Good Hunting

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.