Kuang Shen Mo Zun

I am only writing this review because I read the reviews which were already available and skipped this anime for a long time but now as I didn't had any other anime to watch, so I gave it a try and I realised that this is not so bad. I found it worth the watch and I didn't got bored at all.

Animation was same as other anime made by soyep and If you are watching anime produced by them then you should already know the type of animation that is in their animes. I personally like anime made by soyep as they are interesting ... and story is according to my taste.

I admit that the story should've been a little fast but overall it was a good watch. I would really recommend this anime. Every person has their own different taste of anime. Just try it for yourself.

I was just disappointed and annoyed by the main character. I have never seen this ungrateful main character. He just disrespects the most powerful emperor betian whose inheritance he got. Like he was trash and couldn't cultivate but then he got the resources and he was using it like it's his dad's property and when he was talking to Betian for the first time he was so disrespectful and he just keeps giving betians techniques to everyone like what is his right and if he is doing that he should at least have a sense of gratitude. I was annoyed by seeing this type of character.

Enjoyment and overall- 7/10 and 7/10
I personally really enjoyed the show and I would really recommend the. Right now I've watch 62 episodes and it was worth my time. So don't go on other reviews as their requirements or expectations are really high and If you liked ling Jian zun then you shouldn't have a problem watching this.

# bad demon lord, mal viewers mad...

We're going to start with the obvious defaults of this anime.
First - let's get this out of the way - the animation is awful. You might have seen worse, but Kuang Shen Mo Zun looks like a set of (badely written) 3d scripts in a uneventful loop made by a lazy, drunk and desperate artist. But by then, the music, especially the anime introduction is *so* much worse that the animation looks suddenly not that appalling. The best thing that could happen for this anime is for the associated musical band to disband. Preferably permanently.

Now, if you're stubborn enough ... to get past these aforementionned defaults, you might find some unusual (in a chinese anime) qualities hidden in the dialogs. I've found them quite mature, quite funny sometimes (better at least than the random comic aspects of the show). This seems unusual to me, especially in a chinese anime, where you will usually find the dialogs as a mix of clichés sentences and childish heroic punchlines sewed together. To help with that, the characters and their developpement aren't all that bad and at the very least, they are *consistent*.

Since the story progresses very slowly, I can't say much about the scenario. Basically, this feels more like a detective (dee) story than your inevitable "i-will-rule-them-all" manhua.

Mad Demon Lord recap (spoilers)
Beitian, an ancient celestial god is overwhelmed by an opposing faction of gods and is forced to put his spiritual consciousness into hibernation for thousands of years hoping someone will be able to become the heir to his god bloodline; Also known in the series as ancient inheritance. Mad Demon Lord follows Lin Xiao, a son of the Lin family patriarch who had crippled cultivation and became a target of harassment by other noble families. One day while recovering from an injury, Lin Xiao inherits the ancient god's powerful techniques commencing his journey to climb the ladder of cultivation while also ... gaining comrades and fighting noble families/fixing internal strife.

Story & Characters: 2/10
My recap is a dumbed down version of the story; In all actuality the story is very slow and when there is about to be progression, there's a random moment of absurd comedy that breaks that momentum and keeps the plot and character progression stagnant. The side characters feel superficial because they either disappear from the spotlight for long periods of time or are forgotten and there's no sense of real conflict so it feels the episodes are poorly improvised. Obviously we know that's not true because the studio used the novel as a cookie cutter for the donghua and didn't bother to revise the story by removing unnecessary encounters or dialogue. Also, the power scale is so irrelevant, any increase in power doesn't make a difference to Lin Xiao since it seems he somehow magically cultivates to the true yuan realm late stage. Now we're left with a poorly written story, dispensable characters, illogical power scale and terribly absurd comedy.

Art & Sound: 5/10
Viewers who usually watch Donghua already know that the 3D assets are reused between chinese studio projects and the same can be said for the character rigging skeletons. In this series the art and animation is mediocre, it definitely doesn't reflect an anime of 2021 and is more better suited to an anime of 2017 or earlier. The animation is pretty stiff and lacks the range of motion anticipation as well as unsatisfyingly mal-informed cinematography. For a typical donghua viewer though, it's probably unnoticeable from other series with similar story/characters.

The sound is also mediocre, the typical suspenseful music in background, comedic music when there is comedy or slow, soft melodic music during romantic scenes et.c

Overall & Enjoyment: 1/10
I can honestly say this was one of the worst series to be released in 2021. It lacks in a lot of aspects and worst of all can be very boring to watch unlike donghua that are bad, this is bad and boring.