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When I first heard about this anime , and the concept behind it I was intrigued as it sounded rather interesting. As the story about an black samurai who might have actually excised sounds like an great premise for an show with an good story and an lot of sword fighting.


However what I got was not what I was expecting as I think the original premise would have bin fine to build an anime about. So the addition of mechs and magic was an bit of an overkill. Even if it did allow for one or two decent fight scenes , but overall did not ... really add to the story.

The fight scenes in general were at it best when it was just Yasuke fighting as the swordfighting scenes were great.

The big negatives were mostly the sound choices and characters as most suffer from not being used to their potential. As in the end you don't really end up caring what will happen to any of them except for Yasuke and Saki.

So if you want to see some decent swordfights then you should watch it , but if your expecting an historical account of the character Yasuke then you should skip this and watch something else.

When I first saw the trailer , and learned what the story would be about I expected that I would end up hating this anime. However after watching the first four episodes I found that it was better then I expected.

As the characters are well written , and will make you want to finish it. As you hope that the main characters will survive what is happening in the anime . The music also is pretty good , and compliment the series.

Still it ain't perfect as the animation itself is not the best that I have seen , and I felt that the deaths ... in the beginning seem to just be their to shock you.However as the serie progress they do seem to serve an purpose as it helps build the story however.