I'm pleasantly surprised by the animation quality and art. I was expecting 2010s era animation like the rest of the Chinese Donghua invasion. The episode where the MC is thrown into the fruit-stand really shows how much effort they put into this show.
This show reminds of exactly the "guy" version of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! as well as bits of "Flirting Scholar" or "Xia Gan Yi Dan Shen Jianxin". The way the female talks reminds how females can get "guys" into trouble like assassin girl in Carp Reborn (Yuan Long) or the pufferface loli girl in Wu
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Aug 30, 2020
If you're into comedy and wuxia this is for you! If you like HK flicks like "Return of the Sentimental Swordsman" with assassins, intrigue and power rankings, or the smooth animation of Chinese Martial Arts like in the King's Avatar (Quánzhí Gāoshǒu).
Watching this donghua reminds me a bit of Founder of diabolism (Mo Dao Zu Shi) with it's charming but clumsy or foolish MC. As well as popular movies like "Flirting Scholar" (1993) in terms of verbal tenacity as well as martial skills. Maybe even resembling the hidden powers within him like Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu Hustle". With it nonstop "Nichijou" or "Gintama" like ... |
