In the not-too-distant future, the human world has long been overpopulated. Humanity marched to the stars in search of a new home, and just as this was going on, the moon's alignment caused massive earthquakes to ripple across the world, lasting several decades. Humanity was demolished. When the land finally recovered, humanity reemerged to face this strange yet familiar world. Will we, who once lorded over this domain, still remain the masters of this world?
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baiturtle
I have no idea why it has low rating. My guess is subs are not that well translated. This show is amazing. Its a post apocalyptic world where everyone lives in a space prison. Many "old world" relationships are cast away to make human survival possible. Hunters go collect resources to survive. it is very interesting to see human interaction in relationship less world. In the not-too-distant future, the human world has long been overpopulated. Humanity marched to the stars in search of a new home, and just as this was going on, the moon's alignment caused massive earthquakes to ripple across the world, lasting severaldecades. Humanity was demolished. When the land finally recovered, humanity reemerged to face this strange yet familiar world. Will we, who once lorded over this domain, still remain the masters of this world?
HenriqueNeves
The greatest potential of Chinese anime (donghua) recently released - mainly by the producers Bilibili and Tencent Penguin Pictures - comes from a great expressive use and enabling its 3D. While many are still prejudiced against this language - relatively recent considering that it is less than 50 years since its emergence - which is still undergoing great development, it seems to me that it has reached maturity at Pixar. But that does not prevent that animes like "Douluo Dalu, 2018" and "Ling Long: Incarnation, 2019" have been able to use this resource in a very evident, expressive and enabling way. It is interesting to note howLing Long: Incarnation has a very strong relationship with video games. Both visually and narratively, anime has a very unique principle in being able to link such choices to convey a feeling that we are enjoying daily gambling. The first scene of the anime conveys this idea very well.
The characters start in a kind of cave where they need to take resources and go back to their base. As soon as they get what they want, they are attacked by a type of mutant insect that baffles the minds of some, and also by a giant lizard.
The characters have a mission, after achieving their objective, they need to escape to survive. This idea is not only in the narrative structure of the anime, but also in the visual, which are very characteristic of shooting games, and in the way the anime is staged.
In addition to the expressive use of 3D, which always seeks to travel through spaces, which always leaves the viewer in a great perspective of the action, it also has some frameworks that complement a lot of shooting games. In the action scenes, the characters get to be in first and third person.
If Douluo Dalu is an anime that takes advantage of this resource in a very "poetic" way trying to express a more contemplative and enchanting beauty, here the scenarios have a presence that seeks more dynamism in the scenes. The camera at various times even floats through the action. The anime makes great sequences without losing perspective on what is happening in each sequence. Something that is not impossible to do in conventional 2D animation, but that requires much more effort and technique from those who are doing it. It turns out that anime isn't just about that. The plot also explores a certain social and religious context and hierarchy that guides the events of history.
One of my “disappointments” was to think that the anime was going to take this idea - of a game narrative - way ahead. It turns out that most of the anime sequences take place only on the floating base of the characters and in some flashbacks.
But in no way would I say that such a development of social classes was bad. In fact, anime spends a lot of time contextualizing everything it can from that universe. Even though it was not what I wanted to see, consequently, I ended up being very interested in everything that was presented to me. The direction also managed to express a dramatic possibility of this 3D very well. Not to the point of making you cry, but rather to interest and instigate.
If I could make a general summary, I would say that Ling Long: Incarnation tries in every way to play the viewer in the whole context of that universe. It seems to me that there is an almost perfect balance between these ideas.
Srodiam
Looking at the tags and poster, i thought that this was going to be a cliche serie of monster killing, not entirely different from those series that attempt to ride on Attack on Titan's popularity. To my surprise, Incarnation gives almost no importance to the monsters, instead focusing on the human interactions and struggles in the society that formed on this new world. After a global earthquake unleashes a myriad of underground monsters on the surface, collective known as Extremozoan, humanity is almost entirely wiped out. The last remains lives aboard the Lighthouse, a flying fortress. In order to maintain the civilization, all interpessoalrelationships have been abolished. All individuals live only in function to their role on the Lighthouse hierarchy, being divided in 2 segments: Superiors, those who were born with desirable genetic traits, and who are given the most important jobs and best living conditions; and Inferiors, those who were born just as regular people, delegated to the worst living conditions and, "less important" jobs. Only Superiors are given names, while Inferiors are reduced to just to "Worker N° ####". This is a refreshing change from the usual "medieval magic fantasy" that 95% of Donghua are composed of. Another welcomed change is the animation quality: while most CGI shows have frame drops issues and kinda ugly graphics, Incarnation is really fluid and good looking, some scenes are actually beautiful. This was a really pleasant surprise of a show and i can't recommend it enough.
GPDonghua
General Plot: A disaster and mutant beings feasting on souls has caused humanity to retreat to the "Lighthouse" a floating fortress and final refuge for humaninty. Because of it's limited living space and resources, the "Lighthouse" has become a centrally-planned, ultra-utilitarian, military state. In order to faciliate the most efficient use of resources and preserve the human race, every person is expected to become a cog in the system that runs the "Lighthouse". Familial relationships have been abolished, reproduction is centrally planned, humans are seperated into classes to dictate resource investments, and religion is established to reinforce the caste system and encourage the self-sacrifices neededto sustain this society. Despite these restrictions, resources must be gathered periodically from the planet's surface. While the "Lighthouse" has been relatively stable, recent revelations about possible life on the ground and transferrance of leadership (and political ambitions) causes tensions to build and plotting to begin. Once the MC, Marc, gets personally affected, the idealogical battle between self-sacrfices for survival vs freedom erupt.
This Season 1 Part 1 is the build up to everything that will happen in this full season. The characters are introduced well, the political climate, living environment and situation are all shown in detail. It is all done beautifully, every aspect of life in the "last bastion of humanity" is clearly shown, from the current living situation, control through relgion, caste system, etc. This season does well in building up the conflict that will very obviously erupt, when someone in power and leadership disrupts the system set in place.
The character models and animations are smooth and well done. Even if you don't quite understand the story, the animation quality and action makes this a enjoyable watch. The world building and set up is done extraordinarily well.
ST63LTH
TL;DR: This series is heavily symbolic and shares many plot points with the novel Handmaid's Tale. It is very distressing yet suspenseful it kept me at the edge of my seat beaming on what will happen in the next episode. Ling Long Incarnation is a Chinese donghua set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian, barren world where humanity tries to solve the problem of interplanetary migration but fails due to natural destruction. Extremezoans, a mutated living organism capable of interpersonal communication and coordination dwell in colonies on the ground. It appears that they are scavenger organisms that feed on other living organisms as well as breed fast andregenerate faster. Mutants such as the Extremezoans are the main reason why humanity is on the brink of extinction.
The Lighthouse is a city in the sky that houses humanity's last hope of survival. The Lighthouse has 3 codes of survival which are rules that can never be crossed: Abolishment of Family, Social Hierarchy and Gene Optimization.
Abolishment of Family on the Lighthouse is a rule that forbids intimacy or familial relations. The introduction of this rule lays the foundation that humans must be controlled in order preserve function in the Lighthouse. An example of this are hunters who are bred and trained specifically for combat ability and awareness - Their purpose is the reason they are alive - not to find mating partners - which is heavily enforced by the Light and Shadow Religion on the Lighthouse.
Humans on the Lighthouse are segregated into social hierarchy groups called Superior and Inferior. Inferior humans have health defects which deem them unworthy of a high standard of living like Superiors and are often subject to prejudice and maltreatment. Inferiors get pesky jobs like manual labor and they also accompany the Hunters on missions. Some Hunters treat Inferiors as expendable fodder on missions which is a main reason why Inferiors don't have a long life expectancy. When humans on the Lighthouse reach an age where they cannot contribute more than they consume (in food, health expenses etc.) they are sent on a Long Journey on the ground which basically sacrifices them to reduce resource consumption.
Gene Optimization on the Lighthouse is a rule that prioritizes Superior human matching. It is pretty much selective breeding where Superior humans with outstanding features like intellect are bred with humans with outstanding physical capabilities. If a Superior child is birthed, both parties will be rewarded heavily by the Lighthouse but if an Inferior child is birthed the child is sent to the slums where the Inferior humans live. It is against this rule for Inferior humans to breed because the worm cakes ration supplied to the Inferior humans is limited.
Religion and culture are forbidden on the Lighthouse, there is only one religion that the Lighthouse acknowledges which is the Light and Shadow Religion. This religion is a controlled cult-worship religion that works in strict affiliation with the Lighthouse leaders. It seems the main idea behind this religion was to brainwash and control Superior humans to keep them contributing to the Lighthouse. In one of the earlier scenes, we can see the Chairman of the Light and Shadow Religion (Son of the master of the Lighthouse) praising Superior humans for obeying the codes of survival, one lady was praised for following the gene optimization rule and one man was praised for denying familial relations with his 'father'.
All of these aspects work together to form a series of life rules that control and oppress humans on the Lighthouse. This forces everyone to be complacent with the rules and in the chance someone disobeys they are publicly executed to set an example.
STORY: 9/10
The story is very descriptive and expansive. Without going into too much detail, we see many perspective and living situations of human life on the Lighthouse. The rules of survival is a genius way that many dystopian survival dramas use to restrict and control the characters and story progression. It also creates the sense of entrapment fearing that the characters will revolt and disobey the rules ultimately facing their demise. Thematically, the story is very aspiring and significant.
ART & SOUND: 8/10
The CGI animation isn't as flashy as some high budget series like Mortal's Journey or Perfect World but it is very visually detailed. The characters aren't all that detailed but they have realistic fluidity in their movements. The fight scene between Captain Marc and his trainer is a testament to how fluid their movements are which was a surprise. The angles are also have variation and add suspense in some senses on the ground.
Sound design is very good, during the first mission there was a lot of background music and sound effects that added suspense and evoked fear. The scene where the inferiors first encounter the spinal organism is an example of good sound effects and suspenseful music to evoke fear and suspense.
CHARACTER: 8/10
I liked how we weren't spoon fed the story in chronological order. In Episode 1 to 3 we follow the first mission but it plays backwards as a storytelling mechanism when Captain Marc explains it to the Lighthouse Master. Furthermore, The conversation between the Lighthouse Master and Captain Marc about Marc's sister left me questioning for a while until it was brought up in a flash back much later in the series. The story flows but the dead characters still have influence on the storytelling mechanism. The same can be said about the blonde girl that died in the first mission - her unrequited love picked up by the silver haired girl from Marc's squad. And the sudden news of the silver haired girl's match added the icing on the cake. The only thing that I didn't really enjoy was how the character names were hard to remember - There's about 10-15 characters of importance in this season alone and knowing every character is very tricky because the series is so short it is difficult to remember the characters that way.
OVERALL: 9/10
Although this series feels like a 7 or 8/10 it had very good world building and character establishment in 6 episodes. The animation and sound added more depth into the viewing experience and character conflicts gave the series a personality. Overall, very satisfied viewing - I hope Season 1 Part 2 holds true to these aspects.
kbs6
I am not sure why this has such low reviews: this is by far one of the best Chinese animations that I have seen. The animation is so beautiful and detailed, and I can't get enough of it. The level animation is on par with video game trailers, and honestly, I just can't think of anything bad to say about it. The soundtrack is very addicting, and the opening and ending songs are amazing. The characters are greatly portrayed as well. Even better, the episodes are posted on youtube, which makes it extremely easy to access and watch. I enjoyed this animation a lot, and Iwould definitely recommend it to anyone who is interested.
owarinofruit
This show is an absolute beast. I highly recommend watching it if you're into Attack on Titan and or Scifi thrillers like the Cloverfeild franchise :) (you can tell there's a few nods to AOT in certain characters/imagery in Ling cage) This show is guaranteed to rip your heart out if you watch long enough. I watched this Ling Cage thinking it was gonna be a another mediocre CG Donghua, but the visuals and world building is absolutely amazing. I love the detail put into each person/creature. Also, I appreciate the diversity in the range of characters used :) The final OVA hit me likea truck and I'm still recovering emotionally ;-;
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE watch all seasons :)
dreamxx
I rarely write reviews, but Spirit Cage is amazing. The quality of the animation blew me away and the production team's passion shines through in the highly detailed, immersive world that draws you in right off the beat. Very rich storytelling with a strong narrative, it would be perfect if it was made into a game. Story wise it is very well crafted, with great pacing. It's an unfolding mystery that feels like an amalgamation of final fantasy: the spirits within, nier: automata and alita: battle angel, all woven into a vast intricate world filled with complex characters dyed in various shades of grey morality.You won't be able to truly hate anyone as you're made to empathise with the motivations of various characters.
Overall it's a true modern masterpiece that I would highly recommend.
