It starts out very fast, almost too fast, specific to character development, the MC becoming used to his new circumstance and acquaintances. Although eventually everything settles down to where it needs to, and the story continues on. The subtitles, perhaps irrelevant to the anime and production team is quite fast at times, due to the limitations of the English language as someone who speaks Chinese would perhaps say. Regardless words and sentences are crammed in tight sometimes, reading must be very good from the viewer.
Production wise this anime requires a lot of attention, good and bad. The animation style is brilliant most of the time. Reactions of characters, fighting scenes, effects and so on. The design style within production can differ as a result of different methods used for animation, CGI as a primary and most obvious example. It can make things look out of place.
BUT, particular to animation style, design, quick sequences; I have not seen fighting scenes this good in a long time. You can really tell that the team really put in the effort to making and thinking about certain aspects of this anime, and others seemingly not, which is strange. A prominent example of this would be the lengths of each episodes, the introductions and ending sequences. They are not particularly the best and can seem out of context or feeling with the movement of the anime itself, almost as if the production team for these things were different or had no or little say so.
The lengths of each episode are not uniform or is there a set standard duration. Perhaps this anime is supposed to be watch in a movie like manner? As introduced again after the 1st episode we are brought abruptly into the show again as if we were never supposed to stop watching, which can be a little strange.
Transitions during and sometimes between scenes have surprised me as they are unlike anything in most other animes today. Not that they are bad but they are insanely specific to happening of events, and are not leading the viewer to know or think to know what obviously is going to happen next. Which is great
Comedic timing and even the comedy itself is some of which I have not seen before played out like it has here. Perhaps I am used to the cliché Japanese style of anime in its now seemingly solidified form as a result of not wanting to change too much and disappoint audiences I suppose. I would argue as much to say that this anime is novel in a sense. As it does not play by the commonalities of present day animes and does for the most part, its own thing. However it does not of course have in every respect a novel aspect of being completely new, as with something such as anime that already exists, hard it is to create something completely original. But this show certainly does something of the sorts, and I hope to watch more of it!
Episode 13 I need to mention was the only episode of the anime I felt to be out of place. Or arriving abruptly with perhaps little suggestion of context. I assumed the presentation to be of a backstory to the current present in the anime.
Overall. I wish to see more, and I was NOT expecting anything worth the writing of this review for a Chinese anime.
