Category: TV Genre:Adventure, Fantasy Year: 2008 Studio: Studio Deen
During winter, a first grade high school boy, Rikudo Tokidoki, visits a traveling exhibition of �the Last Days of the Tokugawa Shogunate� held at an advanced museum using the latest technologies. It is a theme park where visitors can experience the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate via computer graphics wearing special goggles.
However, when he is roaming around, Nue, a monster, appears and he is brought into the world �Amatsuki�. It looks like the last days of the Edo Era, but monsters and humans coexist there. He meets a girl, Kuchiha, who saves him from Nue, and classmate Shinonome Kon....
I just watched eps.12 & 13 and I think there absolutely must be a second season coming; either that, or this is the worst series I've ever enjoyed watching.
So, am I to understand that Bonten wants the "underclasses" of humans & demons to unite and overthrow Heaven? And make Toki, the "blank page," into the new Teiten, thereby disposing of the concept of Heaven's Net (i.e. fate, destiny, etc.), allowing... Free Will? *scratches head* Am I reading too much into it? I'm really struggling to understand what's going on, even more so now, so...
And the Princess/Ginshu-- Is he really dead? *hopes not* Bonten said he served both humans and Teiten, so what exactly was he doing there at the end? Obviously something that displeased Teiten, but... did I miss it?
*and did anyone else, when they saw that giant hand come out of the sky, have Monty Python "giant foot" flashbacks?
So... hmmm. I can't quite say how I feel about this series, overall, until I see whether or not they explain themselves in a second season, frankly.
Yeah, that's what I got from it, too. They want to over throw heaven and make Toki God so that he can maintain the balance between demons and humans. I hadn't thought of the whole free will part, but that makes a lot of sense. ^-^
Aug 8 2008 09:35 AM I'm up to chapter 12 (approximately equivalent ep. 5) now and I have to say that the Anime has been incredibly true to the Manga so far. The only major difference is a sub-plot, or over-plot if you will, about the real world of which not much of substance has happened so far.
If it continues to closely mirror the Manga to the end as it has so far, then I give serious props to the animators for not bastardizing the source material into something unrecognizable as has happened to other adapted shows. (I'm looking at you, Claymore animators! ) So even if this doesn't get a second season at least it can become a treasured video document of early volumes for fans of the Manga.
Aug 8 2008 12:05 AM Well, the final episode was definetely far better than I had anticipated for this train-wreck series...Now I'm no longer confused and glad they didn't rush the ending. In addition, leaving it open for a potential second season since the show clearly did not end. Plus, it was just starting to get interesting...now if they had removed all those "filler" episodes in the series, it would have been a far better series.
Overall, I know give this show a 5/10. It sucked for the most part, but episode 7 and 13 were definetely the peaks of the show, especially 13 with everything that happened in the last 5 minutes....hopefully they animate a second season with this kind of ending...
So the choice is to destroy or save the world that may or may not be the real world but possibly instead a construct or glitch in a VR program, or possibly all in the heads of those involved, or possibly just used as a conduit by already existing supernatural forces to express themselves in the real word, the consequences of the destruction of which is unknown?
There must be a logical story in here somehwere, it just needs to be found.
Right then, I'm off to the Manga!
Everything thou has said is true.....here's Ureshii's take, to confuse us all the more....me and you....
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Running away - let’s do it. Where did you have in mind? Have to take care: Unless there’s a “where,” You’ll only be wandering blind. Just more questions, Different kind.
Still, I enjoyed this one and really do hope....for a second season.
Aug 6 2008 10:37 PM Just saw episode 13 and I gotta say that it was a head scratcher. It was decent, but there was a lot of explanations to say in the last 5 mins. I think I kinda get the ending and what it might or is leading to. Oh, I was kinda disappointed that they only had Kuchiha in the scene for like a couple of second just eavesdropping...I wanted to see more of her at the end doing something or talking.
Overall, I gotta give this series a 6.5 or 7 out of 10. The music I really liked and the animation and characters were good. Although for storyline, there was some confusions in the episodes and there was so much to put in just 13 episodes that some of them didn't really need to be in the episodes like Kuchiha's past.
Anyway, I do kinda want to see what happens if there would be a second season explaining it all of what they meant by then (there should be bc I think it is still going on in the manga) and will toki and shinonome get back in real time? Only time will tell, but maybe it's best not to have another season to avoid confusions and headaches.
Aug 6 2008 08:13 PM So the choice is to destroy or save the world that may or may not be the real world but possibly instead a construct or glitch in a VR program, or possibly all in the heads of those involved, or possibly just used as a conduit by already existing supernatural forces to express themselves in the real word, the consequences of the destruction of which is unknown?
There must be a logical story in here somehwere, it just needs to be found.
Aug 6 2008 12:50 AM I just watched eps.12 & 13 and I think there absolutely must be a second season coming; either that, or this is the worst series I've ever enjoyed watching.
So, am I to understand that Bonten wants the "underclasses" of humans & demons to unite and overthrow Heaven? And make Toki, the "blank page," into the new Teiten, thereby disposing of the concept of Heaven's Net (i.e. fate, destiny, etc.), allowing... Free Will? *scratches head* Am I reading too much into it? I'm really struggling to understand what's going on, even more so now, so...
And the Princess/Ginshu-- Is he really dead? *hopes not* Bonten said he served both humans and Teiten, so what exactly was he doing there at the end? Obviously something that displeased Teiten, but... did I miss it?
*and did anyone else, when they saw that giant hand come out of the sky, have Monty Python "giant foot" flashbacks?
So... hmmm. I can't quite say how I feel about this series, overall, until I see whether or not they explain themselves in a second season, frankly.
Aug 5 2008 08:51 PM I have to assume that either there will be a 2nd season or the anime is just used to try and get people to buy the manga cause they finished the small story involving the fox demon, but not much at all concerning the main story and there were even a few characters in the scenes during the credits that I've never seen before.
Have no clue why Ginshu was summoning Teiten at all and what happened there. Trying to destroy the world? destroy the balance between Heaven, humans, and demons? For what purpose? All too confusing. And only now we learn that Bonten's objective concerning Toki is to make him the new Bonten. Maybe it would have been wiser to let us know this a bit before hand instead of in the last couple minutes of the final episode.
Aug 5 2008 08:43 PM Just watched the last episode I still don't get it. WTF ??? Its even more confusing. At the last episode there pulling new plots out of a hat "Poof". Looks like a good start for a series not an end to it . From the other comments don't think rewatching will help
) So even if this doesn't get a second season at least it can become a treasured video document of early volumes for fans of the Manga. 
