s01e12 — The Goodbye Kiss

I really like action movies, of course, it's pointless to watch a lot of them, but after a series of cuts, heavy things, or just "relax" they go perfectly. Ikki Tousen and Queen's_blade have been viewed in their entirety, all multiple seasons, ovals and specials. By and large, these three fendoms are identical, except that they use different surroundings. Everywhere, the basis of the plot is a war of several sides, so the narrative is the same everywhere: the gradual appearance of characters, many battles, and the final powerful battle. But, in my opinion, Hyakka Ryoran loses a lot to the first two. Back in the first season, Ikki Tousen had twice as many characters, had great close-range combat, and Queen's_blade had a cool fantasy setting with magic and ninjutsu. Hyakka Ryoran has static fights, in the form of frozen alternating pictures (like guess for yourself), and there is also a vegetable-GG. Seriously, Muneakira behaves in the best traditions of the heroines of the otome film adaptations, a dull, sad face, complete misunderstanding of everything, inadequacy, immobility. He just stands there stupidly and watches, and the girls fall in love with him in droves. This ridiculous love is the third jamb of the series, after the fights and GG. The fourth annoying factor is censorship. On the one hand, it is beautifully made in the form of drops of ink falling from the calligrapher's brush, on the other hand, they get carried away over time, and if in the first episodes there were naked breasts or something below the waist under the drops, then at the end of the series the drops cover the floor of the screen just like that, if there is just a battle going on (and so static and boring) or for some unknown reason. The fifth and last, like, joint is 100% the banality of the series. They didn't do anything new from the word at all, all the lines, dialogues, situations are all old, the same series can just be glued together by several others.

Let's move on to the positive aspects. I really liked the graphics, they coolly plunge into the Middle Ages, or rather use its elements. This is expressed in the aforementioned ink, in the etched bamboos and general views, in the elements of clothing (I really liked the designs), in names, titles and much more. Although the drawing was lame at times, the faces looked crooked, and the anatomy was not correct. I liked the banter, mixing medieval, fantasy, fantasy and otaku themes. It's just how the characters bantered at each other and called each other "tsundere," for example. I liked that besides the samurai, the swordswoman of the Musketeer Dartagnan was introduced. And it looked very easy.