Cike Wu Liuqi

To the casual eye, the amnesiac bounty hunter Wu Liuqi looks quite intimidating. With his deadly telekinetic scissor techniques and his ability to seamlessly transform into anything, one would not expect his modest demeanor. In fact, Wu is quite terrible at his job. Often times the freelancer can be found botching an assassination or targeting the wrong person. While his failures could be due to his subpar skills, it usually boils down to him being a normal kid, with a heart unsuited for his line of work.

Accompanied by his feathered friend Dai Bo, Wu is on a simple quest to regain his memories. Although his inconspicuous day job as a hairdresser and his after-hours occupation are simply a means for him to repay debt, his various ventures seem to intertwine with his pursuit to recover his lost past.

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Wu, Liuqi Main

Saito, Shinji Japanese

Thirteen Main

Matsui, Naoko Japanese

Bo, Dai Main

Ochiai, Kouji Japanese

Fei, Xiao Supporting

Nakano, Saima Japanese

Dachun, He Supporting

Hiyama, Nobuyuki Japanese

Zhang, Cola Supporting

Han, Megumi Japanese

Blue Phoenix Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Fei, Da Supporting

Kawashima, Tokuyoshi Japanese

Chairman Jiang Supporting

Tani, Ikuko Japanese

Prince of Stan Supporting

Canna, Nobutoshi Japanese

Shasha, Zou Producer

He, Xiaofeng Director, Script, Original Creator

Gómez, Héctor Emmanuel ADR Director

Forlani, Stanislas ADR Director

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Jun 11, 2020

Karhu

Recommended

Imagine a series which comes with One Punch Man's humor, attitude and fight scenes and combines them with Mob Psycho 100's heart, love and kindness. Scissor Seven is a Chinese anime produced by Netflix and you should watch it English dubbed. And when I say you should watch it, I really mean you should, because Scissor Seven is absolutely fantastic. This anime is pure joy to a point where it could as well be labelled antidepressant.

Our story centers around a scissor-wielding, shapeshifting, hairdresser/assassin who is ready to kill any man, woman, or child for mere 88 bucks. Except he never does that. Vast majority of ... the stories are humor filled life lessons where, instead of doing his job, he ends up quite literally doing the opposite of killing. During his sneek-peeks into his victim's life, he learns about his victims, makes his own conclusions, accept these victims as who they are, and instead of ending their lifes, he ends up making a difference in their life. Be it a pair of lovers separated, family being torn apart or even suicidal person planning to end her own life; our main chacters unites, fixes, and heals. And he does that by simply being a reasonable, good person.

The series is entirely humble, it shows massive respect towards human life and greatly values the awesomeness of its characters, but in the same time, there is a complete absence of flamboyance in the narrative. The series is almost slice of life with its execution as the only party who gets to actually realize how great of a person our main character is is esclusively the audience. The outcome is pure awe. This series doesn't spoonfeed anything as it very clearly and entirely trust in the audience, showing mad confidence in its own content. I have nothing but respect to give in return.

Enjoyment-wise, I watched Scissor Seven in a good time because it was exactly something I needed to cheer me up after a shitty day, and when combining this with how good the show actually is (I already rewatched the entire thing to ensure I wasn't just hyping it for no reason), I can only say that my personal experience with this show was nothing less than blissful. It is heart-warming, fun, and so kind that it still feels weird to have discovered a true gem by simply browsing Netflix for 2 minutes. I highly advice to give this series a try, because it might just as well bring some life into your day and cleanse away your worries.

**To briefly give my 2 cents about the sequels: The 4 extra episodes are loyal to S01 and very well worth a watch. S02 is vastly different from the previous season and overall it may be a sequel but it surely isn't a spiritual sequel.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 3, 2020

abystoma2

Mixed Feelings

Scissor Seven is the first Chinese animation to be picked up by Netflix. Is it "worthy", or should another one have been picked?

Let's start with the best part - the animation. It's great. Looks like Scissor Seven had noticeably higher animation budget than usual Chinese animated series and it shows. This combined with the unusual (at least for anime) character and setting designs makes for an enjoyable parade of animation with plenty of sakuga moments. I would honestly say that the animation alone is enough reason to watch this.

That said, this somewhat fails at the rest of the departments. Well, maybe "fail" is ... too harsh of an expression, but they are certainly not that interesting. This show is episodical and unfortunately except for the first episode and the finale it follow exactly the same formula - the protagonist accepts the contract, the protagonist tries to fight the target, some sob story plays out and the protagonist ends up not killing the target for reasons. While some of those self-contained stories were fine, mostly it was just somehow predictable meh. A little twist here and there to the usual format would have been nice. Maybe we'll get that in the 2nd season. Something that I'm not also very fond of is that almost nothing is explained, be it the scissor telepathy or the transformation that are both used frequently or even the world setting where a teenage boy just nonchalantly accepts the idea of becoming a killer of hire without any moral stutter. Maybe those are all secrets that are planned to be revealed later, but I doubt that as they were all presented as a matter of fact that shouldn't be questioned and because from what I experienced of Chinese fiction so far, it frequently doesn't really dwell on explaining the stuff.

"But dude, it's a comedy, who cares about the story?" is what you might be asking. In that case I regret to inform you, the reader, that the department at which this series fails at the most is the comedy one. At least for me, because of course comedy is something considerably subjective and hard to rate/review, so I'll just note that this series didn't make me laugh even once. To be fair it did make me raise the corner of my mouth twice or thrice, but I don't consider that satisfactory for a comedy series.

Overall, it still belongs among the better Chinese anime I've seen and it might even work as an introduction to that. Just don't expect wonders.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 4, 2023

Leto2073

Not Recommended

I have no idea what season 2 is about, but this feels like a ten-episode prologue for what's to come. To give you an idea of what to expect, this feels like One-Punch Man for 10-year-olds but with an incompetent, amnesiac assassin rather than superheroes and monsters. The music is literally the same in every episode. The humor is amusing at first, but it gets really annoying after the second episode.
Personal recommendation: if you're barely interested in watching it, at least do so with any dub you understand and play it while multi-tasking on 1.2 or 1.5 speed. That's what I did. You won't be ... wasting so much time if you do so. But if that still doesn't sound good to you, feel free to skip this show entirely.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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