Saiyuuki Reload: Zeroin

Getting ambushed by rogue demons on the road is business as usual for the Sanzou party. But when their latest assailants turn out to be humans, the group is left dumbfounded. The mystery only deepens when they encounter a wandering priest, Hazel Grouse, and his imposing bodyguard, Gaty Nene Hawk. The pair hails from the far West, with Hazel using his powers of resurrection to aid grief-stricken villages. While his ability is greatly welcomed by the people, the truth behind it is less miraculous than it seems. Furthermore, the resurrected humans gain golden eyes, a trait they share with the group's recent attackers. It appears that the friendly priest's intentions are not as generous as one might expect—and the Sanzou party is a step away from unraveling them.

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Genjou, Sanzou Main

Seki, Toshihiko Japanese

Son, Gokuu Main

Hoshi, Souichirou Japanese

Cho, Hakkai Main

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Sha, Gojou Main

Hirata, Hiroaki Japanese

Grouse, Hazel Main

Toochika, Kouichi Japanese

Nene Hawk, Gaty Main

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Kougaiji Supporting

Kusao, Takeshi Japanese

Ni, Jianyi Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Koumyou, Sanzo Supporting

Miyamoto, Mitsuru Japanese

Jeep Supporting

Okajima, Tae Japanese

Satomi, Tetsurou Producer

Isogai, Noritomo Producer

Okada, Akihiko Producer

Fukao, Satoshi Producer

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Apr 11, 2022

sinan19

Recommended

Saiyuki Reload Zeroin is a remake of the 2004 season Saiyuki Reload Gunlock, the difference is that this new season follows the manga fairly.

Story: This season focuses on the new characters Hazel and his bodyguard Gat, "bringing back the dead to life" is Hazel's power: using demons' souls to revive humans. The first part which was episodic sets the main characters conflicting POVs about this power, but the final part of good pacing manages to thrill us with the new enemy and the Sanzo Ikkou development.

Characters: they are the driving power of the story and this season fleshed out all the characters, especially Goku ... who had a great development. The new characters also got a satisfying conclusion

Art: the characters' design is fitting to the story, yet the fight scenes are most of the time clumsy. However, it is way better than the previous seasons.

Sound: the Seiyuu did a pretty good job delivering all the emotions, the opening and ending were great. However, the osts were generic and repetitive.

Enjoyment: I enjoyed every episode from this season, it went from "the Sanzo Ikkou are back" to "my boys got this far". It was entertaining, funny, wholesome, thrilling, and emotional.

10/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Apr 1, 2022

b3an0d1ng

Recommended

Oh, Lindenfilms. Please, please, never adapt a manga ever again.

Saiyuuki's new anime is... a mixed bag. To say the least. Not what I wanted to say considering the great quality of the manga source. Yet still, it was somehow a peak of an otherwise completely uninteresting season for anyone not interested in *insert current trending drivel here*.

Let's start with the elephant in the room. The art. A step up from Tokyo Revengers, Lindenfilms here manage to retain the detailed character designs. As with the aforementioned show though, the animation quality is rather low. It's very static, almost like a PowerPoint at times. The action ... is reminiscent of clicking through the dialogue of a visual novel. Let's leave it at a five out of ten. High because of the quality of the designs they somehow preserved.

Now the quality of the adaptation from the source. The pacing was very odd. They even adapted a 13 or so page gag side-chapter as an entire episode. 24 minutes of my time wasted on a minute long manga read, which was clearly there to save budget considering the stunted visual quality. I thought "island episodes" were a thing of the past, but here we are with one in a cour-long show. Other decisions to stretch out some subplots and in effect skip over others took out the majority of the "mystery" aspect present in the manga, where the two parties were locked in a war of attrition to figure out the intentions and abilities of the other.

That being said, thanks to the source it came from, the story was very good. Best part of the Saiyuuki manga, in my opinion, and a decent anime as well. A bit of yokai-infused 4D chess crossed with Stardust Crusaders-style travelling westward. You can read the synopsis yourself, weeb.

The sound was some generic anime sound effects crossed with some standard background music you can find anywhere else. Although, the OP and ED were pretty great. Love some GRANRODEO.

Characters are a big part of Saiyuuki and they were preserved very well here, with the perfect cast of voice actors to accompany. As the pull of Saiyuuki, it's no wonder they're good.

Luckily despite the anime being heavily restricted in what it could have done, I definitely enjoyed it as a big Saiyuuki fan. I'll end by saying this definitely isn't beginner-friendly and it's absolutely required that you read the manga set before this arc, but it definitely is worth watching, once you catch up with the manga, that is.

7/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 29, 2022

NeoDarkCat45

Mixed Feelings

I love the Saiyuki series. It's one of the animes and mangas that I grew up on in high schoolso it's safe to say that Saiyuki is close to my heart. When I heard there was gonna be another season of Saiyuki, I was happy, mainly because I was looking forward to seeing the adventures of the Sanzo party coming to an end as they recuperate from the big finale of the Blast and are finally ready to take on Gyamaoh (probably spelled the name wrong, I apologize!).

But seeing some of the promotional art and the trailers for Zeroin, I was.... disappointed. Yeah, this ... anime was just retreading part of the Sanzo party's adventure that was already done... the story of their encounter with Hazel, the western priest who is able to bring people back from the dead.

That's it, that's the entire arc, with some minor differences and some original minor bits from the manga. So for that, I'll give the story a five.

The art was pretty good, though it seems like some corners were cut but seeing that it was the same animators from Tokyo Revengers working on this show, I was okay with it. But it's still kinda disappointing in some ways but I'll deal with it. The art and animation gets a 7.

The sounds were pretty good, well the music and the voice acting were good (sorry but none of the OP or ED of the other Saiyuki animes will ever top "ID" from Saiyuki Reload for me). The sound effects were still good and everything was crisp and clear but I just think something felt off to me. The score for Sounds is a 5.

Characters, oh the characters... They were alright. All the characters still have the same personalities as they did in previous seasons, except when comparing their development in Zeroin to the Blast season, it feels like they've regressed but that's because the events of Zeroin happens before the events of Blast. So yeah. It was interesting seeing the characters in a similar art style as Tokyo Revengers but that's about all I can say really... SO the score for character is 7.

Finally, we got to my enjoyment, my enjoyment was very low, I mean I enjoyed some things about Zeroin but eh, like I said before, this part of the Sanzo party's story has already been told. I don't think there's really anything new anyone can come up with unless you just do a random one shot episode that would probably feel more like it's derailing the flow of the story rather than adding onto it. With that said, my enjoyment was a 5.

Overall, this series wasn't too bad but I think I was pretty much let down by the fact that it's just retelling the Sanzo party's encounter with Hazel, which isn't a bad thing usually but I think I would've preferred there to be a mini side series detailing the shenanigans of Kougaiji's party, telling what theyre up to when they're not fighting the Sanzo Party. That would've been cool until the manga's story is finally complete (if it isn't already) and we can just get the last steps of the story adapted into an official anime.

So with that being said, don't be turned off from this anime, because it is the first thing we've got from the Saiyuki franchise, anime wise, in like 5 years and I will soak up anything Saiyuki related until the Sanzo party's adventure is truly done.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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