Audience reviews
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jadyjads
Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood is a subtle interpretation of healing from trauma - possibly PTSD or C-PTSD specifically - that I don't blame those privileged enough not to have that experience for not getting.
It also flew under the radar, which I think is best exemplified by the fact that I know quite a few people who would be obsessed with Tsukishiro if they knew he existed.
I was introduced to Jouran while playing an anime school-girl gacha game, as the opening theme, performed by has-no-business-being-part-of-a-gacha-multimedia-franchise awesome band RAISE A SUILEN, has its own map in BanG Dream!. I fell in love with all of it - the voice, the music, the visuals, the designs. Much of it spoke to what I thought was super cool when I was a teenager, which I still cherish, and t…
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Jouran was a great watch, but I feel it had some short comings. It's story varied from episode to episode, with some being phenomenal, and others feeling very diluted and almost cheap compared to the overall story at work.
The art for this show, the acting, the score, are all absolute pieces of art. I don't think they could've made them better if they tried. The story however, was above average in an overall sense, feeling interesting and unique, but moment to moment felt weak. at times it felt like the driving force was something akin to stereotype shonen 'The Power Of Friendship: TM' and at other points it felt very real and raw.
The main character was at times lovable and relatable and at others felt weak and whiny.
It almost feels as if half the anime was made by one set of peop…
Read at the sourceKyleRiley
It took me far longer to finish this anime than I had intended so I'm not entirely in the mood to write a lengthy review on it. I will however give a few reasons why I believe it is mediocre at best and downright awful at worst.
SPOILERS
1. Characters are not great. Besides Elena I found most characters boring or annoying. Sawa was generally okay but she was no where near good enough to carry this anime.
2. SO MANY FAKE OUT DEATHS. Holy shit. Fool me once, shame on me, fool me 5 times shame on you. Like wtf. Asahi alone had 2 fake out deaths, and the second onw was a huge slap in the face. I actually thought Asahi dying would be good for Sawa's story but nope, she's alive! Glad Elena survived her fake out death but Jesus.
3. Sawa's death was stupid. How she died to simply being stabbed…
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Update: The further I get out from this show the more I'm bothered by the treatment of Makoto. It just sucks. If you're reading my reviews for queer perspectives, skip this one. (And thanks, you're my target audience! <3) The art work really is beautiful though.
This show has some messed up treatment of a transmasc character, both in portrayal and missed opportunities. It takes the show from an 8.5 to a 6 for me. It has a strong female lead but falls into standard heteronormative tropes.
The animation is beautiful with some good fight scenes without it being a bloodbath. Good universe building, I would watch other shows from the universe. Solid episodic structure, almost visual story-telling. They tried to do a lot in just 12 episodes with more more successes than failures. Worth watchi…
Read at the sourceJet_Suzuyaki
Well, I don't think many people will read this (especially since the anime is not very well known) but that's ok.
Don, Joran Princess of snow and Blood started very badly for me, I found the visual style original but rather rigid, the story and the characters were very soft and the OST forgettable, so much so that I was going to give it a 5 after the first 4 episodes.
But you read correctly I gave it a 7, so why that?
The answer is simple, from episode 5 Joran takes off. The sluggish pace and the uninteresting plot makes sense as a prologue to what comes next and this sequel hooked me much more. Indeed this last one comes much more touched the emotions of the spectator and especially to put the characters in front of their responsibility, allowing really touching moments and especially…
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In my opinion, this anime has very few fans than it should have. It is not like that cliche animes that are normaly an isekai and the protagonist it's geting stronger with every episode. It's very original, I have never seen anything like this and I would recommend to anyone.
It's true that maybe it has many plot twists, but you can follow the story very well. I don't know why people say that this is not a great anime when it's very emotional, and the art style it's also great, something that it's not the most important thing, but all of us like to watch series that are well made.
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The anime was meh story is not much, just your average stuff. I did not feel like there was a main villain in the whole anime that caught my attention and even there are some characters that stood out but just not enough.
Action wise and animation its not the best but decent enough. Art style is very nice to look at and take in the scenery at some points but i find that there are alot of cuts in the anime and transitions between clips didn't feel smooth it felt like my editing lol.
also there is the soundtracks which are fitting for the era and the story.
The best part about this anime is characters, they are well written and drawn and i feel they deserved a better story. The ending is decent enough but i would not want a second part.
Overall 4 but for the cool characters i would say 6…
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Ah...revenge stories. I personally love a good revenge show. They always make me want to root for the main character when they can finally achieve their revenge. Or, if it's a redemption sort of story, the transformation that the character goes through towards freedom, inner peace, and the future also makes me feel good inside.
Jouran truly goes through the motions and touches the surface of what constitutes of a redemptive revenge story, but fails completely in execution and storytelling. It's one thing to rush a story, and another to just obliterate any character development or personality in favor for rushing through mediocre predictable rabble.
Jouran attempts to do what Vinland Saga did in 24 episodes in nurturing a boy flooded with rage and desire for revenge in four episodes. In tho…
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Recommendation: Skip it unless you really want to look at the pretty art and animation. That's about all it has going for it.
Joran is the dictionary definition of style over substance. It has a very unique and flashy visual look, the action is very eye-catching and well-animated, and the plot is irredeemable garbage. For a while it looked like it was going for "so bad it's good" territory, but it ended up not even giving us that, it was just regular bad in a not fun way. Characters get killed off regularly for cheap drama and then brought back to life without explanation for even cheaper drama. Characters and their motivations rarely make sense and they act in highly contradictory ways just to be unpredictable. The melodrama is so over the top that it has zero impact. The ending is laugh…
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Jouran is a phenomenal revenge story. If you enjoy works like Lady Snowblood, Kill Bill, or the films of Park Chan-Wook, then you will adore this anime. It has a fantastically realized roaring '20s/biopunk setting; its characters are all engrossing, each with their own complicated motivations and desires; and the artwork and direction are *clearly* a cut above their peers. The story itself is equally engaging, with enough twists and revelations that it will keep you engrossed until the very end without feeling trite. The only place that this anime fails is in a somewhat unsatisfying ending, but that's purely a matter of taste. This show is 12 episodes well spent, and it deserves way more praise than it gets.
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There are series that you like and you go “well, that was cool, what shall I watch next?” once you finish them. Others that you really like and make you go “That was Awesome, I’m gonna read some stuff about it on the internet”. And then, there are series that leave you speechless, unable to move from your seat and leave such a strong impression in you that you know right away that they’ll stay with you forever. Joran is one of those series.
Now, first things first: Why the hell am I giving such high praise and top score to a series series that seems to be so impopular and underwatched among anime fans? Well, you see, Joran is not a rom-com that repeats the same unfunny joke a million times, and it certainly doesn’t have the word isekai in its tittle so I guess it was never bound to be popu…
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So, it’s not my intention to convince you that this is the underrated gem, ok? Because it isn’t. People did score it pretty well. Yet, I found it more enjoyable than the mean score would imply so I will share my perspective on it. While at it I should mention that love history, philosophy, and tragedy in my anime, so if you don't - stop, and move along. Spoilers present (but like not overly detailed).
Summary. It’s the 20th century and The Tokugawa shogunate is a thing of the past. Violent repression, censorship, and reserves of magical energy are all that keep this social structure from crumbling. Even the small disagreement with the regime spells instant death. As energy reserves dwindle and its control slips, the political stage is ready for a major change. In the midpoint of the soon…
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"The Suffering Tale of a Sweet and Poisonous Young Girl" - Jouran can be defined simply by those words. As a new experimental work from 2021, Bakken Record Studio has the show as its second production and first broadcast weekly.
The show begins with a perspective that intersperses underworld, government corruption, and work lurking and in the dark. Nue is a very strong and influential group in Japan, especially when it comes to their most important function: to ensure the security and political integrity of the country at any cost. In the same act we meet Sawa, the main character of the show, taking care of Asahi, her "sister". In fact, the very coexistence of Asahi and Sawa is a matter to be considered as important for the construction of the show. It is interesting to realize that even…
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Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood is an anime original made by studio Bakken Record. Jouran is set in 1931, known for one of Japan's most infamous and fraught eras. We follow a cast of assassins who carry out tasks for a peculiar agency. However, there is more than meets the eye and it gives the impression that the cast is complex with their own motivation and goal that forced each individual on the path of assassination. Jouran is not afraid to shrink away from more mature themes such as rape, violence and kidnapping, so be mindful if you can't handle such themes.
But the main protagonist of Jouran is a seemingly emotionless and cold female called Yukimura. Yukimura is a mysterious girl, to say the least with many attributes of her identity not revealed until later episodes. She's f…
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Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood started off as an anime with high potential. An anime original with a decent budget and a unique artstyle set in an alternate reality 1930s Japan. I wanted it to be good. I think we all wanted it to be good. But Jouran devolved into one of the biggest trainwreck anime this season.
The story is the show's biggest problem. Our protagonist, Sawa, is set up with a straightforward revenge plot, however the revenge plot is resolved in the first four episodes. The show didn't build up any real direction or momentum beyond the revenge arc, and following that there isn't any established direction for which the show is going to head for the rest of the season. It's a jumbled mix of different plots that don't particularly relate aside from the same cast is pres…
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If I was a teacher, I'd give Jouran an A for effort. It's got a pretty unique and interesting premise/world and the right ingredients to make a good show. Unfortunately, just effort isn't enough in life, and things didn't come together the way they could've for Jouran.
Decent action, good animation, and a pretty good OST aren't enough to patch up the holes in Jouran, and I think the final episode does a great job of summarizing the series as a whole; the right ideas but just too messy. The show is "decent" at best in my eyes, but I'll have to settle for a 3 given the clearly forced plot points and overreliance on cliches.
Story: 3/10
I like really liked the premise and world of Jouran: an alternate time period of Japan where the shogunate was never abolished mixed with some steampunk-ish…
Read at the sourceYeeYeeAss
Visually pleasing.
This is an anime original show and is it good? Well kinda. It has its moments but not every scene or episode is perfect, but it does have so amazing animation and art considering this is the studios first anime
So the story is about this woman named Yukimura Sawa who kinda does weird stuff. She is the owner of a book store but she has a secret side. She can transform into this monster things. Mostly she just kills others like her and try to stop some crimes. I honestly don't remember much of the story.
Characters are somewhat well-made. They aren't the greatest but they are not the worst. Sawa herself is kind and caring but can also be feisty when it comes to saving people.
The opening fucking slaps. It sounds so great. They background music is also pretty pleasant.…
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"Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood" is a bit of an odd show, in a lot of ways.
It's premise is fairly simple, at least at the start. You've got a early twentieth-century setting, a young woman driven by revenge working as an assassin for an oppressive regime, primarily out of practicality, to find the man who killed her parents. Nice and simple. As the story unravels, it adds a lot more complexity to the setting; a double agent here, a betrayal there. Despite that, it's easy to settle into what the story clearly is, there's a clear theme here that you'd expect to reach a fairly simple but satisfying conclusion.
Indeed, up until the final moments of the final episode, this conclusion stays obvious. And I don't mean that in a cynical way, it's obvious because the story has, for the mo…
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Revenge, assassination, existence, repression and authoritharianism. All of those sound like ambitious topics for a 1920-ish ambientated anime with industrial fictional elements; sure, good things could come up from here. So then: what novelties does Jouran bring to the table while exploring those topics? Not many, or at least not enough to make itself remarkable over any other anime of its genre. Considering Jouran’s audience is already quite niche, I don’t think I would recommend anyone that is not completely passionate about all the revenge themes to go out of their way to watch it. If you are still interested though, let’s go on a deeper analysis of its pros and cons.
Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, was one of the titles that first caught my eye in this season. The trailer was…
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Whenever I come across original anime, my first instinct is always to scrutinize the production staff team and see what are their past records, because that's always a very good indication if the anime could shoot for the moon, or in the case of Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, be the sub-servience of another mediocre shot at hiring non-recognizable names and making generic stuff, just to waste all that money down the drain for some other anime or even mixed-media projects that could be made better and make all that effort worth its run.
I'd swear: take a look at the staff team, and only a minority have works to their name, albeit in varying degrees of success viable across the board. You have old-timer director Susumu Kudou, which aside from the terrifying work that is Dies Irae s…
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