Martial Universe 5

This is a continuation of the review I wrote for the first season: https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=584934 I rated S1 5, S2 6, S3 7, S4 6 (felt 6.5). I marked S1 and S2 as "mixed feelings", S3 and S4 as "recommended". This fifth season was a huge disappointment for me. I rate it 5, but unlike S1 I can't recommend it. S1 was the beginning and deserved the benefit of the doubt, because most cultivation stories need a while to take-off. But I see no reason to watch this mediocre season, which made me drop the series. Both the animation and the writing are a step down from S4, which was already notas entertaining as S3. It's not that the writing got "worse". It's that it got stuck in the repetitive cycle of most cultivation stories and I do not have enough passion for this genre to forgive too many flaws. I am happy to cope with the repetition and the typical exponential "how dare you!" in stories of the calibre of Against the Gods, Apotheosis, Demonic Emperor, Ultimate of All Ages, Swallowed Star (fyi those first 4 aren't available as donghua yet, which imo is ridiculous, as they are MUCH better than 80% of the cultivation donghua out there). But other than these, no other cultivation story ever managed to make me stay on board. In my review of S1 I said that this story is average. And I confirm it. I feel it doesn't have what it takes to go on for god knows how many seasons. I personally kind of regret having watched S5 because it felt like a waste of time. Unless cultivation genre is what you live for, I don't recommend watching this.