The Silver Guardian (2017): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2017, The Silver Guardian is an action & adventure, animation, sci-fi & fantasy and drama series.

What it’s about. Lu Shuiyin (Riku Suigin in Japanese) is a master of gaming, a skill only known to his classmate Lu Lian (Riku Lin in Japanese). One day, Shuiyin receives a device from Lu Lian for a tomb raiding online game. While Shuiyin is excited to receive the device, Lian is suddenly kidnapped. Shuiyin touches the device that was left behind, pulling him inside the game and trapping him there. What is the imaginary world inside the device? What will Shuiyin find there? It is a world where two groups of people fight over the power of the gods, which originates from the tomb the mother goddess Pangu (Bango in Japanese). The two groups are the tomb raiders and the tomb protectors. The device Shuiyin received from Lian is called the Monolith, and it allows a normal gamer to go near the tomb. The tomb raiding group plans its attack by recruiting common people in the name of gaming. Shuiyin, as the final tomb protector, must fight against the raiders in order to save Lian.

Who’s in it. The Silver Guardian stars Su Shangqing as Lu Shuiyin (voice), Yang Ning as Lu Lian (voice), Tang Xiaoxi as Shuangzixing (voice) and Qiao Shiyu as Hua Ling (voice), among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.2/10, The Silver Guardian has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel and rent or buy it from Apple TV Store. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch The Silver Guardian page.

If you liked it. Fans of The Silver Guardian tend to enjoy Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.