Liu Xing Huan Jian

Meteor Magic Sword / 流星幻剑
Liu Xing Huan Jian
Genres: Action, Fantasy
Studios: Suoyi Technology
Producers: Tencent Video
Rating: 5.78 / 10
Rank: #11321
Popularity: #13578
Users Listed: 1,325
Users Scored: 213
NSFW: No
Last Updated: 04/10/2022
Aired: January 28, 2021 – August 12, 2021 (Winter)
Type: ona
Source: novel
Age Rating: PG 13
Episodes: 60

Synopsis:

Two decades after a devastating conflict between immortal factions and demonic forces, the Three Realms exist in a fragile equilibrium. The established peace is disrupted by the unexpected emergence of Ye Bugui, a young man carrying a significant secret who unexpectedly leaves his secluded sanctuary on Sword Spirit Island. His arrival stirs old tensions, unraveling conspiracies thought long buried.

As Ye Bugui navigates a world grappling with renewed instability, he confronts a destiny he struggles to understand. The narrative follows his journey through perilous landscapes and encounters, marked by shifting alliances and inevitable loss. The weight of his name – "Bu Gui," signifying "no return" – hints at the profound consequences that may await him as he strives to safeguard a world unknowingly teetering on the brink. The series explores themes of fate, responsibility, and the complex cost of maintaining peace.

Reviews:

  • User ST63LTH (Score: 2/10):
    Meteor Magic Sword is a wuxia style donghua set in an Ancient Chinese era following Ye Bugui, a cultivator of Sword Spirit Island left to integrate onto the country to wander. He meets up with his female fellow disciple and they go on adventures with other disciples and people they meet along the way. The journey is riddled with conflict as Ye Bugui has a powerful spirit/blood which sends demons and martial cultivators his way. While exploring, Ye Bugui also befriends demons as he hears of their past and backgrounds, some even joining his travelling party. Story & Character: 2/10 Meteor Magic Sword is a chineseCGI donghua that, from the synposis appears interesting and different from other cultivation wuxia stories. This series tries to implement light hearted comedy, suspenseful emotion-evoking drama, fluid and powerful fighting scenes and a diverse character party all in the span of a 7 hour first season. The show is so hard to follow because the comedy is just Ye Bugui being abused or doing something dumb and hurting himself, the suspense is literally that Ye Bugui's party chases after a mysterious hypnotic witch while also finding themselves in dangerous life or death situations inevitably being saved by plot armor and also running away from enemies that covet Ye Bugui's blood/body for his ancestral powers. All of this is happening while the characters make small talk every 5 seconds to fill the episodes which is just terrible structure for an anime. It doesn't help either that Ye Bugui's personality is the type to think out loud while in the middle of a fight or an important situation - his dialogue drags out any situation he's in making it such a terrible viewing experience.nnArt & Sound: 4/10nThe series has subpar art and animation to be released in 2021; In almost all episodes involving an inn/foodstall/shop the same exact owner is running it - I understand that this may be part of the novel which I haven't seen or a budget issue but it's just bad asset management. nnThis series uses some suspenseful rock music as the backing track for fights against demons which is surprising since for the era and theme, you'd usually use some music that suits the time period and trend of music geographically but I guess if the series has terrible story and characters there's no exception to music choice. nnEnjoyment & Overall: 1/10 & 2/10nI visited this anime with an open mind but as soon as I noticed the main character being useless and his objective not being clear within the first 2 hours of the show I knew I wasn't going to enjoy this. No progress toward the narrative was made in 60 episodes and it's probably because the studio followed the novel line for line and adapted every single detail into animation. This is a lazy way to adapt as it adds some details that could be removed to save time, plot consistency and budget but I guess it's not valued…