Most of the shows this season are energetic, over the top and fast-paced. I think that it’s because of that that this series is quite refreshing. I men, for a shounen series, it’s got a pretty calm and relaxed atmosphere, while the foundation it lays for its future drama is serious and well thought out.
It has unfortunately some production issues, like in this episode the point at which Yuki-onna tripped and the point where that snake youkai revealed his intentions: they could have been animated more solid. Overall though, I’m really liking what this series is building up to, with on one hand Rikuo’s alter ego that he has no idea of, while pursuing the life he chose for and on the other hand there’s the politics between the different youkai clans. This episode also used the youkai’s nature to cause trouble quite well in its drama.
The animation… is of course not that good, but that was to be expected. Deen’s staff has always been more a collection of artists, rather than animators, and that really shows here in this series again with some of the intricate youkai designs, plus that really cool-looking snake head in the action scene of this episode. I’m also really digging the soundtrack. The composer, Kouhei Tanaka turns out to be incredibly experienced, with a wide variety of different series he worked on. None of those really turned out to be memorable, but you can see (or hear) the care he put into the soundtrack here. It’s varied, yet very atmospheric. It could be his best work yet if this goes on.
Rating: * (Good)
I am really looking forward to see where this series goes. It has an Inuyasha feel to it, but I am liking the main cast a lot more than I initially liked Inuyasha and Kagome at this point of the show. I just hope this doesn’t become a 300+ episode series…
Once you watch and listen to Anime Sanjushi’s music, you’ll see that Kouhei Tanaka’s already worked on a memorable series.
/end of persuasion ^^;
What I like about the series is that the guy is not precisely a hero in all the sense of the word. He is more like an old style yakuza leader, with all the things about honor and chivalry.
“Deen’s staff has always been more a collection of artists, rather than animators, and that really shows here in this series again with some of the intricate youkai designs”
Uh.. shouldn’t the credit for those designs go to like uh.. the mangaka?
As far as Kouhei Tanaka is concerned, One Piece (both TV series and movies) has plenty of memorable music, compared to which Nurarihyon’s OST so far doesn’t really seem like anything special to me 😉
Please stop crediting the animation studios for the designs when its actually the mangaka…
Trying too hard to defend Deen? 😛 They are just not good at animating stuff. Even their good series (Shion no Ou) didn’t really have good animation.
Nurarihyon no Mago is a shounen series, that doesn’t have good animation. I often watch shounen series for the impressive battles and general eye candy. Mago has failed to impress in that aspect. I’ll give it a few more episodes to intrigue me with its story, but I don’t really see that happening.
Because “Shion no Ou” is low budget, this is not.
And saying “Nurarihyon no Mago” doesn’t have good animation is funny.
It has mediocre animation. It’s decent but nothing impressive.
Well, I don’t want to star a fight but I think saying “mediocre animation. It’s decent” sounds like a contradiction.
I think it has good animation, not great nor bad.
Sorry, bad english.
May i ask why is the manga and episode storybored is so different
how some the yokai look so different in size during the first season and second season