Angolmois: Genkou Kassenki

The Chronicles of the Struggle with the Mongols attracted me a long time ago, but only after 7 years I was able to watch this series. And the emotions after watching it were mixed.

On the one hand, a good plot with original Mongols whom we have not seen in the anime format, but I didn’t really like the presentation. They are some kind of extras here, they are chopped down in packs, and they still push on, that’s okay, but there is no more detailed detailing of their side, only a couple of times we were shown their top and that’s it. I laugh, but ... if it weren’t for their hats on their heads, I would not have realized that they were Mongols. Although the amendment there were also Chinese and Koreans, in general, they gathered everything together.

I can’t say that everything is bad, however, it is not clear and many events happen quickly, rapidly, to the detriment of the plot, I think the pace could have been slowed down and not fit such a story into 12 episodes that in 25+ it would have been possible to reveal in more detail.

The fight with the big guy and the Mongol was not shown to us at all. I liked that there was no censorship in the anime and the fights, although there was blood etc., were not distinguished by their inventiveness, just bloody slaughter left and right.

Another plus is the dark tone of the picture as if it was filmed through a bag, I think this successfully emphasizes the historicity and confusion of what is happening, but at first it looks unusual, because I am seeing this for the first time.

The heroes are decent here and they are not bad, but again we know almost nothing about anyone, they quickly ran through and that's it. The OSTs were good, restrained and without pathos. The drawing is done to glory and successfully showed historical battles and other attributes, a delight for the eyes.

Overall, it is not bad for familiarization and interest, but it could have been better, alas, I expected a little more. What happened, that is already. In principle, you can watch it, it turned out to be a normal serialization of the knowledge of a lost battle, against the most powerful empire in the world!

I love historical anime!

Angolmois is a pretty typical historical action series, and while it does some things well, it really struggles to stand out from the crowd. Beginning with the story, it is this show's strongest aspect, though that's not necessarily high praise. The viewer is presented with a fictionalized account of the Mongol invasion of Japan in 1271, focusing specifically on the isle of Tsushima, and the struggle that a group of former prisoners go through in order to resist them and grow not only as warriors, but people. Beginning with the good, the battle strategy is interesting, the setting is cool, ... the dialogue is fairly well-written, and the foundational event is an example of humanity at both its best and worst, with an underlying message that is inspiring and life-affirming. However, the pacing is rushed, it gets carried away with fictional elements while attempting to cling to a veneer of historicity to the point of inventing a whole class of secret mountain warriors called the Toi Barai, and it uses cheap shock value as a crutch for mediocre storytelling, especially towards the second half of the show. In light of these factors, the story amounts to nothing special, only just managing to provide enough material off of which the rest of the show can subsist. Having said all that about the story, I do want to reiterate that it isn't strictly bad, it's just not anything special. In fact, for most of the show it remains somewhat entertaining, weighed down as a whole by some worse episodes later on.

The art is fair, meeting most basic standards of quality, with exciting and well-choreographed fight scenes that grab the viewer's attention. However, it occasionally suffers from the 'dreaded mask', a phenomenon in anime where facial animation is seriously lacking. Though, its worst artistic sin is the static overlay of crumpled paper throughout, intended to provide an air of antiquity to the work and improve its aesthetic character. Here, all it manages to do is diminish the visual impact and overall clarity of most scenes. Indeed, it's sometimes even distracting, especially when the eyes latch on to one feature of the paper overlay in one way or another and fixate on it, as though your screen is dirty or has a dead pixel.

The sound, like everything else, meets all the basic standards of quality, with good music and sounds of life, which excel in battle scenes to accentuate the clanging of metal and the cracking of bone.

The characters are broadly okay, if a little one-dimensional, and I don't really have any complaints. Among them, the best characters are Kuchii and Amushi. Kuchii, as the main character, is the major driving force of this show, fulfilling his predictable yet regardless entertaining role as the resident snarky badass with a tragic past. Amushi, however, is a supporting character that doesn't get a lot of development until the middle of the show. While he is significant through his duties as a scout, he is compelling for his motivations and personality, which are more interesting and realistic than most other characters in the anime. Overall, Angolmois is just okay, with good and bad throughout. If you take anything away from this review, remember that this anime is not bad, it's just not anything more than what it is- unremarkable.

When there is something that has historical, one can be sure that it ain't that accurate if we're talking about being in an anime or manga, cu'z the historical accuracy doesn't make it at all, it has to have something that can be entertaining and as usual plot has to have a character that is seemingly terrifying that by just a glaze the whole army would froze. Also we talk about something that has a historical genre meant that it isn't the whole story though such thing did happen in October 5 1275, where it was set in some island of Tsushima where it ... was rule by a lord named Sou Sukekuni and his clan and somewhere along the way some unexpected visitors came by via prison ship where it was transporting a group of prisoners that includes a disgrace shogun name Kuchii, Jinzaburou who would lead a last ditch effort to defend the island from invading Mongols, which by the way won in the end, but in a small island where they used it in a practice run before going to the mainland of Japan...Being an anime this was just some fictional part of what really happened when Japan was invaded by them Mongols that only lasted a day where the villages hardly put up a fight and yes them Mongols did pillage and raped women so how do I rate this anime????Here's how:

Story-Good 7: It did have some historical facts in it but the accuracy isn't that whole thing since the invasion only lasted a day in reality at the island of Tsushima Island.

Art-Decent 4: Since this is an anime whose setting was in the middle ages in Japan don't be expecting a lotta fanservices around , though a certain character Kano spots the quintessential Zettai Ryoki as Teruhi-hime Bodyguard / Shinobi, dang I would have wanted to see her uncensored rape scene.

Sound- Very Good 8: since the VA don;t have to mask their voices as being teenboppers, they can speak an act according to their mature voices.

Character-Very Good 8: Cu'z the Mongols won in reality where the battle only lasted a day, and quite frankly I just have lots of love for them being the bad guys. Thought I wish them Mongols should have finished off Kuchii, Jinzaburou.

Enjoyment - Good 7: It may be a good Historical anime, but I kinda hate the fact that they have to do some exaggeration of the real battle of Tsushima, and I kinda hate that Jonzaburou is alive after being near the explosion where the shock waves could really kill and the presence of JAWS who wa supposed to eat him turn out to be the one who save him, now that is shit cu'z he was SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!!!!!!!

Overall-Poor 3: Cu'z it was just too exaggerated as to how the battle of Tsushima did occurred, and this wasn't much about the battle rather it was about a man Kuchii Jinzaburou. So, basically this don't need to have a season 2.