Good Hunting

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.

I loved this one ... at first I didn't think it fit in with the rest of the collection , but it does. It looks amazing and the high-fantasy story is compelling enough that I kept checking the time left on the clip, regretting that it wasn't longer.

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.

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.

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.