AniWorthSoul Buster
Introduction
Keishuu, China.
The history books say that in the era of the Three Kingdoms, this land was a place of never-ending war. A young high school boy, Sonshin, who hates his city's history, is troubled by a certain dream. When he wakes up from the dream, strange things begin to happen one after another, and without understanding what's going on, he suddenly finds himself facing Gien, one of the generals from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, who's trying to kill him! Just before Gien's blade strikes home, a mysterious beautiful woman appears in front of Sonshin. What trials await Sonshin, as he witnesses this terrible battle between two generals of the Three Kingdoms?
(Source: Crunchyroll)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.72/10 · 7483
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Audience reviews
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GleewJoy
I could begin this analysis with an explanation of why I find Soul Buster so bad, but by not having such words for that fact, I will go me abdicate any comments that might attack the director’s honor directly. So I will express myself in a respectful manner, so that no one will be offended here. Since that I do not gratuitously hate any form of artistic representation, even though this art is ugly and a frequent nuisance to my eyes, but still thus with its cultural value. I could easily say that the reason of Soul Buster fail as much how an action piece is due to its misuse of textures to create the so-called visual identity, or even speak of its lack of ability to create an acceptable censorship for the struggles (at least this is what I believe it to be, a great example of the connotativ…
Read at the sourceVulgarLife
Anime based on card games are a dime a dozen but mix it with Chinese lore such as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and you get an interesting take on it. A Chinese co production Soul Buster based on a manhua of the same name certainly sets itself out from the pack through its unique visuals but is there more to it?
Son Shin has a bizarre dream containing all sorts of mythical and unnatural imagery only to awaken when he sees something extraordinary. He then comes across a card and suddenly comes under attack from his teacher who has some sort of warrior beside him wanting his card and will do anything he has to. Little does Son Shin know this is the first act in a series of escalating events.
A fairly simple set up for a card based series but I am a sucker for a card based series as lon…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
Soul Buster???...more like Eye Sore!
Plot-wise, it's a really simple Fate stay night plotline of "evil masters wants to kill the main protagonists with their servants" and "main protagonists tries to defend and defeat them"...sure there's character development but the plot seems more focused on their one-note fights than the character development themselves. Yeah, the main protagonists Shin Son, Yu Shuu and Un Ryou and Yi Barin do "get" what little character development they get but they shape more to their Fate stay night counterparts only in lesser detail.
*Shin Son = Emiya Shirou only MUCH worse
*Yu Shuu = Saber, only her development and backstory is rushed like hell, but it can be excusable due to it being an anime short.
*Un Ryou = Rin Tohsaka, but less tsundere more "The Ace".
*Yi…
Read at the sourceWhoahoho
Ok, so as this Chinese inspired anime, which is based from a Chinese manhua ends, we are left to wonder about that "Tomorrow" sign that was left at the end of this anime, in fact I'm a little bit puzzle if there will be an OVA or season 2 of some kind, I mean, we just don't know, however if this is Studio Pierrot's way of giving this anime an opening ending, they surly provided a very wide one, so how do I rate this 12 episode 15 minute long anime?
Well, I really have nothing good to give it more than 7, so here goes:
Storywise, well the plot does have a direction, I give it that, but it kinda disgust me that all that plot can fit in just 2 episode, now I don't know if this is deliberate or not , but given the political tension that Japan has with China , I probably won't be surprise if…
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