Mo Dao Zu Shi Q (魔道祖师Q) chibi donghua poster, The Founder of Diabolism Q
Mo Dao Zu Shi Q (魔道祖师Q, 2020 to 2021) key art. © B.C May Pictures / Tencent Video. Image via TMDB, shown solely to identify the series being reviewed.

Mo Dao Zu Shi Q (Donghua)

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What happens

Mo Dao Zu Shi Q (魔道祖师Q) is the chibi comedy spin-off of the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua. The cast is redrawn with heads a third to half the height of their bodies, detail is cut back to a hairstyle, a ribbon and a sword, and familiar moments are replayed as comedy: Lan Wangji flustered, Wei Wuxian pleased with himself, Jiang Yanli fussing over both of them. It runs to thirty shorts of about three minutes each. It is not part of the main story and changes nothing in it.

The material concentrates on the stretch when the two leads are students at the Cloud Recesses, where the stakes are lessons and rules. The jokes turn on moments from the main donghua and The Untamed, so it plays as a companion piece rather than an entry point.

Zhang Jie voices Wei Wuxian and Bian Jiang voices Lan Wangji, the same performers as in the main donghua. The shorts are classed as an original net animation, made for a streaming platform rather than a broadcast slot, and the format favours quick reactions over long scenes.

B.C May Pictures animated it, and it streamed on Tencent Video from 31 July 2020 to 12 February 2021.

CONTENT DETAILS

Native Title
魔道祖师Q
Original Title
The Founder of Diabolism Q
Also Known As
魔道祖师Q, Mo Dao Zu Shi Q, MDZS Q, The Founder of Diabolism Q, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Q
Adaptation
Chibi comedy spin-off of the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua, which adapts Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's web novel Mo Dao Zu Shi (魔道祖师). It is an original spin-off rather than an adaptation of any part of the novel.
Genres
AnimationComedyFantasyMagicMeta HumorShort-Form
Themes
BL
Key Themes
ChibiGag ShortsSpin-OffComedyShort-FormCompanion PieceDonghuaChinese Animation
Country
China
Language
Mandarin Chinese
Original Author
Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Seasons
1
Episodes
30
Duration
3 min
Aired Start
Aired End
Release Year
20202021
Content Rating
PG

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Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Founder of Diabolism) Chinese donghua poster featuring Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji
Mo Dao Zu Shi (Donghua)
Mo Dao Zu Shi (魔道祖师) manhua Volume 1 cover, art by Luo Di Cheng Qiu, Seven Seas Entertainment English edition
Mo Dao Zu Shi (Manhua)

NEWS

Where to watch Mo Dao Zu Shi Q (Donghua)

WeTV

VOICE CAST

Zhang Jie, Chinese voice actor who voices Wei Wuxian in the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua
Zhang Jie (Voice Actor)
Bian Jiang, Chinese voice actor who voices Lan Wangji in the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua
Bian Jiang

Before You Watch

  • What it is: the chibi comedy spin-off of the Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua, not a continuation of the story.
  • Length: 30 episodes of about three minutes, 31 July 2020 to 12 February 2021 on Tencent Video.
  • Studio: B.C May Pictures, which also worked on the main donghua.
  • Watch it after, not before. The jokes depend on knowing the cast and the events being parodied.
  • It sits outside continuity. Nothing in it changes or adds to the main story.
  • Rating: PG, below the 15+ of the main donghua.

Reviewed by Renkaze

Thirty shorts that add up to about ninety minutes.

This is a companion piece rather than a story of its own. The character designs are expressive, the timing is good, and three minutes is the right length for what it does.

The shorts let the two leads be openly affectionate in a way the live-action could not, because comedy shorts are not held to the same standard as a broadcast drama.

Watch it if you finished the donghua or The Untamed and want more time with the cast. It suits viewers who come for character and humour more than plot, since it sits outside continuity and the main story stays exactly where it was.

Thirty episodes carried roughly ninety minutes of material across 196 days.

The shorts went out between 31 July 2020 and 12 February 2021, about a week apart, which adds up to less than one feature film. Three minutes at a time is a deliberate shape, built to sit beside much longer things.

Season two of Mo Dao Zu Shi (Donghua) closed in September 2019 and season three opened in August 2021, so these shorts ran between the two. For a viewing order, ninety minutes is one sitting, assembled from thirty pieces.

Every short is built around a single beat: one reaction, one reversal, one piece of business. With thirty of them there are thirty such beats, and the cast gets to show sides the main story rarely has time for. Because the format runs on timing, the jokes land in the pause before a reaction, and a viewer who knows the cast can read each pause before it arrives. The two leads are voiced by the performers from the donghua, so the comedy keeps the voices a viewer already knows while changing the scale of everything around them.

The release pattern was as steady as the format: two shorts on the opening day, then one every Friday without a missed week until the thirtieth.

Themes

Chibi is a set of proportions before it is a mood. Where a standard animated character runs seven to eight heads tall, a chibi figure's head takes up somewhere between a third and a half of the whole body, and detail drops away to a few signature markers: a hairstyle, a ribbon, a sword. Faces grow large relative to everything else, which is why the style reads as comic. It is built to carry expression and very little besides.

Applied to this cast, that sets aside the register the main story runs in. A cultivator drawn at these proportions is not going to be framed at a distance in a landscape or held in a long silence. What the format is built to deliver instead is reaction: surprise, irritation, embarrassment, delivered fast and read instantly.

The material the shorts draw on fits that constraint. Rather than ranging across the whole plot, they concentrate on the stretch when the two leads are students at the Cloud Recesses, where the stakes are lessons and rules. It is the section of the source a format built for reactions can cover most completely.

Interesting facts

  • The shorts are filed as an ONA, an original net animation made for a streaming platform rather than for a broadcast slot, which is the standard classification for short-form Chinese animation of this kind.

OFFICIAL TRAILER

Episode guide: Mo Dao Zu Shi Q (Donghua)

30 / 30 episodes aired · Completed
EP 1
31 Jul 2020
Aired
EP 2
31 Jul 2020
Aired
EP 3
07 Aug 2020
Aired
EP 4
14 Aug 2020
Aired
EP 5
21 Aug 2020
Aired
EP 6
28 Aug 2020
Aired
EP 7
04 Sep 2020
Aired
EP 8
11 Sep 2020
Aired
EP 9
18 Sep 2020
Aired
EP 10
25 Sep 2020
Aired
EP 11
02 Oct 2020
Aired
EP 12
09 Oct 2020
Aired
EP 13
16 Oct 2020
Aired
EP 14
23 Oct 2020
Aired
EP 15
30 Oct 2020
Aired
EP 16
06 Nov 2020
Aired
EP 17
13 Nov 2020
Aired
EP 18
20 Nov 2020
Aired
EP 19
27 Nov 2020
Aired
EP 20
04 Dec 2020
Aired
EP 21
11 Dec 2020
Aired
EP 22
18 Dec 2020
Aired
EP 23
25 Dec 2020
Aired
EP 24
01 Jan 2021
Aired
EP 25
08 Jan 2021
Aired
EP 26
15 Jan 2021
Aired
EP 27
22 Jan 2021
Aired
EP 28
29 Jan 2021
Aired
EP 29
05 Feb 2021
Aired
EP 30
12 Feb 2021
Aired

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Is this spin-off part of the main story?

No. It is a set of gag shorts that take the cast of the main series, redraw them in chibi proportions and replay familiar moments as comedy. It does not continue the plot and assumes the viewer already knows it.

How long is each episode and how many are there?

Thirty episodes of about three minutes each, released weekly on Fridays on Tencent Video from 31 July 2020 to 12 February 2021. Only the opening date carries two episodes; every other gap is a clean seven days.

Do the jokes work without the main series?

Not really. They turn on moments from the main donghua and from The Untamed, so the shorts play as a companion piece in a lighter register rather than as a standalone comedy someone could start from.

Who made the spin-off, and who voices it?

B.C May Pictures, one of the two studios behind the main donghua, produced it. Zhang Jie voices Wei Wuxian and Bian Jiang voices Lan Wangji, the same performers as in the main series.

What age rating do the shorts carry?

PG. The comedy format and the school-set material keep it below the 15+ of the main donghua.

Written and verified by Renkaze · Last updated 3 October 2026

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