Arata Kangatari (Arata: The Legend)

As a young boy from a noble family in Amawakuni, Arata has always expected to make life his own—until word of the princess growing weak reaches his city. Unbeknown to him, his grandmother had claimed him to be female at birth, and now, with no other girls to succeed the princess from the matriarchal Hime clan, he is next in line for the throne! Disguised as a woman awaiting a replacement to be found, Arata witnesses an assassination attempt on the princess by none other than her own guard, the 12 Shinsho. The crime is pinned on his head, forcing Arata to escape to the Kando forest, where it is said that no one comes out the same.

Meanwhile, in modern-day Japan, Arata Hinohara longs for escape from the cruelty of his classmates. Hearing his name called from an alley, he wanders from his path and unwittingly switches universes with Arata from Amawakuni. With his own power as a newly awakened "Sho"—a warrior able to wield Hayagami, weapons with the power of the gods—and the help of his companions he meets along his journey, Hinohara sets out to restore order to this new world.

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Ishida, Akira
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"GENESIS ARIA" by Sphere

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	1: "The Misfit Go" by OLDCODEX (eps 1-8)
	2: "Utsukushii Sebone (美しい背骨)" by OLDCODEX (eps 9-12)

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May 22, 2020

SarutoKen

Recommended

I haven’t read the original material, so I cannot say anything about how well/bad adapted it is, but I have a few things to say about this anime.

You have probably already read the summary; this anime is supposed to be a symmetrical Isekaï with two characters from different worlds switching places. One world is modern Japan, the other one is common magic-based fantasy universe.

Let’s say most of this anime revolves around the concept of TRUST, FRIENDSHIP and BETRAYAL. How can you trust someone? What does it mean? After being betrayed again and again by the ones you trusted most, would you be able to have ...

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Jul 29, 2013

colonelpanic

Recommended

This is an enjoyable watch. The fantasy elements don't feel completely contrived, and the characters are above average on the believability scale. The main character is never the whiny little baby that some people will portray him as (though he does have some issues), and he does grow and change as a person throughout the show.

To those who found Kadowaki's hatred unbearable, I can only say this: I found it very true to life. Hatred seldom follows a logic others would understand (a concept that Jigoku Shoujo explores both thoroughly and believably). Someone may hate you for the ...

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Jul 7, 2014

DarkDendra

Mixed Feelings

Arat Kangatari, a anime about a young boy in high school who gets bullied a lot by an old ex friend and people who he thought are his friends get bullied as well into not being friends with him. Basically making the main character's life pretty miserable and to the point where he wants to disappear. Which in a sense . . he does, just he gets transported to another world or dimension, whichever you prefer to call it.
Arata our main character gets transported into another world and replaces another guy named Arata. Yet they see him as the Arata from their world, they don't ... see him as a high school boy who isn't tan and has black hair. Which he keeps it a secret from Kotoha since she was fascinated with Arata and has no idea he's someone else. Which soon later they start developing a little traveling group which consists of : our main character, a young girl who can heal, a bandit kid, and a cast out of the 12 cool group of warriors.
To give my opinion quite bluntly and honestly: this anime was a disappointment in my eyes. Take note I haven't read the manga yet, so I am uncertain if they even go into more details about anything. Though when I say this anime is a ' disappointment ' I am merely just disappointed at the potential that it held yet it felt like it was wasted entirely. You have a sword that is supposed to be the ' greatest ' and our main character holds that sword, but all it does is produce a simple barrier and not do really . . anything. That was a big disappointment, until the end of the anime where it actually does something different, yet it still didn't really improve much in the end except do some pretty looking rainbow moves.
All swords though that have special abilities were really unique in their own ways, which I really liked and enjoyed. Seeing how it'd be total bore if they were basically all the same and looked the same etc etc. Yet, they didn't really explain all too much about anything for the swords, if they even have a purpose, they didn't even give much information about the princess and what her purpose was. Or why they even did what they did to her in the beginning as well. It just made you sit there and think all the time ' And the purpose of this was . . ? '.
The story though was still good and pretty decent. It just seemed like a couple of times there was a couple of parts that were pretty unnecessary to have in there. Other than that, the story was completely fine. All stories have faults so there's nothing much you can do about that. The characters have some pretty good character development going on for them all as well especially our main character of course. His enemy though, well there's just not much going on for him. His enemy is just his old friend who hates his guts just because of a silly reason. To the point where he's fully willing to kill him, which brings another question, why is this guy so crazy about this and to the point where he wants to take up a sword and kill him ? The enemy's drive to fight Arata just seemed . . . like a completely weak reason to have any sort of hate toward him, bully him, or want to kill him. There wasn't really any drive at all it just seemed completely empty. It seemed like they were completely wasting the potential of a good enemy character, where they just give him a silly completely wasteful reason to come after him.
All in all, the story was good, it was perfect, but it was still good. The characters were also very good and I enjoyed each and one of them. All the enemies had a different outlook to them and it was very enjoyable. Enjoyment ? There wasn't really much enjoyment for myself as it seemed like most of the time it took all of my effort just to get through one episode. Things didn't really get interesting or good until the end which also just . . kind of ended in disappointment with what happened. I can only pray the manga goes deeper into the things that feel like it's missing and need to be explained. So overall I gave this anime a 6, it was a pretty good fair decent anime.
Would I recommend it ? Maybe. It would just depend if this anime is the sort of thing you're looking for and you wouldn't mind the issues that it had. I wouldn't say don't watch it though, as it does have some pretty good points to it such as the characters and development that it held. So if you're up to it, go ahead and watch the anime. Will you end up disappointed or not though would be up to you completely.

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