天下制覇

Before venturing forth.

Impressions:

While excessively generic, the start of this episode was still pretty awesome. There were a couple times when I rolled my eyes… shots of furniture in the middle of the fight for example, but otherwise, it was a hell of a lot better animated and drawn than the promo material indicated it would be. It got a bit lamer and stupidly comedic in strange ways as it went along, but it’s still one of the better shonen shows that I’ve seen in awhile.

It wasn’t without a few faults. The art was occasionally a little dodgy, and… yeah… it absolutely reeks of fairly generic RPG/shonen adventure, but if it’s well animated and interesting enough, it’s hard to be too mad at it for that. Animation and choreography is mostly good, and really, what more can you ask for in your RPG shonen fighting stuff. Still, you’ve got it all… youth with a mysterious power… magical sword only he can use, annoying female sidekick that gets captured immediately… evil villain who burns down his hometown… the works.

Man, though… what’s with the clusterfuck of quality shows on Thursday and Sunday and almost no other day? Why can’t you adapt to my whims, Japan? *sigh* I’m not certain what I’m going to do for Sundays anymore, and this just blurs the line even further. Jyushin Enbu is definitely worth at least checking out and I’m sure it’ll gain a fast following among the Bleach/Naruto crowd, so hopefully tons of others will latch onto it, relieving me of any guilt over it not getting covered.

No summaries for the first episodes. I write as I watch, and I don’t know if I’ll care about a show until after the first episode.

Jyushin Enbu OP