Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto Episode 1
Ok, can I ask an important question here? Why the hell does this show have no love whatsoever from any fansub? It took me close to two weeks after the show opened before I had any subs on it. If it was a lame show, I could fully understand the lack of love for it. However, this show is totally awesome.
Like crazily good stuff. I am so putting this on to-watch list but not blogging too much episode summary on it due to the fact that the Japanese mejii era is not my key area of expertise. I mean I had to think for quite a bit before realizing that Sakamoto Ryoma, the person who was killed at the end of this show, is one of the founders in the Meiji restoration. Also, fighting stuff is usually very hard for me, since my favorite genre is nowhere close to action. So, I will let the pros do that and concentrate on simply my thoughts on the show. However, i will always include a bit on the main guist of the episode, something like a mini-episode.
I might. I might not. No idea yet.
Read on. You need to because this show requires tons of love.
And I even squeezed a rant in this post. Ya-Ha! (I got to stop acting like Hiruma because I can’t do it like him. I should do the Huh brothers.)
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Main guist of episode
A lone ronin, Yojiro (exiled samurai with no noble family to protect) moves around this town (Yokohama) and rescues two kids from this troupe that also doubles up as some form of an assaination team. He is with great power and seems to have a spiritual ability to detect youkai. Hence, he moves around in the town, and there was an auction ahead in the inn. The troupe went over to investigate and assasinate someone, with another suspicious group protecting them. The auction attracts a lot of big shots but something was amiss as the package was starting to glow maliciously red. However, Yojiro rushed in as the spiritual presence of the youkai grows and cuts it up. It ends with flames from the seal of this youkai and we realized that Sakamoto Ryoma, one of the founders in the Meiji Restoration, was killed.
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Thoughts
It has above average graphics for a start. It also has cool samurai with the hint of magic and youkai (monsters) in the mix as well. That is why I have no fricking idea why there are 1 million fansubs for all those lame anime such as Negima! when they should be fansubbing this kind of great classic.
Seriously.
What the hell is wrong with this season, with all the overly subbed shows like Deathnote and possibly Kanon when there are such hidden gems waiting to be unearthed. I mean, I would not go so far to diss fansubs for their choice of anime, simply because they are the greatest thing that can ever be for an anime fan like me. Without them, I cannot even watch anything. However, there are too many darn shows this season that are neglected due to the powerhouses.
I can’t say much, simply because it is the market forces. If there is demand, fansubs will be more eager to do the ones that are demanded by the fans. However, if what they are doing is neglecting all the half-ass shows, fine. So be it. However, when shows that are generally unhyped like this, Red Garden and Ghost Hunt are neglected for different variations OF reasons that stemmed down to the fact that no one hyped them up.
I am so glad that Asatte no Houkou, another of my favorite shows, was not buried in the same way. It will be painful for me. I digress and back to this show that has such a long name I always wanted to call it the “BAKA SAMURAI Anime”, aka BS snime. That would be a huge misservice to the show, and hence I should call it something nice.
I will figure it out one day, because trying to type “Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto” every single time when I have to refer to it will kill the hell out of me. Shion’s torture always seems pleasant compared to typing this whole thing out.
Man, I kept digressing.
Anyway, the OP and ED are decent for this show. The story is also interesting, with the possibility of magic, monsters in this widely covered era. I am not sure with the Japanese tradition or whether some other characters in this show are more famous than they should be. The only person I know was Sakamoto Ryouma. So yea, if there is anyone special, do tell me.
My last pitch for any fansubbers who somehow grace my humble blog, PLEASE FANSUB THIS SHOW. For all bloggers reading this, ADVERTISE THIS SHOW.
This show needs more love.
Yojiro too. He rocks my socks off with his sword wielding skills.
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Sigh… For a moment, I thought you meant “english” subs, so I rushed to look on TokyoToshokan to see if I had missed it. But then I saw it was chinese subtitles… And I don’t exactly read chinese.
So I guess I will have to continue hoping that a group will sub this show, as it looks very good.
50 new shows and you have ten fansub groups on Kanon & Death Note. XD
Learn Nihongo, download raws. Only way to go.
hahahaha, sorry to keep ur hopes up T_T. Well, let’s both pray that english subs will come soon yea. The looks of it though is pretty small since it requires quite a bit of nihongo historical knowledge…
And not everyone is 133t like u to watch raws, waterfall T_T…sigh T_T
Why do people sub? It’s always 90% fame and ego and 10% for the fans.
Why sub a show that only a small niche will appreciate? Do a famous and hype show = BIGGER E-PONS.
That’s why.
hahahaha. yea, the rule of the world, tsubaki ^+^.
However, there will still be a small group of fansubs who are “noble” enough to do this. Let’s pray one such group appears
wa~ i was really hoping that some group will do the subbing… turned out that all Bakumatsu related stuffs were deleted from YouTube… haih~ yea with all the hype from other mega Anime like D.Gray-man and DeathNote, it’s hard to pick this up.. but i’ve been eyeing this Anime every since i saw it under the Fall 2006 Anime news!!! waa~ and Akitsuki (the main guy) is voiced by Daisuke Namikawa, who also did Fye in Tsubasa!!! >_
wait… i HAVE to post again because Pino-no-Usagi & Shinsen Subs have joined hands and released the first ep of this series!!! i’m grabbing the torrent and downloading it now… just hope they do a good job on it… PnU is a new group who also joined with Ureshii (who’s doing Ghost Hunt) on Pumpkin Scissors.
YAY, yea, i realize too, i was like ZOMG, SHINSEN IS FINALLY SUBBING THIS AWESOME SHOW!!!!
I am so delighted now actually, maybe i can watch english subs and follow this quietly ^+^
yup… the video quality is about the same a the RAWs you can get online… but so far the two groups have done a great job! just maybe they might want to do a touch up on the quality… overall it’s really well done!!! crossing my finger that they release it fast… i just can’t wait!!! if they would to release it in batches (like what they did with Blood+) i’m soo gonna kill myself… but with PnU working with them it might be faster… =D
hey! i was wondering where did you get the chinese sub? (i mean traditional not simplified) thanks
Loving this series too, think I might shorten the name to Bakiro…as long as it doesn’t mean anything bad/rude in Japanese! ^^;
I watched the first ep of this too. You say this show has no love??! Foolish people, this show is sooo awesome! ^___^
Many people agree that this is an excellent anime. There are 15 full episodes on http://www.crunchyroll.com. I am looking for more!
I watched this for a little while, but it just couldn’t hold my attention.. Part of the episodes felt like a history lesson. Art quality, sound and music were all more impressive than I’ve seen in a while.. But for some reason I just didn’t like the show enough to stick around.
The opening theme is gorgeous though. That I kept.
Hey, if you are actually still interested, veoh is hosting all the english subs right now. The sound’s a little off sync but it’s all there… that is if you still want to watch it ^_^v
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First Episode Download Link
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto 01
http://www.sunanime.com/viewtopic.php?t=53