User Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A good story let down by some awkward voice acting. Why not just use subtitles?

'Good Hunting (2019)' feels like the fantasy of a teenage boy. Its unnecessary nudity, 'furry'-esque designs and pseudo sexualised violence feel decidedly immature. The experience tries so hard to be 'edgy', but blood and boobies don't make for mature viewing. As such, the flick completely misses the mark in terms of adult storytelling. It also struggles with its structure and pacing. It's essentially a series of vignettes with an unsatisfying end. It never feels like it's saying anything, other than its broad 'science is the new magic' message. The 2D animation is nicely done, competently conveying both fast-paced action and intimate dialogue. It has a decent premise and an interesting, if confused, world. In the end, though, it just isn't all that entertaining. It has its moments, of course, but it's mostly uninspired. It feels immature, misjudged and generally just unfulfilling. 5/10

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

Why so short really wanted to be little bit more I mean... what to say I really loved this episode..

There's a huge amount of story content crammed into the 17 minute runtime, credit for that. This really does feel like a fully conceived feature film condensed down to its basics.

The art and animation style are perfect for the tale being told, and have a lovely gaslight fantasy look to them - I'd love to see Girl Genius being animated in this style.

I do have to ding it on some details though. First, the presence of a katana in a Chinese tale is more baffling than any of the steampunk technology. The insistence on having cocks and boobs flopping around is tedious, although it's less adolescent here than in most of the other shorts in this series - clearly the message went out that this would be adult-only, and so every episode HAD to be adult.

Having Hollywood-Oriental voice actors speaking in heaviry accrented Engrish is daft. Just have them speak in Mandarin or Cantonese (if they can) and subtitle it.

And finally, the premise that English colonialism is worse than Mandarin despotism is pretty hard to swallow. In terms of sheer numbers, the Mandarin Empire has oppressed and slaughtered far more than the English ever did.

For all that, it's a fine piece of art and storytelling: just don't over-think it.

This is a fantastic episode, which looks great and has a great story. The whole thing is really brought down by the GoldenEye 007 "pain" sound effects. It sounds weird to complain about that one thing but when you're watching an incredible animation job, telling an excellent and touching story, and the one thing they skimped on was better sound effects for pain/effort grunts it'll drag you out of the experience real quick.

I'm not exaggerating, by the way. These are literally the sounds from the N64 GoldenEye game.

Helped by the only one who ever showed her some kindness, a thing of beauty transformes into a vengeful creature.

It has some really good elements and some really bad elements. Overall I enjoyed it but there are certainly aspects I would change. Not the most original animation but fun to watch.

So I liked this episode. I didn't think i would like it at the beginning but it grabbed my attention as it progressed HOWEVER it felt like it was written in two halves by different people that then tried to combine the two stories together awkwardly. I would have preferred each stories individually as full episodes to the 'one' story that seemed awkwardly forced. Overall it's one of my favorite episodes of the series but I just wish the story seemed more linear instead of changing what it was trying to tell halfway through.

I've decided to review each of the short films that make up this series individually.

A spirit hunter spares the life of a young fox spirit, only to meet up years later in a steam-punk Hong Kong under the grip of British oppression.

Back to a traditional animation style for this one which was fine throughout. The story was OK and to be fair, wasn't one I'd seen before, or was expecting - but the "android" twists seem to come out of nowhere. It was fine, but not one that will live long in the memory.

I was sad after starting this episode, and turned it off half-way through. It was just another predictable trope of a psycopath treating people bad with no motivation other than being cruel, and artificially created revenge situations. No imagination, and overly gory. I saw no point to this story.

Good animation, weird story , muddled message, very interesting.

One of the best episodes of this series. Hits hard and very unapologetic about the cruel nature of men. I believe some incels were bitter that this didn't represent their usual Anime tastes, i.e. Defenseless women being saved by heroic men. Instead this depicts men as the evil aggressors and the female victim fights back.