Shi Cao Lao Long Bei Guan Yi E Long Zhi Ming

Herbivorous dragon is a light-hearted, cute, and feel-good show about a wimpy, kind-hearted dragon and an overpowered cute little girl who follows him. The show does a good job of giving an enjoyable experience with a consistent tone that is silly and endearing and cute. What it lacks is depth. It's a show that you can watch and be happy and then move on; you are not going to stop and go, whoa, what did I just watch?

The dragon is kind of like King, from One Punch Man, because people think he's powerful when he's a wimp. And Lingzi (Reiko) is kind of like Saitama, ... but subject to the mind warping field and also believes the dragon is powerful (and evil). So, you might imagine some of the antics that follow. It's not something you can take seriously, because real people have reasons for their beliefs, but if you let it go, it's pretty funny. I said "antics" because nothing in the plot feels central to the plot. It's sort of slice-of-life-ish in that regard.

The animation is simple. Don't expect any breathtaking sakuga. It looks low cost, with limited movement. The characters look nice enough though. Somehow, they make it work, without looking bad.

I have no qualms with the voice acting. Dragon has a soothing avuncular voice, and Lingzi has a cute but dauntless voice which fit their characters.

The ED is a total banger. It's no exaggeration to say that it possibly kept me watching the show. I often skip EDs after hearing them a few times, but not this one. I rewind and watch/listen to it several times per episode. The OP is also good. Note that the art style is much simpler but more animated in the OP and ED than the show.

It's short, so if you consider that it's less than three hours, I'd say it's worth the watch.

Here is my review of this anime in 2022!

Story (9)
The story is about a dragon who's a vegetarian and is worshipped by humans as an evil dragon. But actually, He's not an evil dragon and then the dragon encounters a girl who's going to suicide since She's doesn't have a purpose in Her life. Then that's where the journey begins. There is a lot of comedy and action on their journey you can watch it every episode.

Art (10)
The art in this anime is very good! I love the animation they make, mostly it's animated and less using static images. Not only that, but they also ... have a nice glow, shadow, etc effect.

Sound (9)
All the sounds that they used were suitable and adjusted to the animation.

Character (9)
The main and supporter character is memorable since they have unique personality. I love the dragon and the girl mostly.

Enjoyment (10)
It's delightful to watch this movie in 2022. I don't know why the rating is so bad, but I love this anime so much! The also have less duration than normal anime.

Overall (9)
It's recommended to those who love fantasy, magic, comedy, and action anime!

Nothing deep and meaningful here. It's just a light-hearted show about how others expectations are hard to overcome. People see what they want to see and sometimes that can lead to insane hijinks.

A herbivore dragon somehow had a myth form around him of being some ancient powerful general of the demon king. (He gets beaten up by rabbits.) In order to placate a girl who keeps insisting on being sacrificed to him, he spins a story and gets basically trapped with a new follower/disciple, who has ABSOLUTE faith that he is the ancient evil dragon, and that her subsequent over-powerdness ... comes from him. Hilarity ensues.

There's no hidden meanings, no deep and buried sub-plots, just situational comedy, straight man remarks (from the dragon) and constant misinterpretation of actions.

If you're looking for deep and dark this isn't for you, but if you're looking for a series of 10-12 minute fun time-killers than this is perfect. It's not trying to be anything it's not, and just does a good job being exactly what it is.

Good for all ages.

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.

it's an enjoyable way to pass the time, and that's all an anime really needs to be, funny enough to get a few laughs(although thats completely subjective.) and cute enough to like the characters. The plot isn't very ground breaking, and neither is anything in this show honestly. It's just a simple ride. and a short easy watch.


Art style : Cute and concise, doesn't distract but isn't anything ground breaking

Characters : Fairly memorable, each has a half a plot twist and their unique personality and reaction really makes them stick out.

the story has anime logic but no real plot holes btw, No big really ... hard to beilieve type thing anyway,

overall, Watch it if you want to pass the time and you will have fun. Don't expect the world, expect about 2 hours of chill.

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

In one word: cute.

And no, I'm not talking about the dragon. Well, arguably you could say he's cute too, but our other main character Reiko really carries this show. In a strange twisted way, it reminds me of Pete's Dragon, but in some sort of Japanese-manga Chinese-adapted animation point of view with a seemingly complete inverted take of the childhood beloved story of Pete's Dragon (or one similar as I cannot recall exactly...). Because in this cute series, our MC Reiko was offered as a sacrifice from her own village to go to and request the "Evil Dragon" to revolt against the current Demon Lord.

1) ... Animation. Is. CLEAN. Surprise, surprise. It's 2022 and a lot of animation getting put out there aren't often to the standard some would expect, in such cases due to valid reasons... however. This anime seems to be as crisp as it can get on a high-res monitor. Just that alongside the nice character designs makes it a chill anime to put to the back-burner on many people's lists.

2) The VAs... are surprisingly good. I don't know squat about Chinese, but hey it sounds nice, particularly in this anime. Admittedly I still find it hard as such language quite soft on VA males, but hey, that's just me. It's sounds more expressive than most Chinese VAs I have heard in Chinese-adapted animations. And the kids, sound like actual kids! Even Western animations fail at that, hard to find an animated character nowadays that sounds proper, you know, since they hire adults to imitate such. Not that they hired kids for this... I think. But regardless, they pulled it off! I could understand however why one may dismiss this series simply because of the Chinese language, especially since the light novel source was in Japanese... but I personally find it very fitting in this one.

In terms of cons, it is too soon to tell. And if any, these are pretty subjective to the individual, so take it with a grain of salt.

1? I have not read the light novel, and I'm only 3 episodes in, but I feel I could pretty much predict the following episodes to come. I have the sense the story will have a very simple trajectory with some mild bumps along the way.

2? The comedy is well, alright I suppose. Some did not land the punch for me, but if we're being frank, one would not likely have clicked on this show expecting some humorous takes. Or attempts that is. But I will say, it will likely falter to cuteness if you didn't get the punchline or such. That is its safeguard.

Uhh. So yea. It's cute. It's kawaii but like, in Chinese, so.... kě'ài de? Honestly, I hate Chinese, and China. But you get the point. 6/10. And that's a pretty high score in my books, especially for this wholesome-chill genre with no hard-core substantial plot. It has indeed soar pass my expectations.