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Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnouji - Episode 1 discussion (ani.social)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnouji, episode 1

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Touken Kai

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not sure if a real fansubbing group has picked this up, but the version I watched was machine translation and it was rough, though I think I was able to follow it mostly. There were also many times I felt like I was supposed to be already familiar with the premise, the characters, and sometimes even sword history. I'm sure this is all very interesting for fans of the series, but I don't know that this is a good entry point for newcomers like myself, despite what I've heard from some fans. It also has the same problem that every touken ranbu anime has had (in my experience), which is that there are WAY too many characters. On top of all that, the cgi monsters in the opening don't bode well for future action scenes.

As a starting point in the series, I give it a 2/5

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's a hand-translated sub out there now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I don't know that it's worth it to me to rewatch it, though, lol....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the rough machine translation got the gist of it. No need to watch it again like I just did :-P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wanted to watch this because it was highly ranked on the Japanese Twitter previews chart, and one of the producers is NitroPlus.

NitroPlus's most famous writer, Gen Urobochi, isn't credited on this work though. I think he's working on the new Magica Madoka movie that's coming out this year, and maybe the puppet show Thunderbolt Fantasy S4

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think that I watched the same rough machine-translated sub that @[email protected] watched, and I pretty much agree with their assessment:

The year is 2205, and various famous Japanese swords have been incarnated in cute male human form, to be sent back in time to fight shadows created by a similarly time traveling enemy who are trying to change Japanese history.

edit: A translation calls the enemy "historical revisionists" which makes the whole enterprise sound Japanese right-wing...

This latest show is an adaptation of Touken Ranbu 2.5D stage shows, which are adaptations of a card collecting browser and phone game by DMM, who also produce the popular Kantai Collection/KanColle franchise with girl incarnations of battleships.

Too many characters, knowledge of Japanese history and the prior shows introducing all these other characters.

edit: Maybe this is only for fans of the game.

Gameplay looks like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Let's translate the title first:

Touken == Sword Ranbu == Wild Dance Kai == Return, Revolution, Round Kyoden Moyuru Honnouji == Fictional Story: Burning Honnoji Temple

There is a real history that the play is sort of based on: The death of Warlord Oda Nobunaga by suicide when the temple was surrounded by 10,000 troops led by Mitsuhide, who betrayed his supposed ally.