Shi Cao Lao Long Bei Guan Yi E Long Zhi Ming

I really enjoyed this story about a herbivorous dragon misunderstood as some great evil dragon. My favorite part of the whole show was the relationship between the two main characters, which I found surprisingly deep and touching given the nature of the show (a cute comedy). The dragon is a funny character - mistaken for strong but actually weak, the opposite of some characters from other shows that have the opposite dynamic. Kind of reminded me of Angel Densetsu. I really grew to like Ling Zi over time, even though in the beginning she was a bit over the top.

The episodes are pretty short, but ... I thoroughly enjoyed them and am watching the second season now!

I thought the art style was pretty nice. Not the best or worst animation I've seen.

Plot: A several thousand year old Herbivorous Dragon is woken up one day when a local village has sent a girl to be his sacrifice, believing him to be an evil dark dragon. No matter how many times the dragon tries to convince people or tell his side of the story, and explain that he is just a wimpy herbivore, no one believes him due to his stature and the assumptions that have based around dragons.

This is just a light-hearted and comedic anime. You will not be blown away by anything, but for what it's worth, it is funny. Lingzi, the little girl who ... was supposed to be the sacrifice, is kind of an absolute idiot, but has immense magical power and everyone just assumes that it is the dragons magic after he 'made her his disciple' and 'ate her soul'.

I just couldn't really connect with this series cause it felt kind of boring beyond the fact of the comedic humor. I know it is the point of the series, but just seeing everyone consecutively being an idiot kind of pushes me off of the show entirely. The wimpy dragon was funny to watch get into these absurdly dumb situations when he is verbally telling people what he really is and no one listens long enough to actually receive the words that he is saying. The action, while it was interesting, it wasn't anything to really grasp me or make me feel like I NEEDED to watch more.

There are plenty of Chinese anime series' that I enjoyed, but this one just didn't really do anything for me other than provide background noise while I was doing something else. For being only 13 minutes an episode, I can't totally convince you that it's not worth watching, as for being less than 3 hours long, there are some pretty funny moments. I would just not recommend going into this with high expectations or some miraculous journey/story/lesson to learn.

Animation: 7/10
Art: 6/10
Story: 4/10
Characters: 4/10
Voice Acting: 7/10

This should be short.

I love Soushoku Dragon the comic. It's a nice, fun gag story with a simple premise about an innocent dragon who got wrongfully worshipped by a girl for being the evil dragon. The art was decent and the pacing was just enough to keep the humour and the interest going.

The same cannot be said about the animated series. This production is not at all bad. The animation style, colouring and drawings are all fine. They look fine. However, for a gag series, I didn't laugh. I might come off as harsh, but its direction felt quite antiquated. It reminded me of ... old Chinese gag cartoon like the sheeps or goats and the wolves family thing. It's not that the gags don't work. They worked before in comic form for me, I thoroughly enjoyed the dragon's suffering and the ridiculous situations he got in into. To me, it seems that the director came from another culture and wasn't completely bought into the gags, so he tried to reframed in a way that's familiar to him. The pacing of the jokes, the way they add cartoony reactions to the dragon and the characters are distinctively from their culture sphere. I wasn't a big fan of such humour, and seeing a simple, endearing story being skinned and then having a different skin puts on top is disappointing.

I can't be bothered to talk about sound, music or what not. The way the gags are delivered just fall so flat, I was trying to pay attention to the animations to distract myself from having to understand what's taking place.

The best I could say about the series, is that I finished it. I probably wouldn't have, if I had not read the comic.

I heard it got adapted by Chinese studio because the series was so beloved in China. Why not supporting local artists? I think the ones that needed the most support from their own people are the Chinese artists. Despite having huge creative industry, their best cultural exports are still imitations of foreign culture creation. I'm pretty sure people were enamoured with Hong Kong action films of the 80s and 90s. Those can only exist and be exported because of local supports for local art.