The 25+ Best Chinese Anime That Rival Japanese Studios

If you've ever wanted to watch a Chinese take on the isekai genre, Soul Land AKA Douluo Dalu is a great choice. Tang San is a celebrated martial arts practitioner who decides that learning the Tang sect's secrets is much more important than a career in martial arts. Satisfied with his life since he learned the secrets, he opts to end it by throwing himself off of Hell's Peak.

This, of course, is not the end. He is reincarnated into the Douluo Continent, where each person is born with a “spirit” that they can train and strengthen. Tang San is now a blacksmith's son with one of the most useless Spirit Types there is - but the strength of his Spirit Power makes up for it. Using the knowledge of his past life and this one, he starts on the path to becoming a spirit master.

As a child, Xiao Yan displayed incredible magical power. But for some reason, his power began to weaken and eventually disappeared all together. When this happens, his fiance, a woman from a powerful and wealthy family named Yan Ran Na Lan decides to leave him. 

Unwilling to accept her decision, he challenges her to a one-on-one duel, set to take place in three years. If he wins, he gets to decide what happens to their engagement. If she wins, she can go where she pleases. Thus begins his attempts to regain his strength. 

High Schooler Mo Fan suddenly finds himself in an alternate version of reality where magic takes the place of science. In this world, students at magical schools must learn the art of spell-working in order to deal with a slew of dangerous beasts. 

Mo Fan dreams of attending one such school - magicians are well-paid and he wants to repay his father for all of his hard work. But that won't be easy - his impoverished background and lack of magic mean that even once he's accepted, he doesn't exactly fit in. But Mo Fan surprises everyone by displaying a penchant for not one but two forms of elemental magic. 

Ye Xiu is a top-tier professional gamer, who specializes in a multiplayer game called Glory. When he's forced to retire, he gets a job at an Internet cafe. But when Glory launches a new server, he can't help but want to jump back into the field.

This time around, he has no sponsors, no team, and no reputation, since he's going in anonymously. Despite those challenges, he's determined to conquer this new realm.

All Wang Ling wants is to live an ordinary high school life. Unfortunately, he possesses such incredible spiritual power that he could accidentally destroy the world. To combat this, he uses a suppressive amulet. But the amulet's power is beginning to weaken, and it's not long before it will break entirely.

Wang Ling and his father must find another solution - fast. 

In the Great Yan Empire, the only way to gain respect is through physical strength. There are four great clans in this world, and one of them, the Lin Clan, is the source of some serious drama. After a member is banished, he starts his own family, and trained in the hopes of one day rejoining his clan.

When Lin Dong was a child, he watched his banished father be violently defeated and humiliated by a member of the Lin Clan. This incident spurred him to get revenge on the Lin Clan for what they did to his family. But his ambitions go in an unexpected direction after he finds a mysterious talisman.