Scissor Seven: Extra Episodes
刺客伍六七 番外 (Cike Wu Liuqi Fanwai)
- Action
- Comedy
- Drama
- Mystery
- Romance
- Martial Arts
- Super Power
- Episodes
- 4
- Duration
- 12 min per ep
- Aired
- Aug 1, 2018 to Aug 22, 2018
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
*Scissor Seven: Extra Episodes* presents additional standalone stories set in the world of *Scissor Seven*, expanding on its blend of action, comedy, drama, mystery, romance, martial arts, and super-powered antics.
These bonus episodes offer more time with the familiar setting and tone, delivering extra moments and side adventures that complement the main storyline.
Otaku Consensus
Scissor Seven: Extra Episodes earns its place as a compact companion piece because it uses the franchise’s offbeat direction and sudden emotional pivots to make character-history material feel purposeful, especially the Thirteen-focused opener and the Dai Bo/Da Fei chicken-farm stretch. Fans and reviewers praise the series’ unusual animation style, comedy timing, and resistance to standard anime formulas, while the most consistent criticism is that these four brief prequel episodes feel slight beside Season 1 and lose much of their value if watched first.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Scissor Seven: Extra Episodes if you already like the main series’ mix of deadpan assassin comedy, martial-arts absurdity, and unexpectedly sincere character baggage, and you want context rather than a new entry point. It scratches a similar itch to Gintama’s gag-to-heart whiplash or Mob Psycho 100’s preference for personality over power-scaling, but in a shorter, rougher-edged Chinese animation package. The appeal is specific: one episode digs into Thirteen’s childhood and family dynamics, while the remaining three give Dai Bo, Da Fei, and young Xiao Fei room outside Seven’s immediate orbit. If you dislike “bonus” episodes that only recycle jokes, this is the rare extra batch built around backstory; if you need main-plot momentum, its four-episode scale will feel modest.
Key Characters
- DDabao Ji(VA: Kouji Ochiai)
Dabao becomes more than a comic side presence here because the extra episodes frame his past through loyalty, survival, and the franchise’s strange affection for animal characters.
- DDafei Ji(VA: Tokuyoshi Kawashima)
Dafei stands out as the emotional anchor of the chicken-farm material, giving the OVA its clearest example of Scissor Seven turning a ridiculous setup into character drama.
- KKing Pheasant(VA: Takeharu Oonishi)
King Pheasant represents the series’ talent for treating animal-based martial-arts figures with the same dramatic weight it gives human assassins.
- TThirteen(VA: Naoko Matsui)
Thirteen is the main draw for viewers who wanted her cool assassin image complicated by family history without stripping away her mystery.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The four-episode structure is not a recap format: user reviews identify the first episode as Thirteen’s childhood-and-family backstory, while episodes two through four center on Dai Bo, Da Fei, and young Xiao Fei in a chicken-farm scenario.
- 2
Sharefun Studio handles the production, keeping the extra episodes visually tied to the main Scissor Seven identity rather than presenting them as detached promotional shorts.
- 3
Original creator Xiaofeng He is credited on the project, an important continuity point for a franchise whose appeal depends heavily on tonal control between slapstick, action, and melancholy.
- 4
AniList’s tag weighting places Super Power and Martial Arts equally high at 79%, while Assassins sits at 40% and Animals at 30%, matching the OVA’s unusual balance of combat lore and chicken-centered character history.
- 5
Its reception profile is unusually split between affection and reservation: it holds a 7.53 MAL score from 17,304 votes, yet the quoted user reviews sit around 6/10 because many viewers see it as worthwhile but nonessential.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- The OVA is listed as Cike Wu Liuqi Fanwai, marking it as a side-story entry within the Chinese Scissor Seven franchise rather than a numbered TV season.
- Fun fact 2
- AniList records a 75/100 score and 163 favourites for these extra episodes, closely mirroring the MAL response of 7.53/10 rather than showing a major platform-to-platform divide.
- Fun fact 3
- MAL places it at rank #1938 and popularity #4540, a profile that suggests respectable approval among viewers who found it, but far less broad sampling than the main series.
- Fun fact 4
- The wider Scissor Seven fan conversation highlighted in web reactions repeatedly praises the franchise as a change of pace from typical anime, with specific compliments for its animation style, humor, and writing.
- Fun fact 5
- Multiple user reviews recommend watching Season 1 before these episodes, because the backstory material is designed to deepen existing attachments rather than introduce the cast from zero.
Studios
- Sharefun Studio
