Reviews

This COULD have been a great anime. I appreciate how difficult it is for an anime adaptation to be made from games. I really do. However, it is not impossible. As such, I really wish the Shinsegumi warriors were a little more fleshed out. Otherwise non-game audience will not be attracted to this, and also find it difficult to understand without the necessary background information.

Honestly, I would still have given it an overall 8 had it not been for the annoying heroine. Yukimura Chizuru is one of the most useless female protagonists I have seen to date. Why such a strong character like Hijikata Toshizou would go for her... Oh well. In the realm of anime anything is possible.

Great visuals, great costumes and style. Fight sequences could have been much better, given the ronin backdrop of feudal Japan. But overall, other than the token useless heroine, this wasn a passable anime to watch.