Spoiler alert!
Nothing did.
There isn’t much to say about the plot itself. There hardly is any. We follow Chou Soran on his journey to… nothing to be honest. For all of the show he doesn’t have any kind of goal. He’s just there to react to what’s happening to him and around him. He’s the worst kind of protagonist - passive. For most of the time he talks big but rarely he is able to put his money where his mouth is, and the moments he is able to rise up to the occasion… he does so by pulling a new technique out of his ass. No build up, no prior training shown, nothing. He just has this skill that could have been useful a few episodes prior but he only just now remembered about it.
His companion Fuu Houhou isn’t much better. Granted she doesn’t pull new techniques all the time but she suffers from Superman syndrome. There are no stakes in her fights. In a fight there is no one who can hurt her without a really pathetic excuse. Even then she just walks it off. Now don’t get me wrong, those types of characters can work. The aforementioned Superman has some really good runs when he struggles, suffers and You just can’t get enough of the high stake non-combat conflict You witness. The writer knew about this. Towards the end we get some info about Fuu’s past that’s there to make her a more tragic heroine and show her suffering. Too bad the writer lacks the skill to write something like this and what we get is lazy and pathetic.
As this is categorised as a martial arts anime I was hoping for some gorgeous fight choreography and long fights that challenge fighters to their limits. Yeah… I was dumb for expecting that. There is only one fight that’s not a pathetic copout and it’s pretty much in episode 4, on top of that it doesn’t even last 3 minutes. If You are a fan of martial arts animes You’ll gonna have blue balls during this show. There are no good fights in it.
The whole show is just Soran getting pulled towards different organisations that have a massive boner to get him to join them. They use a wide array of methods from temptation, threats and even some more… carnal methods.
There is no way to sugar coat it. This show is bad.
Writing - bad.
Fight choreography - bad.
Art style - bad (for most of the time, there are some moments that it’s pretty nice. Nice, not good).
Characters - Bad
I saw very few shows that are worse than this and the fact that I have seen something worse allows me go give this show a high 4 as a score.
