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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- just watched Luo Xiao Hei for the first time and it was absolutely jaw-droppingly gorgeous, in both the fight animation, background art, and with character fluidity. xiaohei and wuxian are so cute ~ it was literally ghibli level quality and i loved it so much people need to recognize that china is becoming big in the animation department, with this, nezha, and mdzs becoming huge phenomenon, people are hopefully going to start coming around to donghua :D btw if anyone needs help finding the movie subbed just dm me!! |
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| absolutely worth a watch- I'm definitely watching this over and over |
| "You're not my dad" |
| I wasn't expecting that wtf so beautiful, my feelings are jumbled now. My friends and I watched together and we just came off from a Netflix party session with Ne Zha. The only thing I knew would be that there'd be a character cameo from that somewhere, LO AND BEHOLD, THERE HE WAS! Ne Zha in modern clothing!! Something so seamless, yet another layer to the enjoyment. Animation was spectacular. I didn't know how the style would connect with action or emotive scenes, but they did it. Remaining cinematic and especially hitting us with that ending. Wuxian and Hei are precious and wholesome, found families always make me weepy. The message is also something I think will always be relevant, especially rn. My heart is full. What a ride. |
| I saw a couple of people tweeting about the sakuga in this movie a few months(?) ago, but I forgot that I wanted to watch it. Little did I know that the best part of this movie was the SoL-like scenes of Xiao Hei and Wuxian~ I mean, the sakuga really is the cherry on top, but the backgrounds, the character designs, and the music all came together very well! Oh, and the comedy XD I really enjoyed this movie, I'd watch it again right away if I didn't have other things to catch on, haha. The ending was super heartwarming, I teared up >< For Xiao Hei, his home became where Wuxian was ^^ Really liked that. The ED song was so cute, too. At the very end, I think it showed Wuxian's domain (is that the right word, I forget)? I wanted to talk about Fengxin's group as well. My friend who simulwatched with me likened it to how the indigenous people of anywhere got pushed out. It's really sad, so although Fengxin was in the "wrong," his anger was valid. I could really feel his pain when he shouted out in agony for Xiao Hei not to cancel the domain. Fengxin really fought for his ideals, and although it's sad to say this, maybe he didn't need to fight so hard, he had his friends and protecting that domain means nothing, when it would be for his own small group to live in. There's still a lot of nature in the world, or what we saw in contrast at the end of the movie...the Guild! It's not on the ground, but it's beautiful! It's like a paradise! I wonder if Fengxin ever saw the Guild, or maybe he still wants to be on the ground :( Which, again, is understandable. The land belonged to them first before the humans started building things everywhere ;_; But anyways, my favorite part really is the relationship between Xiao Hei and Wuxian, it was filled with fun and cute comedy. And the visuals were such a treat for the eyes~ |
| I was expecting something just cute and easy-going but instead I got an incredible action adventure fantasy on top of adorable characters and perfectly timed humour. I didn't do any research - just saw the little cartoon cat and stupidly thought "ah must be a cute little drama like Natsume or something". NOPE. And boy am I glad it turned out to be so much more! I think the art style made me unprepared for the direction the plot would take. I see this cute children's cartoon look, and I completely let my guard down. Genuinely did not expect friends to be revealed as enemies, and enemies to slowly turn into friends. Didn't expect the villains to be as vicious as they were, or the politics of the world to be genuinely developed. I found myself going "oooooh" several times as plot points were revealed and little foreshadowing hints were dropped. This movie sucked me in and got me good. The background art was so gorgeous. The painterly look of the nature scenes was pure eye candy. The only time the backgrounds weren't perfect were some of the later city scenes. Sometimes the buildings were very clearly a simple blocky model (the scene where the sphere was consuming the city was the most obvious). I guess they needed to have the sphere clip through the buildings at the right intersection. I wish that scene was given a little more love, to really up the tension. But that's a pretty small issue in the grand scheme of this movie. The animation was so smooth! Everything flowed. From simple scenes of conversation, to Xiao Hei leaping fluidly through the trees, to complicated large scale fights where everything is in motion. I especially love the way Wu Xian's metal bending powers were animated. Fight scenes were choreographed really well, but could have been visually clearer. Unfortunately, I often couldn't follow along with the sheer speed and tumbling movement of the 'camera'. Especially when characters are often moving directly at the 'camera', covering most of the view, and then whizzing back off again. It was really hard to follow the lines of motion for everyone in a fight. The speed of the motion wasn't for cutting corners, because I slowed the scenes down frame by frame to really appreciate those fights after the initial viewing. Every movement, impact, and even facial expression is on point. So much detail in frames that I could barely catch at full speed. I'm usually not one for saccharine moe stuff but Xiao Hei's cat form, his little "heixiu" blob companion, the little forest spirits, and the character relations really got me. Every time the little blob made its little noises I felt my heart grow. It took me a while to realize it was alternating between the words "xiu" and "hei" and not just indistinct cute noises. Why is that blob SO DAMN CUTE. I think understanding the language is a huge part of what makes comedy work. Translated subtitles can only go so far. I'm definitely missing out on a lot of details when I watch Japanese anime. But since this was a Chinese donghua, the jokes and comedic timing hit me just right. Even slight intonations from the voice actors often had me laughing. I loved the little running gags; Xiao Hei trying to run away/hide/fight and Wu Xian just nonchalantly picking him up, Wu Xian being a terrible cook and the two of them spitting out the food, dramatic build-up to conflict only for a character to deadpan and immediately wipe the tension. Fantastic. I appreciated ma boi Ne Zha showing up. He had his dramatic entrance music, over-brimming with confidence, and then he ended up sitting out the fight. Hahaha Definitely a hidden gem for me. Really glad I found this. |
whitherAug 22, 2020 7:05 PM
| Wow, this movie is fucking great. Why haven't more people seen this?! IT's criminally under-watched. I guess there's a lot of people who will only watch stuff from Japan. Well, they're missing out because this is a total hidden gem. The animation and the fight sequences especially were fantastic. I rarely even really notice the sound design but I thought it was also great. Plus, it was pretty funny in places - I laughed a fair few times. I dunno, I guess I'm a bit surprised at how good this was. Loved it. 9/10. |
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| That really was amazing! Cute kitty, beautiful scenery, lovable characters and interactions, and not some sassy nonsense plot but actually relatable dilemmas about nature and where humanity is headed. Xiao Hei and Wu Xian's relationship is adorable, their interactions are the best. I don't usually give a 10/10, I try to underscore things recently, but I couldn't find any fault in this movie. |
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| This was amazing! I hope the Chinese keep doing quality productions like these in the future. |
| This movie was great, such a hidden gem, i really liked the interactions between the two main characters, the natural landscapes were soo good looking and the animation in the action scenes were amazing, really enjoyed it. |
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| finally got around to watching this. on a visual level, it's 10/10 but I was so confused the entire time. And when I finished watching the movie, I felt more frustrated than anything. It was a visual spectacle for sure, but I had no many issues with the story and characters. The story hardly explained anything. It felt like huge chunks of story were being left out. Even though this movie was over 2 hours long. I thought Wuxian was the bad guy, he seemed that way for the first half of the film, but I guess he wasn't the bad guy after all. Also, for him being human, why was he so damned OP with his powers???? the movie never explained anything about who he was as a character. Or how and why any of the other human characters were as powerful as they were. Wuxian was the only one to get any real character development other than Hei I guess. All of the other characters were just there, and there were so many of them! It's almost like the movie expected you to know who they were all are from some existing source material or something I wish the story could have done a better job at explain why the Guild were the good guys. The movie throws so many characters at you from the Guild without explaining much of anything about them, besides the basic details. It was so frustrating. I didn't find myself rooting for The Guild either. I kept thinking they were gonna turn out to be evil or something. Their message of coexistence to let the humans take over because living with humans was easier? Or something? It made little sense to me. It almost had this message of cultural assimilation, where the monsters needed to just live with the humans and accept their ways. Or go off and live in seclusion/exile. This movie feels like it was going for more of a pro-Capitalist/pro-conformist message as another commenter said instead of a pro-environmentalism message I actually sympathized with the antagonist the most. He just wanted his forest back. It's also a shame the other characters who allied with Feng Xi didn't get much story around them. I was hoping at the end we'd get to see more from them, but they just get "locked up". There was other wise little substance to their characters except for seeing them fight in the action scenes. It felt like such a waste. But the epilogue was so rushed too. Would have been nice to see the aftermath of what happened to the city. But nope it cuts straight to them flying to the Guild I might have felt differently if the movie even once explained why Feng Xi was being hunted down to begin with. He and his buds were just chilling out in their forest until Wuxian started attacking them. Was Feng Xi going to steal Hei's powers regardless? Yet the movie seemed to imply that the only reason Hei discovered his Domain powers was because of Wuxian discovering it. Once again, the movie explained nothing about how the lore surrounding the characters powers/abilities worked. Hei was cute, but again, everything else about his character was all shrouded in mystery. Why he had these latent super-powers. Why his "true" form was a giant cat. I kept waiting for a moment where some kinda explanation about his true identity would be explained, like if he was secretly this almighty powerful god creature or something, but nope. but this is based on a Flash animated series right? Yet this movie is a prequel. So watching the animated series probably wouldn't do me any good. Yet despite me feeling so confused about this movie, the story was so basic. But that's to be expected with most Chinese animated movies. With the strict Government censorship and vetting any Chinese film has to go through, these movies usually play it very safe when it comes to the story. Usually relying on fantasy stories, with very simple stories and very vague social messages if there are any at all. Unless it's just straight up propaganda, which I wouldn't call this movie, even though the morals it was trying to give didn't sit right with me. And I don't think it holds a candle to any Ghibli movie that has much stronger and better messages about the common story of humans vs. nature. But if you can just turn off your brain and enjoy this for the visuals, then it's a decent film |
giveup-the-ghostMay 12, 2021 10:40 AM
| The conversations are cute. That cute little bump on Xiao Hei π€£, and his reactions throughout are π₯°. Maomao almost thinking his master died, and changing the tone when he realised that's not the case π€£. Didn't expect Xiao Hei to puke. Xiao Hei and Wuxian's conversation got much more cuter. Xiao Hei learned to swim and catch fish. He really is gifted π€£ π€£ π€£ I thought he just threw that sentence. He has no sense of direction π€£ π€£ π€£ I didn't expect him to dine and dash. Introducing Nezha in the last was nice. Damn, I ended up loving Wuxian. |
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