Hakyuu Houshin Engi (Hakyu Hoshin Engi)

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English: Hakyu Hoshin Engi

Synonyms: Soul Hunter, Senkai-den Houshin Engi

Japanese: 覇穹封神演義

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Type: TV

Episodes: 23

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 12, 2018 to Jun 29, 2018

Premiered: Winter 2018

Broadcast: Fridays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, i0+

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: C-Station

Source: Manga

Genres: Adventure, Demons, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.71¹ (scored by 1,980 users)

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Ranked: #8327²

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Popularity: #3349

Members: 14,300

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When his clan is wiped out by a beautiful demon, young Taikobo finds himself in charge of the mysterious Houshin Project. Its mission: find all immortals living in the human world and seal them away forever. But who do you trust—and whose side are you really on—when you've been trained to hunt demons by a demon?

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Adaptation:	Houshin Engi
Alternative version:	Senkaiden Houshin Engi
Summary:	Hakyuu Houshin Engi Recap

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Taikoubou

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Ono, Kensho
Japanese

Li, Nataku

Supporting

Furukawa, Makoto
Japanese

So, Dakki

Supporting

Hikasa, Yoko
Japanese

Shinkohyou

Supporting

Toriumi, Kousuke
Japanese

Bunchuu

Supporting

Maeno, Tomoaki
Japanese

Youzen

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Nakamura, Yuuichi
Japanese

Sibuxiang

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Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Kou, Tenka

Supporting

KENN
Japanese

Ou Tenkun

Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Japanese

Fukki

Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko
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Aizawa, Masahiro

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Ikeda, Rintarou

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Ookusa, Yoshiki

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Yanagi, Nagi

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#1: "Keep the Heat and Fire Yourself Up" by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas
#2: "Treasure in Your Hands" by Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas

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#1: "Madoi Mirai (間遠い未来)" by Nagi Yanagi
#2: "Mukei no Outline (無形のアウトライン)" by Nagi Yanagi

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Jun 29, 2018

23 of 23 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Yasaal (All reviews)

20 people found this review helpful

Over the course of my anime watching pastime, I was fortunate enough to have been acquainted with anime that were high in both rating and quality and this never experienced a time when I watched an “underrated” anime, one which was a great anime but it's rating didn't justify it at all, or an anime that was not popular and deserved more attention, life isn't always fair, and as such, Hakyuu Houshin Engi was sadly caught under the web of both these unfortunate situations mainly because of the manga elitists (or sourcefags as the casual internet term coined it).

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Jun 29, 2018

23 of 23 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

Karhu (All reviews)

14 people found this review helpful

Hakyu Houshin Engi is every generic fighting tournament shonen anime in a nutshell. It hasn't even masked itself to look like something else. It simply does not care, and frankly neither do I.

Most viewers will not like this anime for two simple reasons: It's not very good and most of all, not very enjoyable either. It walks the path of mediocrity without even trying to be anything. The outcome is very bland and a total lackluster.

This adaptation did surprisingly many questionable choices. First and foremost is the lack of introduction. Viewers are quite directly thrown into a random world around random characters. Nothing is explained, things just somewhat are there and stuff happens because it does. One could say that this is the right approach considering how direct and linear the story and narrative ends up being. Still, the lack of build up, world building and events that in generally offer reasons to care about any characters - make the series not really worth of caring about and most of all not very memorable. On top of that, nothing really happens during the whole run. Episode after episode, I was waiting for the series to go somewhere, but all it did was end without accomplishing much.

The characters are hardly worth of talking about. It seems like the author was afraid he would create shonen stereotypes and copy-pasted character macros from other shonen series, so instead he tried to abandon all these things. The outcome is not very pretty. Practically all characters are so empty that they aren't even worth of being disliked.

The animation is a lackluster as well. Most living things look lifeless and sturdy objects. In most lazily animated series, the illusion of animation is done with camera work. Rollovers, zoom outs and that kind of small tricks typically focusing on backdrops. In this series, the character movement is often executed in similar fashion. Instead of the camera moving from place a to place b on solid speed, it's the still character macro drawn on a piece of paper that is moved from place a to place b. It looks cheap and weird. In all honesty, the animation got miles better during the run, but the sad part is that the hideously executed movements from the first half of the series are among the most memorable things from this series for the reason that nothing else really stands out.

The music in this series makes the series seem better than it is. I am not sure how they managed to get Fear, and Loathing in Lass Vegas take part in this project, but they did. Most of the BGM is pretty chill and catchy. The voice acting is bland and makes the characters seem even more empty shells than they otherwise are.

Overall this series is lacking in most of everything. It's hard to find any of it very interesting. Most of the things in it are so boring that even the most annoying things don't seem all that annoying because you simply won't care about them either. The series is so spectacularly unnoteworthy in both good and bad that I can't really call it anything other than the pinnacle of average.

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Mar 2, 2018

6 of 23 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

Sandshrew2 (All reviews)

31 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

I love the Houshin Engi manga, so when I saw it was going to receive another anime, I was hopeful this one would cover the whole story and do a decent job on its adaptation. Sadly, I was wrong. The first episode already shows, for the worse, big differences between the two. The story is badly told, you can't understand much if you don't know it already. It also doesn't cover all the facts you should know and rushes in a way you feel dizzy from watching.
I still recommend the manga, but this anime shouldn't exist.
Ah, the opening song is good, at least.

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Feb 21, 2018

6 of 23 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

cesark1234 (All reviews)

14 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

Well hakyuu houshin engi what a clusterf*ck of emotions this is.I still wonder why im watching it.

the story:
Coeherent storytelling? pfft who needs that, all you need is a bunch of cool looking locales and scenery to tell a story.Seriously the passing of this anime is horrendous, if you advert your eyes for mere seconds you lose any track of where you were since this anime just likes to skip around in places to deviate your attention from the unholy characters this show pretains, introducing new characters basically every episode only to be done with them by the end of such, voiding them of any further read more

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