Quanzhi Fashi V

Quanzhi Fashi season 5 picks up at manga chapter 253*. For reference, the manga is currently at chapter 730+ and the light novel is way beyond that. In other words, the anime is incredibly far behind the source material and it would take decades for the show to catch up at this rate. I personally do not see Quanzhi Fashi being renewed for that long.

In my opinion, watching the Quanzhi Fashi anime is like a chore, it is a watered down version of the manga (which itself is a watered down version of the light novel), but at least the manga has very well ... done and colorful illustrations. The animation quality of this season seems okay compared to other seasons, but compared to shows of this time it is slightly worse and makes the show a little less enjoyable.

(No Spoilers) But, I personally did not enjoy this arc as much as some of the last ones, in fact, I completely forgot most of happened in it. So while I will be watching this anime, I will much more enjoy the manga itself, and I recommend any anime watchers to read the manga from chapter 1. It was the first manga I ever read and I was pretty hooked since the chapters go very quickly and the art style is great.

That being said, this is not a review of the manga, this is a review of the anime season 5. And honestly, I could not give this anything higher than a 7 - Good, but for now it is a 6 because this anime is just fine, not good, not bad, but just okay.

*Edit: I haven't read the Light Novel, but apparently the anime picks up at LN chapter 326. For reference, the light novel is currently at 3200+ chapters.

Quanzhi fashi, the chinese power fantasy anime I used to like.

However season 5 of this anime had nothing that I liked about the series. No levelling up done by Mo Fan , No more highschool Drama/fights (similar to season 2) , No more underdog feeling. Instead they decided to adapt the most boring 'Bad boy snake dragon Arc' ( I forgot the actual name). The entirety of the plot from the end of episode 3 to 11 was surrounding by this and it was booring. Its kinda like season 2 but on steroids (in a negative way) . Atleast season 2 was essential for the ... progression of the plot but here it meant nothing , NADA! Not even a level up by Mo Fan. First 3 episodes and the last episode were the only ones I really enjoyed. All others were chore to watch through. Mo Fan's arrogance level got bumped up , making me hate him. He never used to pick up fights with anyone for the sake of it but here he's all about showing off. The character development part of this particular anime series were always poor , but in this season there is NONE.

The fact that the studio decided to adapt this arc was purely idiotic. Why adapt a filler arc which consists of 85% of the season which doesnt even progress the overall plot at all. It's not like they ran out of source material or anything, In fact the anime is SOO FAR BEHIND the Light novel that it seemed like a stupid decision to even cover this arc at all.

To anyone who's getting bored by this season, I recommend you to watch first three episodes and skip everything except the last episode.

The OP & ED of this season were not great.

The animation seemed to get better and better by each passing seaaon.

OVERALL - 5/10

With every season I watch this anime get's worse. I don't really know what I'm supposed to be interested in. They have made Mo Fan pretty much superman. There is never any threat to him or the other main characters because you know they will live. The main plot was okay but it could have just been a subplot to another bigger plot. The only character I liked was Hui. Because MoFan is always battling you can't tell how strong he is compared to other students. He seems like one of the stronger ones but then people always are like: oh no this person is ... so strong" and then MoFan is fine/wins.

Season 5 is mildly disappointing, Season 4 was a strong season, season 5 failed to properly follow up on what was set up or properly build on it.

It picks up after the events of Season 4, the first 3 episodes do deal with Mo Fan and the demon element, after this is resolved and these episodes end, we get into the main story of Season 5.
For some reason he is sent to Song City to recover (because apparently he can't just go back home and return to the academy) it is inferred that he was weakened, although he's clearly not, and basically the story needs ... him to be there for the sake of the plot, which involves a mystical snake, has no real baring on anything else, and is basically just side story filler.

The story arc itself is fine, it's a little convoluted, but it is all wrapped up before the end of the season.
The problem is when you get to the last episode, which feels like the start of a new story and feels like the start of where the true story should have been, you can't help but feel that you want more of that, and could have done with less of the snake.
I've not read the story this is based off, but even I can tell that the focus is all wrong, this is a series that has a story that it wants to tell, normally you would focus on the main story, you wouldn't tease your main story and leave it for the next season, because you may not get the next season made.