Karasu Tengu Kabuto: Ougon no Me no Kemono

Introduction

Kabuto is a tengu who has to save a princess from fortress which is full of monster-mecha hybrids in an alternate reality of feudal Japan. (Source: ANN)

Audience ratings

MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.04/10 · 795

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Audience reviews

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blessingsannuity

Upon watching this, I got the strangest feeling. I felt exactly like that episode of Regular Show where Mordecai and Rigby are in the video store, and the clerk is watching a stereotypical representation of an anime called "Planet Chasers: Starlight Excellent." It's so horrendously campy, with so many clearly defined cliches. The protagonist, once he takes off his cloak, looks like some stupid glam rock dude and doesn't suffer a single negative consequence whatsoever. The villains are nobodies. The princess that the story is pointless. The main villain has boobs and is naked like every other time you see her which is annoying if you are in a committed relationship. If you can look past this having no substance at all for the story, the animation is cool if you happen to be into older anima…

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literaturenerd

Overview: How in the FUCK am I the first person to review this series on MAL?! Raven Tengu Kabuto is only 45 minutes, but this is one of the funniest, most batshit insane examples of "So bad it's good" anime I've ever come across. Strap yourselves in because we're going on a wild ride! Background: I feel like there's something missing in modern anime. We get generic shonen tropes, self referential humor, attempts at genre subversion, and occasionally something artsy and esoteric. What we honestly lack in the modern day is gloriously over the top, stupid, fun, with zero irony or sense of self awareness. Anime has become almost depressingly self aware. Furthermore, the internet and globalization means that Japanese animation studios have finally become aware that the world IS watching. Th…