Review of The Outcast Season 1

Overall score : 7 This is a decent anime, albeit a pretty bland start because it looks like your generic shonen shit at first glance (assuming you're using 3 episode rule). The story itself wasn't about zombie, nor shonen hero MC (retarded justice). It's about a successor of a hunted legendary martial artist. It starts with MC seemingly being a normal guy, and gets exposed to the world of outsiders/outcasts.. nah not really, MC actually has the knowledge and shits, just zero contacts with this world, which he was trying to avoid, thus him being clueless most of the time. I shouldn't really comment on other reviewbut seeing that some people trying to paint this series as something which it isn't, maybe i should. The 1st season starts slow, but it gives the groundwork for the exciting 2nd and 3rd season. The 1st season gives the knowhow about this world of outsiders/outcasts, while revealing some mysteries about the casts. It's not about zombie nor stupid justice type heroes. The MC develops (or actually regress back) to his 'outcast' mental state as the series progress, while staying comedic. He is pretty cunning himself, while not being a completely scheming type, he'd need more than just brawn to unravel his predecessor past, and his own story.

I kind of get it that some people dislike wuxia type stories, or find them unfamiliar and strange so they will have varying opinion on this donghua. However, i myself believe that this donghua is in the rank of being decent as wuxia.

The art itself (or the animation) is pretty meh, they have problem doing fast action scenes, and this lasted till the end of 2nd season. The 3rd season is on another studio with better animation and better action scenes.

The sound (BGMs) is pretty standard, the voice acting is decent, and the OP and ED is actually pretty interesting ( the Chinese version), the JP ver. however, sounds very bland,the voice acting was really dead and the jokes didn't translate well as speech, resulting in the seemingly weird nonsense dialogue without tonal feature that tells you 'it's a joke'. The OP ED of JP ver., i don't really remember, it doesn't really leave any impression and im not really bothered to relisten.

I'd tell people who are planning to watch this to start with the Chinese version, but it all boils down to preference, I've met people that actively dismiss donghua simply because 'Chinese sounds weird' in their ear.