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MWC - Must Watch Chinese

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byBetterziraeL
May 14 2024, 6:23 AM | Updated Nov 12, 11:42 AM
All sorts of Chinese animes/3D series that is above overall 8 points, and should watch in my experience. Only the first seasons are included.

I am not a Chinese speaker, so all the series included has more or less decent English subtitles.

Shortcut to "cultivation" series: must watch; Fanren Xiu, Xian Ni and Dadao Chaotian
Fanren Xiu Xian Chuan
ONA, 2020, 17 eps Me:- Author:9
Great cultivation serie. The main character is intelligent and laying low mostly. CGI is also can be considered top level for their time. Relationships between mortals and immortals are portrayed realistically. Nothing to say more, my personal favorite main character in cultivation series and personal favorite cultivation serie as well.

For a cultivation serie lover, this is a must.
Xian Ni
ONA, 2023, 76 eps Me:- Author:9
Cruel and logical main character, cool character interactions and story flow, a bit of a power fantasy, decent animation quality, there is always a motivation for main character to follow on, first half is about revenge but its not like shitty cultivation series where you get to see the utterly most obvious evil on the first second.

For a cultivation serie, power fantasy, cruel main character lovers, this is a must.
Dadao Chaotian
ONA, 2024, 16 eps Me:- Author:9
Great quailty, slow building, peaceful plot so far. Amazing story-telling, at least a few steps ahead of time. If this serie keeps its amazing quality overall until the final episode, this will be my first cultivation serie to get "Masterpiece" point on its first season.

for cultivation serie lover, for a real one i mean, this is a must. a MUST.
Zi Chuan
ONA, 2021, 42 eps Me:- Author:10
Heavily depending on diplomatic conflicts and power-struggles. Where the serie gives fighting scenes enough on spot. Intelligent main characters. Enough and intelligent side characters. Military based country and plot. Some aspects of high fantasy harmony. Different races from that high fantasy theme. Big wars.

For a slow yet solid plot progression serie, heavily diplomatic/military based serie and high fantasy/military power-struggle harmonied serie lovers, this is a must.

In addition, I have a DnD campaign where I heavily based some aspects of Zi Chuan's novel as a DM.
Emo Faze
ONA, 2023, 24 eps Me:- Author:9
Cool world-building. Has different types of characters. The "journey" they had was also entertaining even the there was a guy named Gandalf xD. Main character is intelligent and there is diplomacy working behind the scenes.

For a super-power and diplomacy serie lover, this is a must.
Zhan Shen: Fanchen Shenyu
ONA, 2024, 15 eps Me:- Author:9
I started watching it 2 weeks ago and holy shit, i dont even add anything for this. just watch the first episode if you are into action based series. don't even continue to read, go and watch it now. you will get what i mean.
Ling Long: Incarnation
ONA, 2019, 6 eps Me:- Author:10
Amazing, just amazing. Good CGI, great world-building and plot-building. Intense character relationships. No plot-armor for characters. Has a broad range of different characters and the serie gives their regarding screen time.

For an AOT-like, inner power-struggle and plot-building serie lover, this is a must.
Cike Wu Liuqi
ONA, 2018, 10 eps Me:- Author:10
It's been 5-6 years since I watched this serie. But I remember that the art style and the characters were fun to watch. The power-ups were not that common and they had them in tense moments as they should be.

For a different art style, comedy and new/different serie lovers, this is a must.
Biao Ren: Blades of the Guardians
ONA, 2023, 15 eps Me:- Author:10
Cool main characters, great plot for a conflict of interest. Mid to low plot armor for characters. Amazing, utterly amazing opening. Cool art style. A journey leading characters into finding themselves between wars and power-struggles.

For a fresh breath seekers, tracks of series enjoyers, slow yet solid plot progression lovers, this is a must.

"all for the sake of gain, whether its revenge, to fill the gap in the heart or the money, to please the emptiness of the mind... this world, its all for the sake of gain"
Kuiba Zhi Shu Tu
ONA, 2021, 7 eps Me:- Author:9
Its such thrilling and unique story. Do we still see some cliche plots? Even though it just feels like one of them is coming up but turns out not to be. There are some aspects in this serie which makes it different than the classical shounen genre and naruto-like hidden power animes. The bond between our "two" main characters, makes us feel it through the events, and the loneliness of the first introduced "main" character, gives a depth into the storyline while it continues.

We are taking a journey between the right and the wrong in different stories and from different perspectives. There are decent diplomacy scenes where no one literally cares about ethics, they care about their wellbeing, like a realistic one. Where stories being slowly uncovered right before the viewer's eyes. And the music both used in opening and ending is great, it makes you feel the "journey" aspect of the serie.


For a different type of shounen-like serie and little slow yet persistent plot lovers, this is a must.
Kingdom
TV, 2012, 38 eps Me:- Author:8
The 38 episodes and the somehow low level quality of the first season shouldn't make you step out of this serie if you're into seinen series. Really cool characters both in terms of generals and our main character's squad, historical Chinese background, good flow of storyline, an emperor and peasant soldier's story, really good power-struggle in both emperor's court and in military order, and since this is China huge wars, powerful and intelligent generals (they go beyond mankind's normal power),

This is one of the rare series that I don't miss episodes and this serie is still on going, so that's a big plus

Still, I should mention some of my thoughts that's a minus for me;
the good thing is that almost no one has the plot armor except the main character's squad, which I generally hate but since the characters are cool it's alright for me.

Almost in every fight, our squad tries to get the enemy general's head, which is accurate to make the enemy lose, both historically and in military way. The point is, I felt little bored at some point (probably in 3rd season) but since the story flow is smooth and the generals are quite charismatic so it makes it still enjoyable.

For a seinen serie, historical/military serie, charismatic and intelligent side characters, cool story flow lovers, this is a must.
Cong Hong Yue Kaishi
ONA, 2023, 16 eps Me:- Author:9
Truly a different Chinese serie, this serie is a bit like demon slayer in sense of destroying anomalies. The main character makes the highest point of this show. the mystery behind him is unknown and we get to see it step by step. Good fighting scenes. Fast pacing of missions. Giving more depth into the main character. For those who got bored of these cliche "cultivation" series of China base, and looking for a different story could also like it since this serie gave a definite new approach for another theme.

Our main character has an ilness or an anomaly which the serie pushed the answer of it to the viewers to decide which makes it unforeseeable events in the serie while we get to understand the base and the plot slowly.

I still got to mention that the cgi and its world-aspects are not great and sometimes makes us feel empty.

For a new theme enjoyers, mystery/action plot lovers this is a must.
Xue Ying Ling Zhu
ONA, 2018, 26 eps Me:- Author:9
This serie had peak cgi in 2018 and could amaze anyone who watches it with its technology, I believe it still serves well. Got an interesting world, different factions and power-struggles between them. We get to see many different characters, their backstories and cool fights.

As anyone could understand from the title, our main character is a lord of a small and kind of fallen territory, which he struggles to get more and more powerful.

I've got to mention that after point of this serie (could be after 2nd season) the quality of the plot goes down-hill. They missed many aspects and factions of the world to use and just built a different kind of cliche cultivation world. Still, since this is the first season I still recommend watching both 1st and 2nd seasons.

For an interesting world-building, power-struggle, good action-wise scenes lovers, this is a must.
Bu Xing Si: Yuan Qi
ONA, 2024, 18 eps Me:- Author:8
What if the super-powers / cultivation methods in most cultivation animes didn't exist? Or where have they come from? How was the world when these were first arrived/explored back then? This serie has a different approach to these "cultivation/soul" series.

This serie represents struggle to win over those powers both in diplomatic and martial way. But the "diplomatic" way is bit shallow and isn't really detailed. Still, most of the characters are intelligent and they are trying to make their way into it. So we get to see characters' own paths and their efforts into them to make it real. They got strong and weak sides which we get to see as well. And apart from most of the series, they can think. Yes, they can think logistical. I know it's hard to believe but they can really think. That's already enough for a character, I would say.

Also different establishments, powerhouses and cities made it a bit more interesting yet they were not really detailed as well. This serie has an interesting world to hold onto the story yet the relationships between characters and their different purposes make the highest point of the serie rather than the world itself.

For a such different plot in a cultivation serie lover, this is a must
Yi Nian Yong Heng
ONA, 2020, 52 eps Me:- Author:9
Cool and lots of characters, good character development, comedy, cultivation, relationships, cool world and plot building, great power-ups on spot, fun to watch.

Since this is the 1st season it might be slightly annoying since they are kinda child. But its like the serie "Kingdom", so they obviously grow up anyways. I always enjoyed watching this serie. And I don't think if you are into these kind of tags, you could miss this serie. Might be the only 2D Chinese serie where I didnt feel bored through out the whole seasons.

For a comedy, cultivation, character interactions in series and cool plot progress lovers, this is a must.
Tunshi Xingkong
ONA, 2020, 26 eps Me:- Author:8
to be added
Da Wang Rao Ming
ONA, 2021, 12 eps Me:- Author:8
to be added
Yong Sheng
ONA, 2022, 12 eps Me:- Author:8
to be added
Cang Yuan Tu
ONA, 2023, 26 eps Me:- Author:9
to be added

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