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Quick questionnaire:
- Do you like good action regardless of story?
- Do you like watching content like Rooster Teeth's Death Battle?
- Do you love polished, high-speed, bad-ass action cutscenes w/ sword and gunplay such as the ones from Devil May Cry?

If your answer is yes to all, then Ishura is an anime for you! Definitely a MUST WATCH for action-enjoyers!

Ishura is set in a world where the "True Demon King" was defeated. This common enemy united everyone for a common cause, but now that the Demon King is gone, nothing is keeping all the battle crazed-warriors and other dangerous creatures preoccupied. To maintain peace, Aureatia, the ... largest country in the world of Ishura, answers this problem by politically creating the perfect battlefield to have these national threats kill each other.

Ishura Season 1 has a MOBA-ish setting with 2 factions and their respective heroes/champions battling each other, similar to Fate/Apocrypha, with the distinctive difference that Ishura has heroes of different species, not just humanoid ones, and that Ishura introduces their fighters with well defined characteristics, personalities, skills and arsenals, similar to MOBA games with their character spotlights and Rooster Teeth's Death Battle.

Ishura does not have good storytelling nor well-written characters, but it features a lot of well set up, and well matched battles; high-mechanic battles that show each fighter's abilities, speed, range, physiology, limitations, and how they fare against each other. They have well directed action storyboards paired with good action animation that are presented similarly to Hunter x Hunter Chimera Ant Arc and Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2, where battles are monologued or narrated strategically so that viewers will be able to follow and appreciate what is happening. All these, with good voice acting and decent battle music, and even trash talk! It's a toxic PVP gamer's paradise!

Things you can expect in the anime that I would like to highlight:
- 20sec of immersive, epic voice acting from Koichi, Makoto which delivers escalating levels of horrific pain; from groans, whimpers to screeches
- super strategic battle between a wyvern leader and his swarm vs their 6 core-item locked wyvern deserter
- ultra instinct sinbad/alibaba vs ghost in the shell spider waifu

tl;dr: very good action anime! go watch! enjoy!

The fillers have gone so bad for this show that the content is now unwatchable.

If you just want the visuals and the soundtracks, better to just play OP, EDs on youtube.
Haruhi's endless eight is a lot more tolerable than 80 episodes of filler, quality-wise and quantity-wise.

This is definitely becoming a NOT WATCH. People should discourage the production team to continue this any further.

As of 96 episodes and about 2yrs of airing, the only episodes you will enjoy watching here is Boruto Gaiden (ep. 19-23) and the Chuunin exam (ep. 53-66). So that is currently 17/96 episodes. Your choice if you will still continue as ... a Naruto fan.