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Can I say how impressed I am with DEEN? Seriously, this is probably one of their best TV series in a long, long time. I'm just amazed how much effort they're putting into this season. It's so much better than their normal standard.
The designs are great, the adaptation of the source is pretty good and the actual animation has more effort than most of their recent series. Sure it's not brilliant all the time but they deliver it very well when it counts. At the very least there's certainly far more animation and nicer direction than the first season ever had.
Hell, this episode trumps anything the entire first season by production standards alone. That scene with Hagoromo Gitsune with a pinned down Rikuo and the falling shards was so freakin pretty to look at with how they handled the lighting and everything. Yura activating Hagun was marvelous too. They even bothered to animate Gashadokuro in proper 2D for his final showdown with Aotabo. I could hardly believe this is DEEN's work.
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