Audience reviews
10 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
TouMAN
"The owls are not what they seem" - as is this anime. Starts off a little too gory for my taste, also the whole Japanese folklore fantasy theme is not my "go to" theme, but it's still a good show... and it's most important quality is that it leads to season two, which is much better and really a treat to watch.
Story: 6/10 - The story is decent, but at times slow and uncertain.
Characters: 8/10 - Great characters and lots of them. The majority of them were slowly being introduced in the first season, with some strong newcomers in the second, and it all pays off in the end.
Character development: 6/10 - Not that much, but probably because 13 eps are not enough to do that with so many characters they have to introduce. More development in season two.
World building: 8/10 - It relatively…
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I just wanna mention this, since it could save someones time ... overall 6/10
The story is fine, theres alot of action and animation is very good. The sound effects are somewhat corny.
But the main warning is, that this show has one of the most annoying characters since Shinji. Its like Zennitsu and Shinji had a baby and its on the screen 90% of the time. I dont understand the reason behind this character trying to introduce some human counterpoint to out main duo and perhaps some (very poorly implemented) comedic relief. But he is so out of place in a decent story, with high stakes, emotions and all we get this loud annoying whiny wannabe samurai kid (mentally around 12) not just running around and breaking the atmosphere but also fcking over future situations with his incompetence. There…
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How to even put this into words it beyond me and probably will be for a long time as my heart tatters from the sheer emotion this anime has thrust into my being. The first episode didn't strike me as anything special, just kind of throws you into what you think is the middle of the story but I can tell you this much, for being Edo style anime, this show sure packs a punch in the face, the heart and the soul.
Not many anime have struck me this hard in a long time, and by the time you get to ep 8, you will most likely feel the weight of the world pushing down on you. I give this show a solid 10/10. It is truly a MASTERPIECE!
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Let’s talk about the work of the acclaimed Satoshi Mizukami, which, in my opinion, is his best manga. I found it very interesting that White Fox took on this project, especially considering the context of “Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer.”
Sengoku Youko, like all of Mizukami’s works, has something unusual and subversive in its story and plot. Mizukami always liked to take shounen tropes and subvert them in a more interesting way. In Sengoku Youko, the subversion happens after an important event in the plot, which in the anime was used to divide the series into two arcs.
The plot follows the story of the yokai fox Tama and her brother Jinka, who aim to make the relationship between humans and katawaras more friendly. The aspiring samurai Shinsuke follows them to develop his skills and, in…
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This anime is a hidden gem of Winter 2024! Despite its current score of 6.97, I believe it deserves much more appreciation. If you’re hesitant to start it because of the score, I encourage you to give it a try and form your own opinion.
Admittedly, the first three episodes are a bit slow and might have been challenging to follow on a weekly basis, but that’s no reason to rate it so poorly.
This anime is a classic yokai/human conflict story, a staple in Japanese media. Although I haven't seen Inuyasha, it's clear that Sengoku Youko draws inspiration from it. While it doesn't introduce anything groundbreaking in terms of folklore or complex storylines like Durarara, it excels in delivering well-executed clichés. If I were to compare it to another good series, Katanagatari comes to mind.
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Criminally Underrated anime, first few episodes start pretty typical run of the mill supernatural anime set in feudal? Japan. Very similar in setting at least to Inuyasha, and once it picks up, each episode is has you anticipating the next. Each character is unique with their own conflicts, well though back story, and personal motivations so you will definitely find one to attach to. Initially thought of this as a anime with an intended audience of younger children but the show quickly subverted my expectations and quite literally had my jaw dropped. Its been a solid few months since I've seen this, so hopefully this review is fairly unbiased.
I went into this show not really expecting much and after the first few episodes I thought I was right. I stuck with it because I was bored at wor…
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As I write this review, Sengoku Youko has over 8,000 ratings - and yet the score is exactly 7.00. Does it deserve this figure of widespread agreement? Should it be higher or lower? In my opinion, it's exactly right.
STORY: 6 (Fine)/10
I was about to put a higher rating - but the story is quite basic until the end. My main problem with this show, something that holds it back from an 8 or even a 9, is the first few episodes. I almost dropped the show - twice - because of it's incredibly dull start. The progress is very slow and nothing very interesting happens until around episode seven. The reason my rating is 6 is because it's quite a simplistic story, and lots of it is setup. However, I think that the second season (and I believe third, which will come out if the next season does well e…
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I bid you good day, tired adventurer. Have you grown weary of the endless deluge of isekai and reincarnation in your fantasy? Have you yearned for characters that have empathy and compelling motivations? Perhaps you would be partial to stories that don't rely on familiar tropes and instead seek to subvert your expectations?
Give Sengoku Youko a chance.
I know, its current rating of low 7 isn't exactly a great sell in the age of inflated scores, but hear me out. It's the kind of story that starts off in a very modest fashion but continuously picks up momentum as it goes. With nearly every single episode, you're watching its best episode yet. What starts off as a road trip turns into an epic tale of love, friendship, and camaraderie.
The author, Satoshi Mizukami, has earned his cult follo…
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Not a bad start by any means, though it took a little while to solidly get going for me. Speaking as someone who has read Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, it certainly hasn't hit as hard as that series did, but it's planted opportunities to do a great deal more.
It's not so much that the series is slow, but rather that it lacked an identity beyond its worldbuilding and basic establishment of its core cast. From there, it just became a series of fights that slowly built on those identities before a couple of big moments started to shift the momentum. The series has been slow to become more dynamic as it builds things out from a basic "let's fight a new powerful opponent" as a template for most episodes and has started to introduce the larger issues in the world surrounding them and how each…
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Sengoku Youko - The 1st arc of 2 for a renowned author, and it still has a lot of cooking to do.
If you have been in the AniManga scene for quite a while now, you would recognize a famed mangaka by the name of Satoshi Mizukami. This prolific author's stories are a mishmash of unorthodox proportions, but yet creative at the same time that you'd be wondering how someone like him is able to be so gargantuan at his many notable series. From the likes of the famed series of Spirit Circle (which is the mangaka's greatest work that hasn't got an anime adaptation yet) to the rather lukewarm adaptation of Fall 2018's Planet With (which J.C. Staff did decent where the "original" anime came first before the manga's release), and the abomination that was Summer-Fall 2022's Hoshi no Samidare a.k.a Luc…
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