Ling Yu

Before I go onto the actual review, I'd like to quickly mention that this is probably not something that you should be watching if you have photosensitive epilepsy. There's lots of instances of high-speed flashing visual effects in this anime that I found extremely irritating, with the worst instance being in the intro where there is red and white flashing. Ling Yu's story is very hard to follow as it doesn't give much of any background as to what's happening, to the point where it almost feels you're watching the 2nd season of this show while skipping the first. Everything also moves way too fast (likelydue to the episodes being so short) and this also makes things more confusing. This show really felt like it could've used one or two extra episodes to set everything up. There also doesn't feel like there's much if any character development, again probably the fault of the short episode length and total episode count. Maybe the only character who I'd say changes at all over the duration of the show is Tang Siqi, but even then she barely changes at all. Then there's the visual effects, which I've already talked about at the very start of this review. The lightning in the show flashes in a way that frankly sometimes hurts to look at. Instead of doing something that could be tolerable, like having the lightning be full opacity one frame and then slightly transparent the next or something similar to that, you have brightly coloured lightning that's at full opacity one frame, and gone the next. All in all, Ling Yu was frankly kind of disappointing. I was originally excited to watch this because the synopsis made it sound interesting, but I mostly just found it boring and confusing.

What a disappointment! I was expecting a lot more from this anime. I mean, MC has an OP power hidden within him, but his character is horrible. There was no growth with the passage of time, just chance encounters, which his grandfather left him. He always gets beat up due to his rashness and not taking into account the opponent's level. There was not a single fight where he could outwit or overpower his enemy. I mean, what's his role as an MC with OP powers? His sealed self is a hell of a better character, fitting for the image of an MC. Truly OP. But I am watchingseason 4 now, and it's still sealed. What a waste of time, hoping for MC to develop into an OP character, but he is just a piece of shit, a true fool, and naïve crap. It's a lack of judgment from the author's end as well, where doesn't know the direction, in which his MC should be developed.

The first 5 episodes are so immensely boring that I was about to drop, but then it got better and became some sort of classic pseudo-cultivation story with outer and inner circle of disciples etc. Tho, it is not cultivation but some weird made-up power system that's poorly explained and didn't engage me in the slightest. Overall it's all quite poorly explained and confusing. Episodes are short, in average 9 min without the intro and outro. The general dynamic of the story (which btw has a very shallow plot) is typical shounen battle with some academy elements. I also watched S2 which is even more shounen battle and somehowmuch worse than this, so that there I dropped the series. BORING I didn't notice the "toxic FL" thing at all, it's just the typical Chinese dynamic of "you saw me naked, you must die" (no idea why they feel that way, but it must be something cultural as it's a recurrent thing in 70% of the manhua and donghua in my experience). SO she is pissed and makes his life difficult for a while while also falling for him. This bitchy dynamic changes later on. Very little fanservice thanks God, the MC is generic but likeable (bad personality, said another reviewer, but maybe I am a bad person because I see nothing particularly bad in him), the worldbuilding atm is extremely narrow/small. Music is, well, everything is very average. Nothing remarkable whatsoever. Considering how bad S2 is, I'd not recommend starting at all. But there are several more seasons and if you are looking for quantity to binge with an acceptable quality this would probably do. I mean, I had phases of cultivation manhua (among the lowest that human entertainment has ever reached) just because I wanted something bingeable. Who am I to judge.

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