Shingetsutan Tsukihime (Lunar Legend Tsukihime)

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Synonyms: Tsukihime - Lunar Legend, Lunar Legend Moon Princess, Moon Princess, True Lunar Chronicle Tsukihime, Lunar Legends

Japanese: 真月譚月姫

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 10, 2003 to Dec 26, 2003

Premiered: Fall 2003

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: TBS, Rondo Robe, Movic

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks, Geneon Entertainment USA

Studios: J.C.Staff

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural

Themes: Super Power, Vampire

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.81¹ (scored by 71,676 users)

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Ranked: #5235²

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Popularity: #1388

Members: 169,375

Favorites: 686

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Shiki Toono wakes up in a hospital ward with the ability to see invisible lines. These thin threads, which make up all matter in Shingetsutan, instantly destroy an object when severed. Shiki discovers that if he traces the lines of something, its destruction soon follows. While keeping his supernatural vision a secret, Shiki proceeds to live his sophomore life in peace. However, this peace is short-lived when Shiki encounters a mysterious woman with bright red eyes on his way back from school. Following a sudden psychotic lapse, he appears to kill the woman, and passes out shortly after. As if things couldn't get any worse, Shiki is assailed by a pair of demonic hounds the next day—facing certain death, Shiki is saved by the timely arrival of the same woman from yesterday. She introduces herself as Arcueid Brunestud, a vampire princess. Deciding to team up, Shiki and Arcueid embark on a journey to uncover the truth behind their lineage and the recent string of murders around town.

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Matsukura, Yuuji

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Opening Theme

"The Sacred Moon" by Toshiyuki Oomori

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Ending Theme

"Rinne No Hate Ni..." by Fumiko Orikasa

Reviews

Dec 17, 2023

MizuhoKamui

Recommended

The story is undeniably captivating, and those who have watched Kara no Kyoukai are likely to be well-acquainted with the concept of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. For the uninitiated, it is the ability to see the lines and points of death on both animate and inanimate objects. When cut or pierced, a part of the object or person's existence dies or is extinguished entirely. The protagonist Shiki's ability to destroy everything around him in a blinding moment is terrifying to witness, given his mild and docile demeanor. We are left bewildered when he comes to his senses after dismembering Arcueid into seventeen pieces, ...

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Dec 16, 2023

_Aeterno

Mixed Feelings

It's been a year or so since I tried watching it the first time (can't remember exactly). I forgot where I stopped the last time, so I rewatched it from the start and finishing it whole thing in one sitting. My impression of this adaptation didn't change that much, so everything I may have said somewhere else still stands. This is still not the worst Type-Moon anime that there is, as expected.

Having this anime be one of the 2 only Type-Moon shows I haven't fully seen until this far had my head full with many parallels to compare it to other Type-Moon adaptations. I have ... finished the first half of Tsukihime Remake in 2021 and been stalling on finishing this anime until now. I have read the Tsukihime manga not too long after finishing the OG Tsukihime timeline before going into the Remake timeline, and this anime is my 4th time experiencing the story of Tsukihime.

This show had me conflicted. It had me going from 5-6/10 territory to 6-7/10, and then back to 5-6. The end result is as you can see. Route-mixing was pretty horrible, I admit, but it wasn't nearly as bad as in Deen Stay Night. Some of the changes highlighted how different the route-mixing was here compared to the Tsukihime manga, and this anime doesn't compare to it at all. Some original scenes were reminding me of Case Files or UBW from ufotable for its seeming necessity in speeding up some story beats. On the other hand, it also reminded me of UBW movie from Deen that was basically a highlight reel version of that route. You can go on and on about how everything was made worse, but I don't feel like going over all of it here. The crux of the issue here is this anime is 12 episodes long. A lot of stuff would've been better if it had twice the runtime, which made me compare it more to Deen Stay Night.
Despite the surreal insanity (which I still cannot believe happened) near the end of Deen anime being much worse than anything in here, Deen Stay Night was still more whole compared to this due to it having 24 episodes to follow its original route more properly than this anime. If this Tsukihime adaptation had just as many episodes, it could've been paced better, and it could follow the original story without having to cut as much stuff as it did. More of its soundtrack could be utilized, too.

People already said pretty much what I've been feeling to go in-depth about it.
Yes, this anime makes sense only if you're read the source material. You cannot see each anime addition in larger context through this show alone. Yes, turning down Nasuverse lore stuff might have served to improve some stuff, but it also failed to present everything in a coherent way and ultimately failed the story. You don't feel like that this is a world that would live on without you looking at it, the pacing of the story often was too forced for it to feel this way on top of that. You feel like what was left of the lore was so underdeveloped, that the whole idea of turning down the lore on some level doomed to fail the story from the start.

Let me say that I really liked the vibe of this after coming back and getting through the slow beginning again. I felt like the soul of Tsukihime was preserved in this anime, despite it being overtuned, but the content couldn't utilize it fully due to short runtime.. Me coming here after the original, and then the remake series with its sparkly style and somewhat different-feeling Arcueid, I was so happy to see more mature-feeling deceptive onee-san design with its original narrative philosophy hidden within it, that I was kinda starting channeling those people who say the remake Arc is worse than Tsukihime anime Arc. I missed her original style so much and it made me once again realize that we will never have a good Tsukihime anime with original Arcueid.

I like Tsuki:Re voice acting a lot more than in here. Even when comparing this anime to original Melty Blood series or Carnival Phantasm, they will still have better performance than in this anime. Some reviewer said that voice acting here was Ghost Stories dub level of quality, but I couldn't feel that at all. Some outright hilarious moments are there, for sure, but not as many as you'd think after listening to those people. I thought the voice actors were pretty good to alright, except some weird scenes here and there. I was kinda disappointed they didn't do more things with Ciel. Her lines could've had more life in them, but I suppose this isn't Ciel route for her to shine a bit more (this could be said for every main character, I suppose). When I first listened to Ciel here (whenever it was that I decided to watch the show the first time), I didn't overfixate on her or anything. But after finishing Higurashi VNs earlier this year, Ciel's anime VA burned into my brain ever since, so I couldn't help but pay extra attention to her this time. Arihiko was pretty good for its time here and the contrast to his remake VA was interesting, and so was in this Yumizuka's case (who is here as "Yumitsuka" for some reason). Some of the more shaky stuff was to me, to start with, Shiki himself, I guess? He was 50/50 for me. And then not having Jouji Nakata as Nero Chaos was simply not doing it for me. Chaos overall had been done pretty dirty in this show, which is just sad. Aoko having completely different overly mature vibe to how she would be in her every other iteration was surreal. I get that it was somewhat deceptive in the original VN and you needed to get through Melty Blood and subsequently Mahoyo to realize Aoko's true character, but here it felt a bit too deceptive. Although it was fascinating seeing how the oldschool anime style of Aoko differed. Made me think about what "could've been" Mahoyo anime in that style, at least.

What they did with Yumizuka was a bit unexpected (although it wasn't much), it made me come up with new theories about how her new long-awaited route in the remake might go when it releases. Just wanted to say that somewhere before I conclude.

My disappointment after this anime was more melancholic than anything. It didn't bore me to death, making me stare at the screen in silence instead of watching it, like some of the Case Files' episodes did. It didn't frustrate me as much about having the anime being insultingly unnecessary to the original source, like CANAAN anime was. First half of Camelot also made me more disappointed at the lost opportunity of having a proper adaptation. And I probably hated watching Strange Fake special more than any of the aforementioned Type-Moon anime yet, with how physically sick it made me (the whiplash of light novel experience vs anime was way too great for me). Tsukihime anime's reputation made the experience way more bearable than any of those for me. Once again, I do not think this was the worst Type-Moon anime that there is. I'd wager that after Kara no Kyoukai, even some of the normie anime-only Nasuverse fans who don't have a stick up their asses about watching old anime could enjoy it to some degree (people who were able to do that without any source material are still the weirdest to me, though). What is left for me now is to watch Prillya anime fully someday. I was and still am firmly certain that you should leave that beast until you really are finished everything else on the Type-Moon timeline. I'd probably need to catch up to every single FGO manga adaptation out there before I start feeling so down in the dumps as to start watch goddamn Prillya anime (Maybe by the time I get to Prillya anime in full, the fucking manga finally ends. We barely see a few chapters per year now, and I can't tell if the story fell off or not reading the new chapters with this slow as hell release schedule. Hiroshi probably works on the anime production more than the manga at this point idk, or they stalling so the timing for both mediums' releases matches up or something). Whether that be the worst Type-Moon anime for me or not remains to be seen, but it's not Tsukihime for me. CANAAN is probably still rocking that number 1 worst spot. Maybe if I wasn't avoiding this anime like a plague, and have tried watching this right after finishing the manga or even (god forbid) the original VN, I would've been way more angry at it like some people in here. But thankfully, I had more foresight than that. If I were to go into something as seemingly bad and hated as Tsukihime anime, I need all the context in the world to judge it from every angle I possibly could (I like to try tearing apart hated things objectively, even as I try to enjoy myself, and still always being open to the majority's opinion being potentially wrong yet again). Every parallel I could see by experiencing more of Tsukihime outside of this anime, or Type-Moon in general, I need to be able to draw (all except Prillya anime lol). But more importantly, Type-Moon has so much more worthwhile stuff to catch up on than this anime, that being one of those people is just ridiculous to me, and it should be to you as well. Keep this anime on the backburner even as the biggest Nasu fan ever, is my advise to you. Even when red garden routes of the remake series come out, don't rush into this anime even after finishing them all. I'm confident that even if Tsukihime 2 comes out someday or maybe the Remake anime becomes real, and you're going through Type-Moon timeline somewhere in the future in preparation, you should ignore this anime until who-knows-when. Despite how annoying that stale as hell "Tsukihime anime doesn't exist" meme might get sometimes, you definitely should pretend this anime doesn't exist until the right time comes. That's my take on it, at least.

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Sep 19, 2022

DrSEUS_x_Machina

Not Recommended

Before we begin, I want to say I came in with high hopes for this anime, but I also had high hopes for Promised Neverland season 2.

1/10 Plot: Anime adaptation is a**. It ruins just about every good aspect of the story, including the ending. The traits of each character are far too overexaggerated and over the top to the point of being comical (keep in mind this anime still tries to take itself seriously). Watching this felt like watching Ghost Stories in SUB. As for plot, the anime roughly follows the plot of the "main" VN route, but most of the twists and turns ...

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