The Outcast Season 1

Review of The Outcast Season 1

10/10
Recommended
December 21, 2021
2 min read

The story is really intereresting and it's different. It's a mystery, but you do not have a feeling of a mystery story because it's made like a comedy. All in all, this review is SPOILER FREE. You should keep in mind this is a CHINESE STORY, DONGHUA NOT ANIME. The main DIFFERENCE between most DONGHUAS and ANIMES is that anime shows a ''complete'' story (at least an arc per season) and adds something at the end so you know there will be another season, but DONGHUAS show parts of the story through every season and usually have multiple seasons, not always, but in a lot of cases (Foxspirit matchmaker has 10 seasons out, 11 is announced and it doesn't look like they will stop there; it's the best example of non-3D Chinese franchise (I personally prefer drawn, not 3D donghuas and animes); there is also A Will Eternal with 52 episodes in season 1 and it will have season 2, or Mo Dao Zu Shi with 3 seasons and the whole story is completed and explained in the last season; there is Cinderella Chef as well where they just continued the story in 2. season; than there is Be My Wife (Xie Wang Zhui Qi) which is in my opinion awful anime, but second season is a bit better than the first one, and in the end of the second one there is clearly shown there will be 3. season if not more; etc. there's a lot more examples).

SO DO NOT JUDGE THIS DONGHUA BASED ON YOUR ANIME EXPERIENCE IT'S NOT JAPANESE IT'S CHINESE. EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT.
From what I watched Chinese donghuas tend to have more comedy side to them even in more ''serious'' settings, like Shuangsheng Lingtan.

That's the most common problem with this donghua I saw in reveiws. You all expect Japanese style and way, but it's not, of course, it's different when it's Chinese, and China can make some masterpieces like Mo Dao Zu Shi and this one has a lot of promises, just wait until the last season (maybe it will be 4. that is currently airing or 5,6, or 20. you never know whit Chinese animation how many seasons and episodes you will see, they usually are long).