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Love how Takayuki fights his way. He drawas the atention of his oponent and wears them down till he takes them down or his comrades move in. He loves the chace and movement. I guess you could also call him a chace/fighting junkie in way
The uncle betraying Tokiyuki' big bro.... I feel it coming but that was still so sad to witness 😭 The facial expressions, art style shift and this fight' animation... I loved them all! The animators teams cooked really well 🔥 I am hyped af for episode 3 👀
2:30 I was thinking exactly the same. I saw many complaining the whiplash is bad, but I thought the timing felt just about right, it's very much like older animes where they blend gag and serious moment seemlessly together. Very thoughtful review and as a manga reader I can't wait to see your further live reactions and review of the show as they air!
I think the comedy-serious whiplash is definately something from the older generation. Assassination Classroom did that a lot too and it worked out there, though I believe this mangaka got that kinda "trait" thing from when he was an assistant on the absolute insanity that is Bobobo-bo bobo-bo
This is an insane show. No doubt about it. That priest... he is legit nightmare fuel. Funny too. But nightmare fuel nonetheless. And the little gag of him "turning off" his neon-light-in-the-night aura by pulling on the... accessory in his head or whatever those two antenna-like things... two seconds, but funny two seconds indeed. But what makes that priest all the more memorable for me is his voice. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the priest's VA is the same VA that gives us Tatsuya Shiba from Irregular, Yuichi Nakamura... It's such a mental gear-grinding I can't really process it. Then there is the POS Uncle who sells and beheads Tokiyuki's big bro. Then proceeds to go after Tokiyuki like a true madman. The battle with him as he went full demon mode was impressive, and satisfactory when he was at last beheaded. Yet the second thing I can't take out of my head was that scene of him beating the living shit of that boy with that gleeful, maniacal smile. This show doesn't pull its punches. At. All. Kinda like Hell's Paradise (still waiting for a Season 2 of that one). Great anime. Wild anime. 10/10 recommend so far. Can't wait for Saturday to see where we go from here.
Went in blind and fell in love. I really like 'costume/historical' anime and when they're set in ancient Japan I like them even more. The mix of comedic scenes with the brutality of the setting/reality has me intrigued coz I never know what to expect. For sure it's not a boring anime!!
I didn't want children to beat an adult. It wouldn't make any sense. But the way they handled it made a lot of sense. He was just toying with the 2, and got tired trying to kill the prince. If the kids fought him on equal terms and beat him without any strategy but with just sword skills and strength, it would have been a bit too much.
The interesting thing is that Tokiyuki is based on a real samurai so this is a historical series. A lot of what is happening happened in real life. Apparently the series is by the assassination classroom author. The series is brutal and emotional and the animation moves the story. It’s also interesting to see the water colour backgrounds like when we reenter the burnt village. The Duke who sees the future definitely feels like a plot device for this story. Speaking of which, I think the too many losing heroines series is another good summer series
Okay since the comment ain't gonna load, I'm just gonna say CloverWorks is doing some fantastic work on this show. Even if there are some inconsistencies at times, they are doing things that are not very common. How do you get this anime popular when people aren't gravitating towards a historical series... Bring some of the best animation you can and a compelling story and you have a show called The Elusive Samurai. Not only do we have a great cast of characters and a good story I honestly have to just take a step back and praise the amount of work that these animators have done. Truly something fantastic... The jokes are landing especially the beginning with the Wake up prank 🤣 Also... That uncle deserves to go do the pits of Hell for what he did with Toriyuki's bro... His own flesh and blood he betrayed for fame and soon he lost it because he's a madman. They popped off with the animation and Toriyuki got some character development and he brought some closure to his brother and clan at least a little. I'm extremely excited for the future of this show because this could easily be anime of the season alongside Wistoria. The OP and ED give me Gintama vibes although I have only seen the openings for that show tbh but I know it's popular. Still gonna take me a bit to learn all of the names but I love the cast we got so far. It really does stand out from the norm. Great review Brandon 🎉 And my birthday is today so happy birthday to me 🔥🙌
The mc's fighting style and strategy (with help from the weird priest guy and people he recruited to help) is like that of the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi's influence has been seen in anime before.
For now Elusive Samouraï is my favorite show of the season (closely followed by Mayonaka Punch) In regulare scenes the artstyle is beautiful but not unseen. But once the action start kicking, it so unique. I like how they depicted the uncle like a litteral demon not just by telling it but by showing it.
The title of the episode threw me off big time. I was expecting the uncle to actually be gentle and save his brother, but boy was I wrong. Both episodes have been bangers so far and I agree that is definitely of the best this season so far. Looking forward to the next episode
Hey Brandon! Are you watching the Shoushimin Series? It probably has the best animation this season! The backgrounds are straight out of a movie, It is from the author of Hyouka. I'm sure many people would want to hear you comment on its episodes, as I don't think any anime youtuber is talking about it properly and in length. It's not something you'd want to sleep on, just saying!!
At first, I got frustrated with our boi because he tried to runaway from the very people who wants to help him and I'm liek have some common sense kid. Your family died. You can't go on whining. But somehow, the fact that he tries to runaway with everyhing kinda resonates to me. I mean, his world is effed up. But when he tried to confront his uncle and ultimately beheading him, man. Ars-sama approves. First kill is the sweetest way to maturity. Kudos to the writer and the Onmyouji-man for emphasizing that his journey of tag is also a one shot, one kill journey. I hope he will also improve his martial arts skills instead of relying in his lucky dodges. Critical hits are lucky rolls in a die. So hopefully, he got good rolls next time also.
@AHBrandonReviews You've claimed a few anime may be the anime of the season for you, which one do you actually look forward to the most this season? Mine is "I parry Everything" much to my surprise.
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Nothing will probably beat Deer memes for me, but this is one of the shows putting up a fight for anime of the season! Agree? See my full uncut live reactions to the episodes over on Patreon www.patreon.com/BrandonReviews
The animators did a phenomenal job making the uncle look like a frightening demon.
He actually caught a body this episode and it was glorious
CloverWorks really cooking hard 🔥🔥🔥
Love how Takayuki fights his way. He drawas the atention of his oponent and wears them down till he takes them down or his comrades move in. He loves the chace and movement. I guess you could also call him a chace/fighting junkie in way
He's an evasion tank
This anime is visually very beautiful and has many impressive scenes
fantastic episode! they cooked with this whole fight. I’m so in love with this anime.
Heads are really rolling in this cheerful show
Best line in the episode "One man's trash is another man's trash"😂😂 the animators cooked
The uncle betraying Tokiyuki' big bro.... I feel it coming but that was still so sad to witness 😭
The facial expressions, art style shift and this fight' animation...
I loved them all!
The animators teams cooked really well 🔥
I am hyped af for episode 3 👀
2:30
I was thinking exactly the same. I saw many complaining the whiplash is bad, but I thought the timing felt just about right, it's very much like older animes where they blend gag and serious moment seemlessly together. Very thoughtful review and as a manga reader I can't wait to see your further live reactions and review of the show as they air!
All the different animation styled, action sequences and the heartwrenching scenes puts this show in good company with other high quality animes.
I think the comedy-serious whiplash is definately something from the older generation. Assassination Classroom did that a lot too and it worked out there, though I believe this mangaka got that kinda "trait" thing from when he was an assistant on the absolute insanity that is Bobobo-bo bobo-bo
This is by the same author too
@@rajvirmalhans2073 That's why I brought it up
This is an insane show. No doubt about it.
That priest... he is legit nightmare fuel. Funny too. But nightmare fuel nonetheless. And the little gag of him "turning off" his neon-light-in-the-night aura by pulling on the... accessory in his head or whatever those two antenna-like things... two seconds, but funny two seconds indeed.
But what makes that priest all the more memorable for me is his voice. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but the priest's VA is the same VA that gives us Tatsuya Shiba from Irregular, Yuichi Nakamura... It's such a mental gear-grinding I can't really process it.
Then there is the POS Uncle who sells and beheads Tokiyuki's big bro. Then proceeds to go after Tokiyuki like a true madman. The battle with him as he went full demon mode was impressive, and satisfactory when he was at last beheaded.
Yet the second thing I can't take out of my head was that scene of him beating the living shit of that boy with that gleeful, maniacal smile.
This show doesn't pull its punches. At. All. Kinda like Hell's Paradise (still waiting for a Season 2 of that one).
Great anime. Wild anime. 10/10 recommend so far. Can't wait for Saturday to see where we go from here.
Went in blind and fell in love. I really like 'costume/historical' anime and when they're set in ancient Japan I like them even more. The mix of comedic scenes with the brutality of the setting/reality has me intrigued coz I never know what to expect. For sure it's not a boring anime!!
I didn't want children to beat an adult. It wouldn't make any sense. But the way they handled it made a lot of sense. He was just toying with the 2, and got tired trying to kill the prince. If the kids fought him on equal terms and beat him without any strategy but with just sword skills and strength, it would have been a bit too much.
The interesting thing is that Tokiyuki is based on a real samurai so this is a historical series. A lot of what is happening happened in real life. Apparently the series is by the assassination classroom author. The series is brutal and emotional and the animation moves the story. It’s also interesting to see the water colour backgrounds like when we reenter the burnt village. The Duke who sees the future definitely feels like a plot device for this story.
Speaking of which, I think the too many losing heroines series is another good summer series
That makes two shows this season with historical MCs.
It is so crazy he did those crazy things at that age.
Okay since the comment ain't gonna load, I'm just gonna say CloverWorks is doing some fantastic work on this show. Even if there are some inconsistencies at times, they are doing things that are not very common. How do you get this anime popular when people aren't gravitating towards a historical series... Bring some of the best animation you can and a compelling story and you have a show called The Elusive Samurai.
Not only do we have a great cast of characters and a good story I honestly have to just take a step back and praise the amount of work that these animators have done. Truly something fantastic... The jokes are landing especially the beginning with the Wake up prank 🤣
Also... That uncle deserves to go do the pits of Hell for what he did with Toriyuki's bro... His own flesh and blood he betrayed for fame and soon he lost it because he's a madman. They popped off with the animation and Toriyuki got some character development and he brought some closure to his brother and clan at least a little. I'm extremely excited for the future of this show because this could easily be anime of the season alongside Wistoria.
The OP and ED give me Gintama vibes although I have only seen the openings for that show tbh but I know it's popular.
Still gonna take me a bit to learn all of the names but I love the cast we got so far. It really does stand out from the norm.
Great review Brandon 🎉
And my birthday is today so happy birthday to me 🔥🙌
Happy Birthday homie!! Hope you had a great day!
@@AHBrandonReviews thank you mate... It was a pretty good day overall. 23 years old... I'm getting old 🥲
This show had such creativity in the first 2 episodes! I cant wait to see how it ends up
The mc's fighting style and strategy (with help from the weird priest guy and people he recruited to help) is like that of the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi's influence has been seen in anime before.
For now Elusive Samouraï is my favorite show of the season (closely followed by Mayonaka Punch)
In regulare scenes the artstyle is beautiful but not unseen. But once the action start kicking, it so unique. I like how they depicted the uncle like a litteral demon not just by telling it but by showing it.
I'm a bit less worried after finally watching the anime but i'm still worried about the anime later on given how big the armies get.
Cloverworks absolutely hit it out of the park with this second episode.
The animation is peak
The title of the episode threw me off big time. I was expecting the uncle to actually be gentle and save his brother, but boy was I wrong. Both episodes have been bangers so far and I agree that is definitely of the best this season so far. Looking forward to the next episode
this is already my anime of the season. i dont care about oshinoko or anything else i just want this lol
Hey Brandon! Are you watching the Shoushimin Series? It probably has the best animation this season! The backgrounds are straight out of a movie, It is from the author of Hyouka. I'm sure many people would want to hear you comment on its episodes, as I don't think any anime youtuber is talking about it properly and in length. It's not something you'd want to sleep on, just saying!!
I did watch the first episode by myself and enjoyed it
At first, I got frustrated with our boi because he tried to runaway from the very people who wants to help him and I'm liek have some common sense kid. Your family died. You can't go on whining. But somehow, the fact that he tries to runaway with everyhing kinda resonates to me. I mean, his world is effed up. But when he tried to confront his uncle and ultimately beheading him, man. Ars-sama approves. First kill is the sweetest way to maturity. Kudos to the writer and the Onmyouji-man for emphasizing that his journey of tag is also a one shot, one kill journey. I hope he will also improve his martial arts skills instead of relying in his lucky dodges. Critical hits are lucky rolls in a die. So hopefully, he got good rolls next time also.
Btw, the author has said that he prioritizes entertainment before historical accuracy. So this is not very accurate at all.
Historically influenced is better than historically accurate imo
Are you going to watch "Our last crusade" season 2, since you have already covered the first season?
maybe in my own time
@AHBrandonReviews You've claimed a few anime may be the anime of the season for you, which one do you actually look forward to the most this season? Mine is "I parry Everything" much to my surprise.
Nokotan
Are you watching NieR:Automata Ver1.1a Cour 2 ?
when it's over I will
I might have accidentally spammed my comment... Which is probably why it's not here
Could be cause I don't see it even in my held for review folder
@@AHBrandonReviews I don't even know what's happening. My internet is stable and I still can't see the comment I posted like 4 times now
on the other hand i almost cant stand "comedy" faces of the priest.
they're pretty extreme so I get it