments of Chen Mo's life spread across 230 days as he tries to repair his aircraft. This is a pretty normal way to establish the world and introduce characters since its basically day-in-the-life routine. As Thorne slowly creeps into the story it becomes more complicated and mysterious since the robots have only heard rumors of this species; our suspicions of them being a ruthless species is somewhat true based on the first encounter with Chen Mo and Princess Kaleiti. However, as they suffer against the abyss organisms and struggle with loss, they eventually grow affection. All the while there is a sense of betrayal foreshadowing on the Thorne Kingdom's personnel.

Art & Sound: 8/10 & 7/10
The visuals of this are amazing; it almost feels like a waste seeing this kind of art and animation quality on a smaller series on MAL. The character designs are pretty detailed and well informed based on the environment and storyline; the medieval knights armor in a future space kingdom reminds me of Aldnoah Zero's Mars Colony Mecha.

Sounds were pretty normal, nothing notable in terms of theme music or Voice Actors.

Character: 6/10
Character development felt conflicting for me since Chen Mo's robot companions kept getting violated just so Chen Mo and Princess Kaleiti would progress their connection; at this point in time I felt that Chen Mo's companions were humans just by how he treats them. The Thorne characters are pretty mysterious apart from where the series shows which Thorne character has affection when their love interest sacrifices themselves. Apart from that, the characters were very interesting and felt that they were crucial for the development of the story.

Enjoyment & Overall: 7/10
Knights on Debris is a very entertaining series and it has some good conflict. The art style is very high quality and the character palette is small yet has some likeable and hittable characters from the beginning. This series definitely deserves some attention compared to the lower rated wuxia I've seen.

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Dec 9, 2022

WuXu

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Story: 7/10
When a mysterious asteroid with mysterious powers falls on to the earth then a group of scientists must travel to the origin planet of this asteroid to find some more and research it. But the things doesn't go according to plan while arriving on the planet. The ship is destroyed leaving the MC Chen Mo as the alone survivor in a planet lurking with a lot of abyss organisms; so the he must survive on its own with a help of a few robots. But the things gets worse/complicated once the Thorne people are introduced.
Thorne people have a kind of special power similar ...

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Jun 30, 2021

Hunter2022

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Preliminary (14/7 eps)

Very entertaining Supergirl movie clone.

First off let me be clear on one thing, I am a guy. Though I do watch Superman movies, my favorite had always been the female counterpart Supergirl. BUT not the TV series mind you, my only exposure to Supergirl is the 1984 movie starring Helen Slater.

Anyways back to review.

Knights on Debris makes itself seem like a Star Wars/Star Trek clone at first. But then things became unmistakable the mysterious Thorne people capable of using The Force to manipulate black crystals into body armors and weapons are not Jedi masters. Their facial markings are not ... anymore Jedi-ean.

This is what I love about the show, it's Kryptonians from the Superman lore set in the Star Wars/Star Trek universe!

Right off the bat, we meet several Knights of Thorne (aka Kryptonians) -- a general called Keane (he's actually general Zod from Superman, but not an evil one), and several of his followers like Morena (taken after Ursa the female Kryptonian seen in Superman II the movie). There are actually 4 Thorne Knights in total, but one of them dies off. So the latter part of the series the three left are like those 3 Kryptonians in Superman II the movie that come to cause mischief on a planet that resembles Earth once on the ground. Mischief is actually not the right word as the Thorne Knights are the good guys in this Series.

The settings of Season one is on this planet that seemed to be in a state of crumbling into pieces, akin to a Krypton that's in a state of destruction/breaking up.

Of course not the least the female lead is actually modeled after Supergirl. Her red flowing cape is cleverly split into two. But when you view her from afar that's definitely Kara Zor-El/Supergirl. What surprised me was, in Supergirl (1984) movie, the man who Supergirl kissed, he drank beer in a can laced with love potion. This is repeated in Knights on Debris. We see the male lead, Chen Mo's favorite drinks are cans of beer. There are many scenes where Chen Mo holds a can of beer to his lips.

Next, in the Supergirl (1984) movie, the main villainess is this human female who practices witchcraft and keeps a large demon for a pet. This is repeated in Knights on Debris. There is a female character with a huge monster as a sidekick. She never displayed any powers like the other Knights of Thorne and has these dark shades around her eyes to make her look like a witch. This character turned out to be the evil mastermind who orchestrated the deaths of all those other Knights.

Lastly, in the last episode, everyone got sent to the Phantom Zone where they are unable to tap into their powers as Knights of Thorne. The only movie to feature the Phantom Zone in the entire Superman lore is the Supergirl (1984) movie. So we see that the work Knights on Debris is most based on is the 1984 Supergirl movie. It's a mix match of Superman lore and STAR WARS that made me eagerly await a new episode each week!

If anyone hasn't seen Supergirl (1984) movie, I highly recommend seeing it. Not only does it have a superb soundtrack/score, but u can see how it matches closely with Knights on Debris S1 as a work of art.

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