New Gods: Yang Jian

2022 128 min ★ 7.5 Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy

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.

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Cast

Kai Wang

Yang Jian (voice)

Ji Guanlin

Wan Luo (voice)

Lihong Li

Yuding (voice)

Li Lanling

Chen Xiang (voice)

Zhao Yi

Shen Gongbao (voice）

Liu Xiaoyu

Shen Gongbao (voice)

Wen jingyuan

Lao Kang (voice）

Shuiyu Tang

Lao Yao (voice）

Xing Chao

Gourd Fairy (voice）

Qiu Qiu

Yang Chan / Yao Ji (voice）

Details

Director

Zhao Ji

Tagline

"Fighting for peace, The God of War returns"

Status

Released

Original Language

ZH

Revenue

$70,826,303

Production

Light Chaser Animation Studios

Reviews

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Chris Sawin

January 23, 2023

★ 7/10

_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 ...