Set 3,000 years after the original events of the Investiture of the Gods :
Unlike the 2019 Ne Zha (which stayed closer to ancient Chinese settings), New Gods unapologetically embraces Western genre tropes—film noir, dieselpunk machinery, and anti-hero arcs—and fuses them with Taoist cosmology.
: The film explores themes of social inequality, duty versus choice, and the cycle of fate. New Gods: Nezha Reborn (2021) - Plot - IMDb