Mo Dao Zu Shi

Xian: the state of immortality that all cultivators strive to achieve. However, there is a dark energy that lies underneath—the forbidden Mo Dao, or demonic path. Through an unfortunate series of tragedies, this is the path that cultivator Wei Wuxian experiments with during his teachings. His rise in power is accompanied by chaos and destruction, but his reign of terror comes to an abrupt end when the cultivation clans overpower him and he is killed by his closest ally.

Thirteen years later, Wei Wuxian is reincarnated in the body of a lunatic and reunited with Lan Wangji, a former classmate of his. This marks the beginning of a supernatural mystery that plagues the clans and threatens to disrupt their everyday life.

Mo Dao Zu Shi follows these two men on their mission to unravel the mysteries of the spiritual world. Fighting demons, ghosts, and even other cultivators, the two end up forming a bond that neither of them had ever expected.

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Wei, Wuxian Main

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Lan, Wangji Main

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

Jiang, Cheng Supporting

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Wen, Ning Supporting

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Nie, Huaisang Supporting

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Lan, Sizhui Supporting

Tsuchiya, Shinba Japanese

Jin, Ling Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Lan, Xichen Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Jiang, Yanli Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Jin, Guangyao Supporting

Xiong, Ke Director, Storyboard, Art Director

Ma, Chendi Episode Director

Liu, Xing Script

Liang, Sha Script

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Aug 19, 2024

happayweeb

Recommended

MDZS is the perfect intersection between mystery, romance, Chinese historical drama, and tragedy.

Plot (10/10)
MDZS is based off of MXTX’s novels of the same name. This author has a gift for weaving complex worlds and storytelling between past and present. I liked the structure of the 3 seasons - it made it easy to follow for such a complex story. That said, I will admit I had a notebook of all the characters and places (each character has both an official character and courtesy name). It may require a little bit of effort on the viewer’s part to keep track of everyone, but again this ... is because the world building is complex and layered - making it totally worth it. It’s largely centered around a beginning mystery, but as the characters get further along the world is expanded to one of feuding clans, love, and betrayal.

Characters (10/10)
Characters, main and side, are fully fleshed out with many even going into their backstory. There’s many cunning, crafty characters with unique personalities and motivations. In perfect juxtaposition to that, there’s selfless characters who readily embrace their flaws.

Animation (9/10)
The animation was great overall. I loved seeing the scenes where demonic/cultivation powers were animated. But knocking off a point for the weird but funny ads added in.

Romance (8/10)
This isn’t really the anime’s fault, but rather the censorship that was placed on the production company. The BL romance tones are heavy, but nothing is explicitly animated. In that sense, it doesn’t do justice to the original novel.

Soundtrack (10/10)
Loved the OSTs and soundtrack music.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 21, 2022

Ajoymurmu126

Mixed Feelings

Ok so this is my first time writing a review

So let's start with things I liked....

1. THE VISUALS :
those visuals are god damn amazing (especially the water).......like U can take a Screen shot of any scenes and it would look amazing. Also the character design was good too

2. MUSIC :
I'm just sucker for classical ... music and I loved the ones it has.....also op and ed are good too

Now let's talk about problems.....

1. DUB :
Now this not something I specifically didn't liked or hated but if U r not comfortable with watching Chinese......then it might be a let down..... (Japanese dub is available......if U can find that)

2. CHARACTERS :
now even though I didn't hate any character......I didn't like most of them either.......*objectively speaking* MC's behaviour sometimes could be felt a little annoying ( if U have a problem with the character trpoe )

*Also side note*
All the character's name are little bit confusing and hard to memories.......

I would still say atleast try first episode ( note that first few episodes are like 30+ mins)

Signing off.......

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Oct 16, 2021

terwa

Not Recommended

I liked the manga and the novel ,but the anime was a big disappointment
the art and Chinese voice actors were good ,but what the use
As the story filled with ugly and boring fillers , twisted of events ,and skipping important details ,focusing on other unimportant details ,and they made a short past long story (longer than the present) while in the manga and novel it focus more on the present than the past ,and that how it should be
And I don't know why they skipped all the ai shounen light cute love between the 2 mc? it was pure ,funny ,enjoyable and cute ,not to ... mention that some of it was deeply related to the story in an important way
And the most important thing they made Wei Wuxian is wrong and being possessed by evil power, which is not!!!
Wei Wuxian is a great character and the writer showed us how he is been accused of falsely sins in the manga and novel , and he would always use any power in his hand to help any person in need through the past or present ,putting anyone before himself ,even if it harmed or killed him ,he seek power to protect not to be great
and all the close people were to him abandons him for power the only one stayed in the 2 times period with him was Lan Wangji
Which also was ruin in the anime by making him stand against wuxian , while he never done that on the contrary he would always take wuxian side no matter what was the other side ,as he was sure of wuxian good intention
AND THAT MY RIEVIEW FOR THE 3 SEASONS AS THEY RUIN A MASTERPIECE
And ruin a great arc which was the left hand body tracking , and made a chaos speedy ver, which was filled with half assed explained events and flashback of important events or ignoring them ,adding silly scenes which doesn't make sense ,like the anime staffs didn't know what they were doing or didn't read the novel or manga thoroughly
This was really a bad commercial for the novel and manga
People who didn't like the anime ,don't judge it and try to read the manga or novel as mystery and cultivation was a masterpiece ,and overall it is a masterpiece

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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