Mi Yu Xing Zhe

CHINESE MASTERPIECE, 10/10

HOWEVER right now the donghua is unfinished and needs a second season but what I've seen now is THE BEST SURVIVAL quality as good as Japanese made,

IF YOU LOVE BTOOOM YOU WILL LOVE UNCHARTED WALKER !!! THROW NAIVETY OUT AND GET INTO THE SUSPENSE !!!!!!!

People who speak CANTONESE, or from Hong Kong, you will LOVE IT EVEN MORE cause He Zhiyang is a gangster from Hong Kong and speaks pretty good broken Cantonese, you'll actually understand 仆街 and stuff !!! IT'S FUNNY AND COOL

PLOT CHARACTER ACTION TOP NOTCH! THERE ARE NATIVE AMERICAN SAVAGES ATTACK IN THE ANIME TOO

My favorite characters include Ning Yuan, Su Jin, He Zhiyang, Andre, Mr. Ding, Mr. Ou, Mr. Ishigaki, and the Professor.

If you like to READ INTO CHARACTERS in SURVIVAL, THEY'LL BE TESTED VERY WELL. YOU GONNA LOVE THEM,

I guess I should warn there is 1 attempted rape scene in Episode 2 by He Zhiyang on Su Jing stopped by Ning Yuan , but it was not any objectionable content just shoved in. He was being a gangster at the time, but He becomes such a bro later with Ning, I quote

"I don't have any objection to this voting result, But anyone want to harm my brother, will have to walk over my dead body!" (flicks out knife)

Throughout the anime. including Ning Yuan himself when he wanted to kick Mr. Ding off. It just shows the SAME PERSON can makes good or selfish decisions that rests on their STATE OF MIND at that time, particularly on the instinct to survive.

TWISTS AND TURNS THAT CONTINUE TO BE INTERESTING.

I LOVE THE OPENING, AMAZING SONG :D ULTRA BADASS !!!!! Episode 9 also has a Cantonese version of the opening sang by He Zhiyang XDDD Ending song is good too, gives a nice contrasting happy feel compared to the donghua!

I cannot forget the super awesome and rad Episode 10 special ending song that tells the whole exciting summary, I WAS LIKE DAMNNNNNN XDDD

Sharing my experience, MY best enjoyment was watching in this order EPISODE 1-7 (stopping point) IN 1 RUN, then EPISODE 8-12. Or else you can't stop thinking to marathon.

If you want to watch GOOD CHINESE ANIME, UNCHARTED WALKER IS ON YOUTUBE CHINESE DUB WITH ENGLISH SUBS, thank you Guodong Subs !!!

SEASON 2 SO THE STORY CAN CONTINUE !!!!!!!!

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Overall: 6

I would first like to point out the inaccuracy of Maikocchi. There is an attempted rape scene that gets stopped and never attempted up again as well as what looks like a fan service character who has the only 10 seconds of fan service in the entire show. That's two instances totaling two minutes across 240 minutes of content, this show is not perverted.

The season ends on a major cliffhanger as if they planned on 16 episodes, ran out of budget, and just extended the scene they were working on to end at 12 episodes. The show also doesn't really get going until episode five or so since they flesh out each additional member as they arrive. If they edited the first two or three episodes down into one and actually gave the season an ending, I'd have rated the show a seven or eight.

Story: 7

The story starts with two people in a death trap. It then turns out they're on an island and they find more and more people on said island. The story continues as these people go through the island and encounter various types of ways to be killed. It's kinda like a survival version of the Saw series in that way.

Characters: 7

The show gets a decently sized cast of diverse people. They look stereotypical, but I found that each one had good reactions; they had legitimate thoughts and acted for a reason, not for their character's type. For instance, they have an American blonde bombshell in a tank top. Instead of being there for fan service, she is an expert marksman and a cop. In fact, her character could have just as easily been drawn as a middle aged man.

Art and Sound: 6

I'm not particular about these, so I'm just going to rate them fair for unremarkable and move on.

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The first few episodes were really messy in my opinion, but it got less messy as the story progressed. Though it overall just felt unrefined.


To start off, a lot of scenes were unnecessary or waste of potential. They really could've made it simplier for themselves by taking out scenes that won't be continued or talked about later on. I just ended up wanted to edit this series like a youtube video, if you know what I mean. When you start rambling about stuff that doesn't actually matter, but you get distracted. That's the type of feel I got from it.
Don't get me wrong, the story is cool and all. It would just be way cooler and better, if it wasn't so messy.
There was a, let's say, vulgar scene and it felt all too natural between the two involved. He gets a sort of "punishment" later, but that gets fixed by the victim?? There's also this backstory of the victim that I really don't get it. That backstory was all too long and unnecessary for an excuse not to trust the mc, but that only got used once?


The art style is an average chinese anime. Like I don't really know why, but all chinese animes has the same style. At least those I have watched, like King's Avatar has a similar style.
Really nothing much to comment about, just a average anime style I guess.


I really don't remember soundeffects and the opening song/ending song. It wasn't all that memoriable. I do admit that I listened a little to the ending song everytime though. It amuses me to see survivor anime characters play in a band in the ending song, yk?


I could honestly go on and on about the individual characters, but I'll do a brief overall view. Mostly because I really don't remember the names of any of them, didn't stick with me.
To say the least, the characters are flawed. I feel like some of their actions were just to prove a point in the characters backstory. Though I will say that I hate none of the characters, which is rare when it comes to survivor animes. Some characters were annoying, but let's say they were taken care of.


Overall it's an anime that's not finished. It's one you binge watch and in the end wishing there was an end. One you'll probably won't remeber watching the next week. A year from watching it you could watch it again and feel as if you recognize it. That kinda anime, yk?
I would say, give it a try.

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Light spoilers ahead.

Alright, I just binge watched this in one sitting and figured I review it.

This anime is your typical survival island anime however, it feels fresh. I am legitimately surprised at how much I enjoy this and even urge others to give it a watch. However, there is only one big trope so far that kind of irks me and has ruined my enjoyment in early episodes which is the MC having amnesia.

The MC having amnesia is a lot more irksome when you realize they made the MC a likeable bad ass character and took him away before the first even ends. That first episode is the first time you see him actively being bad ass for quite some time. Even so, I actually still like him.

Now onto some smaller things about this anime that people may find bothersome for whatever reason.

Yeah, It's in Chinese. I see a lot of people complain about that and I personally don't get it. Not a big deal to me but whatever I guess I'll put that out there.

The animation. The animation is pretty mediocre but it does not deviate from the story at all and I have no problem with it. It's basically what anime was like in the early 2000's.

Now onto the enjoyable things.

Unlike most survival anime the characters here are not just expandable objects for the author to kill off at will in order to try and build up some false tension or a plot device used to help the MCs out at will. In fact, they actually get some decent backstory and they even end up as lovable side characters even when they do some less than lovable things, even hateable things actually. In fact, for such a large cast of characters, I'm surprised I don't hate at least one of them. They all are actually interesting despite some of them not having much backstory to them or even little to no backstory at all (so far).

I want to touch on something I've seen people mention about this anime so far that is related to the first two episodes or so, no this is not a BTOOM! rip off. The survival island cliche is an age-old premise. Ever read And Then There Were None? The anime has more in common with that than it does BTOOM! but it's still not comparable in the least.

I really see no reason not to watch this anime, definitely give it a try! It's a decent mystery anime as well as a decent thriller, I know that may not sound like a great compliment or anything but I don't want to oversell it and get peoples hopes up for some sort of Detective Conan or Death Note level mystery/thriller kinda deal. Unless they manage to mess this up I expect this review to be relevant up to the last episode. With the surprises they've thrown me so far I might even have to come back just to praise it more


EDIT: So I just finished this anime. And wow. Just wow. I honestly did not expect such a great anime from this. I honestly went into this expecting the most cliched low budget anime that exists solely to advertise the webtoon and boy was I wrong. Seriously guys, Give this anime a chance.

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