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May 12, 2026
Hated it. Hate this insidious practice of using widely popular media like animé to condition people to negative behaviours by planting trash in their minds. In this case, using cute, innocent looking, super young girls and giving them nasty unnatural traits usually only developed in older people after years of negative and often traumatic experiences in desperate situations. They’re wildly perverse in someone so young and yet they’re being increasingly accepted and adopted as normal. Besides passing off these characters toxic behaviour, sadistic, murderous natures and hateful responses as natural and perfectly acceptable, they’re also highly sexualised, opening, breaking down and enabling the crossing of
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basic mental barriers of decent conduct to a dimension of negative, nasty, highly harmful and destructive new behaviour patterns completely alien to former standards of conduct typical of decent human beings.
Besides, not only that but they introduce nonsense plot lines and reasonings that are absorbed and accepted as normal by anyone who doesn’t know better.
In sum I absolutely hated it and would not recommend to my worst enemy even in case it gave them any ideas to harm me or others.
Total utter garbage. I couldn’t take more than 4 emails and even that was a struggle. Straight into the anime bin (aka my Dropped folder). Bye now, good riddance, don’t let the door hit you in the arse on the way out. I’ll try to unsee what I saw here and clean my soul of this spiritual filth.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Apr 10, 2026
This is the new story by the author of “Renegade Immortal”, Er Gen. I won’t start with comparisons to RI. The author already created 2 masterpieces (the other one is “A Will Eternal”) while most people never create one. But I expect good things, so…
The start is textbook:
• shocked kid stands in the middle of the road as the world burns
• drops tungulu (innocence lost)
• everyone dead, eternal grudge.
It’s understated and though, for bloody starts, few can top “Eclipse of Illusion”, it points already at a vicious ride.
In looks, the mc is very much like Xiao Chen from ‘World of Immortals’.
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One of the face types for 2025-26? Chinese studios are notorious for using stock faces, be it “extras”, supporting roles or MCs. There’s been many Lan Zhans, Ye Xus and Yunos everywhere, Sung Jin-Woos doubles, Tang San lookalikes, white-haired pretties galore.. now it’s Chen Ping'ans and this one. He’s incredibly handsome though.
As expected, the graphics are incredible, at the level of “World of Immortals” and “Eclipse of Illusion”. The detail is stunning. None of that unrealistic stuff where they heal and all the blood stains and shredded clothes are magically repaired alongside. The physical damage is gone but previous wounds remain, same as the bloodstains and tattered clothes. I like this.
The music score is also similar to that of “World of Immortals” in quality and dramatic intensity to match the storytelling, dreamlike and evocative of an ancient and more primeval era.
I like that the protagonist isn’t a fool who lets threats off the hook so they can come back later to bite him in the a—. He’s efficient, works with economy of movement, leaves no loose ends and doesn’t let anyone mess with him.
They paid attention to his face as a child. Donghua kids usually have that Disney-like quality (like Gui Li as a little boy in “Jade Dynasty” or little Meng Chuan in “The Demon Hunter”). This one and Chen Ping’nan have really good individual child features.
The “boss” (a self-styled scavenger who becomes a father figure) is handsome as hell and looks manly, the dangerous rogue type, and another good point. Donghuas are full of boys who are prettier than the girls and nothing wrong with that, but there’s more than one type of man and I like that I find one here that I’m drawn to. Plus, in a universe of deadly strangers and cutthroats, this ‘rogue’ takes the mc under his wing, providing him with a pack, so to speak, therefore increasing his chances of survival.
The childhood “sweetheart” (companion?) died so there’s no romantic attachment, yet. Hopefully he’s like Xiao Chen and doesn’t fall for scheming females, or the first annoying big-mouth, pushy, entitled yet clingy brat he bumps into.
I like the next-episode preview style at the end, a part-motion/part still-images’ slideshow. Hopefully they make a regular feature of it like on “Tales of Herding Gods”.
The villains remind me of those of older donghuas like the early “Hua Jianghu: Bu Liang Ren” or the first “BTTH” - snake-eyed crooks and pig-faced butchers with tough patchwork-scar bellies and monster qualities - so we’ll be getting both eye candy and memorable freaks. Nice.
I don’t usually give great reviews from the get-go because a lot of stories start strong to grab viewers and impulse raters, then decrease in quality and pace. But all in all I love it so far and I feel it’s going to be a very, very good one.
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PS: this is an edit of my original review of April 10th 2026. I’m on ep.14 now but there’s no option to edit that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Apr 8, 2026
We follow the surreal experience of two British hunters caught up in an eerie forest scene. I loved this version a lot more than the 1958 stop-motion film. In the first they were better behaved but it’s their antics in this later version that make the story compelling and very much worth watching.
This is hand-drawn animation that’s beautifully made. The art is gorgeous and I loved the almost monochrome and surreal quality of the forest’s Autumn colours. Unlike the first film, it has no words except for what we read on the restaurant notices. It doesn’t need them anyway, the story tells itself well.
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The music and sound effects are also quite effective in adding to the storytelling. Finally, I love the wit of the title’s wordplay.
I haven’t read the original story by Kenji Miyazawa so I can’t compare screen work to source material but as a movie experience I give it a 10/10, which is a rating I very rarely give.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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Sep 23, 2024
Ok it gets a 5 for the original work but my review is about the translation. If you’re fine with it you’ll have no trouble finding the series online but if you’re after the real deal, after ep.4 the subs are horrible. There’s no translation that’s faithful to the original, subs or dubs, except for a version I found that has both Hindi dubs and English subs at the same time (better than nothing but only the first 10 eps were done).
In the garbage version they simply copied a dubs fanfic by juveniles who thought they’re hilarious and it came out sounding like bad
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Saturday morning kid’s TV dubbed by the “American Dad” crew. They replaced the dialogues with all sorts of sex & drugs’ quips, bad Jesus & American celeb jokes that only Americans will understand and other stupid nonsense.
The bad jokes don’t usually faze me if it’s original script but the series is rated PG-13 and the translation is inappropriate, putting such filth in the mouths of the children (4 to 9yr-olds). It's like the English script was written by an over-hormonal teen trying too hard to act cool. They completely destroyed it and took out all the heart and soul of the story, made the kids sound cheap and nasty, and the adults a bunch of morons and pervs.
It gives a bad name to Japanese animé. Apparently it’s supposed to be funny but the only people this will appeal to are immature juveniles, frat party boys, jocks & their groupies, overgrown children living in Mom’s basement and kids who just discovered they can swear when mom’s not around. It’s irritating and very distracting.
I’m disappointed that the Japanese owners threw this animé to the dogs without a care or respect for its integrity and the author’s work.
I already didn’t like dubs because they’re usually a watered down version of the above but this put me off them for good; honestly, the only reason I watched til the end was because I hate leaving things unfinished.
BTW❗️ Some sites have 20 episodes rather than the announced 19❗️This is because there’s a *Special episode* that was inserted in the main collection as ep.19 (*Gakkou no Kaidan: Kubinashi Rider!! Shi no Noroi / Ghost Stories: The Headless Horsemen!! Curse of Death*, 2001).
If you want to watch the original version your only option is to torrent it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Sep 18, 2024
“Gakkou no Yureei” is one of the best series of the genre I’ve watched, way scarier than the “Junji Ito Collection” which is one of my top titles of the genre but leans more to the creepy than to the scary side. Some of the scenes are truly horrific when the ghost/spirits died of horrendous injuries.
The stories are based on real life events that took place on Japanese school grounds. They’re based on the accounts of the people to whom they happened, or of people who know/knew them. Each episode has several stories.
It is incredibly hard to find it in its completed form. Most places
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only uploaded the first episode - I suspect this is because they’re animé sites and this series is a mix of animation and live action. This first episode is tgd inky one that’s 100% animation and none of the sites bothered to explain this on the description.
It’s even harder to find with English subs, and when we do find it, we only the option of auto-generated captions that we must set up manually. Half of the captions are missing because of this and they’re literal translations so you got to put your brain and common sense to work if you want to fill in the gaps.
It is a quest for the truly determined so don’t expect a session of spoon-fed subs.
But overall the stories are good so I settled for what I could find and counted myself lucky.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Sep 7, 2024
Absolutely loved it. Outstanding movie from the Xia Lan universe (part of the old but much loved (at least by me) “Hua Jianghu: Painting the Rivers and Lakes” series).
It’s full of heart, with gorgeous animation and a new plucky MC, a blind orphan boy with impressive hearing, supported by the original Xia Lan characters who had another glowup for this movie.
You’ll have no trouble following the plot whether you’re familiar with the series and its characters or not. If you like the martial arts / cultivation genre, fantasy, magic worlds of ancient traditions and mythical beasts, I totally recommend it. If you don’t like
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these genres but are still always up for a good story, I also recommend it.🍿 🎥🏞️✨
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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