Zuihou de Zhaohuan Shi (2025)

RusstedSword21

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (3/12 eps)

In the end, this is a "turn your brain off and enjoy" kind of show.

This show has plenty of potential, but it's still missing something that other great shows have had. The art is pretty solid with some flashes of brilliance here and there, but sometimes there are also some inconsistencies in the animation that make things look overly stiff or the continuity of certain shots back to back don't line up.
One thing I can say for certain, is that the big tree spirit actually kind of looks better than the CGI in Shield Hero season 2 on that dumb tortoise. All that said, ...

Ruanito

Recommended

The wonderful opening! The ending is also beautiful.

Here we have a courageous, fearless and sympathetic protagonist. And a beautiful, cute, fun and kind of naughty supporting character. A great combination. Great characters in general. All heroes are really cool, fun and interesting.

The plot itself is great, it leaves us very curious about what will happen. And when we think the story is going one way, it ends up going the other way.

The animation it's kind a bad. It is a work that deserved to have been better produced, to have had a greater investment.

Yes, Mandarin is a little uncomfortable at first, ...

WuXu

Mixed Feelings

NOTE: I have watched the Chinese dub of this release not the Japanese Dub.

Lets just start by saying after hearing/reading the name I thought this to be an Isekai/Reincarnation release but it was not; it somewhat surprised me but the S1 does not do anything else special.

The story is not much interesting; the MC is bored with his every day2day life but is very good at cooking and one day summons a goddess with his food. The history of the MC is also unknown as his parents left him at age 5 and he doesn't remember them much; its the same with the summoned goddess ...

madiasmcc

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

Chinese anime sure are getting better.

The art in this anime is normal most of the time. Good enough to not damage the experience of watching it. But, there are some glimpses of very good art. Some excelent frames that are on pair with some of Japan's best productions. The sound is good as well. I enjoyed the opening and the ending a lot. Regarding the vocal actors, honestly the dub bothers me. I don't know if i just don't like the sound of the chinese language, or if i'm too used to japanese VA's, but i just didn't like it.
The ...

Fred2020

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (11/12 eps)

I was really sort of enjoying the anime... then suddenly it decided it wants to change premise and do the Hunter X Hunter entry exam. I guess the writers chopped up some successful animes and patched together a storyline. But the stylistic changes come very late in the run and are jarring. It is ok, but just ok.
Sound quality varies widely throughout.
Fight scenes are good to above average.
The Chibi version of the spirit is annoying at best.
The animal spirit controlling a human figure concept gets lost along the way and you almost forget it is there.

Given time and work this could become a ...

makkenr95

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (1/12 eps)

Its started out ok. Its in chinese and the art is pretty good, maybe a bit out dated compared to what im used to. The sound is horrific. Voice balance in almost none existant and in environments where you litterally expect wind in the leaves or city noices there are none and it feels very off.
I would recommend anyone watching anime to watch this first episode and see that chinese anime is not quite there yet. But it is improving.

I also like the summoner story but it feels a little to much Shaman King.
Its refreshing to feel the culture difference through the anime ...

iamKetranLang

Recommended

I got pleasant words. Zuihou de Zhaohuan Shi/The Last Summoner has a whole lot of variety from a lot of inspiration. The author really knew what was good and how to put it in his own work.

Starts basically, the Summoner goes from meeting his spirit, pet, and girl in the block, to getting hunted together, to battling in a trial but there is so much more to the description of this story that I'd be oversimplifying the fun stuff and this is how every episode watching the donghua is different and interesting.

It gets rapidly good, brutal headshot enemies that kills, and episode 9 ...