Lets talk about the good part, the animation compared to other Chinese animated series, its pretty good.

Now, he ascends to the heavenly realm for the third time, but simply as a pitiful scrap-collecting god with no followers behind him.

On his first mission, Xie Lian finds himself alone in the dark moonlit night.

There, a gentle man dressed in red guides him through the forest.

However, as abruptly as he appeared, the man suddenly dissipates into a swarm of silver butterflies.

Xie Lian later learns that this mysterious stranger was none other than Hua Cheng, the Crimson Rain Sought Flower, a Ghost King feared by both demons and gods alike.

But before Xie Lian can figure out why Hua Cheng would help a Heavenly Official like himself, he meets San Lang.

A young man possessing great knowledge on not only the Ghost King, but also the now forgotten Crown Prince, San Lang decides to accompany Xie Lian on his journey of unveiling the mysteries of the past.

The show falls into the xianxia genre (a fantasy genre influence by Taoism, Buddhism, and Chinese mythology).

How could I miss the opportunity for clout by dropping another bomb review (You can interpret bomb as amazing or terrible) However you look at it, MXTX have done pretty exceptional, even with the ongoing court scandals.

As we know, MDZSs popularity is already off the roof and now comes the TGCF anime.

Okay, Ive hit my intro quota, lets get dive right into the pit No need to pull me back up Ruoye.

If you clicked in from seeing this ranked 22 (dropped to 67 as I revisited it now, 2 above Fate Zero s2) on the top anime category, you might be thinking whats this Why I will reveal to you right now, read the first line of the review.

China continuously brings us content that they censor, crazy, I know.

Story: Not to be that person THE MANGA WAS BETTER but TGCF is a one-million-word slow burner type novel, 1,144,742 to be exact.

For reference, The Harry Potter series is 1,084,170).

On top, one million Chinese characters is much more than one million of English words due to succinctness of the language.

The anime is alright in terms of adapting, due to censorship, some details and story is either cut or been made tame, however, it doesnt have a major effect on the main body of the work.

Okay, so it follows the novel closely, why does it still feel so damn slow As mentioned above, the story is a long slow burner, the 11 episode is 10 of the whole worldview, we are just hovering on top of the iceberg, havent even landed on it.

There are so many foreshadows in the anime that is glanced over if you never read ahead which is why its dry if you dont see how its a twist later on.

Like whom the fuck is this San Lang guy why is he so op TGCF is another Chinese Xianxia novel, the genre has a lot of lore and terminology which can be difficult to digest for a new watcher.

The story itself has lots of lore that isnt explained in the anime, so thats a double whammy on concept and story.

Animation: The section that pains me regarding Chinese anime.

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