Boukensha: The Man Was from Spain

I wasn't expecting much when I stumbled upon this anime, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable it is. I know the man himself is a controversial figure, and rightly so for starting the series of inquisitions of the natives on the western hemisphere, but while the humanization is a bit weird and propaganda-like, I think it successfully does its job at building character, at least while he's still young. It honestly gives me nostalgia for Liberty's Kids, and the at-times awkward dubbing makes the show pretty funny (I'd like to know who voiced young Columbus). The music is also really catchy, especially the theme ... song. Reminds me of old shows from the fifties and sixties. Honestly, if my history teachers found this growing up I would have watched a couple episodes of this alongside Liberty's Kids. I've also learned quite a bit about Columbus himself that I'd never learned from school, like how he grew up in a region of Italy called Genoa (I thought he grew up in Portugal), and that the cross that's now known as England's official flag was officially theirs (England stole it because of course they did).

Overall the anime itself is objectively fine, the main criticism I have is that it's 26 episodes, so eventually it's going to get pretty boring. I think the show should have been ten or twelve episodes instead. I also noticed that the title screens are a bit mixed up. There was one episode where the title was "Christopher meets Felipa" but he had already met Felipa and he was on a trip to Iceland. However, I would recommend this for the entertainment value it has, especially the first three episodes I've seen. Give it a watch, see if you like it :)

This is the story of Christopher Columbus whom we all know as the discoverer of Red-indians land. But unlike other historical anime, it failed greatly and disappointed me.

From the beginning of the story Christopher's character showed to be rebellious and ambitious. In particular stubborn. He showed to be obsessive to the fact that he forgot his first wife Philippa and son Deago for his passion. Even after knowing his wife's condition he leaves her to meet king for his permission and while he is there she dies. Within a year or so he loves another woman and says all the beautiful words which ... he never speaks with his first wife. He neglected his first son a lot. I think it is wrong with the script. Reality would be different. It takes 22 episodes to start his voyage to the west and that too not showed well. The story seemed to forcefully make viewers to think Christopheras a nobleman. But as per pure observations of the words spoken by him with the people he met from Bishops to the Queen were arrogant. So ascribe the fault to the script.

Art is good
Sound is good.

But poor story telling. Script is not good and misleading of original Christopher Columbus. By looking at this series i felt Columbus is not a good character to follow. SO DO NOT WATCH IT AS IT WILL SPOIL OPINION OF HISTORICAL FIGURE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS .