Mar 28, 2022
If this show could be summarized with one word, it would be: underwhelming.
I’ve read the webcomic this donghua is based on and I enjoyed that. The webcomic is colorful and full of life despite being still images. That is not present in the donghua. The colors feel a little stale compared to the webcomic and the stiff animation doesn’t really help. But let’s just say that the reason for this is a lower-budget. The story structure has no excuse.
Most anime have 22-25 minute long episodes. Usually it takes around the first few episodes to introduce important characters and the setting, but this show takes the
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entire season to do that. Busted Darklord only adapts one webcomic chapter per episode, which means the story moves super slow. So this entire season is basically just exposition. The show suffers because its episodes are so short. Shorter episodes are common for most of the donghua I’ve watched, but they’ve all managed to get the exposition done no later than halfway through the season.
While this isn’t inherently a bad adaptation of the webcomic and isn’t a terrible show in its own right, the way it is structured makes it lose points. If the premise of the show does actually interest you, I would suggest reading the webcomic instead as the story is better executed there and the more interesting parts of the story have already been written.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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