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“Snake goddess Bai-Niang pursues childhood love Xu-Xian, facing wizard opposition; pandas Panda and Mimi lead animal rescue.”
Panda and the Magic Serpent
白蛇伝
6.06
10,343 rank · 6,761 viewers · 10 favorites
Adventure
Fantasy
Romance
Historical
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Synopsis
Snake goddess Bai-Niang pursues childhood love Xu-Xian, facing wizard opposition; pandas Panda and Mimi lead animal rescue.
As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake is actually a young snake goddess named Bai-Niang and she is in love with him. Many years later, when they are both adults, the princess is magically transformed into a human and sets out to find her love. But the local wizard believes her to be a vampire, and banishes Xu-Xian from the village in order to save him. Xu-Xian's pet pandas Panda and Mimi set out to save him and bring him, in the process becoming leaders of an animal gang. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 13 sampled reviews
5.9
/10
What 13 viewers settled on.
55%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 4
σ 1.77
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.77 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.5 pts
Recommenders 7.5 · others 4.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 3.08
Running avg · Feb 2010 → Sep 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “If you are looking for a very old anime to watch for, let's say, a challenge or simply because you are curious, this is a very fine specimen. I t works too if you are looking for a movie to watch...”
- 7 “Art : 7/10 Beautiful art, beautiful color considering the age of the movie. The version I watched was very well restored, maybe a contrast a bit too bright between the characters and the beautiful...”
- 9 “STORY 8/10: The story is a classic one, I believe it is based on a folk tale. Love between a human boy and a spirit girl, sadly to be disrupted from mankind's general intolerance of spirits. But...”
Verbosity
Short · 38%
Medium · 38%
Long · 23%
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A Movie Production
Toei Animation.- Format 1 × 79′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 19m all episodes
- Aired Oct 1958 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-3680 catalog