Category: Ousama Ranking

After a month off from writing about Ousama Ranking, I’m here to wrap up my Spring show.  How did our small king end up?  Will this kickstart a franchise or be just a pleasant show in a crappy season?  Before we look at the series as a whole, let’s examine these final four episodes – two of which were fantastic…and two of which were not.
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Why isn’t Ousama Ranking – for all its engaging characters, immersive world, and outstanding animation – the anime I want to watch first every week?  On paper, this show should be perfect – what’s my problem?  This week I think I’ve figured it out.  Let’s take a look!
Continue reading “Ousama Ranking – 18/19 [Battle with Deities/Last Bastion]” →

There’s not an easy way to put this – I just haven’t been as into anime lately.  Aside from Yaiba which finished out this week (excellently, I might add) and Ousama Ranking, I find myself frequently falling behind or skipping through episodes I otherwise would have enjoyed.  Maybe I’m just getting old -maybe this just isn’t the best season.  No matter my complaints, Ousama Ranking’s latest trio of episodes – which have taken me so long to write about – are certainly doing their part to keep the flame alive.

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Ousama Ranking is back after two weeks of other anime activities!  And it’s…a mixed brace of episodes.  There are things I love and a few points I have a problem with.  Let’s take a look!

Continue reading “Ousama Ranking – 13/14 [Kingdom in Turmoil/The Prince’s Return]” →

Ousama Ranking ends its first half with a bang…and a banger of a new OP. Seriously, check it out:

That is clearly my OP of the new season!

Continue reading “Ousama Ranking – 11/12 [Older and Younger Brothers/ Footsteps of War]” →

We finally get to see our Bojji in action!  This week features a bar fight, a scam, and some very understandable suspicions.  Let’s go!

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Ousama Ranking has superb visuals every week.  We’ve seen hints of what they can do with their cast, but this week two of the primary supporting characters come into their own.  As everyone expected it’s…the (not-so) dead king and the stepmother?!
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This week’s Ousama Ranking comes as a doubleheader – for an unusual reason.  Normally, when I don’t get around to writing for a week, it’s a personal issue of time management.  In this case, our double feature comes because I just didn’t feel I could fairly judge episode 7 “Prince’s Apprenticeship”, without seeing the following episode.  Let’s take a look!

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This week was certainly an episode of Ousama Ranking. It was not an episode I’ll remember for long.

“King of the Underworld” was a bit of a chore to watch. With several flashbacks and a fighting sequence that we had basically seen before, there wasn’t the series’ usual heart in this one.

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