Are you tired of reading wall after wall of pretentious text? Do you just want to know if you should watch the darn show? Me too. TLDR The only way to describe the visual quality of this show is orgasmic. It has some of the most well animated and visually stunning fight scenes I have ever seen in any medium ever. Everything else is soso. But OH MY GOD those fight scenes though By the way this is a donghua which means its a Chinese animation. PLOT Not Great The plot centres around uhh... a seal containing a demon is broken theres something about heroes that control one of the five elements theres dragons and stuff and then the demons attack or something. Honestly the plot isnt super important. Wu Shan Wu Xings main appeal is its fight scenes and it knows that. The story consists of a very standard We are the good guys and we must kick the bad guys in the butt to save the world scenario that Im sure everyone has seen a bazillion times before. While watching there were definitely points where I wanted to skip forwards to get to the fights. Another complaint I have with the plot is that it ends right as I realized that it might have potential after all. Wu Shan Wu Xing has three episodes and about 95 of the story was unimpressive. But right at the end of episode three a demon army appears the other elemental heroes are about to have an Avengers assemble moment and theres a setup for a huge war. Just as I was getting hyped up for a story that could be exciting even if it was basic the episode ends and thats it. Mark the show as completed and move on. There are more episodes on the way but who knows when theyll actually come out. The entire first season was supposed to release in September 2019 but it took until July of the following year for three measly episodes to come out. In their defence the studio working on Wu Shan Wu Xing is insanely small but that doesnt change the fact that itll probably take years to get a story worth writing about. CHARACTERS Barebones Again as of right now the show is nothing more than some fight scenes with the beginnings of a story stapled on the characters are as barebones as the plot. We got: The cool badass hero with cool badass powers and a cool badass scar The spunky girl The bird The duck Others Im struggling to think of things to put in this section because theres nothing really worth putting in it. Dont watch this expecting interesting deep or developed characters. There are only three episodes anyway so there isnt much that could have been done even if the creators wanted to prioritize the characters. ART AND ANIMATION Orgasmic The art is different from any other anime Ive seen. But being different is not the same as being good. Luckily for Wu Shan Wu Xing I think the art style is amazing. Its new and refreshing to look at. Backgrounds have a painted or handdrawn look that perfectly complements the ancient Chinese vibe the show tries to go for. https://i.ur.com/zzvPEtc.png Characters are coloured in a nonglossy way that makes them look drawn on paper or something. The art style also uses a lot of thick bold outlines which when combined with the rest of the visuals makes the fights seem so much more raw and real yes I know cartoons arent real. Add in bright and vibrant colours during fight scenes and you get a contrast that looks super cool and super good. https://i.ur.com/LWkJMDN.png Is it possible for a man to be physically aroused by sakuga? Yes. The answer is yes. Practically the whole show is sakuga and I had a raging boner the entire time. Random scenes like a girl casually tossing a bag of money or a guy punching a duck were well animated enough for me to go damn son and rewind 5 seconds back to get a second look. Obviously the action scenes are even better. I have never seen such buttery smooth fight animation before. Everything is crisp clean and clear. When someone uses an attack there are often little effects that didnt have to be included but they were anyways. They dont use any cornercutting techniques like slightly vibrating still frames instead of animating having characters stay in one place so they dont have to draw more backgrounds constantly using extreme closeups removing backgrounds or turning people into blurs of light. Wu Shan Wu Xings animators gave it 110 and it shows. I dont remember seeing a single bad frame of animation. https://64.media.tumblr.com/581386ea20ad37cc5d86d8f3af5ab8f7/15fc0c15d9611d04ac/s540x810/b1196207d83a5055d2050e77b2d3199c900233fe.gifv shit why is there white stuff on my monitor MUSIC AND SOUND Great The soundtrack is mostly traditional Chinese music and it sounds great. It matches the fights well and gives them an epic grand and heroic mood. The OP is also traditional music and not some generic annoying pop song. Its not super hype but it sets the mood in a very similar way to the OST. The EDs are also of note. Theres a different one every episode with episode 1s being instrumental episode 2 having more traditional music and episode 3 being instrumental again. They were all great but me explaining why would be super repetitive since I basically covered it twice already epic grand heroic etc. All in all the music fits perfectly with the setting of a battle against demons in ancient China. WHO SHOULD WATCH THIS If youre looking for a hidden gem or something with amazing visuals or if youre a fan of action shounen definitely watch this. I am not a huge battle shounen fan and even I had a great time watching this. I dont have a good eye for action scenes but if youre one of those nerds that loves breaking down fights and looking at the choreography youd probably have a blast with this. RECOMMENDATIONS Demon Slayerhttps://anilist.co/anime/101922/DemonSlayerKimetsunoYaiba/ takes the classic battle shounen formula and puts studio Ufotables spin on it. For the lack of a better word it looks fucking gorgeous. Youve probably seen it already but on the off chance you havent and youre looking for something with toptier action scenes this is for you. Another franchise that has great fight scenes is the Fate franchise coincidentally also made by Ufotable. It can be a little daunting to get into but click herehttps://blog.hubspot.com/hubfs/ShrugEmoji.jpg for a Fate watch order guide. CONCLUSION Eyegasm. Visit my profile groggy1 to give feedback or to see my other work By the way here are some more screenshots that I wanted to include but couldnt