Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga

The gist of my review is this: Give this a shot!

I was very skeptical of the premise of this show. Firstly, is YET ANOTHER Nobunaga show? Second, the shtick is that they are dogs? thirdly, comedy is very hit or miss for translations.. leaning toward the miss in most cases. But, after one episode, I was left with a huge smile on my face and I was really surprised how much I enjoyed watching this show.

First, it's not another Nobunaga show. I mean, it is, but not really. It never takes the Nobunaga thing seriously. It's the ... butt of countless jokes and in all honesty most of them land really well even if you know nothing of Nobunaga.

Second, yes, the shtick is dogs, but they really do a great job at delivering on the cute and funny.

Thirdly, well.. like I said in the first and second points: It's funny.

It might not be Anime of the year: the animation is middling at best and there is no real story progression, it's just "Hey these warlords are now dogs, isn't that funny?" and it is!

5 - There was something you enjoyed. Still a bit forgettable, but not a waste of time.


It's a cute dog anime with ok comedy in it. Pretty much it? The drawback on this is that the jokes weren't great. I don't remember one time I really laughed. It's adorable, and nice to watch.

But it's not hillarious, and for a comedy anime that really hurts. Firstly, it's hard for a comedy anime to be great in my opinion. The jokes and situations have to be really out there- especially in a 12 episode series. It has to come out hitting from episode 1, and it doesn't.

I ... do enjoy and appreciate the idea behind this anime. It's interesting. It's easy to explain. And man, the ED to this anime is AMAZING. It's so cute watching the real life version of the anime dogs just playing around, running.

But that's the extent to this anime- it's cute. That's about it. I can't really see in which situation I'd want to watch this. Lazy sunday? It would have to be dubbed for me to watch on a lazy Sunday. Probably background anime while I'm doing something else such as gaming or scrolling through social media.

This anime was ok. I don't regret watching it. Just don't see myself thinking back on this.

Oh my, it only took me one episode to decide that this was not worth sticking around! Look, I came here because I thought the idea was cool, the feared Nobunaga reincarnated as a dog. It looked like it would be a fine comedy and I could learn a little bit more about the history of Japan. But......the first 10 minutes of the episode already threw me off enough to completely drop out and even encouraged me to write one of the few reviews I had. First, the thing that bothered me the most of the way the first episode, just the first one, was ... handled. The episode looked like it was written by a ten year old and I'm not exaggerating to make a point. So if you familiar the with the plot, the episode basically does it the easiest way possible and that's it. What I mean with this is that you see Nobunaga about to commit suicide like history was told and the next scene, there he is. Yeah, the dog. Everything about this transition was just so, so wrong I'm even having trouble putting into words, but what you see is basically, after the death of the character, the next moment of the anime shows him as the titular dog already fully grown (I'd say a dog 3-5 years old) and not only that, but his mindset is almost like he remembered his life as Nobunaga from a few minutes ago. You don't see the dog growing up, you don't see him remembering little by little about his previous life. He suggest as a punchline, before dying, that after all that he's done, he may as well be reborn as a dog, and the next minute hes already in the body of a grown dog, with memories fresh like it happened yesterday and for some bizarre reason, his owner appears right after, and he reacts like a lot of domesticated dogs would react, but now that he's realizing the way he react is that of a dog. Makes me wonder, what the hell happened here? Did he just now realized that he had a previous life as a human being and even though he tries, he cannot deny his animal instincts?!?! This was so poorly done that only after seeing people can fully comprehend. That was the first major issue I had with the show which made me realize this would be as lazy as it could get; The second one is a little more complicated but I'll try to explain. The way this reincarnated Nobunaga talks in his mind does not suggest at all that of a leader would even if this leader was a goofy one. He talks and acts in his own head like a teenager who suddenly became an adult and not only that, but an influential adult in feudal Japan and he's more concerned with his self-image as Nobunaga than with the actions that Nobunaga took that made him what he was. It doesn't speak "grown mature man" to me at all, it only contributes to make the first minutes of this show look a lot more like a four panel comic joke rather than a story and despite the fact that I wanted to see where this was heading, those things alone made me sure that this wasn't well-thought at all, it didn't bother even with the most basic details and it couldn't even pass a slapstick comedy, much less a anime.