Introduction
Tokyo's criminal underworld has been using medical procedures known as ether augmentation to increase their own powers and influence. To counteract this threat, bounty hunters called Braves have emerged, using their own ether powers to eliminate the powerful mafiosos known as Dark Lords. Although he is a self-proclaimed first-rate Brave, Yashiro struggles to make ends meet.
One day, Yashiro helps out a young student of Shibuya's Brave Academy named Aki Jougamine. Impressed by his skill, Aki begs him to help save her friend and fellow student, Saera Kashiwagi Pendragon, from the clutches of a Dark Lord, which he reluctantly agrees to.
After assisting them, Aki, Saera, and their friend Yukine Indou insist on apprenticing with Yashiro. Despite his attempts to dissuade them from the dangers of bounty hunting, the trio believes that Yashiro is their key to becoming full-fledged Braves, leaving him to reluctantly give in. With each new threat they encounter, Yashiro will try to convince them that the three students are not cut out for bounty hunting, but they may just prove him wrong.
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Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
xmine64
It has an interesting story and I think it worths following. The arts are cool too and I liked the colors and designs, but the animation, it's really bad.
It's probably produced on low budget, considering it's either slideshow or CGI, for most parts. I guess you would enjoy the manga more, if you read manga.
The ending seemed rushed and out of place, they came to an conclusion without developing the story at all. It was expected but it wasn't logical, they solved a mystery providing a correct solution but with weird reasoning.
Despite all that I enjoyed watching this, I would say it's an average anime, it's not boring it's not bad, but it's not that good neither.
Read at the sourceFlubberdoodles
Potential potential potential. All I see is just so much potential. There's so many ideas that could have made this one of the easiest 10s ever if they just condensed and focused on those unique ideas. Or ofc if they had a season 2 to continue it on, but that's never happening. The characters are so interesting and have such potential for even more dynamics between them all if explored and developed. Unfortunately there is little development between the characters, and the ones that do are actually the more side characters!! It's such a pain because the fundamental story is there, the idea is there, but the actual developments are not. Because of that, it's just an average good watch. What a missed opportunity...
Read at the sourcevaliantslakr
Gonna keep this short as I'm getting too old for long drawn out reviews; this is THE underrated anime of the season, and surprisingly with 2 whole cours, unlike certain gundam anime. Really nice retro, bright colored art style and an actually engaging story with *gasp*, ACTUAL character development? Yes the budget is pretty low but again, everything else helps keep you engaged towards the end, and the funny contrast of hyper-violence with the cute girls and cartoony art style. Yes, this is by the same author as "Sentenced to be a hero" but has a very different, contemporary, bounty hunter/crime story feel to it, but as a result, it IS about "murder-hobo dad with his cute "daughters". Please give it a try! There's still plenty of room for another season but it's unfortunately uncertain with…
Read at the sourceSegaco
Interesting premise and lovely character interactions. Bonus points for having a closed ending.
The way characters use their power is very interesting. The best parts of the anime are easily the protag thinking mid-fight how to deal with the enemy.
Also love how anyone introduced can just die.
Most of the show consists of great interactions and interesting use of powers, but there are some strange storytelling decisions.
The plot wants you to think about the main "mystery", but it's hard to take it seriously when non-sensical things are done to progress the story.
One that happens early on, despite getting invitations to meet someone directly, the protagonist decided to risk his life and enter guns blazing to this person's heavily guarded party. He acted super logical until this happened…
Read at the sourceClarentBloodIris
From the same author as Sentenced to Be a Hero, and with a lot of the same themes and ideas, but compacted to tell a complete story in 24 episodes. Those themes and ideas feel much more refined here than in Sentenced, which is in itself a fantastic series, but the two protagonists of this show feel like the two protagonists of Sentenced with their characterization and themes honed to a mirror shine.
That said, it can't be left unsaid that the anime production looks very cheap, and the fairly average direction doesn't do that production much favors in that regard. The character writing goes a long way to make up for the visual shortcomings, but there's no denying the show looks ROUGH at times.
Rocket Shokai is clearly an author who enjoys writing bleak, miserable worlds populated by gruff…
Read at the sourceHERMIT_PAIMON
" HERO VS VILLAIN "
This anime follows same trope of heroes vs villains only difference is that story follows crime theme , syndicate and turf wars . There are people known as braves who kills criminals known as dark lords for money . The beginning eps were solid , got little dim in middle and got pace again in ending .
24 eps anime are kinda rare these days , This is the only reason I started watching this and hopefully not regretted . The mc is a stoic person but his personality got changed after meeting some schooling braves and this was the turning point for me for not giving a higher score . He deliberately followed pacifist ideals in ending and made serious mistakes even though he is a first rate killer . In my opinion there isn't any point in forgiving criminals because they gonna…
Read at the sourceTharr
Pfew! Finally a title where I don't need to go all out. I really needed the break after the last one.
Visuals. A very specific art style. Meh designs (with some downright horrible). Interesting colour palette. Subpar cinematography and animation. Very lousy fight choreography (I'll get back to it). Horrendous cg. Unless it was used specifically because those things were meant to look hideous, then it was a masterpiece decision. So meh visuals.
Audio. Meh sound design. Nothing stands out (in a good way), both for tracks and volume. The OP 1 was good (The song, the visuals). It felt like it vibed with the anime. ED 1, horrible. OP1, lower than meh? ED 2 meh. VA was meh. I feel like it was a directing problem, not the actors. Too many and very consistent mistakes in regards of how the scenes…
Read at the sourcetripleaamin
Most people are familiar with "Sentenced to Be a Hero" which is a light novel series written by Rocket Shoukai, which aired in Winter 2026. At the same time, this show, "Scum of the Brave" debuted. The most notable thing is the production values are much lower here. Which, alone with it being an action anime, can be a deal breaker.
However, if you are willing to give it a chance, this show can be shown to be a hidden gem. Many shows like My Hero Academia talk about what it means to be a hero. In the title, we Scum and Brave as Brave can be equivalent to being a hero. As the title points out to Yashiro because he is scum, but as the show goes on, he clearly has heroic categories. As a protagonist, Yashiro fits the anti-hero mold.
Taking that into effect, how his 3 students play off him is…
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