I will be talking about major spoilers right here, so people who are still following the subs (really, do give it a chance despite their slowness! This show is much, much harder to translate than any other series this season) might want to look away. I warned you. This sentence is meant to prevent spoilers from showing up in aggregator sites.
That was one of the most badass deaths I’ve ever seen. I mean, holy crap. I never expected the creators to kill off Oda Nobunaga this early in this series despite being the second most important character in the series, but the way in which he went was just completely mind-blowing. His final words were just the epitome of manliness. I couldn’t pick up whether that pot he obtained had anything to do with it, but either way: the beginning of this episode was just incredible.
And besides that, this completely changes everything about this series. Sasuke now finds himself without the master he’s been loyal to for sixteen years now (that was the right number, right?), and if I’m not mistaken, he has gotten dangerously close to accessing one of those three so-called legendary ceramics. What the hell is the rest of this series going to be about!?
The pacing also was just amazing. The slow way in which every scene played out was an amazing build-up, plus the graphics also were better than ever. I can’t believe how smooth the animation got at certain points here: that was like, completely fluid. The creators really did a wonderful job in order to bring this story to life, and the direction also was just fantastic, creating an impeccable atmosphere. I’ll stop now before I run out of adjective. Bottom-like: one of the riskiest and most unique shows of the season showed here once again that it’s one of my favourite shows of the season.
Rating: **** (Fantastic)
the nobunaga thing… thats not really that unrealistic…as he dies basically in the middle of his campaign to unify Japan pretty much in the middle of it. Im suprised that most adaptations dont really go into that like this one does…
Wow! I finally got a chance to see this episode, and WOW. That was the craziest death scene I have ever watched. It was so fitting for the larger than life idea of Oda Nobunaga that is popular in this age.
Well, Hyouge Mono’s hardly about Nobunaga, is it? It’s about Furuta Sasuke, with the great unifiers’ battles or whatever occurring at the same time.
And wow, yeah. The pacing this episode was incredible! Imagine if all your run-of-the-mill harem series were directed like Hyouge Mono. That’d certainly be interesting.
(BTW, I think it’s 24 years of services from Huzzah’s translations.)
Amazing way to go out.
Nobunaga’s early demise proved the creators had donkey kong-sized balls to go with their deft touch and masterful directing.