Ai Zai Xiyuan Qian

This Donghua is a nice love story between an enjoyable make-up artist and a good-for-everything guy, who appears to be an alien that has been waiting for her for around 3500 years. The two people actually met and fell in love in Ancient Babylonia but were separated after the girl died in an accident; she conveniently gets reincarnated in modern China. This anime doesn’t have anything really special, it’s quite generic Chinese romance, so I will just put a few points: + Story is well-paced and regular, it doesn’t go too fast, and it’s enjoyable. +/- Generic characters, you can clearly identify four archetypes; a dynamicand quite assertive female lead (let’s call her “Dynamic”), a perfect and successful guy who looks cold in appearance but is actually pretty nice (“Perfect”), the comedy awkward character (my favorite), who admires the perfect guy and considers him as a big brother (“Comedy”), and last but not least, the female antagonist (“Antagonist”) who is just an evil piece of *. Basically, 1)Dynamic is angry at Perfect because of unfortunate misunderstanding; 2)But Dynamic and Perfect progressively realize they might love each other – though they don’t openly acknowledge it; 3)Antagonist is obviously in love with Perfect but is much more assertive than Dynamic and use all kinds of tricks to undermine her; 4)Comedy is just funny. I put +/- because even if it’s a bit plate and generic, I kind of find it enjoyable because it’s not too repetitive. + Art and animation are fine. + I liked the little scenes before each episode showing historical moments with the two aliens (in the 19th century, during WWII…). ~ OST is nothing noticeable. If you have already seen Chinese Donghua, you may add this one to your list, it’s short and enjoyable, otherwise you should probably either go looking for a more popular one like Quan Zhi Gao Shou or looking for better ones in the same genre, Tong Ling Fei and Meng Qi Shi Shen.