 Aniplex opened an official website for the Japanese dub of Mo Dao Zu Shi (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) on Saturday, revealing a teaser promo and key visual (pictured).The first two seasons of the donghua will air in Japan under the title Madou Soshi with subtitles on WOWOW beginning September 9 and November 4, respectively. The Japanese dub—produced by Aniplex and Sony Music Solutions—will premiere on WOWOW and Tokyo MX in January 2021. Whether or not the January dub broadcast will include the second season has not been specified. Synopsis Xian: the state of immortality that all cultivators strive to achieve. However, there is a dark energy that lies underneath—the forbidden Mo Dao, or demonic path. Through an unfortunate series of tragedies, this is the path that cultivator Wei Wuxian experiments with during his teachings. His rise in power is accompanied by chaos and destruction, but his reign of terror comes to an abrupt end when the cultivation clans overpower him and he is killed by his closest ally. Thirteen years later, Wei Wuxian is reincarnated in the body of a lunatic and reunited with Lan Wangji, a former classmate of his. This marks the beginning of a supernatural mystery that plagues the clans and threatens to disrupt their everyday life. Mo Dao Zu Shi follows these two men on their mission to unravel the mysteries of the spiritual world. Fighting demons, ghosts, and even other cultivators, the two end up forming a bond that neither of them had ever expected. [Written by MAL Rewrite] Produced by B.Cmay Pictures and Tencent Penguin Pictures, Mo Dao Zu Shi adapts Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's Chinese web novel of the same name, which was serialized from 2015 to 2016. The 15-episode first season streamed on Tencent Video from July to October 2018, followed by an eight-episode second season from August 3 to August 31 last year. A third season is scheduled for 2021, and a chibi spin-off featuring 30 five-minute episodes began streaming on July 31. Teaser PV Note: The video is region-locked; click here for an alternative link. Official site: https://mdzs.jp/anime/ Official Twitter: @mdzsjp Source: PR Times |
VindstotAug 22, 2020 12:43 PM
| Oh, this is very nice to see! Hopefully, this'll out turn out to be a positive experience for the Japanese anime community. I found it a little hard to adapt to the Chinese dubs so maybe I'll check out the Japanese dub, granted if the subtitles will be available. Would be a good recap, for starters. Quan Zhi Gao Shou next? |
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| i am an original lanugage is the best language kinda guy so i will watch the chinese one first, might watch this after. |
| Didn't expect MDZS to receive a Japanese dub tbh For once I'll stick with the original Chinese dub though, it just fits the series perfectly |
| What is with that summary? If not for character names there is now way in hell I would've recognized the story. It's kind of strange Netflix hadn't nabbed it already with how popular The Untamed turned out. |
| Great, I've been putting this off for a long time because I can't get used to listening to Chinese, now I can finally watch it in Japanese instead. |
Always the same… Every age, every generation. Human beings are infinitely more cruel and selfish than any demon in hell ~Dantalion (Makai Ouji) |
jc9622 said: LOL Since when did China start creating anime? Whenever I call anime "Chinese cartoons", it's more of a joke and now, there are actually literal Chinese cartoons lmao ... do you think, like... china has never made animation, before? |
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| Ooohh! Perfect chance to re-watch it then! I already know it's going to feel weird watching this in Japanese. I'm so used to the Chinese names and grammar. I guess they will change things around with the names. Like, in Chinese, we have to keep up with three different names with every character lol I wonder if the Japanese dub will make it easier for people who aren't used to the Chinese version or are very new to this series. I'm really looking forward to this~ |
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jc9622 said: LOL Since when did China start creating anime? Whenever I call anime "Chinese cartoons", it's more of a joke and now, there are actually literal Chinese cartoons lmao Do you live under a rock? China does create lots of "anime". They don't even call it that. It's called donghua. You'll be surprised at how many people are as big of a fan of donghuas like there are for anime. |
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| A trailer without showcasing any of the dub voices... Lmao. But yeah, I feel like a dub for this would just be 100% shit. Watched it already with sub, and to those who will, it's very confusing at the start because of the timelines. There's a thread on (S1/S2) that says it. |
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Tyrel said: A trailer without showcasing any of the dub voices... Lmao. But yeah, I feel like a dub for this would just be 100% shit. Watched it already with sub, and to those who will, it's very confusing at the start because of the timelines. There's a thread on (S1/S2) that says it. I doubt it's ready yet, sub-only version will only start airing next month. They'll probably use JP audio drama seiyuu. |
| The Japanese dub will bring a lot of new fans to the franchise so it can't be a negative aspect as there are many anime fans that couldn't watch the original because of not being used to listening to Chinese; I had a hard time watching as well in the beginning but it is really worth it!! (read the novel too~) Going to watch this out of curiosity of course. Hopefully they don't change the names (the synopsis was lowkey weird ngl). |
| Excited to hear that the anime will receive Japanese dub too. I listened to the Japanese dub of the drama cd a few months ago. In the drama cd Wei Ying is voiced by Suzuki Tatsuhisa and Lan Zhan by Hino Satoshi. I got too used to with the Chinese version but will still watch the Japanese dub if it's available. |
PhantomEos said: The Japanese dub will bring a lot of new fans to the franchise so it can't be a negative aspect as there are many anime fans that couldn't watch the original because of not being used to listening to Chinese; I had a hard time watching as well in the beginning but it is really worth it!! (read the novel too~) Going to watch this out of curiosity of course. Hopefully they don't change the names (the synopsis was lowkey weird ngl). Official SVSSS summary is also..something. An ordinary youth——Shen Yuan who is a reader of the novel<crazy fairy magic road>.After read the book, he scold out activation code and trigger the mysterious system so that he cross into the book world and penetrate into the body of villain ——Shen Qingqiu. |
| The Chinese dub was awesome, idk if I would have enjoyed this as much as I did if I watched it with japanese dub(And I'm an English dub guy) |
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Vsegda7 said: PhantomEos said: The Japanese dub will bring a lot of new fans to the franchise so it can't be a negative aspect as there are many anime fans that couldn't watch the original because of not being used to listening to Chinese; I had a hard time watching as well in the beginning but it is really worth it!! (read the novel too~) Going to watch this out of curiosity of course. Hopefully they don't change the names (the synopsis was lowkey weird ngl). Official SVSSS summary is also..something. An ordinary youth——Shen Yuan who is a reader of the novel<crazy fairy magic road>.After read the book, he scold out activation code and trigger the mysterious system so that he cross into the book world and penetrate into the body of villain ——Shen Qingqiu. Needed to re read it 3 times to get it. How did they manage that, <crazy fairy magic road>... Even Airplane Shooting Towards The Sky would be ashamed ;-; |
| It'll be interesting to hear the voices they choose. |
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| I 'm not a fan of the dubbing of Mo Dao Zu Shi because it takes away alot of the Chinese original. I'm going to stick with the original version of the anime/donghua even so it's tempting to watch it in Japanese. |
| Any word yet on Season 2 for the JP dub? Or Season 3? |
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