I think that the last time i've appreciated and loved a duo of best friends as much as Kage and Boji was with Gon and Killua. And that's really saying something.
I actually like that Ranking of Kings mostly doesn't explain things, but leave it up to you to piece it together. I f-ing love that stuff. I'm always watching carefully and looking for tiny details. If you didn't, I highly recommend you to watch the anime. Everything you assumed about it is true. You'll love it.
I was hooked the moment bojji went back to the castle and the queen told him he wasn’t fit to be king and that he should just stay in the castle so he doesn’t cause problems and he goes into his room and just cries when no one was around idk why but I related to that one moment because I’m sure a lot of us put on a facade like nothing bugs us but when we’re alone it all hits and I think that moment captured that perfectly. I also really love how kage isn’t afraid to stand up for bojji no matter who they are up against even tho bojji doesn’t need protecting.
Also the second opening hadaka no yuusha made me cry the first time I watched it I believe ranking of kings is one of the best anime I have ever had the pleasure to witness.
A lot of people missed this. Bojji isn't a little kid. He was a kid when hilling came. After that she gave birth and now daida could be at least 12-16. Let's just say he was 5 when hilling came. It would make bojji around 17-21. His little body is the result of his curse.
He’s also a giant, both of his parents where giants, giants tend to have longer lifespans than humans, and it makes sense that giants also mature slower than humans, for all we know know boji might be 50 years old
he is very much a child . maybe not chronologically as in he's been alive for 17-21 years. but mentally and physically he cannot be much older than ten .
started it yesterday and im 15 episodes in.. have not fell in love with a show like this for so long. i feel the pacing in later episodes does tend to meander a little to keep it from being a 10/10 but its the highest 9/10 i can give it. Bojji is my favorite protagonist ive seen in so damn long
My friends and I are watching the anime right now! The story is quite intriguing, and the opening and ending song ooh, so good! My friend who hasn't finished the manga doesn't know what to expect on each ep. Enjoying it so far!
I really agree with this... Ranking of Kings has very strong themes of loyalty and legacy. I love how it's all implemented, and how those themes can be used to look each character individually, but also to link them up with the rest of the cast in certain thematic through lines. the theme of legacy asks: what are certain characters trying to give to the people they love? what do certain characters actually inherit? and the theme of loyalty asks: who is worthy of loyalty? why are they worthy of it? where does loyalty end... when must a person take back ownership of their decisions? the second OP is so good to use as a framework for both of these things
I am so happy you made a video on this I’ve seen it on crunchy roll but wouldn’t click on it but the description you gave has me amped to watch and right after the video ended they played the trailer for the anime lmao
I didn’t watch it because of the animation. But, when demon slayer finished, I needed something to watch after AOT. This has me tearing up so much. He reminds me of my son and he’s just a sweet and kind person regardless. Can’t wait to see where this goes.
You know when an anime has a weird art style you should be able to tell it's unique and original, so I recommend you to not sleep on something bc of the art style
A major reason this Anime stands tall above most other shonnen is that it spends more time developing all the characters’ motivation than battle scenes. It makes the battles pop more while making you feel for all the characters.
Beautiful show, Bojji, and Kaje had warmed all of our hearts in this twisted and very cruel time we are all living right now. I'm really happy I watched the show.
I've always been wanting to watch these type of plots of I like its uniqueness in how it has created a protagonist who can be relatable to those who have the same situation as him. Even with his disability, he was still able to become strong and I salute that. It also warms my heart to see the sign languagesss!!!!!!
One thing I loved about Ranking of Kings was that all the characters are human. They aren't necessarily all good or all bad, quite a few of them are extremely selfish, but they still endearing. People I started out disliking, became highly liked characters, one of the characters I liked in the first episode, I spent most of the rest of the series wishing ill things upon and laughing at their pain. Some of even the most minor characters are interesting. When characters motivations could put them in conflict with each other, it added tension because I understand why they are in opposition, but I wish there was a way that they didn't have to be. I don't want bad things to happen to either and sometimes all of them have valid reasons for doing what they are doing. Also, characters and their traits in this are static and changable. Characters change by interacting, they grow because they are looking and understanding each other, they are listening to each other, their perceptions of each other evolve and so the way they interact evolves with it. I love Bojji and Kage's relationship, they deserve to have found each other, they are so refreshing and wholesome in how they support and uplift each other. They are each other's greatest fans and I live for it. The second opening of the anime is amazing and I love everything about it. One of my few criticisms is that there wasn't enough screentime for Mitsumata or Poise, but that might change in the future so I hold out hope. Edit: Also, did someone say show don't tell, because jeez do they do a lot without exposition. I love it.
I think Ranking of kings takes inspirations on the Grimm Brothers fairytales, nothing is really explained, the fantastic is there to serve the story while giving mysterious vibes that expand the world, kind of reminding me of over the garden wall or directly the Grimm brother's fairytales
I loved this series like you couldn't imagine for the first cour, but the pacing in the second cour, especially with Ouken and the last few episodes soured me. In my opinion, Bosse's motivations are not explored deeply enough to account for his priorities shifting from Miranjo to Bojji and back to Miranjo. Additionally while I'd initially said that Miranjo's past suffering wasn't exploitative, I found myself eating those words as the show kept laying on her sad backstory or rather, repeating it back to us. We saw it once with Daida and again with Bosse, then yet again with Despa, and once again with Bosse. Over and over. It became far too heavy-handed. Miranjo losing her mother and being disfigured is all I needed to understand how she became to be villainous, and I only need to see it once to get the idea. It got to be too much for me, when we see Despa and Bojji in between life and death and Bojji has already made up his mind to not kill Miranjo. Despa flatout asks him what he'll do, yet he still feels the need to show Bojji her memories. One could argue that he wanted Bojji to see her memories to impress upon him the self-perpetuating nature of suffering, but Bojji is already very empathetic. That mind meld was just unnecessary and felt like tear-bait. Take this as literary criticism in the dictionary sense. I by no means dislike the show and consider it far above-average in too many aspects to list, but when something I enjoy this much has issues, I can't wave them off or play the apologist. I reserve this length of thought for media I either deeply appreciate or despise. Were this show mediocre, I'd not be wasting my time writing this out.
RANKING OF KINGS does not aim at perfection. But shows real, relatable experiences in life, which makes every single character in ROK's Universe...META. And that's something you don't see be done by most typical modern anime. It doesn't give you the rewards you want for the main character, not outright (usually in "surprise twist" fashion) and yet it gradually improves Him, RANKING every step of the way. He went from ignored and misunderstood, to finally being understood and heard, at the same time helping and changing the people around Him. Shrouding other details with the right amount of mystery to look forward to, in order for you to focus at it's current predicament. So yeah, it is not perfect and it never will be because it is being (Like you said) progressive, and I hope it still pushes on further with Season 2.
Nothing is perfect which is why this story's writing is objectively as strong as One Piece, Vinland Saga, Nana, Attack on Titan, etc (the literary masterpieces of manga.) Great video.
I like the show but the fact that the villain of the first ark and the conniving younger brother just got to say sorry for being evil assholes we'll be better now. Now obviously I don't want them to suffer or something but there needs to be more repentance than just oops my bad
Personally i loved the anime.. Absolutely loved it. So i went to look up the manga because i was so into the character designs. I was extremely off put by the art. At least in thr beginning chapters, i dont know if thr artist grew later on by a technical side by alot of the way it was designed just was wrong. It doesnt come off as refined, alot of technical stuff is just wrong such as perspective and things..architecture was done badly. It doesnt come off as some artists who ars technically fine but design something purposely ugly. It just looks fundamentally wrong(same issue i have with mob psychos artist) .. But i absolutely love the story. I love the characters and world it created. Its more or less my own personal conflict as an artist who studies mangas to figure out best approaches and it just reinforced the idea of a "fuck it" attitude for me. Who cares if its ugly as long as you can find a way to connect to your fans you've done your job as a writer.
Oh, I didn't catch that you've actually read the original manga in Japanese until the very end. How do you feel on the news about the anime adapting the entirety of part 1 of the story in the first season? Think they can do it in just 23 episodes? Or are they rushing it?
that kinda explains why i think its not a good show because they went way to fast from look at this poor boy to, he beats now everyone with ease expect one person and that in a span of 2 episodes...
I'm 11 episodes in, and I just started watching yesterday 😁 Took me 10 episodes to hit me that Queen Hiling's name and her skill are adeptedly matched! All the characters have layers, even the side characters. So good.
All of their names are plays on their roles or powers actually. Bojji is a pun from hitoribocchi (alone) and ouji (Prince) Daida means substitute Hiling is Healing Domas is so-domas-ta (sword master) Dorsche is reversed shirudo (shield) Apeas is reversed supia (spear) Bebin is a slip of Hebi (snake) Miranjo is ミラーの女 (mirror girl) Desha is anagram of Hades Hokuro is named after the mole on his cheek Mitsumata is named after his original 3 heads, 三つの頭 (mitsu no atama, 3 heads) but one of it is cut off so...
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I think that the last time i've appreciated and loved a duo of best friends as much as Kage and Boji was with Gon and Killua. And that's really saying something.
I actually like that Ranking of Kings mostly doesn't explain things, but leave it up to you to piece it together. I f-ing love that stuff. I'm always watching carefully and looking for tiny details.
If you didn't, I highly recommend you to watch the anime. Everything you assumed about it is true. You'll love it.
Like Naoki Urasawa's monster
I feel like that show that the mangaka trusts the readers to understand in their own ways.
That awkard moment when an anime-only can actually spoil manga-only fans on the story, cause the translations are waaay behind. 😂
for manga readers, I suggest you watch the anime cause WIT doing a phenomenal job adapting it
As soon as I saw Wit's name on the anime, I knew it would be a banger.
Never would've thought you'd be reviewing Ousama ranking and Im so glad! This series is so good!
It's the best show this season so not surprising ppl are covering it.
I was hooked the moment bojji went back to the castle and the queen told him he wasn’t fit to be king and that he should just stay in the castle so he doesn’t cause problems and he goes into his room and just cries when no one was around idk why but I related to that one moment because I’m sure a lot of us put on a facade like nothing bugs us but when we’re alone it all hits and I think that moment captured that perfectly. I also really love how kage isn’t afraid to stand up for bojji no matter who they are up against even tho bojji doesn’t need protecting.
Also the second opening hadaka no yuusha made me cry the first time I watched it I believe ranking of kings is one of the best anime I have ever had the pleasure to witness.
A lot of people missed this. Bojji isn't a little kid. He was a kid when hilling came. After that she gave birth and now daida could be at least 12-16.
Let's just say he was 5 when hilling came. It would make bojji around 17-21.
His little body is the result of his curse.
He’s also a giant, both of his parents where giants, giants tend to have longer lifespans than humans, and it makes sense that giants also mature slower than humans, for all we know know boji might be 50 years old
Bojji is like 15 at most, Daida is around 12.
he is very much a child . maybe not chronologically as in he's been alive for 17-21 years. but mentally and physically he cannot be much older than ten .
@@literallyagodactually9763 also bojis parents are giants, and giants may mature slower than humans
@@mediaguyking7045??? Source???
started it yesterday and im 15 episodes in.. have not fell in love with a show like this for so long. i feel the pacing in later episodes does tend to meander a little to keep it from being a 10/10 but its the highest 9/10 i can give it. Bojji is my favorite protagonist ive seen in so damn long
wait for chainsaw man
@@jakobforget3706 already read it my guy, cant wait to see it brought to life
my dress up darling, doom breaker, and now ranking of kings you been on a hot streak my guy
I love your vernacular, and the care you put into your videos. I'm glad I found your channel a while ago when learning more about TG.
My friends and I are watching the anime right now! The story is quite intriguing, and the opening and ending song ooh, so good! My friend who hasn't finished the manga doesn't know what to expect on each ep. Enjoying it so far!
Man i really like your thumbnail they always look so appealing
I love how those who serve the kingdom all relate to the theme of loyalty in some way.
I really agree with this... Ranking of Kings has very strong themes of loyalty and legacy. I love how it's all implemented, and how those themes can be used to look each character individually, but also to link them up with the rest of the cast in certain thematic through lines. the theme of legacy asks: what are certain characters trying to give to the people they love? what do certain characters actually inherit? and the theme of loyalty asks: who is worthy of loyalty? why are they worthy of it? where does loyalty end... when must a person take back ownership of their decisions?
the second OP is so good to use as a framework for both of these things
I am so happy you made a video on this I’ve seen it on crunchy roll but wouldn’t click on it but the description you gave has me amped to watch and right after the video ended they played the trailer for the anime lmao
I didn’t watch it because of the animation. But, when demon slayer finished, I needed something to watch after AOT.
This has me tearing up so much. He reminds me of my son and he’s just a sweet and kind person regardless. Can’t wait to see where this goes.
I think u should say 'artstyle' instead of animation
@@zed1306 I think I said it how I said it, and people still understood what I meant. I think we have bigger problems in the world kiddo…
@@cynicalsenpai nah no offense i was just pointing out that the artstyle and animation are 2 different things
You know when an anime has a weird art style you should be able to tell it's unique and original, so I recommend you to not sleep on something bc of the art style
@@Jezsomebushyreverence woah this is off topic but this is the first time I found an account related to lookism, that’s awesome.
No, it is perfect
Bojji has very positive energy 😃👍🏻
The writing of Ousama Ranking plot is perfect 👌
A major reason this Anime stands tall above most other shonnen is that it spends more time developing all the characters’ motivation than battle scenes. It makes the battles pop more while making you feel for all the characters.
I really enjoyed Ousama Ranking! I really enjoyed Boji as a character well written...
Thanks for reviewing it...
Beautiful show, Bojji, and Kaje had warmed all of our hearts in this twisted and very cruel time we are all living right now. I'm really happy I watched the show.
Bojji is King of Kings and this is can't judge a book by it's cover the anime
I've always been wanting to watch these type of plots of I like its uniqueness in how it has created a protagonist who can be relatable to those who have the same situation as him. Even with his disability, he was still able to become strong and I salute that. It also warms my heart to see the sign languagesss!!!!!!
There's over 130 chapters and the anime already adapted over a 100 chapters.
And only around 40 ish chapters translated to English.
One thing I loved about Ranking of Kings was that all the characters are human. They aren't necessarily all good or all bad, quite a few of them are extremely selfish, but they still endearing. People I started out disliking, became highly liked characters, one of the characters I liked in the first episode, I spent most of the rest of the series wishing ill things upon and laughing at their pain. Some of even the most minor characters are interesting.
When characters motivations could put them in conflict with each other, it added tension because I understand why they are in opposition, but I wish there was a way that they didn't have to be. I don't want bad things to happen to either and sometimes all of them have valid reasons for doing what they are doing.
Also, characters and their traits in this are static and changable. Characters change by interacting, they grow because they are looking and understanding each other, they are listening to each other, their perceptions of each other evolve and so the way they interact evolves with it.
I love Bojji and Kage's relationship, they deserve to have found each other, they are so refreshing and wholesome in how they support and uplift each other. They are each other's greatest fans and I live for it.
The second opening of the anime is amazing and I love everything about it.
One of my few criticisms is that there wasn't enough screentime for Mitsumata or Poise, but that might change in the future so I hold out hope.
Edit: Also, did someone say show don't tell, because jeez do they do a lot without exposition. I love it.
I think Ranking of kings takes inspirations on the Grimm Brothers fairytales, nothing is really explained, the fantastic is there to serve the story while giving mysterious vibes that expand the world, kind of reminding me of over the garden wall or directly the Grimm brother's fairytales
Wit studio for you
First anime that made me super emotional, i love this anime so much
I loved this series like you couldn't imagine for the first cour, but the pacing in the second cour, especially with Ouken and the last few episodes soured me.
In my opinion, Bosse's motivations are not explored deeply enough to account for his priorities shifting from Miranjo to Bojji and back to Miranjo.
Additionally while I'd initially said that Miranjo's past suffering wasn't exploitative, I found myself eating those words as the show kept laying on her sad backstory or rather, repeating it back to us. We saw it once with Daida and again with Bosse, then yet again with Despa, and once again with Bosse. Over and over. It became far too heavy-handed. Miranjo losing her mother and being disfigured is all I needed to understand how she became to be villainous, and I only need to see it once to get the idea.
It got to be too much for me, when we see Despa and Bojji in between life and death and Bojji has already made up his mind to not kill Miranjo. Despa flatout asks him what he'll do, yet he still feels the need to show Bojji her memories. One could argue that he wanted Bojji to see her memories to impress upon him the self-perpetuating nature of suffering, but Bojji is already very empathetic. That mind meld was just unnecessary and felt like tear-bait.
Take this as literary criticism in the dictionary sense. I by no means dislike the show and consider it far above-average in too many aspects to list, but when something I enjoy this much has issues, I can't wave them off or play the apologist. I reserve this length of thought for media I either deeply appreciate or despise. Were this show mediocre, I'd not be wasting my time writing this out.
This is exactly how I feel. Perfect write up of the show
What do you mean by "cour"? I am unfamiliar with that term
@@TommyGuy1111 From the French _cours_ which is derived from the Latin _cursus_ meaning "Course". A season, 3 months, mostly 12 episodes now.
RANKING OF KINGS does not aim at perfection. But shows real, relatable experiences in life, which makes every single character in ROK's Universe...META. And that's something you don't see be done by most typical modern anime. It doesn't give you the rewards you want for the main character, not outright (usually in "surprise twist" fashion) and yet it gradually improves Him, RANKING every step of the way. He went from ignored and misunderstood, to finally being understood and heard, at the same time helping and changing the people around Him. Shrouding other details with the right amount of mystery to look forward to, in order for you to focus at it's current predicament.
So yeah, it is not perfect and it never will be because it is being (Like you said) progressive, and I hope it still pushes on further with Season 2.
You know the anime is great if they make you care for a black blob.
The title of this video is almost perfect.
What do you mean almost your either perfect or your not (tfs Vegeta)
Nothing is perfect which is why this story's writing is objectively as strong as One Piece, Vinland Saga, Nana, Attack on Titan, etc (the literary masterpieces of manga.)
Great video.
I like the show but the fact that the villain of the first ark and the conniving younger brother just got to say sorry for being evil assholes we'll be better now. Now obviously I don't want them to suffer or something but there needs to be more repentance than just oops my bad
Personally i loved the anime.. Absolutely loved it. So i went to look up the manga because i was so into the character designs. I was extremely off put by the art. At least in thr beginning chapters, i dont know if thr artist grew later on by a technical side by alot of the way it was designed just was wrong. It doesnt come off as refined, alot of technical stuff is just wrong such as perspective and things..architecture was done badly. It doesnt come off as some artists who ars technically fine but design something purposely ugly. It just looks fundamentally wrong(same issue i have with mob psychos artist) .. But i absolutely love the story. I love the characters and world it created. Its more or less my own personal conflict as an artist who studies mangas to figure out best approaches and it just reinforced the idea of a "fuck it" attitude for me. Who cares if its ugly as long as you can find a way to connect to your fans you've done your job as a writer.
Boji is my KING
It’s super hard to find English translations of the manga past the spot where the anime leaves off😅
Ranking of Kimgs is very charming. And also kind of creepy.
I like the fact that it doesn’t explain anything cause they live in that world so why explain something people should already know
i need to watch ranking of kings
Can someone tell me what happens in the manga now since the king is dead do we find out about the other gods?
Im guessing you're opinion changed after episode 21 xD
Where’d you read the manga?
Oh, I didn't catch that you've actually read the original manga in Japanese until the very end.
How do you feel on the news about the anime adapting the entirety of part 1 of the story in the first season? Think they can do it in just 23 episodes? Or are they rushing it?
that kinda explains why i think its not a good show because they went way to fast from look at this poor boy to, he beats now everyone with ease expect one person and that in a span of 2 episodes...
I'm 11 episodes in, and I just started watching yesterday 😁
Took me 10 episodes to hit me that Queen Hiling's name and her skill are adeptedly matched!
All the characters have layers, even the side characters.
So good.
All of their names are plays on their roles or powers actually.
Bojji is a pun from hitoribocchi (alone) and ouji (Prince)
Daida means substitute
Hiling is Healing
Domas is so-domas-ta (sword master)
Dorsche is reversed shirudo (shield)
Apeas is reversed supia (spear)
Bebin is a slip of Hebi (snake)
Miranjo is ミラーの女 (mirror girl)
Desha is anagram of Hades
Hokuro is named after the mole on his cheek
Mitsumata is named after his original 3 heads, 三つの頭 (mitsu no atama, 3 heads) but one of it is cut off so...
best anime ever!😄😍🥰❤
I think the manga started off really good, but it feels way too forced towards the end of the first arc.
did you read it in japanese?
I disagree, I'm not going to further elaborate what I mean
Giving me a lot of Gon and Killua vibes
Idk, the show it's perfect in my opinion. The first I've watched that's *actual* perfection.
I was gonna give it a 10 until episode 22 which made me rate it a 1
wdym almost?
This is click bait Ranking of kings isnt almost perfect it is perfect
ranking of king has over 150 -200 chapters they are just not translated fast enough nor enough interest in the series pre anime.
Whoever watched Ousama ranking can no longer use 'ART STYLE' as a reason not to watch One piece just saying
Hey sufferents will you bring back the podcast that isn’t a podcast? I haven’t seen anything uploaded in that playlist in a while
so to speak
I liked most of ranking of kings, I say most cuz that ending was meh.
Is it worth the time?
try 2-4 eps and you'll know
is the manga art gud or ASS
it had Tezuka inspire art for the most part but overall is basic AF
Bro the mystery is the point. If they explained things it would be more like a shitty generic show.
18 minute video in which basically nothing of substance has been said. pretty impressive tbh
Sufferents reviewing a anime nice
Watch the anime chief. You’ll find a lot of things the same as the manga
Artstyle is so cringe that it put me off.
Show is mid everyone forgives people who betrayed them in horrible ways no consequences for their actions. Makes no sense at all
Huh? This show is not that good. You guys are praising it too much, "almost perfect?" The hell?? Hahaha
Could you suggest me some shows that would qualify as such for you?
That's completely subjective. There is no objectively perfect series
Best anime i saw this year ngl
What do you dislike about it? I'm genuinely interested in what downfalls you've noticed
These cat meme faces against your smooth voice… oh gosh