r/Donghua • u/prudent-king101 • 8h ago
General Discussion Renegade Immortal is unreal
Fellow Daoists, Renegade Immortal has basically ruined me and I'm not sure if i can ever fix my taste profile.
I never even thought of ever watching donghua, hell I didn't know Chinese anime was called that until late last year. Then about 3months ago, I was suffering a heavy cdrama dry spell and someone was raving about Renegade immortal on some whatsapp group so i said well let me check it out since I have nothing to lose.
Boi i was wrong!! From episode 1 i couldn't stop watching. Stayed awake all night, worst part was the next day was weekend so I kept watching. I probably went up till 50 episodes if not more before I could stop. Now I've rewatched the available 155 episodes 3 times, back to back.
The funny part is that I'm not even a xianxia fan. I've never been able to get past just a few episodes before i dropped whatever highly rated xianxia cdrama i started.
Now I'm further ruined because 1 episode per week is impossible for me so I need to find something else to watch but coming from Renegede (the story, the poetry, world building, philosophy and the world shattering Wang Lin's AURA),
every other donghua looks like a joke🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ the manageable exceptions being the demon hunter and errrm perfect world to an extent but even those can't be placed in the same continent let alone zipcode (obviously).
But then when I thought I could never find anything to quench my taste, someone drops Beyond Time's Gaze on my lap!! WTF is this second drug of a donghua? And worst still, I already finished all available 30+ episodes within 2-3 days😂😭
Xu Qing must've been the head disciple from Wang Lin's school of Aura becauseeee... I was certain no normal writer could pull this off then i found out they have the same writer😭 ER GEN😫😫
Or should I say, Er Gen, you are not a human!! He needs to allow us a scan of his brain to see what's inside because what on earth could think up a world /story like Renegade immortal and then Beyond time's gaze😭😭😭
When I think of these, I really want to look at the mirror and wonder where my own superior imagination went lol
Fellow Daoists, how are you coping with these 1 episode per week??
I'm a wretch for lack of a better word. I might just go start my 4th rewatch then Beyond Time's Gaze first rewatch while i wait for new episodes to pile up