![]() ![]() Every dark and more bloody episode has their funny moment.Īs announced in the last episode of the season, we will eventually get a second season, we just don’t know which year it will happen. The balance between the comedy and the fight/action is good. Now that the first season is over, I can tell you that I enjoyed every single episode of the series. ![]() They didn’t come up with a stupid reason behind her being with the Black King. Turning Joan of Arc into a villain is also interesting since she is a Saint, but the reason why she is on the bad side of the story is logical. ![]() I liked the idea of taking various historical figure and make them fight each other, people who would never meet in real life since they are coming from different era. Bright color doesn’t really have their place here. This series is definitely part of my favorite anime of 2016.ĭrifters is quite different from all the other anime I watch from 2016, it’s probably one of the darkest, and I’m not only talking about the story and all the blood we see, but also the choose of color. That one will apparently see the fate of human civilization in this world hang in the balance.I was finally able to watch the last episode of the first season of Drifters and now it’s time to give you my last impression on the show. Orte seems to have been something of a misdirection, with the real battle to come after it’s fallen. Germin and the Black King (with Rasputin and Hijikata on point) had notions of taking over the empire and using it as a puppet, but with the arrival of the Drifters the Black King seems more than willing to change his plan to simply destroying it. Orte is starting to look pretty irrelevant here. Toyohisa and Yoichi continue to do their thing in more or less straightforward fashion, but Oda always tries and grasp the big picture. He can see the future he’s unleashing by beginning this arms race, and being Oda he’s not especially bothered by it. That’s fascinating because Oda was an almost unbelievably modern man for his time and place, and you can see the moments where his towering intellect collides head-in with his limited experiences. That part of the series is genuinely interesting, as is watching Oda try and wrap his mind around this era that he finds himself in. I’m not going to drop a series a week from the end, but there are times when Drifters really makes me want to (and that will certainly weigh on my decision whether or not to cover or even watch the likely second season).įor now, I hope the finale focuses as much on the geopolitic and as little on the stone-aged homophobia as possible. Truthfully, there are large parts of this episode about which the less is said, the better. We won’t find out in anime form of course, and who knows if the manga will even give readers a conclusive answer – but if this actually were a horse race, I’d be putting my money on Asuma and Nozomu. He’s also the only one of the boys (or Shima) who’s actually come right out and denounced the idea that Kae is a thing to be fought over and “taken”, and that alone gives him a leg up in my book. The fact that Asuma won by using trickery is not coincidental, of course – this experience has changed him, and while the others were right to be rooting for him, he’s obviously the much greater long-term threat than Kazuma. The battle itself is the funniest scene of a rather serious episode, with the students in attendance getting into it despite having no clue what’s happening either in text or subtext, and Shima pulling out all her BL-in-training props to lead the rest of the suitors in a cheering section. That culminates in a duel at “ Castle Guard” (which seems to be the uncool, nerdy kids version of Pokemon) which, being castle otaku, both brothers have some experience with. Irrespective of that, whether intentionally or not Kazuma has certainly forced his brother off the sidelines and into the battle for Kae. Considering that Asuma is afraid of dark places and that Kazuma is responsible for that in the first place, it’s kind of a bullying double-whammy. The stuff he pulls on his brother is pretty despicable too, culminating in locking him in a- well, locker. Never mind that he’s a teacher (he can shove that “student” excuse up his ass) putting the moves on Kae and using sexual innuendo as a weapon in his classroom, or that he uses blackmail and rumor-mongering. One thing I am sure about – Kazuma is a classic bully and a bastard, and not a magnificent one either. I haven’t quite figured out if his main role is to thrust his brother into pole position, or to actually be a contender himself. But while Kazuma is a pretty silly character, he’s also the kind of actual antagonist this series hasn’t dealt with up to this point. This has all gotten rather dark, hasn’t it? For the most part Watamodou has been content to immerse itself in silliness (with no small degree of success). ![]()
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