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Apr 7, 2009 12:02 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Turns out pretty well imo, i wouldn't mind if they overdid it even more.

and i think this one just won the worst OP and ED award for this season. I wonder if they didn't put enough money and people into it.
Apr 8, 2009 2:09 AM
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Good first episode. More mature than ever. The art on characters is flawless.
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Apr 8, 2009 4:25 AM
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wat can i say... its not exactly the best first episode but it could be worse

the part i dont get is why were cao cao fighting the bakuretsu dan people? the reason wasnt mentioned they just randomly fight and cao cao somehow won by talking bullshit and pointing fingers at people

as for the op, i find the tune to be not that bad but the person shouting was just lamn
Apr 9, 2009 2:19 PM
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So... nobody's subbing this?
Apr 11, 2009 7:18 AM
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Alexstratz said:
So... nobody's subbing this?


Kesenai is. They sure take their time though.

I'm really looking forward to this. Heard a lot of good things about the manga and I like the ROTK period to begin with. The first episode wasn't anything amazing but some of the large scale battle scenes in the OP were.
Apr 11, 2009 7:21 AM
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_Antix_ said:
Alexstratz said:
So... nobody's subbing this?


Kesenai is. They sure take their time though.

I'm really looking forward to this. Heard a lot of good things about the manga and I like the ROTK period to begin with. The first episode wasn't anything amazing but some of the large scale battle scenes in the OP were.

Me just happy something serious like this instead of things like Koihime Musous even if funny and ecchi. Better honor for history to serious things like this anime.
Apr 12, 2009 8:34 AM
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This show looks really interesting, I hope someone subs it soon.
Apr 15, 2009 7:06 PM
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it wasnt the type of material that i'd normally be interested in, and i checked out the first ep just out of... checking everything out, but it turned out to be one of the few i really like out of this season's new anime. also watched episode 2, and it IS really good. will definitely go on watching!
Apr 19, 2009 6:59 AM
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[KSN] Souten Kouro
OMFG SUBS FINNALY
Apr 19, 2009 8:18 AM

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chaostrik3r said:
[KSN] Souten Kouro
OMFG SUBS FINNALY


Thanks for the heads up!

Excited to watch this. ^^
Apr 19, 2009 8:25 AM

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Yay, subs.
Apr 19, 2009 1:51 PM

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This was quite disappointing. I love the concept of this series, but the execution was sorely lacking. The pacing felt sloppy, the directing was unimpressive, and the violence was more amusing than brutal. And wow did that OP suck. Unless I hear good things about the next episode I will not be continuing this series.
Apr 19, 2009 2:59 PM

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Awesome. I loved the animation, and also found the soundtrack enjoyable. Really liked the over the top-fights, and the plot could be good, will have to wait and see. Over all a very positive first impression, one of the best of the season.
Apr 19, 2009 5:13 PM

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Glad I finally was able to watch this, I'm definitely liking it so far. I think this could develop to be really awesome.

It gives me such a vibe of Twelve Kingdoms. ^^
Apr 19, 2009 5:15 PM

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Awesome. I loved the animation, and also found the soundtrack enjoyable. Really liked the over the top-fights, and the plot could be good, will have to wait and see. Over all a very positive first impression, one of the best of the season.

Thank you very much for "one of the best season" because me agree to it.
Apr 19, 2009 5:19 PM

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Kesenai kept the japanese version of the names. This bothered me to no end since I'm used to the chinese versions.
Apr 19, 2009 8:49 PM

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Didn't really like the animation/style. Action was alright, but everything else was lacking. Dropped.
Apr 20, 2009 3:34 AM

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Finally, subs!

As expected from MadHouse, the production values are pretty high. The animation is well done and I like the art style. The fact that they kept the japanese names kind of disturbed me, but I guess I can bare with it. It's also nice to see a show where Cao Cao is the protagonist, I'm curious as to how this will turn out.

Right now I'd describe this show as Romance of the Three Kingdoms with Heavy Metal. And it rocks. :D
Apr 20, 2009 4:23 AM

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ok i personally thought this was horrible and all over the place, there's just so many bad things about it. thing is i was laughing so hard at a lot of it cause of how stupid it was. maybey it's just me but this is an anime i would classify as so bad its funny. or atleast from what i saw on this first episode. I'm gonna keep watching for the gore and laughs but i may drop if it stays crap.

i gotta say though the way he killed the guy at the start was awesome.
Apr 20, 2009 9:04 AM

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Well I've expected it to be better, but still I can't judge it from just the first episode.

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Kesenai kept the japanese version of the names. This bothered me to no end since I'm used to the chinese versions.

Yeah, it bothered me to.
Apr 20, 2009 9:08 AM

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It started off well but pacing went a little overboard afterwards. OP and ED are teh lulz.
Apr 20, 2009 11:12 AM

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It was nice disappointing, i was expected completely crap but it's actually pretty good and Kesenai does good job with Japanese version of names.
Apr 20, 2009 2:58 PM
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The OP song was actually really good, though I'm sure it's not everyone's cup of tea. Too bad the full version is weak... The episode itself was okay. They are not afraid of showing us some blood, which is a good thing in my eyes.
Apr 21, 2009 9:59 PM

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Hmmm, well, for once my negative opinons don't seem to be in the minority. MadHouse seems to be failing of late by trying to use their great production value to either up terrible stories (Chaos;Head) or assuage the fact that they blow their load way too early in the shows' run (Casshern and Rideback). I was hoping this could be a fresh start, but so far it doesn't look like it. I think I'll give it a couple more episodes to put itself together, but this maybe a dropper for me. Not to mention that KSN (who took forever to do Blade of the Immortal) is subbing it, making sure that I'll probably forget about this rather quickly.
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That kid had some solid shoes, jumping on the sword like that.

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Apr 22, 2009 5:57 PM

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LunarAnime put out the first episode, they will probably be the best subs available from the looks of it.

Enjoyable episode, looking forward to the next one.

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Apr 22, 2009 10:38 PM

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If you prefer the Chinese names of the characters, I would recommend watching the Animanda version.
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Apr 22, 2009 10:41 PM

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so this is going to be one of those bloody uncensored type anime, okay then, well at least the plot is interesting
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Apr 23, 2009 3:13 AM

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Lunar ftw and the chubby guy is way too imba xD

Apr 23, 2009 2:14 PM

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fuck yeah, violence.

that was manly as hell.
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Apr 24, 2009 11:37 PM

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It was a good start.I'm expecting a lot from this anime.I hope for a serious historical portrait.The things that "turned me off" was the ridiculously fight when Kyo Cho was involved.He could grab the horse with his bare hands that easily?Yeah right.Plus that "amazing" storm coincidence(!) when Sou Sou had that fight with the Bandits.It also seemed like a spell.I thought there wouldn't be anything supernatural involved?
Anyway i'll keep watching...^^
Apr 30, 2009 3:04 AM

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cyruz said:
That kid had some solid shoes, jumping on the sword like that.
I so thinking the same thing.. the way the guys head flew off o_O

I liked Xu Chu, hope me see him again. Aman, now Cao Cao, was pretty cool in winning the battle of words too.
May 3, 2009 6:46 PM

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Ive past the last two days trying to find a good anime.....and damnit, i've found one.
May 17, 2009 7:06 AM

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Ok just saw first episode. I agree that OP and ED are terrible but the anime wasn't that bad as some make it here to be. I haven't really formed a solid opinion from one episode only. So i would keep watching and see.

By the way. LOL!! at Freeza voice telling the story. I wonder how no else haven't comment on that. Maybe not many people saw the Japanese version of Dragonball Z.
Sep 10, 2009 7:32 PM

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cyruz said:
That kid had some solid shoes, jumping on the sword like that.

seriously

btw, what's so manly about getting the crap beat out of you instead of fighting back? good kick to the groin would have been both easy and effective. assuming that Aman wasn't stupid, he was carrying a weapon and could have followed up with something lethal right then and there. he would have had to have dropped the box, but that would have caused less damage to it than his eventual solution and wouldn't have risked his life or that of his bodyguard to anywhere near the same degree.


not a fan of graphic violence, especially when it looks like it'll be overused in order to mask lazy writing.

so many plot holes, I've already lost track of them.

anyone else get Godzilla flashbacks from the intro?

main is obviously supposed to be a hero, but he comes across as more of an arrogant, egocentric ass to me.

think I might have liked this more if I was born in Asia somewhere, definitely feeling a culture gap with some of this stuff.
Sep 24, 2009 12:11 PM

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By the way. LOL!! at Freeza voice telling the story. I wonder how no else haven't comment on that. Maybe not many people saw the Japanese version of Dragonball Z.


heh) that voice is also in bleach, that captain with that uses poison) with blue mask)

awesome episode
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Monad said:
Ok just saw first episode. I agree that OP and ED are terrible but the anime wasn't that bad as some make it here to be. I haven't really formed a solid opinion from one episode only. So i would keep watching and see.

By the way. LOL!! at Freeza voice telling the story. I wonder how no else haven't comment on that. Maybe not many people saw the Japanese version of Dragonball Z.


LOL! I thought i recognized the voice from somewhere, but i just didnt knew whose voice it was.

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anyone else get Godzilla flashbacks from the intro?


I did. LOL
Feb 19, 2011 7:52 AM

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THAT was boring...not even the fights and gore made me enjoy it one bit, only the 2 "Miss Magazine" girls after the ED did i enjoy -.-"
Mehh i'll watch 2 more or so and decide x_x
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Expected utter crap, but it's above that for now.

OP wasn't bad, until the screamin' or whatever came on. o.O

It's not drawing me in though, and I'm not really liking Cao Cao... eh, we'll see how this goes.
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That was uhh...interesting! I'm not too familiar with this time period or the philosophies but it seems like there's promise. Absolutely brutal though. The OP and ED are pretty meh though and that dragon at the beginning is going to give me nightmares. The close up on his donkey lips, yuck...
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That was uhh...interesting! I'm not too familiar with this time period or the philosophies but it seems like there's promise. Absolutely brutal though. The OP and ED are pretty meh though and that dragon at the beginning is going to give me nightmares. The close up on his donkey lips, yuck...


Knowledge of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms version helps immensely.
It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether!
It's an entirely different kind of flying.
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This was surprisingly a bad first episode for me. There were moments that I enjoyed, like the protagonist getting the documents stolen and him getting revenge, but the skipping around through time was a bit confusing and I didn't really follow the main point of any of it, aside from the introduction of the mc. I'm honestly not feeling this, even though I love historical anime around this period.
I'll give the second episode a shot, but I'm not excited moving forward.
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That was the worst 1st episode I've ever seen, or every anime site seems to have mixed up episode 1 with something else.


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Souten Kouro is very Deep/Emocional/Historical,you gotta see this :) 10/10
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Cao Cao's intro wasn't the best but it improved so much until the end of the 1st episode :P Also.. Xu Chu is an absolute UNIT
Jun 19, 2023 5:02 AM
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what fucktards watch this crap?
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The first episode of the series has disappointed my expectations. I will not judge it harshly for that reason however. It just seemed unrealistic to me. These series that are considered historical should have much more realism. Who would believe the 1st scene, the beating that happened or tried to convince a general by speaking from a distance?
Despite this, I'm sure the anime will eventually improve, but it will have these medium-small flaws.

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