Good Hunting

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

As a long term resident of Japan, I have found this story is quite common in Asian comics and animation.. Half human, half animal spirits inhabit the real world and sometimes clash with humans, the defacto rulers, who by merit of their technology disrupt the spirit connection or destroy the magic and thus threatens their existence.

The episode gets props, IMO, for an interesting and so-far unexplored menagerie of genres and a charming, if somewhat pedestrian animatorial style: something akin to Studio Ghibli.

While it is undoubtedly a charming, self-contained story in and of itself, and an original pretext, I feel that it landed short of a number of the higher-art, ground-breaking episodes that have dotted this series so far.

Apart from the unexpected collision of occidental steampunk and Asian spiritualism/animism, there is very little else on offer from an animation standpoint and a rather mundane outing other than a mildly charming episode.

After looking at all these reviews, holy hell people are sensitive. Who cares if it didn't depict history and culture correctly, it's fantasy ffs. This episode has good animation,very good & compelling story. One of the best episodes if not the best.

Please give some credit to Ken Liu for being a writer. Unless I'm mistaken this was a very good short story in his "Paper Menagerie" book.

Chinese Furry Sexbot Steampunk. But it's actually really good.