Long Zu

A hefty amount of quality donghua are left underwater and done no justice. Exceptions like Link Click, The King's Avatar, MXTX' and Daily Life of The Immortal King are the sole exposure for non-donghua anime fans. I had a hard time relying on machine translation dubbed sites, each week, each episode. If you are about to start this, be sure to watch it on a site which allows only official or fan dubs.

Here's my actual opinion on this show;
♟Be sure to watch the episode 0, it gives good context about what's going on.

Plot: Our man, Lu Mingfei, yes, Lu, is a loose cannon ... who joined Cassell College, which his dead parents supposedly were a part of. The framework of the perspective he views the world evolves. It's now a magical but limited outline where powerful and immortal dragons are at war with the humans. The college is the supreme alliance for humans against the threat. This first season spotlights the college life, and provides us more information about this world's system through his pov.

Story: It might seem a clusterfuck of overpowered characters battling each other out, and at a super high pacing. Very unoriginal and generic fantasy scenario to begin with. Nevertheless, the developments are bizarre and thought of.

Characters: There's a variety of characters to begin with and more get introduced over time. The existence of factions dividing them is an interesting note.

Action and Art: Confidently, the one of the only reasons I enjoyed Dragon Raja. Sick animation and sound effects, desperate bunch of pathetic humans using modern tech to counter an immortal Dragon. Twists involving an ally turning his cloak to the humans. Wow. As for the art, good budget and mix of 3d to 2d.

Music: Sawano. Hiroyuki. Sawano fookin' Hiroyuki is a god.

Dialogue: Trusting the machine dubbing, the dialogues weren't anything special. Far fetched and artificial. However, certain wholesome interactions between the main duo are sweet. The voice acting too is sexy.

Ignoring everything else, most importantly, red heads are a dying breed. Protect. And impregnate. A hot character design in my perspective, Motong Chen is everything you need her to be. An older sister with a hot voice acting, she carries this show.

Finale - '...this loneliness. This isn't ordinary loneliness, its desperate loneliness.' A dramatic and scary experience.

Bonus: The sequel was announced a fortnight back in a Tencent Video Animation Vision 2023 conference, and I was unaware about the season 2 announcement. No English or other official source teased it.

Dragon Raja was good enough to generate enough hype for the next season.

This is one of the best donghua I have seen and it deserves to be more popular than it currently is.

Story: The protagonist, Lu Mingfei is a nerd loser who spends most of his time playing Starcraft. He's content to spend the rest of his life in mediocrity, until one day an event happens that causes him to accept enrollment at Cassell College, a school where they train soldiers with superpowers to fight in a war between dragons and humans.

Characters: The characters are well written and interesting. There's Lu Mingze, the strange boy appearing in the MC's dreams that calls him elder brother. Zero, the ... mysterious blonde haired girl with no name who invites the MC to dance. Chu Zihang and Cesar, the two top students at the academy who are absolute badasses with crazy-strong superpowers. The characters keep the story engaging, as I find myself watching more of the show so that I can learn more about them.

Animation: They went all out with the budget with this one and it shows in the high quality of 2D animation. The characters are drawn in high detail and even small movements of their hair and hands are thoroughly animated. The action scenes are smooth and fluid while maintaining the same level of detail.

Overall, I recommend this anime if you like action shows with superpowers in a fantasy setting. Also, the OP by Hiroyuki Sawano is an absolute banger. Make sure to watch episode 0 before you watch this.

It's not awful, just ok...
The animation is nice, the music is nice, the opening slaps. There are some funny jokes in the beginning, but their timing becomes worse and worse every episode, the narrative, the characters become more boring. The battle scenes are ruined by monotonous oh so panicked explanations of details. The last four-five episodes are awfully dragged out and full of flashbacks to previous episodes. The MC could be very interesting, but he gets his op powers just because, with no real growth, while still whining and being dumb. His personality is inconsistent, one moment he cool like a cucumber, the other he ... panic and cry like an idiot without any actual reason, he wants to be better, but he doesn't, just goes with the flow even though he seemed to be realistic, scrutinizing at first and even awakened some interesting power inside his body (the shooting moment), but it just didn't play any role later on. But he just became annoying and boring.
The only interesting thing left is the mystery of this little brother and the chairman.
Started with a bang and ended with a fizzle. Real pity