Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls
Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a real samurai and fights a bunch of cute girls who are also samurai.
Oh… the pain. Granted: this show looks cool. It’s got this neat filter and background art style that give it a bit of a unique retro feel. The opening of this episode in which those airplanes were sliced down for no possible reason had a great atmosphere. So, what did the creators chose as the first scene to introduce the lead characters with? By having the male lead walking into the female leads as they are changing their clothes. I mean, come on. It’s 2010. Are we ever going to abandon that horrible cliche? Apart from that, there are a number of other things about this series that I just hate. There’s first of all the present: after Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Arms has moved on from that now and chosen Japanese history to randomly rip off without giving its teenaged characters any link or similarity to their respective counterpart, making it rip off one of the parts I hated from Ikkitousen and Koihime Musou. The delivery also leaves a lot to be desired here: when this show focuses on action, and nothing but action, it’s actually pretty good. Anything that involves actual acting though… not so much. The voice acting and the facial animation of the characters are just terrible, especially when this show tries to be funny. I mean, you actually have to try to make jokes that bad.
OP: Aside from the fanservice, I have nothing against this OP. A solid introduction compared to how badly acted this show turned out.
ED: The ED in contrast is pointless fanservice and annoying J-pop
Potential: 5%
Some Quick First Impressions: Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls
too many stain for censorship, oh well…
Wait, this is ta trailer ya talking about and I didn’t just magically teleport into ta start of ta Fall Season, right…?
Ah, that’s a shame. I shouldn’t have had any expectations given the studio, but I couldn’t tell at all whether this was just fanservice or something more substantive. Earlier I saw the trailer and it only confused me more; luring me in with the artstyle only to pile on the nudity. Even the censorship fits with the art.
I gotta say I love the artstyle here… Its a shame its wasted on something like this… At least I hope some uncensored version comes and shows the full goods LOL
If I gave up on every anime that had a questionable first episode, I wouldn’t watch a lot of anime.
The graphic style alone is enough to keep me interested.
Dumbest premise ever.. Seriously, can’t they come up with a better story concept than this? Skip
The opening scene with the samurai girls cutting up B29s completely turned me off to the show. The whole “Great Japan is beautiful and jealous nations try to invade” is self righteous, revisionist garbage. If I wanted to watch ignorant delusional rubbish, all I need do is flip on Fox News and watch coverage of the Tea Party.
The rest of the episode was just as sickening, but for completely different reasons…
series skip for me
RobotMartini, you expect an anime about samurai girls cutting up planes to be taken seriously as a new channel? It might be bad for other reasons, but what you mention isn’t one of them.