Enjoyable overall. For me: a keeper in my anime archive. Fun characters with individuality (talents, and quirks, even), purpose, and development. Observant of details of everyday life in the Enoshima/Fujisawa area, set during a high school summer break. Embedded within its creative kit, it sympathetically explores subtle and sublime elements of Shinto spiritualism, primarily kotodama, but also the concept of spirits inhabiting other bits of our world, and our exchanges with same. Asks a bit of generosity from the viewer regarding some of its details, plot, and development, but I found this was easily granted.
Rather emphatic on the
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Jun 24, 2022
Tokyo Ravens
(Anime)
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In it, I see gorgeous artwork, appealing character design and rendering, and an energetic storyline with touches of emotion, sympathy, and a grasp of Japan's depths of spirituality. No, it's not Great World Literature, but it has a pleasantly potent magic as it wields both the expected and unexpected in crafting an anime composition. Perhaps we will be presented with a second season of TR soon.
The flow of each episode is enhanced by the excellent creative sense for pacing and content. The pacing of scenes and their themes seems just right, enriched by quick insertions of funny details, such as when ... |
