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Jul 20, 2024 1:19 PM
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It´s...perfect
Jul 21, 2024 6:25 AM

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The night of the rebellion continues, though it is the uncle of Tokiyuki and Kunitoki's, Muneshige Godaiin, to help the latter escape whilst Yorushige escorts the former out. And where the daughter duo and Tokiyuki are at the heavily guarded border of Kamakura awaiting their time to escape....they just played games like it was never-ending, leaving Tokiyuki to run back to his residence to see if anything remained. But as the hears of no matter who they've worked in the past, be it the Ashikaga or the samurai who've worked for the family, it's all nothing but betrayals back-to-back. The only one Tokiyuki could AND should trust is Yorishige, despite his comical behaviour to see the belligerent state of the Shogunate.

Tokiyuki wanting to improve his martial arts, it's Kojiro Nezu and Ayako Mochizuki who will help him excel. And the first step is to lure Muneshige to Tokiyuki alongside the two kids to face him off in a game of tag to avenge for selling Kunitoki off. The commonaliuty for Yorushige to stop both Kojiro and Ayako to see Tokiyuki's elusiveness as a strength, he's a gleeful monster on the battlefield whilst needing support as a weak samurai in terms of strength. And that encapsulates Tokiyuki's first success fight.

CloverWorks really amp up on their animation game for this show, impressive.
Jul 21, 2024 11:24 AM
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animation was crazy, this show has a bunch of different artstyles so it definitely feels very experimental. but so far looks great! I like the look of the main character and the character designs in general look very cool
Jul 21, 2024 6:31 PM
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the visuals are amazing an i am also enjoying the dinamic camera angles, the problem is, well everything else, the characters, storytelling, comedy all that is quite mediocre and at times, quite bad
Jul 23, 2024 6:14 AM
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This anime is so insanely good I LOVE the art, all the vibrant colours despite how dark the anime actually is, and just seeing Tokiyuki have fun is so beautiful his smile and everything. I love this.

Jul 23, 2024 7:19 PM

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The artistic direction is insane. I paused multiple times just to admire the individual frames. It’s such a joy to watch.

Jul 26, 2024 10:11 AM

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I'm so glad the uncle didn't turn out to be a pushover.

The tone is still a bit confusing but the serious scenes like the boss fight against the uncle are still pretty solid.




Jul 28, 2024 4:02 AM

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Poor Tokiyuki's brother. I thought he might survive but it was so sad to see the betrayal. That was painful to watch. Looks like Tokiyuki now has some friends protecting him. Nice.
Jul 28, 2024 6:35 PM
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What a good and exciting episode, I hope it continues like this.
Jul 29, 2024 4:49 PM

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I am guessing by the amount response this has and the absurdly high rating
that this must be based on some manga popular with the younguns.

The tone is all over the place, and is decisively unserious despite the violent imagery; and they keep dropping the word "hero"....
and they show all the ally characters who are also young, in the intro. the opening song is exactly like the kind of music I would have thought was Peak when I was 9.... actually not, even at age 9 I had better taste in music.
There are pretty strong shonen vibes... when will the 8 episode training arc start?
Aug 2, 2024 1:15 PM

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They went crazy with the action sequence, looked great. The brutality continues but Tokiyuki takes the first crucial step. His two new retainers are nice, the girl is cute. Yorishige with the boardgame though.
Aug 8, 2024 2:43 AM

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I'm really loving the art style! Cloverworks did not hold back at all for this anime.

The uncle is such a scumbag betraying your own family is low but surprising during this era as people were more worried about their own well-being.

What a satisfying end!
Aug 24, 2024 7:52 PM

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Wow, I just watched episode 2.
The scenes were amazing.

I checked the manga, and the manga pages are simple, unlike the anime scene.
manga page, credit to mangaplus


remind me of Bocchi the Rock! animated by CloverWorks as well.
and when I checked their entries on MAL, my oh my....

Same staffs involved in BtR project also involved this project as well!
Hamaguchi, Akira - Key Animation 
Itou, Yuuki - Animation Director & Key Animation 
Itou, Yuuki - Key Animation 
Kawakami, Yuusuke - Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director, Key Animation
Miwa, Shuuhei - Animation Director & Key Animation 
Miyauchi, Takashi - Animation Director & Key Animation 
Nogya - Animation Director & Key Animation 
Saitou, Keiichirou - Key Animation 
Tomita, Mari - Animation Director & Key Animation 
Yamamoto, Yuusuke - Key Animation


Great adaptation!
For me, this is one of the series where you need to consume it in anime medium!




Aug 26, 2024 10:48 AM
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Anybody who doesn't like the first 2 episodes but still watch anime are kind of crazy. This is 11/10 for me. The animation blew my mind away. Very very surprised this isn't picked up by more watcher. Hopefully this is not indicative of the future episodes!!
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Aug 27, 2024 11:27 AM
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ok i take back what i said last episode... the kids are adorable. but THAT BITVH Suwa i get that he's supposed to be creepy and goofy but this knowledge doesn't make him any more likable

the animation changing so often and so suddenly is fun but has a weirdly cheap look at times, hope to see some improvement on that as the series progresses
Aug 30, 2024 10:13 AM
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Amazing visual treat. Loved it.
Sep 4, 2024 6:32 PM
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this is realy a good anime
Sep 14, 2024 6:46 PM

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I have to beat a horse here, not sure if it's dead yet. The match shot from episode 1 has been referenced twice in this episode, and it's honestly making me think this is probably the best match shot in all of cinema, like even better than the 2001 match shot. The first time, it reveals to the viewer that the decapitated head was his brother's, which adds a whole lot of meaning to the scene before that match shot. The second time, it serves as a temporal transition, which is the more typical way match shots are used, and finally lets us see the end of that scene. It's not just a one-off creative flourish, but a seed that was planted with the next episode in mind. I'm honestly kind of amazed how well this series is committing to such a cheesy premise.
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Sep 19, 2024 4:06 AM

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Heads will roll, again - yay for the uncle, nay for the brother :(

Tonal shifts, obscene smiles and shota bait multiple times a day.

They've put soon-to be-dead characters in the OP/ED so the seriousness of the whole thing is scarce to me.

"I wanna take him home"? Get in line girl.
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watching, waiting, commiserating
Sep 25, 2024 7:31 PM
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comedy in this is a mood killer fr a whole county got killed people dying and my clown dude over here busting jokes. there is a time and place for dumb jokes but not when the mc just lost everything i cant understand this why use comedy in the middle of something serious, i get the creator wants to give clown dude a quirky persona but he should have waited after all this dark stuff had settled , this series would have been better as a Seinen like dororo instead of a shounen the editors at jump must have been desperate asf to had ok the comely stuff after all them killings

Sep 26, 2024 1:36 AM
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@Youbamii *tok tok*
In fact, Tezuka's «Dororo» is definitely a shonen manga from its origin, consistently (it was serially carried through «Weekly Shonen Sunday» and «Monthly Bouken Ou»).
I was a happy kid playing tag when I was watching the re-aired anime.
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Sep 26, 2024 5:52 PM

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they sure were going for a breezy ride at start and then killed everyone



shows signs that they will annoy me for sure with half hearted comedy & plot mix . so , out after next one!
Sep 27, 2024 2:44 PM
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Catching up on this, may have noticed an easter egg there.

It's at 9:38 where the purple and green-eyed characters exchange the line "kininarimasu".

That's a line from Hyouka, could be a coincidence... except that the voice actor saying it was Houtarou from Hyouka, the one who "kininarimasu" was most frequently directed towards. This just feels intentional at this point.
Sep 28, 2024 5:45 AM
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Envy, you've got careful ears (that's on par with Ichikawa's ability in ep. #06).
Chitanda's punch line is "私、気になります!: Watashi, kini narimasu!" (I, am curious about it! / I, want to know it!). Her emphatic way of saying it is distinctive, but the phrase is pretty ordinary.
Yorishige said "気になりまするか?: Kini narimasuru ka?", exactly as you listened.
They're mostly the same phrases, but in interrogative.

Not only that, the latter is also in pseudo-archaic style, as in a historical play for the audience in our day. Such like:

Do you want to know [where your uncle is] ?
-> Dost thou witen [wher thy uncle is] ?

I'd remark that it's not on allusive purpose but just a coincidence.
Oct 4, 2024 6:14 PM
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i liked the changing of animation styles and that its silly and serious at the same time.
Oct 19, 2024 7:21 AM
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Nice so MC has already some fighting comrades to help protect him and to allow to attack while he dodges, he's just way too good at it ahaha , and he already got his revenge against his traitor uncle, wow I didn't think he would directly cut his head but that's well deserved I guess
Nov 25, 2024 1:54 PM
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I've had enough of the shaman. everything abt him annoys me to no end
Nov 28, 2024 5:27 AM

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I love how the show easily shows heads rolling! 🙃💀🔥
Nov 29, 2024 12:36 PM

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Ehhhh... hmmm... Tokiyuki's aloofness is annoying, and I hated that creepy scene with the priest (though it's not super different than something like Master Roshi in Dragon Ball). They teamed up to kill his uncle, but it was still sort of weird and lacking in the expected complex emotions from such an act. I hope this picks up.
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Dec 16, 2024 7:24 AM
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What's with this horribly hammy, full-on, cartoony story and storytelling?

Hayao Miyazaki was right.
Dec 19, 2024 4:23 PM

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What a bastard uncle selling out the brother like that.
The scenes with Suwa are rather funny.
Good job by Tokiyuki getting revenge.

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I'm not happy with the way the creepy priest getting cozy with the little boy. Put some distance freak.
If this goes on, I'll drop.
Jan 22, 6:19 PM

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That dodge scene without full coloring was really cool
I feel like it should be a one time thing or else it will get old

Comedy just feels over the top though
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Feb 7, 3:46 AM
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Tokiyuki locates his uncle Muneshige Godain who captures and executes Tokiyuki's older brother Kunitoki. Tokiyuki vows revenge.
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