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Killer seven is an amazing short Chinese anime . It already gained huge popularity in China ,but seems pretty low key elsewhere so I don’t know if there’s sub but it should come one day. It has simple but well thought plot , the animation feels cheap and more of a hand drawn style but everything runs fluidly and there’s no animation glitch or deformed face like in some Japanese anime. The fight scene are extremely fluid and well executed we can tell the budget went to the right place. Every episode have unexpected comedy scene , sarcastic jokes and pop culture reference withdecent emotional scene. If you can find sub or understand Chinese,I definitely recommend it. The sytle is very semblable to some Kung fu movie. It should be enjoyable for all age group beside 60+ i guess. There’s also 4 eps ova worth watching

Out of 100 Nobles watching… 97 were impressed! 1 thought the story pacing/plot was a bit nonsensical at times 1 thought the animation chugged or got lazy in parts 1 thought the voice work was just so-so Killer 7 is coming in strong with the new year packing a punch and taking my lunch…money. *cough* This one’s pretty good and I’m glad I spent half an afternoon watching it yes you heard me just half an afternoon. This bad boy comes packed nutrient rich with tasty anime flavors and is consumable in its entirety including its 4 OVA episodes in a little under 4 hours thanks mostly to the shows12-15 minute run time. Killer 7 presents something fresh, unique, and fun and along side it’s short run time there’s really no reason not to watch it. Heck even if you’re the sort of plebeian who watches their anime only in English there’s a dub for you. There’s like 6 dubs for that matter this show really got the full-service treatment. There’s not really anything significant for me to harp on this show for, my 97 stands because it doesn’t feel right calling Killer 7 perfect. Right off the bat I’ll praise the visuals of the show. In addition to the shorter runtime this shows style is sort of an inky hand-drawn look that really gives me nostalgic vibes reminiscent of FLCL. The visuals feel a little lazy in some parts and there is some minimal CG that stands out a bit, but I’m valuing those transgressions fairly low given how minimal they were and that this studio seems to be a first timer. Honestly the expression in animation was great and I hope to see more from ShareFun and other Chinese studios in the future. I went into this show expecting nothing, but man for a show that has the sense of humor that it does the feels really come hard in this one. I was quite surprised with a number of episodes. The show doesn’t explain to much about what’s going on but I don’t really think that’s a bad thing. I was definitely left wanting more of the story to unfold by the end of the season. As a side note the OVA prequels are incredibly good. I never knew I wanted a full on Shonen anime about cock fighting. The show is Chinese and originally dubbed in the language. I watched the show in Japanese for my own practice of AJAT (All Japanese All the Time) immersion for “study” so I don’t know how good the original dub is. The Japanese dub was pretty good, maybe slightly average in some parts. I could swear the voice actress of Rem from Re:Zero was voicing a cute girl but finding the Japanese voice credits was too hard for me. Overall there weren’t any real masterful performances outside of the OVA, but the show despite containing action was more of a slice of life so there weren’t too many “hype-moments” that relied heavily on the performance of a voice actor to sell the scene. Although right after typing that there were a few scenes with the MC… Killer 7 was a great show. I really hope I see more content like this from Chinese studio’s and hope Japanese studio’s will step up their game to compete. This show really deserves nothing but praise and you’re doing yourself a disservice by not watching it.

Scissor Seven is the first Chinese animation to be picked up by Netflix. Is it "worthy", or should another one have been picked? Let's start with the best part - the animation. It's great. Looks like Scissor Seven had noticeably higher animation budget than usual Chinese animated series and it shows. This combined with the unusual (at least for anime) character and setting designs makes for an enjoyable parade of animation with plenty of sakuga moments. I would honestly say that the animation alone is enough reason to watch this. That said, this somewhat fails at the rest of the departments. Well, maybe "fail" istoo harsh of an expression, but they are certainly not that interesting. This show is episodical and unfortunately except for the first episode and the finale it follow exactly the same formula - the protagonist accepts the contract, the protagonist tries to fight the target, some sob story plays out and the protagonist ends up not killing the target for reasons. While some of those self-contained stories were fine, mostly it was just somehow predictable meh. A little twist here and there to the usual format would have been nice. Maybe we'll get that in the 2nd season. Something that I'm not also very fond of is that almost nothing is explained, be it the scissor telepathy or the transformation that are both used frequently or even the world setting where a teenage boy just nonchalantly accepts the idea of becoming a killer of hire without any moral stutter. Maybe those are all secrets that are planned to be revealed later, but I doubt that as they were all presented as a matter of fact that shouldn't be questioned and because from what I experienced of Chinese fiction so far, it frequently doesn't really dwell on explaining the stuff. "But dude, it's a comedy, who cares about the story?" is what you might be asking. In that case I regret to inform you, the reader, that the department at which this series fails at the most is the comedy one. At least for me, because of course comedy is something considerably subjective and hard to rate/review, so I'll just note that this series didn't make me laugh even once. To be fair it did make me raise the corner of my mouth twice or thrice, but I don't consider that satisfactory for a comedy series. Overall, it still belongs among the better Chinese anime I've seen and it might even work as an introduction to that. Just don't expect wonders.

Scissor Seven is a comedy series about a psychic barber assassin. Yes, that's what it's about. The biggest appeal of this series is the animation. It could be more intense, but other than that, it's really smooth and nice to look at. The animation contributes to the entertaining battles as well. The one-episode appearance characters are pretty simple, and the main character is a 'loveable loser' kind of archetype at first. His chicken mentor guy is pretty cool too. The story starts episodic, but eventually becomes more focused and climactic. It's predictable, but entertaining enough. The comedy is the main part I guess, but it's honestly hitand miss for me. It's very crude and low-brow, and I can only take so much of that. My favorite jokes were the really zany ones and the more visual comedy. If you like crude humour though, this is for you. The humour is what it comes down to. I just wish the comedy was better. Also, avoid the dub. I'm usually alright with dubs, but this one was bad.

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