Scissor Seven

Type: ONA

Episodes: 10

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 25, 2018, to Jun 20, 2018

Producers: Sharefun Studio, AHA Entertainment

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: None found, add some

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Themes: Martial Arts, Super Power

Duration: 14 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Plot:To the casual eye, the amnesiac bounty hunter Wu Liuqi looks quite intimidating. With his deadly telekinetic scissor techniques and his ability to seamlessly transform into anything, one would not expect his modest demeanor. In fact, Wu is quite terrible at his job. Often times the freelancer can be found botching an assassination or targeting the wrong person. While his failures could be due to his subpar skills, it usually boils down to him being a normal kid, with a heart unsuited for his line of work.

Accompanied by his feathered friend Dai Bo, Wu is on a simple quest to regain his memories. Although his inconspicuous day job as a hairdresser and his after-hours occupation are simply a means for him to repay debt, his various ventures seem to intertwine with his pursuit to recover his lost past.

User Review:Scissor Seven is the first Chinese animation to be picked up by Netflix. Is it "worthy", or should another one have been picked?

Let's start with the best part - the animation. It's great. Looks like Scissor Seven had noticeably higher animation budget than usual Chinese animated series and it shows. This combined with the unusual (at least for anime) character and setting designs makes for an enjoyable parade of animation with plenty of sakuga moments. I would honestly say that the animation alone is enough reason to watch this.

That said, this somewhat fails at the rest of the departments. Well, maybe "fail" is too harsh of an expression, but they are certainly not that interesting. This show is episodical and unfortunately except for the first episode and the finale it follow exactly the same formula - the protagonist accepts the contract, the protagonist tries to fight the target, some sob story plays out and the protagonist ends up not killing the target for reasons. While some of those self-contained stories were fine, mostly it was just somehow predictable meh. A little twist here and there to the usual format would have been nice. Maybe we'll get that in the 2nd season. Something that I'm not also very fond of is that almost nothing is explained, be it the scissor telepathy or the transformation that are both used frequently or even the world setting where a teenage boy just nonchalantly accepts the idea of becoming a killer of hire without any moral stutter. Maybe those are all secrets that are planned to be revealed later, but I doubt that as they were all presented as a matter of fact that shouldn't be questioned and because from what I experienced of Chinese fiction so far, it frequently doesn't really dwell on explaining the stuff.

"But dude, it's a comedy, who cares about the story?" is what you might be asking. In that case I regret to inform you, the reader that the department at which this series fails at the most is the comedy one. At least for me, because of course comedy is something considerably subjective and hard to rate/review, so I'll just note that this series didn't make me laugh even once. To be fair it did make me raise the corner of my mouth twice or thrice, but I don't consider that satisfactory for a comedy series.

Overall, it still belongs among the better Chinese anime I've seen and it might even work as an introduction to that. Just don't expect wonders.

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