Reviews for Tales of Herding Gods

If you like a super fantasy anime, this anime could be a good choice. It’s an epic donghua filled with action, mystery, and myth. The story follows Qin Mu, a curious and brave boy raised by mysterious elders, as he explores a world of ancient gods, powerful sects, and hidden secrets. The animation is stunning, featuring intense battles, rich world-building, and jaw-dropping visuals. Each episode draws you deeper into a world of twists, strange powers, and bold challenges to tradition. Although Tales of Herding Gods has some drawbacks like complex lore, uneven pacing, and a large cast that leaves some characters underdeveloped, if you love fantasy withheart, depth, and beautiful art, Mushen Ji is a must-watch!

This show has tons of issues. From extremely fast pacing and no feeling for passage of time to plot holes and sometimes convoluting story telling. One of the biggest offenders is episode duration. Almost three minutes out of 22 are dedicated just to intro and spamming "click like and subscribe". At the same time episode is cut short for another couple of minutes to explain some lore that was randomly thrown at us in the episode leaving us confused as to why they didn't use that time to just tell the story a bit better. Remaining time is usually dedicated to some fight with antagonist whois always stronger messing up with your already confused head as to how powerful the main character is. And literally everyone is a martial artist that can split the sky and summon snakes out of butthole. And everyone is against everyone for all kinds of stupid reasons.

All that said, show looks stunning. Every other shot is poster-worthy image with bunch of details. It is computer generated, but the good kind, with details, motion, textures and proper lighting. Characters are very well fleshed out and easily recognizable, which is often a problem with pure-CGI shows. Choreography is also very good. All action scenes are dynamic and creative in character movement. Their skills can confuse from time to time because you have no clue what he learned and when, because he just acquire things and you are suppose to watch that epilogue to understand. But good action none the less.

So I am giving it a mixed review. On one hand I really like the visual part and world building. On the other, I hate the writing and constant rush to get to the next thing. Am currently at the episode 37, and I feel fatigued. The visiting aunt talking about random uninteresting stuff to you for 3 hours straight kind of fatigue.