AniWorthEight Clouds Rising
Introduction
When Takeo Nanachi and a few of his friends visit a rural village in search of inspiration for a theater production, they find the village holding a strange, somber festival that they only practice every few decades. Takeo hopes to use this chance to purify his grandfather's antique sword, but the festival's proceedings leave no opportunity for outsiders to participate. However, after an untimely car failure makes it impossible for Takeo to return home, he finds himself drawn into the villagers' dark and mesmerising practices and forming a bond with Kuraki Fuzuchi, the son of the head priest.
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.14/10 · 1774
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Audience reviews
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LuxuriousHeart
This was a solid OVA, though it felt like the beginning to something better. It had a solid enough cast and premise. The main character, Takeo, has a sword that his father wanted him to purify. Takeo hitches a ride to one of those villages. You know the type. That's out in the country and far from the city center. The village has a shrine, and he and his friends stay with the head Shaman. Takeo is going to purify his sword. His friends are going because they're making a play about an ancient event (tribes and war). They're going because they want to study the people of such a traditional village, in order to write an authentic play. As coincidence would have it, they happen to visit on the day of a ritual, and the day before an even more important ritual.
The premise is intriguing and th…
Read at the sourceSgtSalamander
Eight Clouds Rising is a fascinating, insular little 90s OVA that is in some ways similar and in other ways distinct from the massive catalog of short anime projects released at the time. If nothing else, it is a pretty, intriguing, and generally entertaining OVA. Beginning with the story, it follows a theater troupe visiting a shrine for inspiration regarding their upcoming play, as things begin to go awry concerning the bizarre mystical nature of the place, and the family that handles the sacred operations of the temple. While there are some weird themes I feel didn't necessarily fit in the narrative very well, it still has a very storybook atmosphere, as though this were something told around a campfire, which I believe plays to its benefit. However, it also only feels like a prologue,…
Read at the sourceMoresca
No review at all for this? That seems slightly undeserved - it is not that bad after all.
Eight Clouds Rising or Yakumo Tatsu is a short 2 episode OVA which is based on a manga of Natsumi Itsuki (some might be familiar with her as the creator of the rather popular Hanasakeru Seishounen which was written before Yakumo Tatsu). The manga was serialized from 1992 to 2002 by Hakusensha in the shoujo magazine LaLa. Additionally it was published in 19 single volumes in Japan. The OVA covers only the storyline up to chapter 3 of volume 2 of the manga.
This explains why the OVA will leave you with the feeling that you just watched the introduction to an epic story - the prologue to something bigger and more complex. No use in trying to find the continuation though, nothing more got animated. Who…
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