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I really like watching anime with sports genres.
But at that time I had no interest in this anime, "What is good about running as an anime?",i think its a weird things.

But finally when I was sharing with my friend who loves anime too, she brought this anime to the topic.
Maybe because friends' words look more interesting, I try watching this.

The first 3 episodes, quite good and interesting to see. Seing some surprises in the story are quite entertaining as well as annoying.
Then because maybe I haven't gotten a feeling about the anime, I had stopped watching it for about a week, and ... try something else to spend my time

Later, when I continued, it made me more interested in each episode, even as I couldn't stop watching.
The way to execute the story here is very interesting.
Simple but complex.
The story is not rambling and the some comedy here also makes this anime look fresh.
How all the people in this anime face problems also like being a life lesson for me who watching.
Some things are also very suitable for real life, so they don't seem "fake" or "exaggerated".

Every story of the characters is also great enough to stir up my emotions. Sad, angry, upset, disappointed, moved, happy, speechless.
Again I remembered my initial thought, "This is just running away, but is that interesting?"
AND YASSH! It turned out to be interesting :")

The struggle to achieve dreams,
Efforts that are not in vain,
Persistence to keep on going,
Determination to change oneself to be better,
Learn to accept differences,
Learn to complement each other,
Learn not to lose motivation in so many ways and so on, making this anime have a great drama of life with so many kind "spices" described not excessive and really enjoy to be followed

Eventhough the graphics look ordinary even look like old school anime, but believe me, the stories in this anime are more valuable to watch.
After all, it's still quite comfortable for eyes to see the animation, it's just that this anime is actually deserved better

This is my first time for making a review of the anime I watched (in this case, anime = donghua in chinese)

I really fell in love with Mo Dao Zu Shi, with how the song, how the description of the character, how about the storyline that was delivered, and everything

The first time I found it was when I felt like I was run out of anime to watch and started searching on a number of streaming websites and looking again at the MAL's top anime list.
At first, what attracted me was the cover, and made me think "wow it seems the story is interesting"

When I ... realized it was Donghua and like having a smooth animation, it reminded me of how smooth the Quanzhi Gaoshou's animation (The King's Avatar) was and I was interested in reading the synopsis. And hey, even the animation is really more pretty and spoils my eyes well.

And finally, I have no regrets about watching it.
What I regret is because I didn't watch it earlier -,-
And because im waiting for the Season 2, i starting to read the Manhua and Novel to satisfy my curiousity. It looks like i can't stop to curious eventhough the Season 1 Donghua already ended.


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Story : 9/10
Actually I really enjoy the storyline, but for this season of Donghua, it's more shown about our MC's past lives, Wei Wuxian, when he started to know Lan Wangji and every problem he faced began at the GusuLan sect (even though he was there to study) , how was his free and visible adolescence, how he found new friends, made problems even in his own sect (Yunmeng Jiang) that made his childhood friend, Jiang Cheng, have to lose his parents (where Jiang Chen's father was a friend of Wuxian's father and adopted Wuxian because of that, and also because he once loved Wuxian's mother), how he tried to save Jiang Cheng, how he tried to avenge the Qishan Wen sect about what happened, and especially about how he gained new power to control the corpse life.

Wei Wuxian was arguably one of the skilled cultivators even before the SunShot Campaign problem, and since he gain new power that more powerful and already wipe out Qishan Wen sect who attacked the rebel headquarter, he had returned to Yunmeng Jiang sect with Jiang Cheng to rebuild the sect after the Qishan Wen sect had been destroyed
In this season, as told how the origin of all the events that occurred so that the flow of flashback is indeed dominating.
The scene in episode 2 when Wangji realized that it was Wei Wuxian who was reborn in Mo Xianyu's body, also quite made me nervous and loved it!

It is quite difficult here to remember about events in this universe, because the storyline is indeed quite complicated to just follow lightly, and some place names, or year names, or time names and so on that might not be familiar because thats in Chinese culture, and some scene of the time skips made me confused sometimes, but overall is very pleasant to watch


Sound: 9/10
The first time I listened to the opening song, it was very smooth and pleasant to hear, really ear catching~~
The notes are soft but not flat. Some of the beat-ups that make the opening feel emotional, plus song lyrics like telling what happened in the story.
Similar things almost happened to the ending song, even though I preferred the opening song and never got tired of hearing it even in each episode
Each music background in the scene, is also appropriate and supports what happened, making the scene feel more alive and thrilling to watch.

Character: 10/10
Each characters are really lovable, and ehm, handsome.
Some characters look very similar if there is nothing that distinguishes them like the forehead ribbon or the color of the shirt
But I'm good at being able to distinguish them quickly because each character is like having his own characteristics.

Art : 9/10
For Chinese animation, Mo Dao Zhu Shi was very successful.
Every animation of the character really spoils my eyes, they have muscular body, have a good height or once small, looks cute. Smooth hairs and very piercing eyes are pretty beautiful
How they describe the setting of each scene also looks detailed and interesting.
Seems like they're seriously to working in this Donghua
Even the animation for the opening song is packed well in my opinion.


Enjoyment: 10/10
THIS IS BL STORY (even though that only applies to the MC), so if you dont like kind of this, just watch something else ,,
But really, this's something really worth to watch.

Forget about shounen ai things first,thats not something you have to worried too much about, the whole story is very interesting
How is the struggle, happiness, fall, problems, and so on executed well in this donghua.
Aalthough there are some parts that look like a plot hole, believe me, that is because this season is focused on flashback as the beginning of the story going forward for next season.