Scissor Seven

刺客伍六七 (Cike Wu Liuqi)

7.9(1)

OtakuDen

7.9(68,187)

MAL Score

Ranked #927

Popularity #1868

Action
Comedy
Drama
Mystery
Romance
Martial Arts
Super Power

Episodes: 10
Duration: 15 min per ep
Aired: Apr 25, 2018 to Jun 20, 2018
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Wu Liuqi cuts an imposing figure at first glance: an amnesiac bounty hunter who wields telekinetic scissors and can shift his appearance at will. Yet behind the intimidating skill set is a surprisingly modest kid who’s often out of his depth. Assassinations go sideways, targets get mixed up, and his work as a freelancer routinely ends in mishaps—less because of a lack of power than because his conscience doesn’t fit the job.

With his bird companion Dai Bo at his side, Wu searches for the memories he’s lost. By day he keeps a low profile as a hairdresser, and by night he takes on dangerous contracts to pay off his debts—two lives that repeatedly collide as his odd jobs draw him closer to the truth of his past.

Otaku Consensus

Scissor Seven’s first season lands above its modest footprint, with a 7.9 MAL score and 78/100 AniList score reflecting how strongly viewers respond to Xiaofeng He’s creator-director-scriptwriter control and the series’ rapid tonal pivots. Its best asset is pacing: ten compact episodes turn assassins, martial arts, surreal comedy, and amnesia mystery into a tight rhythm rather than a genre checklist. The recurring complaint is that its episodic, gag-first structure can make early segments feel disposable before the emotional and mystery threads fully take hold.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Scissor Seven if you want assassin fiction that punches like a martial-arts comedy but refuses the long shounen runway. It scratches a similar itch to Gintama’s odd-job absurdity and Mob Psycho 100’s blend of deadpan humor with sudden sincerity, but in a compact 10-episode donghua package. The appeal is the contrast: slapstick and satire sit right beside clean action beats, super-power weirdness, and a real undercurrent of identity anxiety. Viewers tired of over-explained power systems will appreciate how quickly it moves; viewers allergic to pure parody will appreciate that the jokes are not an excuse to avoid feeling. Its AniList tag profile says the quiet part out loud: Assassins, Surreal Comedy, and Satire rank higher than Martial Arts.

Key Characters

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Liuqi Wu(VA: Shinji Saito)
Liuqi Wu is compelling because the show treats his dangerous skill set as less important than the mismatch between professional violence and an almost inconvenient sense of decency.
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Dabao Ji(VA: Kouji Ochiai)
Dabao Ji works as the pushy comic engine beside Liuqi, the kind of partner whose schemes keep the series’ assassin premise from ever becoming self-serious for too long.
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Thirteen(VA: Naoko Matsui)
Thirteen gives the cast its cool, sharp-edged counterweight, anchoring the romance and martial-arts sides of the series without softening its deadpan tone.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Xiaofeng He is credited as original creator, director, scriptwriter, and co-character designer, giving the first season a unusually concentrated authorial identity for a short TV run.
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The series was produced by Sharefun Studio as a 10-episode season airing from April 25 to June 20, 2018, a compact format that helps its comedy-action pivots avoid seasonal padding.
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AniList’s tag distribution is revealing: Assassins at 97%, Surreal Comedy at 92%, and Satire at 84% rank above Martial Arts at 72% and Super Power at 71%, marking it as a genre send-up before a straightforward action show.
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Its structure is explicitly hybrid: AniList tags it Episodic at 53% while also marking Amnesia at 82% and Mystery in the genre set, so the season uses self-contained comic incidents to feed a longer identity question.
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The show’s tonal range is unusually broad for a short-form action comedy, with Drama, Mystery, Romance, Martial Arts, Super Power, Meta, Cultivation, Animals, and Philosophy all appearing in its database profile.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The anime is listed under both its English title Scissor Seven and its Chinese title Cike Wu Liuqi, reflecting its identity as a donghua that found a wider international anime audience.
Fun fact 2: Xiaofeng He’s staff credits span original creator, director, character design, and script, while Xinru Liang shares the character design credit.
Fun fact 3: Shasha Zou is credited twice on the production side, as both executive producer and chief producer.
Fun fact 4: The in-between animation credits in the provided staff data include Chuxian Chen, Pingan Huang, and Zhiyue Huang, highlighting the smaller production-credit footprint behind the season.
Fun fact 5: Its MAL score of 7.9 from 67,409 votes and rank of #916 sit noticeably higher than its popularity placement of #1873, suggesting stronger approval among viewers who actually seek it out.