
Fighting for peace, The God of War returns
Fifteen hundred years after the war of gods, the heaven declined. Yang Jian, the God of Erlang, made a living by working as a catcher. One day, Yang Jian was ordered to hunt down a young man, his own nephew.
7.4
91 reviewsRuntime: 128 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: $70,826,303
Release Date: 2022-08-19
Director(s): Zhao Ji
Production: Light Chaser Animation Studios
Languages: Mandarin
IMDB: tt19757204
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Collection: New Gods Collection
_New Gods: Yang Jian_ feels like an alternate timeline of _Journey to the West_ along with all of the jazzy influence of _Cowboy Bebop_. The animation is slick and impressive, but the intentional crawl of the storytelling dulls the action and dims the spectacle of the visuals ever so slightly. It simply isn’t as effective or as entertaining as _Nezha Reborn_, which is currently still streaming on Netflix. **Full review:** https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/01/23/new-gods-yang-jian-review-godly-animation-shackled-to-a-prolonged-narrative/