Ling Cage

In the near future, human inhabitants would have been crowded and congested. It was an urgency to stride out to the universe and find a new home. When everything was under progress in an orderly way, dramatic geological transformations erupted over the courses of decades. Humanity was demolished by this disaster and hardly left anything. Until the nature gradually restored calm, people struggled to their feet from ruins and abysses, stepping again onto this familiar but strange earth. But for us people, dominating everything has been rooted into our blood. Are we still masters of this new world?

Ling Cage (2019-2025) is a Chinese animated post-apocalyptic science fiction series produced by YHKT Entertainment and Bilibili, presented as a donghua in the tradition of Chinese animated fantasy. Set in a near future after overpopulation and violent geological upheaval have nearly erased humanity, the story follows survivors who climb out of ruins and abysses to step again onto an unfamiliar earth. Principal voice cast includes Li Yuantao as Marc, Tao Dian as Ran Bing, and Gu Jiangshan as Mo Cheng, with Huang Ying voicing Jing Nan and 4277. The engine of the series is the tension between the survivors' inherited drive to dominate and the hostile, transformed landscape they now inhabit, with each episode weaving together enclave politics, genetic mysteries, cult pressure, and military conflict. Across two seasons of twelve episodes each, the series builds a continuing mythology rather than standalone cases. Its tone is sombre and tense, with moments of awe at the scale of a lost civilization and flashes of brutality. Its season ratings climbed from strong to stronger, and the series rewards attentive viewing. Fans of Attack on Titan and Code Geass will find resonance in its blend of mythic world-building, moral unease, and survival under an uncertain order.

Audiences rate the series as acclaimed, praising its imaginative post-apocalyptic world and its layered take on humanity's relationship with technology and power.

• Attack on Titanshared post-apocalyptic survival in a rebuilt world, animated sci-fi with mythic scope
• Code Geassshared post-catastrophe human survival and questions of who controls the new world
• Arcaneshared lost-civilization mystery and collapsed-future world-building in animated form

Release Date

2019-07-13

Episode runtime

37 min

Rating

8.3 / 10 (115)

What is Ling Cage about?

Survivors of a collapsed world struggle to reclaim a changed earth in this Chinese animated sci-fi epic.

What is Ling Cage like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Ling Cage as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.

Is Ling Cage violent?

Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Ling Cage as moderate.

What did critics think of Ling Cage?

Audiences rate the series as acclaimed, praising its imaginative post-apocalyptic world and its layered take on humanity's relationship with technology and power.

Which shows are like Ling Cage?

Shows with a similar feel include Attack on Titan, Code Geass, and Arcane.

How long is Ling Cage?

Ling Cage: 2 seasons, 24 episodes.

Is Ling Cage still running?

No, Ling Cage has ended.