Renegade Immortal

仙逆 (Xian Ni)

8.5(3,227)

MAL Score

Ranked #169

Popularity #6773

Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Historical
Martial Arts

Episodes: 180
Duration: 25 min per ep
Aired: Sep 25, 2023 to ?
Status: Currently Airing

Synopsis

Wang Lin, a bright and determined young man, navigates a world where his family stands apart from their peers. Despite the cold shoulders from other relatives, his parents nurture his potential, dreaming of a future filled with promise. Unexpectedly, Wang Lin discovers a path to immortality, yet he soon realizes that his abilities are far from extraordinary.

Determined to overcome his limitations, Wang Lin embarks on a transformative journey filled with challenges and growth. As he strives to surpass his initial shortcomings, he delves into the realms of martial arts and ancient wisdom, inching closer to realizing his dreams of greatness. His quest not only tests his resilience but also reveals the true essence of determination and ambition in a richly woven fantasy landscape.

Otaku Consensus

Renegade Immortal has earned unusually strong approval for a relatively niche donghua, with an 8.5 MAL score, an 82 AniList score, and a MAL rank of #169 despite far lower overall popularity. What works is the long-form cultivation escalation: BUILD DREAM’s full-CGI approach, Ergen’s source-story foundation, and the darker revenge, tragedy, and anti-hero framing give it a harder edge than many progression fantasies. The main barrier is the CGI presentation itself, which is central enough to be one of its defining AniList tags and remains the most likely sticking point for viewers accustomed to 2D anime staging.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Renegade Immortal if you want a serious xianxia-style power climb built for commitment rather than a short seasonal sampler. Its appeal is less “flashy fantasy adventure” and more the slow pressure of cultivation logic, status gaps, retaliation, and moral hardening across a massive 180-episode run. Viewers who like the long-haul progression satisfaction of Chinese cultivation donghua such as Battle Through the Heavens, but want a colder anti-hero and tragedy-leaning tone, will find the niche clearly defined here. The high score-to-popularity gap also makes it a strong discovery pick: it is not one of the most widely sampled titles on MAL, yet the viewers who have stayed with it rate it like a top-tier fantasy action series.

Key Characters

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Wang Lin
Wang Lin stands out as a cultivation protagonist defined less by innate brilliance than by the ruthless discipline and emotional hardening that fans associate with anti-hero progression stories.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
The series is produced by BUILD DREAM and is explicitly identified on AniList as a Full CGI title, making its 3D visual language part of the viewing experience rather than a background production detail.
2
Renegade Immortal is listed for 180 episodes while still currently airing, giving it a scale closer to long-running donghua serialization than to a conventional one-cour or two-cour anime adaptation.
3
Its AniList tags highlight Cultivation, Revenge, Anti-Hero, and Tragedy, which positions it as a darker martial-fantasy progression story rather than a straightforward heroic adventure.
4
The reception profile is unusual: MAL lists it at #169 with an 8.5 score, but its popularity rank is only #6773, suggesting a smaller audience with notably strong retention and approval.
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The anime is based on an original story by Ergen, a major name in Chinese web-novel cultivation fiction, giving the adaptation direct lineage from the xianxia web-literature tradition rather than from manga or light novels.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Renegade Immortal began airing on September 25, 2023 and is still marked as currently airing, with 180 episodes listed in the available database data.
Fun fact 2: The original story credit goes to Ergen, whose name is closely associated with cultivation web novels, making this a donghua adaptation rooted in Chinese online fantasy literature.
Fun fact 3: AniList records the series at 82/100 with 381 favourites, while MAL records an 8.5/10 average from 3,227 votes, showing strong cross-platform approval despite a comparatively small audience.
Fun fact 4: The show’s AniList tag breakdown labels it Full CGI at 66% and Cultivation at 60%, two unusually direct indicators of both its production style and its genre identity.
Fun fact 5: Wang Lin is the only main character listed in the provided character data, and no Japanese voice actor credit is available there, reflecting how donghua database entries often differ from Japanese anime pages in cast documentation.