Scissor Seven: Shadow Fate

伍六七之暗影宿命 (Wu Liuqi: Anying Suming)

7.2(1)

OtakuDen

8.3(21,555)

MAL Score

Ranked #400

Popularity #4060

Action
Adventure
Comedy
Drama
Mystery
Martial Arts
Super Power

Episodes: 10
Duration: 16 min per ep
Aired: Jan 18, 2023 to Mar 15, 2023
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Wu Liuqi lives an easygoing life on Xiaoji Island, but his past is a blank—amnesia has left his true identity uncertain. That calm is disrupted when outsiders arrive and recognize him, turning him into the center of attention and raising questions he can’t ignore.

As hidden schemes begin to close in around the island, Wu Liuqi chooses to leave for the Xuanwu Kingdom to confront what awaits him. With his partners and their home at risk, he sets out to face the fate tied to the life he can’t remember.

Otaku Consensus

Scissor Seven: Shadow Fate lands as one of the stronger-rated donghua sequels in its niche, with an 8.25 MAL average and 82/100 on AniList reflecting a fanbase that values Xiaofeng He’s tight authorial control as creator, director, and writer. Its best qualities are the 10-episode pacing, the sharper shift from gag-assassin comedy into Xuanwu martial-arts intrigue, and Sharefun Studio’s personality-driven fight staging; the recurring criticism is that the season demands real continuity investment and gives less room to the purely episodic comedy that first made the series easy to sample.

Why You Should Watch

If you want Gintama-style absurdity without the hundred-episode runway, or a Mob Psycho 100-adjacent mix of goofy faces and sincere emotional stakes filtered through wuxia assassin fiction, Shadow Fate is the season where Scissor Seven’s odd identity pays off. The appeal is not lore volume; it is the way a creator-led donghua can pivot from dumb visual jokes to blade choreography and back without sanding off either side. The AniList tag spread tells the truth: assassins, cultivation, martial arts, amnesia, swordplay, and super powers all sit in the same machine, but the episodes stay compact at ten total. Watch it if you like action comedy that treats parody as seasoning rather than a refusal to be dramatic.

Key Characters

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Wu Liuqi
Fans know Wu Liuqi as the rare assassin lead whose comic incompetence and latent menace are not separate modes but the central tension of the franchise.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
Xiaofeng He is credited as original creator, director, and scriptwriter, giving Shadow Fate a level of single-author continuity that is uncommon in franchise anime production.
2
Sharefun Studio keeps the season to 10 episodes, which makes its tonal escalation feel deliberately compressed rather than padded out into a standard two-cour action format.
3
The AniList tag profile is unusually specific: Assassins at 86%, Cultivation at 79%, Martial Arts at 76%, Amnesia at 65%, and Swordplay at 60%, marking it as more wuxia-assassin hybrid than generic superpower comedy.
4
Its reception is stronger than its visibility: a MAL score of 8.25 places it at rank #368, while its popularity rank sits much lower at #4078, suggesting a smaller but highly satisfied audience.
5
The genre mix officially spans Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, and Mystery, and Shadow Fate is notable for making those categories coexist inside short-form episodes rather than separating comedy chapters from serious chapters.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Xiaofeng He holds three key creative credits on Shadow Fate: original creator, director, and script, making his role closer to an auteur showrunner than a single-department staff credit.
Fun fact 2: The season aired from January 18, 2023 to March 15, 2023, completing its 10-episode run in under two months.
Fun fact 3: On MAL, Shadow Fate’s 8.25 score comes from 19,695 votes, a strong rating pool for a title whose popularity rank remains outside the top 4000.
Fun fact 4: AniList lists 440 favourites for the season alongside an 82/100 score, reinforcing that its strongest traction is with an invested core audience rather than broad casual sampling.
Fun fact 5: The lower-percentage AniList tags are revealing: Cyborg appears at 30% and Parody at 20%, signaling that Shadow Fate keeps the franchise’s oddball genre intrusions even as its assassin and cultivation elements dominate.