Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo

I could give this anime a 9.

This Review is mainly about all the .. well.. mediocre reviews by people who "pretend" to have watched all the episodes. How can i tell that they "pretend"? Well ez: they say things like "If you want something similar watch Saiki K." (Truthfully one of my most favorite and objectively best anime ever with some of the best Comedy in all of Media.)

The start: the anime starts out like Saiki K. It has an overpowered protagonist that doesnt want/need his power. At first mainly the animations hooked me to this point. It clearly does a worse job than Saiki ... K. at establishing his character at this point of the story as Saiki as an example doesn't really need his power AT ALL. He is in a world of humans. He is also not a god but has just a plethera of abilities that just make his life boring. Yare yare..

But let me shock you all by making a 180° turn: this anime but shines in all the aspects Saiki K. just brutaly failed. To this conclusion i only came to after the 14. Episode of this anime.

To further make my point without spoiling too much i wan't to point out to what conclusion i came after talking about this show with a friend.
There are a lot of overpowered Main anime leads out there. Most of the people that watched this specific show will also probably have come across at least a handful of these. They all are similar in the way that the one super special girl is in love with the lead but he is just too motherf****** powerful for his life and just either doesn't care about his entourage bc his purpose is above their existence or his life - to which they belog - is just overall too boring. Btw the whamen is always in love with this neutral-hearted dud bc he just ignores her at first sight.
This anime starts out as exactly that. If it weren't for the tasty af animations up to the last 3 episodes one would probably not even stick around for that long.
That leads me to exactly .. the point that makes this Anime all the much better. Wait. for. it. In a way there IS a real similarity to Saiki K. That would be that it takes on it's genre fellows. But not in a comedic way as Saiki K does it .. or Gintama as the most iconic example .. but in a serious way. If i may throw this in: just as MAGIC GIRL MADOKA !! Also one of the objectively best and one of my favorite shows out there.
The essence of these anime is not something like overall insane Stories. It's not that they pull out a theme insanely well like what you'D say about GOT for example. No it's much rather that they manage to get.. serious. Serious and that not right off the bat .. but progressively.. rather surprisingly. Basically it's a to the ground taking unexpected turn of events that comes in an unexpected manner because it takes place in a genre where it's just so unusual. Actually numerous of my favorite and objectively best shows do something like that. Madoka, this anime, Re:Zero, overly cautious hero, Watchmen (the movie o b v i o u s l y). There are probably many i don't know, some i forget and of course, i leave out all the cemodic approach anime.
I don't want to stick around the point for any longer. But it is essential bc it is the reason some of the top comments just wont get in my head. How can one even COMPARE this anime to Saiki when it's approch is completely differen??

So now i just want to spill out a couple of amazing or a bit bugging things about the show in some flow without major reasoning about them or so:
the characters are decent which is even better for the climax, the audio is .. weird at best as it's often times not really ambient which jap anime seem to do a much better job at, the animations are too gorgeous - i could talk about some specific scenes which completely blew my mind as if it were a movie -, i very much enjoyed the kind of out of nowhere scientific approach the anime had from times to times (which further enhanced the serious aspect of the show and made even more.. close to the heart.. or feels.), the end feels weird in a way where you would expect a 2nd season but i very much doubt this shows has an even greater climax in store for us, the soundtrack is awesome but could be a bit less generic outside of the fight-scenes and last but not least i loved the anime but only after the 14th episode which can either mean that it was all the more great story telling (my opinion and.. pretty much indubitable) or you could make the point that it's maybe a bad thing because some of the audience might've dropped at that point.

If you red this all.. wow. I just wish one could comment down below the reviews whichever you want to debate on.. but eh. This might reach someone. Have yourself a wonderful day or whatever time :D.

Generally I really like series that have an insanely OP lead, because they usually make for some cheap and simple entertainment. This show did the very opposite of entertaining me, and from my own experience I would give it a 3. However, I realised I watched a very shitty sub so, assuming the original version and other subs have coherent sentences, I'll raise that to a 5. On to the actual review.

Story: 3
The idea is pretty good, but the execution is terrible. The story is completely filled with plot holes and irrational decisions just to move the story forward: Let's seal this defeated demon king ... up under a school, yep that sounds like a great decision. Oh, and let's use him as an entrance exam! Great way to show how OP the MC is - but WHO THE FUCK would ever do that. A teacher of the opposing school almost killed a student who then literally disappears before their match in some kind of tournament? Sucks for you, guess that opposing school is going to win because that's definitely not something they'll be disqualified for, or the tournament will be cancelled for. Nope, the show must go on or our dumb plot wouldn't work out. There's a bunch more dumb shit like this, so if you're easily annoyed by randomly pushing the plot forward, you're in for a treat.

Characters: 4
The MC's main 'thing' is that he either doesn't want to or can't use his insane powers - which, IMO, is a weird call. The main attraction of a show with an OP lead is that character being badass - making him do nothing whenever he could do something to help is uhm, not a great way to make a likeable character.
Apart from this, character development isn't nonexistent. A total of 4 characters have some kind of character development (the side characters definitely don't). Some of this is decent, but there's so much irrational forced behaviour that it still doesn't deserve a ing grade. Especially when some girl completely falls in love because a dude touches her hair deserves an award in this category. No, I'm not talking a crush, she'd die for him. Yeahhhh, sure.

Art: 7
Nothing special, but definitely not bad either. I'm honestly not too good at ranking the art, but it didn't bother me.

Sound: 7
Personally, I am not used to Chinese yet, which made the sound somewhat annoying for me. Disregarding my very subjective opinion about that though, the sound is , just like the art, not bothersome but also nothing special.

Enjoyment: 4
At the end of the 13th episode I'd have given enjoyment a solid one, but the ending was actually pretty cool so it ended on a good note: +2. I also raised it with one more because I probably found the most infuriating sub there exists for this series.

Overal: 5
I definitely did not enjoy watching this series. If you're into OP characters, consider if one somewhat epic scene at the end is worth suffering through 14 episodes for. If you're not at all bothered by weird rationale and a plot that just does whatever, you might as well give this a shot. If you don't speak Chinese definitely do take your time to find a decent sub though...

China is putting out more and more anime and i have to say that there are good ones like King's Avatar, Antidote, The Grandmaster, Spiritpact etc. But this anime was just really plain. No real story, terrible writing AND so many plot holes ???
I feel like they tried to make every character have some sort of character growth, but in the end they didn't address any internal problems everyone had, except for the main character.
And also why does this have the tag of "slice of life" that makes no sense.
Something that also bothers me is that this anime had 15 episodes and half ... of them where just fillers to make "memories" for characters so they could somehow make an emotional ending. terrible ending by the way.

Anyways, the characters are still cute and the concept of buddhism/spirit/magic/underworld is cool too.