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| I'm loving this show so far. The art style, ost, stylized fights, old school Japanese storytelling. It takes no prisoners. Much needed in 2019 when this is soo rare. I think I definitely benefit from not having read the source material. I don't have to nitpick the adaptation of the source material. Elucid said: You look at r/anime's consensus on this show, lots of praise. Then you look at this site's consensus... Pretty mixed. MAL has always been much harder on Seinen stuff or anything too violent or dark. Much more about it's supershounen shows and the cutesy stuff. Reddit has a more varied and dare I say older crowd commenting that might be more open to something like this. |
| "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 |
| Wonder if the art guy comes back?? They seemed to leave without him at the end of the episode, and that kind of threw me, as the entire ep was about him and his apparent obsession with blood splatters lol. Hope he comes back, but honestly, having two samurai body guards is a bit much |
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| I find every shot in this anime to be super beautiful. There is a sense of direction and style with the sound, music, art, and everything which goes past being effective and enters some rare territory. However, the only issue I have with this is the pacing. With the first episode, I was shocked that the guy who killed Rin’s father was already slain. I took a note that it was him who killed Asano because I assumed she would get revenge in 20 episodes. Then, they killed him in the same episode. It was shocking, but not necessarily something to be critical of. This episode however, felt like too much. Fast pacing which can be hard to keep track of is totally fine if there isn’t so much exposition and dialogue, for me anyways. But here, it was easy to lose track of the content of certain scenes and how they link together. That and character development, having Rin confront Taito Magatsu wanting the sword so badly and then stifling her tears and telling Manji not to worry about it felt too closely linked. And having the big brother-little sister thing enveloped felt too soon, like maybe not, Manji has avenged her father already and saved her life and risked his life to help her because she has the face of his little sister, but it just didn’t feel real to me. Due to the pacing I’m starting to think I shouldn’t try to keep track of everything too closely and just watch it. If I care for the plot and characters, I’ll move to the manga, the anime’s biggest strength certainly feels like the style. That said, this episode had pretty great moments. It showed Manji to be a little immature, impatient and short tempered with the painter Sori, if I recall his name correctly. I loved him telling Sori to paint to his heart's content and then cutting the fence down. Then even commenting on it when it came to Tsuchimo, not wanting to have to be back so soon. And conceptually Magatsu was awesome. Starting the fight with that specific song and the line “the bald guy with the--”, “the bald guy with the spear” got a hearty laugh out of me. Plus we started the episode with that striking art of him looking at his sister trampled by the Daimyo’s horse, driving a connection with him and Manji. Further deepening this with respect during the fight despite having a hatred for samurai’s tendency for violence and wanting revenge for his allies deaths. It was all stuff I liked but it wasn’t around long enough to leave an impression on me, I wish we got more time with all that. I will add though, the opening is like my favorite song ever. |
| Never mess with one's art, it can cost you a head Loved the fight between Manji and Magatsu, just the surrounding and all I have to say Manji is pretty terrible at fighting, maybe he trusts too much on his immortality which causes him to be a bit reckless |
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| I'm like, really impressed. I'm captivated. |
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| magatsu is one of my favorite characters and i'm happy to see him looking so good. the soundtrack this episode was even better too. so, we'll keep going. |
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| much better than the previous episode, but still it feels so rushed |
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