Musashi challenges an unarmed guy to duel and then gets beaten? When did this happen? Since when did Musashi become an idiot? He never challenged someone to fight unless he was certain he was going to win. And Musashi almost NEVER fought fairly. He always used some kind of underhanded trick to ensure that he would win. Anyone who read his book would know that he had no patience for honor or fairness in combat. Also, losing to an unarmed guy? Top lels. The whole point of Musashi being in the anime is to show that the MC is stronger than him. This is unfortunately the standard shonen method of "character development".
This entire anime is essentially just propaganda to glorify "Mutsu Enmei" or whatever the fuck that made-up fictional nonexistent martial is called. IF YOU TRAIN HARD YOU WILL BECOME TOTALLY INVINCIBLE TO SWORDS AND GUNS AND YOU CAN MARRY ANY GIRL YOU WANT! SERIOUSLY! JOIN THE MUTSU TODAY! LOOK AT HOW COOL WE ARE!
No seriously. What's the point of this anime? It's about guy who's a Gary Stu. He goes around beating up everyone who doesn't think he's awesome. Everyone who is not the main character is either an idiot and gets beaten by him, or thinks he's the best thing since sliced bread and worships him like he's God. Every single girl character is either tsundere or deredere for the Gary Stu. Every. Single. One. This got old by the second arc. You could just see the same thing happening over and over again.
And what is up with the guy's morality? [spoiler] He helps a girl ASSASSINATE THE SHOGUN just because HE LIKES HER NAME. [/spoiler] What the fuck. He's willing to plunge an entire country into civil war just because he likes the name of some random girl? How fuck up is that?
The action is boring as fuck because it's not realistic. Why does everyone use a predictable vertical slash that gets telegraphed like 10 minutes before they do it? The same thing happened like 500 times in the anime:
Swordsman uses a vertical slash that he telegraphed about 10 minutes in advance.
Mutsu guy dodges the slash by turning his body sideways.
Swordsman gets punched in the face.
Swordsman does another one of the telegraphed-as-fuck vertical slashes because he's an idiot.
Mutsu guy does the same dodge and punches swordsman in the face.
Repeat until swordsman falls down from exhaustion.
Wow! So fresh! If you thought Berserk was boring, check this out. I think I just found the cure for insomnia. I would only recommend this anime to people who want to watch some guy beat up random idiots with swords (they don't deserve to be called swordsmen) unarmed. That's what this entire anime consists of.
