Best Modern Donghua Series You Must Watch
Donghua (Chinese animation) has evolved beyond historical and fantasy themes, embracing futuristic, cyberpunk, and sci-fi settings. If you're looking for modern Donghua series with advanced technology, post-apocalyptic survival, and high-tech battles, this list is for you!
Here are some of the best modern Donghua series you should check out.
1. Knights on Debris (Xing Hai Qishi)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Mecha
A space exploration team crash-lands on an alien planet, forced to fight for survival using advanced technology and combat skills. This Donghua delivers stunning space battles and intense survival challenges.
2. Ling Long: Incarnation (Ling Cage: Incarnation)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Post-Apocalyptic, Action
Survived human beings linger on with their last breath in a world where emotions will induce creepy monsters. But what if two people fall in deep love,Should they live cold-eyed forever or embrace each other witnessing the dooming world is the rest of the story.
3. Mountain and Sea Organization (Shan Hai Jiyuan)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery
In the future, with the increasing number of natural disasters and catastrophes from the universe, a mysterious organization called the International Mountain Council has come to destroy and replace contemporary human beings. The protagonists joined the armistice combat team outside the “brown poles” and engaged in multiple confrontations with this mysterious scientific and technological organization, finding that the human nightmare was a window of full access to the universe, thus centred around realism and the adversaries of the two worlds and civilizations of different years...
4. Slay the Gods (Zhan Shen Ji)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Fantas
In a modern city, ancient mythical beings coexist with humans. Mikaela, a seraph, Hades, the ruler of hell, and Poseidon, the sea god, navigate this world where "mythical beings" must be eliminated by regular humans.
5. Swallowed Star (Tunshi Xingkong)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Mecha
On the Earth, a catastrophe triggered the variation of all kinds of species. The superior survived and the inferior were extinct. Under this circumstance, Luo Feng inherited from the owner of Yunmo Star and became one of the three strongest people on the Earth.
6. The Infinitors (Wu Xian Shijie)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Psychological, Survival
The Infinitors is a sci-fi story about an overworked office worker who discovers a link to a secret universe. To survive in this world, he must fight in deathmatches to be the sole winner.
7. The First Order (Di Yi Xu)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Post-Apocalyptic
Facing an uncertain environment and future, fortresses are built one after another. Refugees flock to the exterior of these walls for survival, hoping that one day they can enter a fortress. Our main lead, Ren Xiaosu is one of them. With indomitable will, Ren Xiaosu and Yan Liuyuan are determined to move forward for a shot at survival. They keep advancing by absorbing positive energy, changing the world with every step.
8. Forty Millenniums of Cultivation (Si Qian Nian De Xiu Lian Zhe)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mecha, Action
Based on the novel "Forty Thousand Years of Cultivation", the story tells the story of Li Yao, in a future sci-fi cultivation world, who has been unable to break through the bottleneck due to low development of spiritual energy. With the encouragement of his friends and tutors, he relies on his own willpower to win back the opportunity to participate in the joint examination, finally entering the university of his choice and realizing his dream of becoming a weapon smith.