The Demon Hunter 3

April flipped the Chinese animation world on its head. For half a year, Renegade Immortal ruled every chart. Fans thought it would never fall. Then the latest weekly streaming data arrived—and the king was dethroned. Not by a big-budget sequel or a long-awaited return, but by a show many didn't see coming. Even Sword of Coming, with its near-perfect 9.8 Douban (豆瓣) score, couldn't crack the top three. And get this: a series that stopped airing new episodes six months ago still pulls in over thirty million weekly views. This is April's Guoman (国漫) ranking—raw numbers, no fluff. Let's meet the winners. The Demon Hunter Season 3 (沧元图3) The Demon Hunter Season 3 didn't just win—it dominated. Weekly views: 37.71 million. Reservations before release: a record-breaking 9.374 million. Douban score: 8.6. The show airs exclusively on Youku, and it has redefined what Chinese fantasy animation can look like. Adapted from I Eat Tomatoes' novel, it blends Peking opera mask motifs with ink-wash backgrounds. The result is a visual style the studio calls New Guofeng (新国风). But looks alone don't explain its run to the top. The action sequences run at a buttery 60 frames per second. The soundtrack mixes Suona (唢呐)…