[mdo7]

I know it's been 2 years since I written my last post. But it looks like I'm not the only one that have asked the question if wuxia should be considered being put in the tokusatsu category. That category has been revisited again (along with some fantasy K-drama and C-drama), and now with some obscure shows from Taiwan, Hong Kong being uploaded, this would make people debate if wuxia should be classify under tokusatsu category, take the 1991's Zu Mountain Saga, a series from Hong Kong:

Yeah, this show has a lot of toku-like special effect. Even the show's storyline may remind you of Super Sentai, even has "Sentai" like element like good vs evil. the good guys in the show are a team like a sentai squad despite they have no henshin morph. They all had special weapons. Even the villains look like something out of sentai/power rangers, as a matter of fact, you might think you're watching a Super Sentai show from Hong Kong yet it's different and unique from Sentai. Zu Mountain Saga doesn't have a monster of the week, the story is more complex, and episodes are connected and has a arc, no stand-alone episodes like Sentai or any Japanese toku.

See this is where the question is raised when you watch the first episode, should a wuxia show like Zu Mountain Saga be given a tokusatsu classification because of the Super Sentai element and toku style special effect found in the show? If this was given was a toku classification, what about other fantasy wuxia like Ice Fantasy? Is Ice Fantasy now a tokusatsu?