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Fog hill of the five elements6/23/2023 The first episode really lowers your expectations because is mostly silly comedy with wacky facial expressions, which reminded me a lot of Golden Kamuy, but then the second and third became a lot more tragic and serious without ever losing that tone. The sound effects on the other hand are pretty weak in both the relaxing moments as well as those when there are fights and they make those scenes lack quite the impact.Įven when the show cares mostly about the action, there’s a serviceable plot with serviceable characters behind, nothing groundbreaking of course, it’s just some guardians that can use the elements as their powers that fight against demons that threatens humanity, so it’s basically a combination of The Last Airbender with Demon Slayer, only with manliness and epic fights taken from Asura’s Wrath. The sound design is not as good, the music is ok, a generic traditional chinese soundtrack which fits the story and setting well and when it comes to the voice acting, well, I have to admit that I’m not familiar at all with chinese voices and voice acting, but what I heard here felt just right, every character had a fitting voice and good interpretation behind in every scene, from the comical to the tragic ones. There are some things that could be more polished but as a whole the visuals are an impressive job, especially with very few people working on them. So, great and distinctive artwork, great character designs, mostly good animation and superb special effects which constitute a perfect mix of awesome martial arts with epic super powers. There’s also very good camera work, following every fast paced action scene perfectly, unlike, let’s say, Dragon Super Broly, where the camera becomes really crazy at times and don’t let you keep track of some action sequences. On the other hand, during the action scenes, when the show needs to have good and fluent motions, it’s simply spectacular, every single motion is practically perfectly made, and what do you want me to say about the special effects? They reminded me of those used during the most impactful scenes in Demon Slayer, which is always a plus. The most important and well known aspect of the show in this regard is obviously the actual animation, which is very weak when the character talk, walk or do simple movements in general, the mouth and eyes movements are kinda sloppy and the same applies to every other bit of body language. The backgrounds are beautiful to look at. The character designs resemble traditional stories a lot, and most characters are tall and muscular manly men and without any facial repetition amongst them, giving it a more than welcomed retro feel to it. some intances where the character figures don’t exactly match the backgrounds but they are a few and not very noticeable. If you are like me and thus are accostumed to japanese anime, the artwork will feel different and refreshing, yet very polished, there are Then these three episodes came out this year and sadly that scene is not present in them. I first knew about it some years ago where a tech demo of sorts was revealed showing an amazing fight between two men that controlled fire and ice. ![]() I’ll try to keep this short, since I never cared about donghua in general and this title is the first I completed and man did it make me want to watch more of it or something similar. ![]() Now thank you for those that read this and have a nice day. Just give the first episode a chance so you can judge for yourself. If you like godlike animation and spectacular awesome fights I definetly recommend to give this a go.īut no matter what you will read here. This show from the first episode already does not hold back at all with anything. The characters and backgrounds are insanely pleasant to look at. not) are bloody f*cking amazing and hilarious. ![]() The fights are insanely well choreographed and extremely well done. This series might give some people Avatar: the Last Airbender vibes but only with god tier animation to rival some of the best animated series out there. So call it what you will, Chanime or whatever now to the actual info you might wanna read. *this is not an anime* this series is in actuality Chinese Animation. ![]() I'll start with the big elephant in the room. Without spoiling to much or going into to much detail, this is my first time posting something here but I'll keep it short and direct.
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