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Peace Maker Kurogane is a watchable, yet ultimately disappointing take on the Shinsengumi narrative, mainly due to its severe lack of focus. Whether it’s the trauma Tetsunosuke suffered prior to the start of the series and his journey towards getting over it, the multitude of subplots with different Shinsengumi characters, the spies gathering information in the background, the geishas that entertain a plethora of side characters, or the ways in which they all relate and react to the opposition forces they come up against, it constantly feels like it’s pinballing between different ideas at the drop of a hat, never fully realizing any of the topics that it sets up. This series feels simultaneously too long and drawn out as a result of not having a clean enough throughline, and too short beca…
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Before I start don't get me wrong, this was a good anime. Unfortunately, I think most people think it is a great anime and I want to point out the reasons why it isn't.
Quick background, Tetsunosuke joines the Shinsengumi to avenge his dead parents. This starts as your typical serious revenge story. So far so good, he is eventually let in after an emotional scene. Then there is a mix between extremely lighthearted moments and absurdly dark moments.
This is my first complaint. It does have some excellent moments (the scene with Susumu and Tetsunosuke on the roof is one of the better tragic anime scenes I've seen) but the blend between silly and insanely dark is just distracting. I feel like the anime lacks direction.
This leads to my second complaint: a ton of things happen that I don'…
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Peace Maker Kurogane
This anime is byfar, brilliant! Even though the anime is maybe about 5-7 years old, It's still great to watch!
The anime reminds me of Naruto / Nabari of it's cheeky-ness with it's Main Character. This Anime has everything you'd want, (in general). Like, well in my opinion, how i really like'd this anime was from how the main character acts. Very likeable, very very likeable, for instance - He acts his age! And he's a bit shorter than he usual, which makes me believe that he's 12 and not 15, which makes it the whole more enjoyable. Remember how kids now-a-days act like they're invincible? Heck, 12/15yrs old isnt much of a ways back for me. . . Anyways onwards to the Rating!
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Story :
I'd like to give the story maybe, about an 8.
I give it an 8 because IT IS VERY GOOD!…
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Peace Maker Kurogane Review:
the storyline was good dealing mostly around psychological trauma and how people go about dealing with it in there own way. there is sword play in this anime but it isn't the main focal point.
i found that this anime captured emotions very well which is essential when making a story mostly about trauma.
the sound was well done. in the traumatic scenes this anime
was very good at adding just the right amount of sound to make it that much more intense.
Overall this was a very good anime if you enjoy watching intense psychological trauma and everyday life... with a hint of sword play.
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Peacemaker kurogane... A very good anime based in the japanese history as the most of the "samurai-genre" animes, nice art tho it is not a new anime, it is a production of 2003 so i expected worse animation. The scenario was good tho it was this usual scenario of a kid wanting to avenge his parents, the good part here is that the kid is not obsessed with revenge but most likely obsessed with being stronger and overcoming his weak points. Nicely put the characters from the japanese history, the demon Hijikata- the leader Kondo and Okita were splendidly attached together in this anime
Good sound... Great characters and very unique i'd say, also with some characters being soft-hearted or weak this anime shows us that the Shinsengumi were not just some murderers ronin.
the episodes in the e…
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At first, I loved this anime. I hate the voice acting though. I don't think it's something that a lot of people would hate, but I did. The Japanese voices weren't that great, and the English ones were worse. But that's not the point. lol
I bought all of the DVDs for a really cheap price, and then watched them in one day. Despite the poor ratings I gave it, it's actually really fun to watch. And it's addictive to watch when you first see it. At first, I thought it was amazing. Until a few weeks after I had watched it all.
It just seems like there should have been more episodes. To me, it seems like to tried to squish an anime that should have been like 50 episodes into 24 episodes. or 26. I can't even remember how many there were. lol The story seemed like they weren't focusing on somethi…
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Peacemaker Kurogane is just what we needed after the three seasons of Rurouni Kenshin. Not at all as long as the previous and took an approach to telling the tale of the Shinsengumi. Not many shows seem to do this as most are focused solely on other tales during the period of which this takes place.
PMK takes us on a journey with a fifteen year old boy who has an axe to grind. Tetsunosuke Ichimura lost his mother and father as a young child, and now wishes to join the Shinsengumi in order to avenge them. His elder brother Tatsunosuke joined as the bookkeeper and has no intentions of allowing his brother to fight. However Tetsu is lively and headstrong which finally causes him to force his way as Hijikata's page boy
One of the main things I like about this anime were the characters. A lo…
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Is Peacemaker Kurogane is an undercover BL series? I have to wonder because On the surface this looks like a regular shonen samurai anime, like Kenshin, but as you watch more episodes and see more of the characters you notice one underlying theme....a lot of the characters are either ambiguously or overtly gay. I have no issues with BL anime and things of that nature...but then again, I don't think like a teenage boy. So be warned this show may not look like it but there is a whole lotta homo-eroticism going on in this story. If you are able to move past that particular issue then you have the second hurdle of credibility to deal with; a boy who's 15 but looks [and acts] like 8 wants to play big, bad samurai and joins the Shinsengumi in order to avenge his parents' murder. Did I forget to…
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Well this is my first review and everything might had been said but I think I'll try my best.
Story: It's one of the two best anime I've seen on the beggining of the Meiji area in Japan around 1865. In "Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen", the side of the Ishin Patriots is presented, but in Peace Maker, it's the side of the Shogun clans. Everything happens in a small periode of time from the encounter wiht the Shinsengumi to the end.
Art: Well, if you don't like blood, violence, injuries, or ... you won't like it so much, but it's well done. It's more colorfull than some violence anime, but the drawings keep the serious atmosphere when it's needed. The long serie of Rur. Kenshin didn't make such a good job.
Sound: Well, There isn't anything special, but it supports well the transitions between…
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Peace Maker Kurogane is a historical action series based around the Shinsengumi; the Japanese police force active in the Edo period, perhaps now popularised in the West by the success of Gintama. Like many of its anime counterparts, the series is only loosely based on actual events, with much of the material taking an episodic, comedic route.
We follow Tetsunosuke, a young boy set on joining the Shinsengumi in an attempt to seek revenge on the man who killed his parents two years earlier. As far as revenge plots go; it's fairly typical, standard fare. As events heat up, however, the story begins to fall in line with history, with much of the action and drama centered around the Ikedaya incident. This affair was a clash between the Shinsengumi and a band of politically agitated ronin, whic…
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Wanna hear random? I was voting in a hot anime guys poll and I didn't recognize one of the candidates, so I looked him up (it was Susumu). And stumbled here. I read the synopsis, glanced at the rating, read the review... and thought, "Eh, why not give it a chance?" I think you should be thinking the same thing. ;)
Right now, I think my opinion is a little colored by how surprised I was by this anime. As I chain-watched episodes of this show, I kept on thinking things like: "Wow, I am actually really enjoying this"; "Why didn't I hear about this before?"; and "This is really good" in this surprised tone. I mean... I had never heard a peep about it before and I was just checking out a character picture to see decide if the guy was hot or not. But it ended up being really good. Funny, huh?…
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