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| This show is WICKED BADASS! 5/5! |
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| This is pretty good. I was kinda put off by the animation and palette color at the beginning, but I can take it. It's Linden Films after all. The pacing and facial expressions are the best things in here. |
Play2X said: Wow, animation and battle choreographywise, this thing sucks ass. Jumpcuts of cheap gore and white flashes all over the place, to the point of being nearly unwatchable, and watching this nights gives you eye strain after mere seconds. As long as the show's in its story parts, it is okay. Not great, but watchable. I like the story and characters. Hope only that the fights get somewhat more interesting. A guy who can't die is rather problematic in terms of storytelling, because he is going to win either way. Or better, he isn't going to loose. Most fights will probably be along the lines of evil dude chops and stabs a bit in main dude, thinks he has won, surprise attack and looses. Add in some bad guy threatens to kill/rape/insertevil stuff cute girl, and we have our formula of the week. Hope they find a way to circumvent that. Immortal cryptonite, here I come, yay. Because of cheap gore animations? What are you? 12? I mean, I'm completely fine with you enjoying the show, but I somehow get the feeling that you're only in here because of gore... Well somebody is a sadsack. |
| How can anyone say this amazing art is bad? |
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WolfDBreidi said: I was somewhat shocked by the brutality of the scenes, but they seemed great. This anime has a peculiar animation that looks good with the time the story unfolds Don't read the manga if you were shocked by the anime. :') Great start.. If it wasn't Mugen no Juunin. One of the most cult manga. It's too rush for me and Samura art can't be equal. |
| I really liked it. The tone and atmosphere were fantastic; very bleak and dark. It reminds me of Dororo, which I considerably enjoyed. I'm a fan of feudal Japan era settings. What a horrific guy that Sabato Kuroi was, having his former wife and Rin's mother, stuffed and mounted on his shoulders. It was a shame the fight between Sabato and Manji was so abrubt. But there's a minimum of 29 other bloody battles we're yet to see, so it should be good. |
We're blessed that your vote wont count toward the overall score then. I don't understand the automatic hate any hardcore seinen has in MAL. It immediately draws these kind of reponses. |
| "Perhaps there is a universal, absolute truth. Perhaps it justifies every question. But that's beyond the reach of these small hands." Mamoru Oshii There is a cult of ignorance (...) nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov |
| I'm afraid to watch anymore due to the intensity of the animation on hurting my eyes too badly. Definitely something you can't watch up close on a computer at I feel. |
| that was "artsy". |
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| good episode. i liked it :) |
cherry_memoirOct 29, 2019 12:20 PM
FMmatron said: TrevRockOne said: This has the same director as Shigurui. No wonder the sound effects and the whole atmosphere that was tried to created felt so similar. And fuck my auto correct. If it is also weird like Shigurui, then I don’t even know. I love samurai dramas, but at the moment this is too arthouse for me. |
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| rushing already in the first ep... the art is unique and the animation style in on point. phantomfandom said: Is this even watchable? The problem about distributor like Netflix or Amazon is that they give 100% right to director's vision, but the vision is just self-focus, mostly unpolished, and just screaming 'Hey I'm so artful! Loot at me westerners! Look at my artful traditional Japanese animation with all those uncensored violence, I'm not your usual fanservice otaku culture director! I'm a real deal!'. ??? are you not happy to see the full thing? even tho this is very rushed up compared to the original series... |
UiaiNov 10, 2019 12:49 PM
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| A serious (in tone at least) samurai show about a young girl who seeks revenge against the group that killed her parents and about the 用心棒 she hires, a skilled samurai who cannot die. I love the style and brutality of this show, very enjoyable to watch. The heads sewn onto his shoulders was a bit too much though, I couldn't help but find humor in the absurdity of it. It reminded me of something I'd see in the movie "300". I wonder if they will keep up this level of absurdity. |
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| Watched this on the bus, but had to look at something else when the samurai monster man, with women's heads on his shoulders, started shoving his fingers in our girl's mouth. Good god. This is quite gory and intense. I found the animation to be EXTREMELY strange. Not much is animated, honestly? Whenever sword work happens, it's off screen, and instead, we get the facial reaction of whomever. Anyway, the atmosphere is really cool, and is why I'm coming back. |
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| So... while I def saw the carnage coming when it comes to Blade of the Immortal 2019 (on top of the not so great animation and some almost epileptic sequences), I did not anticipate there to be this strange, almost naturalistic sense of serenity to be surrounding the show. 1 episode in and this is pretty interesting. |
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| I have waited until this series finished airing to start because I loved the PV so much and upon hearing news that the series continued to be good, I wanted to be able to watch it at my own pace. The sound design is at times overpowering and creates a serious sense of style that draws me in, on top of the art of nearly every moment and perfect voice acting choice of Tsuda Kenjirou. He does the chill badass like no other. And let’s be frank, for a man without much to lose and immortality on his side, I’d expect nothing less. This episode we meet Asano Rin, a young girl who had her father slaughtered, and her mother raped and mutilated by the Itto-ryu. She has trained for two years and has been running on pain and sadness and spite as she has committed herself to getting vengeance. We also met the other main character Manji. Seeing and hearing a bit of his past has painted a picture of him. Known as he who has killed 100 men, he is also known as a man who got his kid sister caught up in his fights which wound up killing her and has taken on a life of atonement. Which to be fair is a pretty admirable choice as one could imagine Manji becoming the villain if he was not as good of a guy. That said, I’m sure we’ll ask at some point whether killing more people is the way to atonement, Manji already stated it’s never black and white. An old lady who claimed her name was Yaobikuni which has lived in a graveyard for 800 years, be it a ghost or a joke, has acted as a conduit of fate, leading the two together as Manji has taken on the role as Asano Rin’s bodyguard. I should speak about the Itto-ryu as they were described as master swordsmen who butcher every dojo which defies them. They appear to have started as 30 people but grew considerably in the two years Rin was training, now with hundreds under them. In the flashback we saw some things to take note of. It was the most prominent member, probably the leader, of the Itto-ryu who told them to keep Rin alive. One could speculate this was for Sabato Kuroi, or for even a moral reason although I doubt both of these. I mean the latter is an absolute joke. Rather, he gave the line about Itto-ryu’s mission as to “show the path and make known the weak swordsmen of this realm”. This makes me think he intentionally set Rin up to become a strong swordsman or something, scarring her and giving her a drive. Also notably, maybe to give merit to Manji’s claim about human’s vesting their own interest in their judgements and samurai often killing in a chain of revenge, Rin’s mother did state that the Itto-ryu “once studied under the same sword school”. Anyways, Manji is a cool guy, he’s lax, he likes fishing, he burns his food, he’s also a good guy, wanting to make sure to only kill for the righteous and letting Rin sleep in his residence as he sleeps outside. Immediately he started to see Rin as the little sister that he lost, potentially as if he can help her, he could help atone for not being able to protect her. He slapped her as she tried to offer her body, which does go to further her drive for revenge, something her attempted suicide should make absolutely clear. This immediately does create an interesting avenue of betrayal, if revenge is more important than her life, then the bad dudes could ask her to sell out Manji, but seeing the familiar seed being sown I would assume at that point she would act like she was selling him out but have his back. Ultimately Manji was able to see the deranged nature of the people who hurt her in Sabato Kuroi who stitched her mother and his former wife to his shoulders in some act of eternalizing beauty. Despite his fascination with beauty and stopping those beautiful from turning repulsive he had a scarred face, perhaps a sign of conventional repulsion. Ultimately however, in a cool scene where Manji got his leg sliced clean off, he rose again and cut Kuroi into pieces, the truly eternal telling the wannabe how it’s not so good to be like him, and separating him from his former wife and Rin’s mother. I should also speak on the form of immortality briefly touched on, it’s some kind of sacred worms which stitch him back together from the inside and prevents bleeding out but he can still feel serious pain. |
| Nice to see a new adaptation of an relatively old series, glad that they didn't censor anything since this is an ova and the animation looks pretty good Quite the monster we got there, Manji is awesome, hope they don't rush this too much |
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| Absolutely beautiful art! I'm a huge fan already and honestly, I'm kind of speechless right now |
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| i was so happy with the PV and seeing blade get an art direction that reminded me of shigurui. shigurui is to heavy but the feel of the show is exactly what i wanted for blade and for my surprise - because i'm slow as fuck and haven't thought about it - i got here only to find out that the same guy directed both. oh well, i like the sound ambiance, and the fights. it's not an action anime, but a story about hatred and revenge. notthat it coudn't be. samura's fight scenes look amazing on the manga, but maybe, not enough money to make it like the source. i'm both excited and concerned about the pace. this is going really fast and although i'm happy we'll go farther than the old anime, this could derail very easily. but i'm gonna keep my faith. i actually love the character design. it's different, but it goes well with the vibe of the series and everyone looks so good! i loved tsuda-san's voice as manji too. i kinda imagined him sounding like that in my head when reading. and i'm surprised by the choice of voice for anotsu, but it fits him so well... i was really happy so far. blade is one of my favourite manga and it's beautiful. [ now knowing that kishimoto was THE fanboy of samura on his university days, having admitted he inspired kakashi design from magatsu and iruka from manji (yeah, i know) i can't help but wonder if anotsu was the inspiration for itachi? ] |
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| It was pretty good, but also kind of too rushed & all over the place. |
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| This anime captured the spirit of the manga very well. I enjoyed this episode very much. Rin seeks out Manji, a ronin known as the Blade of the Immortal. Her father was murdered and her mother defiled before her eyes by Itto Ryu and his gang. She seeks revenge and the first henchmen has a very dear surprise for her. This series is very much demented, much the like the manga. If you cannot tolerate extreme violence, rape or mental crazy, I'd avoid this series. |
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