Xiehou Ta de Shaonu Shidai

I don't really write reviews on here often but since this show doesn't have many (only 3 at the time of writing this), I figured I'd throw my two cents in.

This blew my expectations out of the water.

I watched this show originally because I saw a clip going viral on Twitter where Xue, the protagonist's girlfriend/love interest, was doing full on tekken combos on him. What I got in return was a heartfelt show about the inevitability of death, and how you really should treat your parents better.

Death isn't fun. But it's something that everyone has to face at one point. And if, in the ... end, you can say you spent your life well, helping & loving those around you, then it'll all be ok.

Please watch this show. It is genuinely a masterpiece and shouldn't be slept on like it currently is. I loved every moment spent with these characters and this world, and I hope it gets more attention.

Lately there have been very high quality donghua based on manhwa webtoons, and this continues the trend. It's a well animated show with beautiful music and a heartwarming story. It's the kind of show you might want to watch with your mom. And you might want to start treating her better.

In the prologue, we are shown that the mother takes great pains to raise an unfilial boy, and on her deathbed he wishes on a star to sacrifice himself to give mom the life she deserves. In anime parents are usually absent or abusive, so we don't often get to see this kind of parental ... love and filial piety. It's a fairy tale story, with morals and magic, but with a setting and characters more grounded in the real world, which makes it much more relatable.

The show is mostly plot-driven, with characters responding to the situations that arise. A weakness is that some parts of the plot feel arbitrarily thrown in to keep things moving or create difficulties.

The character designs are very nice and have young adult human proportions. Mom is beautiful and Can is quite handsome. Can is already very filial by the beginning of the show, but his flaw is being too protective of Mom and being prone to violence. Mom hardly has flaws at all, being confident, kind, strong, and wise, but maybe brash. But the character traits don't really affect the plot much. The voice acting is good.

The music is great, with a couple good insert songs which you can find in the forum discussion below.

The ending is anime original, and is very satisfying and conclusive.

Story: 7
Animation: 9
Characters: 8
Music: 10

It starts with an interesting idea that catches attention, but the story quickly loses focus. Random side plots keep showing up just to keep the main story going, and it’s easy to tell this comes from a manga/manhua that adds new twists each week to stay popular. These extra plots don’t make the story better—they just make it messy.

What could have been an engaging narrative turns into a sequence of fleeting distractions. For those seeking a lighthearted, lovey-dovey, “switch your brain off” family drama, it might serve as easy entertainment. For anyone looking for strong writing or a cohesive story, it’s simply not worth the ... praise.