Yaoguai Mingdan

I dont really understands why many of the chinese animator or anime studio seem to like animating harem anime genre so much. But, that's not the only problem that i have with it. The fact that they lack such originality with their resources to animate a show is just so painful to watch. But hey, i watch it anyway because i've got nothing to do within my free time. It has that generic opening song and ending song much like the op and ed from any anime related romance series. Incidentally, the overall premise and plot development of the story is also much like what ... most japanese harem anime does. And that japanese anime hero archetype. Copied. That being said. I personally sees alot of contrast to other of the japanese harem anime after the story progresses through each of the episodes. Although, it's still similar to that, but there are some originality within them as well. And the interesting thing here within this story. They're technically living in a world where monster and human coexist, but those monster were once an actual monster before, before they were promoted to become a part of humanity or turning into an actual person like us. So basically their existence symbolizes something. Human are evil because they kill trees, and trees monster doesn't like that. Or that, human are evil because they eat pork, kill pigs, and pigs monster are a representation of that sort of hatred for human. Basically, our discrimination of everything kinda triggers every monster out there. But some monster are cool with living in a life where their species, or presumably much like themselves (but not a fucking monster) being get eaten or kill right in front of them. Or due to the fact that there are such implement of an actual games that we all play, or things that we are familiar of. Like League of Legend and such. And the annoying thing about this anime is how thirsty the girls are for the protagonist are and how illogical and unrealistic it's (well it make no sense for most harem, while some are exceptional)


And btw, i have nothing against chinese animator, studio, or staff, or people personally. I appreciate their hardship and work that they put into these animes that they're creating. I just wanted to see something original that represent them, or producing less harem show and start doing some other genre as well. And if you're confuse as to why each episode only have a time span of 10 min. Then that's because they don't have a proper anime studio that they could invested into making a pretty long ass 24 min animation with their funds, or animator/artist to do it. People don't do work for free afterall. The pacing and transition of the animation are not specifically all that great for me. It lacks the smoothness of character movement and transition. The overly epic and amazing OST doesn't actually fits into the anime's story at all, or the lack of consistency of the animation and art. The humor are kinda plain, somewhat connectable, and awkward. And the love in first sight thing in general that result in them wanting to protect you for life even though you've just only met makes no fucking sense to me. And i dont understand the need for that plant girl to fuck everyone and then kill them afterwards. Just fucking kill them, why the fuck do you need to fuck them then later kills them. And she have that succubus abilities to seduce men in general as well. I just dont understand. Isn't she a tree monster? How does that makes any sense. Or does everything about girls has to have a connection to every sexual thing to make them all that appealing to men. Physic wise, this shit doesn't apply in this anime. But the voice acting and OST still amazing to me despite all the horrible characters, and story.

All the being said, this anime has a very amateurish production value. But it's worth a try. These chinese anime studio is a novice right now but they will definitely improve through time as they gain more experience to make something more original and with a much better quality with animation and so on.

A disaster. There is no other way to describe Yaoguai Mingdan. And since I really wish to see chinese animes to shine, I'm being biased and merciful, which should tell you a lot about me calling Yaoguai Mingdan a disaster. But the truth remains whatever we wish for :
This show is a disaster, and there's not a good thing about it, in whatever aspect you look for.
Take the dialogues for example. Dialogs are a good support of information, for the story, the characters, the events, the relationships and so on. Here, dialogs were so poorly thought that they are often used to fill the ... sound space. At best, it's a bit confusing but with little or no consequences, but at worse, it's fully misguiding the viewers into believing something that the authors themselves didn't mean to tell.
Hell, sometimes even the characters themselves looked confused at their own sentences !
Ah, but here's something good about Yaoguai Mingdan : The art is funny. Well, it's so poorly animated that it's funny, so it might be an accident of sort.
Still, don't be surprised if it looks like you're watching some kind of a South Park adaptation : some characters seems to miss some axes in their limbs (what's the use for a knee or two nowadays ?), or you will see them moving their legs a bit too fast for the distance they cover. The opposite is also true and it's a common occurence (and I can't stop laughing about it).
With Art comes the story, which is pretty much the best thing about Yaoguai Mingdan, so I can't tell you much without spoiling it : well, it's a mix of asian/western clichés, so along the way the anime itself becomes more cumfortable, like a warm blanket of déjà-vu and ready-to-serve hot drink of past plots...
So now I'm going to be a bit rude : this anime don't lack talent, it's lacking WORK, alltogether. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't any. Maybe it's just lacking because of some external pressure (budget ? delay ? astrological planet alignment ?)
But because I wish for chinese animes to shine, I would still like to give some praise and encouragements to all involved in this anime. While I can't recommand this anime to anyone (unless you're very well prepared), the (very) stubborn viewer could still find himself enticed by - something - about this show (this could vary a lot from one viewer to another). To me, Yaoguai Mingdan was almost a torture, but it could still serve as a prelude for some better work in a near future.