A Will Eternal

Combining Japanese anime with Chinese fantasy story is certainly successful because they have a good story. Regarless it is not a classic story, it's a very addictive watching experience because the story and the main hero keeps growing with dramatic events and humor.

Unlike most long lasting anime, A Will Eternal only focus on 1 main hero from zero to God-like level, trinkled with tragic love story and traditional value.

For the fans of the books, most likely they will find the storyline has adjusted for TV Series, so it is not a page-to-page adaptation. However, a good TV series must adapt in accordance to the time slot.

For western style cartoon fans, I welcome to what we Chinese called a martial art soap opera series. Unlike in the west, martial art soap opera is a family entertainment through and through. They keep the animation and story clean enough for children, parents and grandparents to enjoy together. That's something to learn rather than doing dirty jokes all the time. Nickelodeon's Avatar has tried it and quite successful. Inatead of inserting politics and cultural grooming, focus on family value and let the audience make the series as family weekly schedule to watch together.

Enjoy!

I love long lasting stories that have unique characters and great story telling. This show creates a good atmosphere and makes you want to live in the same world as Bai Xiaochun. Some animes become overdone with repeating the same things over and over but when it comes to world building and creating more story to come it brings depth and excitement, all in all this is a really great show to watch so it surprised me with how well done it is, and I actually like the comedy in it, it's not too cheesy. I haven't read the novel yet but I'm really hoping for more seasons this has a whole lot of potential. I have watched over 500 animes and I have to put this in my top 5.

The reason that pull me into this donghua was because Du LingFei. She so beautiful and caring. I really enjoy everything about this donghua. There was a lot of humors from Bai XiaoChun making me laugh. I really enjoyed it, I hope to see more romance between Du LingFei and Bai XiaoChun. I really hope to see a happy ending like Bai XiaoChun marry Du LingFei and live happily ever after. After watching it, it very sad for Du Lingfei for suffering a lot and sacrafise alot for Bai XiaoChun. So sad she has to suffer by her own dad who doesn't care for her. I hope she deserved a happy ending with Bai XiaoChun.

Honestly I'm shocked by how gate kept this show is. I stumbled upon it randomly and it's already in my top 10 anime list.

The power system is so good, it has such rich world building and really good characters. Bai is such a funny MC as well.

I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys either battle shonen anime or fantasy anime.

For the negatives, it definitely takes some getting used of listening to mandarin. It's a shame there no Dub because it's visually stunning. The animation budget must be insane and it's very dialogue heavy so apart from fight you will be constantly reading. The subs go very fast as well so it takes some getting used of. I found watching it on YouTube was better for finding good subs and there's way more episodes on there than anime sites for some reason. It's pretty easy to find on YouTube though at least.

Definitely a hidden gem and well worth your time. The show picks up heavily about 10-15 episodes in after they enter a forest outside the sect on a mission. Once he locks in it gets crazy.

My current top animation list now so you can judge for yourself if it's worth your time. If you like these shows, you will also enjoy A Will Eternal

1. Attack on Titan - 🥇10/10 2. Avatar: T. L. A. B -🥈10/10 (Western Anime) 3. Vinland Saga - 🥉9/10 4. Demon Slayer - 9/10 5. Jujitsu Kaisen - 9/10 6. Hunter x Hunter - 9/10 7. A Will Eternal (Donghua) - 9/10 8. Solo Levelling - 9/10 9. Mushoku Tensei - 8.5/10 10. Re:Zero - 8.5/10.

I'm not a professional reviewer or something else, I just write based on my opinion. It has a great storyline. Some may say the MC is a Gary Sue type of character, yes, it is. But idc. The world building is great and the characters are well written. Though it's mainly focuses on MC (it's gary sue, after all), but I like his personality. The comedy is funny and the animation is beautiful, too.

I'd say this is perfect for those of you who wants to relax after a long day and watch some anime that isn't too complex but still has a good story line. And if you are new to cultivation theme anime/story, this anime provides good explanations about the power systems.

P. S. It's kinda hard to find platforms that has good subtitle, even WeTV messed up the subtitle. So, good luck finding it, lol! Even I have to watch from different sources.