Good Hunting

From all the chapters of the Love Death & Robots series, this is one of the most captivating, the story, while not being completely tragic, isn't happy (as isn't any of the stories told in the previously mentioned series) It carries almost the same message as Princess Mononoke, being an excellent chronological successor in the "we need to think more about nature" series of content, that carries that hard hitting message that we seem to forget from time to time.

My congratulations to the team responsible for this and to Ken Liu for writing this story.

It mixes Chinese traditional tales and steampunk in a unexpected and perfect way. At first, it kind of confuses me because nothing in the episode looks like something I would expect from Love, Death & Robots. A Classic Chinese themed story of , relaxing music with Chinese instruments, the spirits that may be the most mentioned in all kinds by Chinese. So I find no reason that such a episode appears in such a series.

And then the story flows in a surprising but reasonable way. All kinds of stuff come in. Machines, robots, and even some half-genuine history of Hong Kong during the colony period. I couldn't even imagine so many seemingly conflicted elements appearing in a single episode. However, Good Hunting put things together perfectly.

This is a really beautiful episode and as Chinese this episode could really relate. In so many ancient stories in China, many blamed women as the reason why one man could fall from their peak of career, their study or even their ruling if the country. These women are blamed for centuries because of their beauty and being loved. What young Yan said is pretty much a response to those blames. And in their adulthood, the theme seems shifted a bit. This story might be ecplised by trying to express and criticise too much. The later theme looks fine actually. But I was hoping the writers could expand their first theme a little. Besides that, it's still a very beautiful episode.

A beautiful story and that managed to capture how the world is losing the battle with the progress.

One of the best episodes of that series. Great story, great art, great atmosphere of the influence of the development of civilization on those who caught the verge of "before and after"... Just a great job that deserves a standalone full-time cartoon.