Introduction
On a day like any other, Suzuko meets one of her neighbor's children, Shu, in a park on her way back from school and decides to walk home with him. Tragically, they never make it home. Suzuko and the young boy are caught in a giant gas explosion, though instead of dying instantly, Suzuko wakes up in the middle of a battlefield full of corpses in the Sengoku period.
A group of marauding bandits attacks Suzuko, but Shukumaru—a boy who had come to loot the corpses to feed his starving village—saves her. Though they both return to the village, Suzuko refuses to give up searching for Shu and returns to the battlefield every day with Shukumaru trailing behind. Though Shukumaru lacks anything resembling modern manners, she gradually finds herself drawn towards him. Just what fate awaits this young girl in this bloody period in Japan's history?
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Audience reviews
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Ranko-chan
I felt very inclined to write a proper review on this since there are very few and I did not find the reviews written by thise who rate most anime low or a lengthy synopsis, every possible spoiler and staff info.
So here is a spoiler-free review:
I stumbeled upon this while looking at the list of other older storiers of Rumiko Takahashi that were animated. When I saw a guy dressed in warrior attire and a girl in a school uniform my only reaction was "don't tell me this is the same as Inuyasha". Well it kinda is... and kinda not at the same time.
I checked the manga first and then looked at the reviews on here which lowered my expectations by a lot. But in reality it is not even close to being as bad as some make it out to be, it was actually way better than I expected.
The premise is ba…
Read at the sourceNimurai
Sometimes I have one of those days 'feeling like watching something romantic'. Well, this is what I ask at those moments:
*Science fiction.
*Historical or folkloric stuff.
*A simple love story.
* Believable characters: tough boy finds a girl that suits his tastes and thinks she'll be perfect to fulfill his necessities (in this case, a girl that reminds him of his first love), misplaced girl finds a blunt and honest, fit and simple young man (but she knows the actual and complicated truth about him, but never talks about it).
This is perfect for those who believe in a 'love that transcends time', and for those who feel they aren't fit for this century because they are ancient souls who miss their past lives.
P.S.: No, you don't need to be a Rumiko Takahashi groupie to enjoy this. If y…
Read at the sourceephemerry
Fire Tripper is based off a story from Rumiko Takahashi’s ‘Rumic World’ series, the other segments are: Warau Hyōteki, Maris: The Chōjo, and Ningyo Shirīzu. Despite my affection for Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura, I couldn’t fathom what this particular OVA was trying to say. There are a couple of cool ideas, like time warping via fire and multiple copies of a single person floating through separate time periods, but Fire Tripper fails to monopolize the interesting aspects of its plot.
—Story/Characters
The series follows an ordinary teenage girl named Suzuko, who—prior to her introduction—dreams that she is a little girl from the *Feudal era, that dies by getting crushed by a wooden beam in a burning shack. After waking up, Suzuko decides to walk a small neighborhood boy, Shūhei, home from t…
Read at the sourcewhylime
TL;DR: Fire Tripper is an interesting way to spend fifty minutes. I'm definitely biased in my liking of this anime, but hey, you can give it a shot too.
(this is a rewritten review of a previous one)
There may be spoilers ahead--(but does it really matter? It's literally only fifty minutes long)
L;DR: Where do I begin?
In my quest to consume as much Rumiko Takahashi media as possible, I stumbled onto Fire Tripper. The synopsis peaked my interest, and after finding a low resolution, muddled audio version of it on YouTube I thought, heck, why not.
With an interest in vintage OVAs anyway (you know, Cipher the video, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, and so on) I thought that what was pitched to me as an "80s Inuyasha" would be right up my metaphorical alley. And to that extent... it was. As of…
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Fire tripper is a interesting little OVA and while watching it i couldn't help but think it was the first draft of Inu Yasha or it borrowed heavily from it for inspiration. Of course it is made by Rumiko Takashi the maker of Inu Yasha so it is not a far stretch to believe she borrowed elements as she has done in the past and currently does.
The story is all within this one episode and it feels very fast paced. In the amount of time used it actually creates a fairly interesting plot with a good ending with a rather enjoyable surprise. I think they did good with the story over all and maybe had the ova been 30 minutes longer or two episodes they may have been able to resolve any pacing issues.It feels like a short story in that you understand everything cause its laid out openly but its sho…
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Well this was interesting.
Fire Tripper. A 50 minute OVA by Rumiko Takahashi telling the story of a girl who somehow finds herself traveling through time to the Civil War era where she meets a high strung young man and she has to find out how she got there and what the story is, etc, etc. Sound familiar? Somehow this gem made it under the radar of even Inuyasha fans who pass it off as a rip-off of their favorite half-demon. Which is not only impossible, but a shame as this OVA is definitely worth the watch.
The story was set and concrete. There were no interruptions, no random visits to the beach with the 'gang'. The OVA moves forward and tells the story, and a great story at that. It's a bit hard to really get into without spoilers, but the story is not overly complicated. Anyone coul…
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