Scissor Seven: The Strongest Hairstylist

伍六七之最强发型师 (Wu Liuqi: Zui Qiang Fa Xing Shi)

8.2(57,009)

MAL Score

Ranked #458

Popularity #2426

Action
Comedy
Drama
Mystery
Martial Arts
Super Power

Episodes: 10
Duration: 16 min per ep
Aired: Oct 23, 2019 to Jan 1, 2020
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Hairstylist Seven makes a living with a pair of scissors and a knack for getting into trouble. With his past lost to him, he searches for the memories that might explain who he really is—while taking on work as a clumsy, half-serious assassin.

That double life quickly pulls him into a larger conflict: a tense power struggle between two rival factions, where Seven’s small-time jobs and sharp blades start to matter far more than he intended.

Otaku Consensus

Scissor Seven: The Strongest Hairstylist earns its strong 8.2 MAL and 81/100 AniList reception by letting Xiaofeng He’s creator-director-writer control turn a short 10-episode season into a sharp blend of gag timing, martial-arts impact, and escalating mystery. Its most common friction point is tonal whiplash: the jump from absurd comedy to faction-lore drama is part of the appeal, but it can feel abrupt for viewers expecting a cleaner shonen action rhythm.

Why You Should Watch

Watch this if you want the comic looseness of Gintama and the sudden emotional sincerity of Mob Psycho 100, but compressed into a 10-episode donghua season with no long onboarding ritual. The hook is not just “assassin comedy”; it is how the show uses rough-edged timing, super-powered martial arts, and wuxia/cultivation flavor to make tiny jokes and serious blade clashes feel like they belong to the same world. Viewers who like action that can look goofy one minute and genuinely dangerous the next will get the most out of it. It is also a strong pick if you want Chinese animation with a distinct identity rather than a series trying to imitate the texture of weekly Japanese battle anime.

Key Characters

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Seven
Seven is memorable because his best scenes pivot from deadpan incompetence to legitimate blade skill without changing the show’s visual language, making him the center of both its comedy and its sudden seriousness.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Xiaofeng He is credited as original creator, director, and scriptwriter, giving the season a rare single-author feel across concept, pacing, and joke-to-drama transitions.
2
The season runs only 10 episodes, airing from October 23, 2019 to January 1, 2020, which makes its escalation unusually compact compared with longer martial-arts or assassin narratives.
3
AniList’s top tags show the series’ unusual genre balance in numbers: Assassins at 86%, Martial Arts at 82%, Amnesia at 80%, Super Power at 76%, and Cultivation still significant at 60%.
4
Sharefun Studio’s production stands out within the donghua space for leaning into elastic, comic movement while still staging readable close-range weapon action rather than smoothing everything into conventional TV-anime polish.
5
Its reception profile is cult-like rather than simply mainstream: a MAL score of 8.2 and rank of #458 contrast with a much lower popularity rank of #2426, suggesting a smaller audience that rates it very highly.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: The Chinese title, Wu Liuqi: Zui Qiang Fa Xing Shi, is literally tied to the “strongest hairstylist” identity used in the English title for this season.
Fun fact 2: Xiaofeng He’s triple credit as original creator, director, and scriptwriter means the show’s core creative voice is unusually centralized for a serialized animated production.
Fun fact 3: The season’s broadcast window crossed into a new year, beginning on October 23, 2019 and ending on January 1, 2020.
Fun fact 4: AniList records 887 favourites for the series alongside an 81/100 score, reinforcing that its support is not just casual approval but active fan attachment.
Fun fact 5: The official genre spread lists Action, Comedy, Drama, and Mystery together, while the theme tags add Martial Arts and Super Power, which explains why the show is difficult to reduce to a single lane.