

The same goes for the voice acting everybody felf half-asleep while talking. Where is fun in that? And just listen to those songs they have nothing much to care about. They are all replaced by demons exploding or shadows hiding the view or are taken out entirely and presented simply as bloodless punches. Forget those severed heads and limbs and fountains of blood you saw in the manga.

The visual effects are not bad there are explosions everywhere! Still, they seem out of place most of the time, since the computer generated graphics really stand out next to non-CGI most of the times. And where is the damn motion? You barely see clashes or slashes of weapons it’s just static images that flash for a fraction of a second. They shorted them considerably too a battle could last for two entire volumes in the manga and here it finishes in 30 seconds. They turned from awesome to a parade of still images and low-budget effects. Here, they look like they are forced to express anything. Look at those grimaces! The characters in the manga had really insane looks. PRODUCTION VALUES Well what can one expect from DEEN? Average to bad animation and sloppy artwork. The anime drops it to 12 in order to broaden the audience and piss the hell out of the fans of the manga. And boy, this series messed big time!This review will make a lot of comparisons to the manga, as I feel it ruined the original story to a great extend.

A major factor in making a successful shonen series is NOT to make the audience think. In this version, the plot was so boring that you had plenty of time to think how stupid it all was. Yet, it didn’t feel stupid in the original version, as the continual epic battles and dramatic pauses left no space for you to think this reasonably. Its adaptation to anime tried to speed up things in order to get to the point faster, but did so many changes and watering down that turned an otherwise ok title to a bull-fest of mediocrity.It is true that the story is somewhat generic and ends in a very WTF way. Damn those adaptation decays! The original was very pleasing to keep reading, despite falling to the usual pitfalls of shonen series. LEGACY Having read the manga the series is based upon I can say for certain that this is the worst anime adaptation I have come across in my life. The only other work he has made and got animated is Code Breaker, which is far from good.

Based (very loosely) on the manga by Kamiju Akimine and it is a fine samuai action story. His best works amongst them was the second half of Ranma 1/2 (the part where it gets bad) and Nurarihyon no Mago (a more than typical shonen show). THE STAFF - Animated by studio DEEN, which means bad production values and shitty adaptation.- Directed by Nishimura Junji, who despite his numerous projects, he has prodused nothing of importance.
