Killer Seven (2018) new Chinese animated series about an assassin

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Killer Seven, a Chinese animated series aimed at young adults, is produced by Aiken Zou Sasha's Aha Entertainment in Beijing.  It was screened at the 2018 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France in June 2018.  The series began on April 25 on online streaming platforms like Youku and Bilibili.  "In the comedy series, set in a fictional small city, a young man called Seven, who has lost his memory, is accidentally hired by a shadowy organization as an assassin.  He chooses a job as a barber in his cover and, although Seven keeps failing in his assignments, he gradually shakes off the image of a loser and finds his true identity."  Each episode is 15-minutes long.  "He Weifeng, director of Killer Seven... grew up watching comedies starring Hong Kong actor, Stephen Chow [and] confesses that Killer Seven bears some resemblance to Chow's iconic films of the 1990s, which were extremely popular in China... The biggest selling point of the series is probably the creative action scenes, the show's fast pace and the characters' amusing accents, mixing Mandarin and Cantonese... The director was also surprised that Killer Seven, which started with a 'zero fan base,' is now being lavished with praise."  Story from  https://variety.com/2018/film/news/china-presence-felt-at-annecy-1202840764/  and http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201806/07/WS5b187286a31001b82571e8ea_3.html