) Ling Long Incarnation is a fully CGI post-apocalyptic Chinese Donghua series made by YHKT Entertainment, and it depicts the brutal reality of the Lighthouse, a flying city where the remnants of humanity took shelter decades ago, after recovering from a disaster that unleashed horrific monsters upon an already overpopulated world.Subsequently divided into those possessing desirable and undesirable genetics to ensure their survival, draconian measures are taken to prevent any contamination and emotional connections from compromising the future of their refuge, while teams of elite hunters scour the surface wilderness on dangerous expeditions to find and return precious resources home past hostile, and monster-occupied, territory.
This series contains examples of
- After the End: The world is a barren wasteland, covered in the ruins of once advanced cities.
- All-CGI Cartoon: It's a completely computer-generated Donghua.
- Anyone Can Die: Quite a few named characters don't make it through the series.
- Crapsack World: Oh boy, where to start?
- The land swarming with deadly eldrich horrors and the only remaining haven for humanity left is, seemingly, a cramped flying city, which enforces a strict Fantastic Caste System between those with damaged and undamaged DNA, who all live under the sway of a faith based around the ominously named "Lords of Light and Shadow" led by a very Smug Snake named Charles.
- Due to the limited space, reproduction is entirely controlled, and traditional relationships—i.e., those based on love—are harshly punished, as they're seen as frivolous, especially if its between a Highborn and Lowborn.
- If a child is born with genes considered inferior to those of the Highborn parent, the child is immediately taken from them and sent to the slums, and a Highborn doctor actually providing treatment for a Lowborn is a considered a waste of resources, and thus a crime worthy of imprisonment.
- With scarce resources, teams of hunters must risk searching the wilderness for supplies while under constant threat, and even with the advantages of Power Armor, advanced weaponry and experienced warriors, few return alive.
- Cast of Snowflakes: Impressively so, given that it's CGI, where recycling models is a commonly used short-cut.
- Crossover: Bai Yuekui and Marc appear as recruitable characters in the Chinese version of Tower of Fantasy.
- Detonation Moon: In the backstory a sudden shift of the moons alignment caused a ripple effect that devistated the world just as a massive evacuation was underway, destroying civilization and preventing the exodus to the stars.
- Downer Beginning: The show opens with a couple being executed for getting together romantically and thus breaking the law of the Lighthouse.
- Forced Transformation: After being presumed dead after some critical surgery, one of the main characters, Marc, is almost subjected to a premature cremation. He later painfully transforms into a large, monstrous hybrid creature, whilst in the furnace instead.
- Layered Metropolis: The Lighthouse is an airborne city with multiple levels, so they don't exactly have much room to build upon it. Instead the Lowborn built their shacks dangling from it and connected them to each other with wire and rope, like this◊.
- Ms. Fanservice: Quite a few, but the most striking example would be the voluptuous, flirty, red-haired, Jessica. One would be forgiven for thinking she might be inspired by another Jessica.
- Mr. Fanservice: The main protagonist, Marc, is a buff, rugged hunk. Most of the prominent male cast are handsome, too, and the few exceptions are all of the "Lowborn class" so there's likely a case of The Beautiful Elite at play.
- Mysterious Waif: Throughout the series there are rumors that a female warrior of great skill with Mystical White Hair still lives on the surface armed with a sword. Some characters believe she rescued them once, years ago, during a near-disastrous monster encounter. Most members of the Lighthouse leadership dismiss the legend on principle, since no one is supposed to be able to live there anymore, but we the audience are eventually shown that she is indeed real, and she's not alone, as she is part of a whole group of surface humans.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Marc delivers an impressively brutal one on Sharif when he tries to prevent him from rescuing Ran Bing from the "golden room".
- Power Armor: The backbone of the expeditionary hunter forces' armory.
- Shout-Out:
- The show has chainsaw swords and massive guns. One of the characters is a large armoured man in a hood carrying a staff, making him resemble an Astartes by way of the Adeptus Mechanicus, whose working as an enforcer for an Inquisition-like organization, its a similarity others have noticed.
- The premise of a group of secluded humans in a wasteland, who must head out in Power Armor to gather supplies leftover from before a world destroying event, brings to mind the Brotherhood of Steel. Just with a flying fortress instead of bunkers.
- The show has chainsaw swords and massive guns
