Kochouki: Wakaki Nobunaga (Kochoki)

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English: Kochoki

Synonyms: Gorgeous Butterfly: Young Nobunaga

Japanese: 胡蝶綺～若き信長～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 8, 2019 to Sep 23, 2019

Premiered: Summer 2019

Broadcast: Mondays at 21:30 (JST)

Producers: WOWOW, Genco, MediaNet, AT-X, Tokuma Shoten, flying DOG, BS Fuji, 81 Produce, Tokyo MX, Docomo Anime Store, Happinet

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Studio Deen

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Historical, Drama, Samurai

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.56¹ (scored by 4,755 users)

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Ranked: #5481²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #3403

Members: 19,404

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Synopsis

The series is a historical drama aesthetically and boldly adapting the life of Oda Nobunaga in his teens up to his time as a warlord against his brother, Nobuyuki.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Oda, Nobunaga

Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke
Japanese

Oda, Nobukatsu

Main

Ishikawa, Kaito
Japanese

Ikeda, Tsuneoki

Main

Uchida, Yuuma
Japanese

Kichou

Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri
Japanese

Maeda, Toshiie

Supporting

Terashima, Takuma
Japanese

Yaraj

Supporting

Takahashi, Shinya
Japanese

Sakuma, Morishige

Supporting

Tamaru, Atsushi
Japanese

Rokurousaburou

Supporting

Uenishi, Teppei
Japanese

Kaede

Supporting

Tanezaki, Atsumi
Japanese

Saitou, Yoshitatsu

Supporting

Kashii, Shouto
Japanese

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Abe, Noriyuki

Director

Sasano, Megumi

Script

May'n

Theme Song Performance

Nakajima, Atsuko

Character Design

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"Shissou (疾走)" by Rib (りぶ)

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"Kiba to Tsubasa (牙と翼)" by May'n

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Sep 23, 2019

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

KANLen09 (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

A Studio Deen show that is decent to good? Colour me surprised, since most of their shows are low quality garbage.

In the case of this series, as much as it is for the famous (and precariously overused) Sengoku era warrior Oda Nobunaga, it was a heck of a wild ride knowing his young life, and quite possibly the road and path to the great warrior of which we all know him by in long-lasting fashion of history footnotes.

The only seemingly "orígjnal" stuff that the production staff added into the mix was the BL aspect of the male characters that seemingly is the trial and tribulations read more

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Oct 21, 2019

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

eevalee (All reviews)

2 people found this review helpful

(This review contains minor spoilers.)

Kochouki might be yet another Oda Nobunaga anime, but it’s also a fairly unique one where the dazzling aesthetic can be misleading about its actually rather grounded tone. The series appears to have two objectives: to tell a non-fantastical story of young Nobunaga during the rarely explored years of his teens and twenties, and to deliver pretty boys with BL and BL vibes. While I’m far from a Sengoku expert, I enjoyed both elements and the mix of very domestic and very serious scenes.

Rather than any possible mismatch of genres, it’s the subject matter of Oda Nobunaga, or rather, sticking to history (at least in broad strokes) and attempting to cover 17 years of Nobunaga’s life that probably stifles the storytelling the most. How do we portray the two rebellions of Oda Nobukatsu found in the chronicles without making him too much of a villain, nor too much of a passive wimp? Can the series remain interesting knowing that a number of characters are almost certain to die not to mess with history? And what to do with Nobunaga’s concubines? In order to move both the plot and the character arcs and relationships forward, developments and the lessons taken out of them are, here and there, a bit too simplistic (e.g., the vague “power of bonds” at the Battle of Inou, without mentioning the difference of training and loyalty of the warriors on each side) or rushed, though the story is still engaging and feels coherent thanks to the strong direction, and maybe because of the inherent eventfulness of the era.

The Nobukatsu arc contributes the most to the not-too-complicated theme of Sengoku people living and dying by alliances. We see that it is the era of warring daimyos itself that makes Nobukatsu and Nobunaga suffer, pits them against family and brings power orbiters like Tsuzuki Kurando around them. Power makes enemies, so you have to make up with enough faithful allies. The series uses the last two episodes after the Nobukatsu climax to reiterate this, which was somewhat disappointing to me after hoping for a similarly good climax to the Kichou subplot, and expecting something more conclusively romantic after all the cute cuddling scenes before dampened my final impression of the series. Nobunaga and Kichou were likable as a couple and as individuals, and a few short but (surprisingly) effective, emotionally intimate scenes of couples in private taking refuge from the world and its pressures reinforce the period drama type theme discussed above. Nobunaga in Kochouki is also notably less of an eccentric superman than he's usually portrayed as.

Due to the steamy subplots and limited time, most battles and power shifts in Owari happen with infodumps from the narrator, which will disappoint anyone who picked this up for old timey warfare, although some strategy and battling does happen. My favorite historical content had to do with the foreign trade that opened in Japan for the first time when Nobunaga was a young boy. Thanks to this focus, the majority of scenes can do with talking heads and bodies, and the characters and the short action scenes (and horses!) are pretty well-drawn throughout the series. DEEN, being the studio behind most of the animated Rurouni Kenshin, doesn’t seem to cut corners with samurai anime, and the character designer Atsuko Nakajima personally as an animation director keeps the characters looking as cute and handsome as ever. The loosely translated title “Gorgeous Butterfly” describes the art direction well.

Kochouki: Wakaki Nobunaga was a bit too straightforward to discuss or speculate about during its original airing, but it didn't bore me even once.

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Jul 29, 2019

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

IwaOi-KHRStan (All reviews)

20 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

This will be my favorite seasonal of all. Historical accuracy about a character I like a lot, even though Sengoku era is not my favorite I love Nobunaga. the first episode already shows his true nature of a skilled guy with a particular intelligence.
I was sure I was going to love it, and I was not disappointed. Love you Oda Nobunaga.
I watched the first 4 episodes currently and i'm not disappointed at all. i'm loving this show. it's perfect.

It shows Oda Nobunaga's life, our Lord of War and Demon King, since his childhood. Soon we see his adolescence and his capabilities.
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Jul 30, 2019

4 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Potatoc (All reviews)

19 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

This is sadly underrated. The animation is pretty good, characters also look very nice. Plot's intriguing as well, sticks to the historical events and great way to get a fresh overlook on Nobunaga's timeline.

There's some people set off by the BL? But there is none (as of now) nor would it ever be focused on from the current pacing; only people dumb enough to keep thinking a woman who got their breast cutoff equals man in the comments section. Rip all flat chested females by that logic.

It's a nice show to watch during break time, aesthetically pleasing and informs the brain a bit. read more

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