Zetsuen no Tempest

Yoshino Takigawa, an ordinary teenager, is secretly dating his best friend Mahiro Fuwa's younger sister, Aika. But when Aika mysteriously dies, Mahiro disappears, vowing to find the one responsible and make them pay for murdering his beloved sister. Yoshino continues his life as usual and has not heard from Mahiro in a month—until he is confronted by a strange girl who holds him at gunpoint, and his best friend arrives in the nick of time to save him.

Yoshino learns that Mahiro has enlisted the help of a witch named Hakaze Kusaribe to find Aika's killer. However, the witch has been banished to a deserted island due to infighting within her clan. Hakaze's brother, Samon, selfishly desires to make use of the Tree of Exodus' power, in spite of both his sister's opposition and the impending peril to the world. With Hakaze out of the picture, it is now up to Yoshino and Mahiro to help her save the world, all while inching ever closer to the truth behind Aika's death.

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Fuwa, Aika Main

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Takigawa, Yoshino Main

Uchiyama, Kouki Japanese

Kusaribe, Hakaze Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Fuwa, Mahiro Main

Toyonaga, Toshiyuki Japanese

Kusaribe, Samon Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Yamamoto, Evangeline Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Hoshimura, Junichirou Supporting

Nojima, Hirofumi Japanese

Kusaribe, Natsumura Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

Hanemura, Megumu Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Kusaribe, Tetsuma Supporting

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Saitou, Shunsuke Producer

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Furukawa, Shin Producer

Yonai, Noritomo Producer

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Feb 21, 2025

ChilidogEthel

Recommended

-"O Cursed Spite."
What a beautiful anime to have been born to witness. I've seen the whole show twice over and am engrossed in the film's creative genius. As far as anime go, this one has quite the most unique story I've seen in a very long time. The character relationships are geniune, they feel like real live characters, the voice acting is so special and powerful. When I think of brotherhood I will now think of the bond that Mahiro and Yoshino have.
For this anime it feels like its separated into two parts, the first being a on the road type of vibe, the ... characters are traveling and going around Japan. It's beautifully done how it builds the characters personalities as well as flashbacks to Aika's story. The first episode can be kind of confusing but it all makes sense in the end as well as building up. I think what makes this anime shine the most is exactly how much the pieces fit together. I think this anime is perfect in the delivery of a story that it was trying to tell. Does it have minute flaws, probably, but I'd say that a 10 out of 10 anime is a story which delivers with the perfect set of suspense, creativity, and wonder. I think that blast of tempest fits its own narrative by sticking to the Shakesperian aspects of the cast, it builds in and of itself telling a story within a story while also pulling you along its complex and intriguing plot. This is what an anime should be. It has the perfect amount of Character design, Plot twists, and dialogue. The story is not slow it is at a perfect pace, I have no arguments to be made against watching this anime it's goated frfr.
-" I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum."

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Aug 20, 2022

OneFaintingRobin

Mixed Feelings

This feels like a tricky one to talk about, because my feelings on it drastically change depending on which part of 'Blast of Tempest' we're talking about. In fact, the two halves of this show feel like the beginning and ending of two similar but ultimately different shows entirely.

The first half, in all honesty, is pretty fantastic. It's got an interesting tone, a little melodramatic, with solid worldbuilding, and a really solid premise. It's something of a road trip story, with three different but complimentary protagonists, a solid antagonist, and a great mood that lets itself have levity but is also pretty dark and interesting. ... It all leads up to a final confrontation, at the midpoint, that perhaps takes an episode longer than it needs to be (it takes up the best part of six episodes), but even then just about gets away with it with incredibly solid character writing, and a very fun battle of wit and logic, that has plenty of fun dipping into some more philosophical places, giving a satisfying conclusion to that part of the story. Honestly, if the story had ended there, with a couple of tweaks to iron out some final plot points, I'd have had basically no notes.

The second half, in comparison, is... mixed. Not bad, definitely not bad. There's a lot that I do like. I'm generally a fan of stories drastically shifting their premise after key events (I'm a RWBY fan for a reason), and I don't think it was a bad tactic here. Unfortunately, the issue (I'd assume largely stemming from the source material) seems to lose sight of what it was actually trying to be as it goes. The first four-and-a-half episodes of the second half feel incredibly light on a lot of meaningful events, and the story feels a little meandering for a lot of this second half. Things do happen, technically, but it feels like it's been stretched out over more episodes than it really had need for. Things to pick up a little going into the last couple of episodes, there are some decent revelations that managed to feel satisfying, if not entirely surprising. But then the last couple feel a little aimless again, or, at least, a little confused.

But it's the character side where it really starts to get trickier. One character, a very self-assured and interesting person in the first half, with a huge amount of personal character details that could have been mined for drama, slips into primarily being driven by romantic feelings, a somewhat disappointing move that removes some dimension from her character. And the two protagonists, while still being at the front-and-centre of the story, somehow also manage to seem superfluous to it. The framing is definitely that they're key parts of the conflict, and certainly they don't have NO impact on it, but as the show ended, I realised that they were almost entirely unimportant to the final conflict.

But, after the dust settles, there also is a pretty satisfying set of conclusions for the characters. I certainly didn't question where anyone ended up, those places felt generally character consistent, it was absolutely fine. Which leaves me feeling very mixed about this show (MAL's new review rating system coming in handy). At points, it's fantastic, but overstretched material leaves the plot feeling very thin in places, that ultimately made it very difficult to settle into the drastic shift in premise. And, at the end, it leaves a muted impact, a ending satisfying enough, certainly not frustrating, but without giving me anything to make me think I'm going to think about this show much in the future.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 16, 2023

MongoDB

Not Recommended

Really disappointing ending. Finishing this show will leave you with a feeling of 'That's it?'.

All this tension and build up over so many episodes just to be shrugged off and thrown in the trash in the last few episodes. A total shift in genre and story that feels so out of place and unwanted.

I leave a 6 for the interesting moments it had. But like many works of art, the ending falls flat and leaves a feeling of longing, an expectation for something much better, something to fill the missing gap that the show leaves.

A dozen of episodes of teasing for big things and ... when they are revealed, the 'twists' and climax end up leaving you speechless and shocked, not out of awe, but at how simple, nonsensical, and uninteresting they are.

Somewhere along the story the author clearly lost motivation to finish writing an enthralling story. And they just tossed in the most basic and meaningless conclusions and answers, completely disrespectful of the audience's intelligence.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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