(CR) Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood Anticipation

[Stark700]

Bushiroad announced on Monday it plans to hold a press conference to announce an original television anime project titled Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood on February 9.

ANN source

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...uary-9/.169023

[Fevvers]

Lady Snowblood? Lol, jk. Not often we get a period piece...

[MisaoFan]

New https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-02-09/joran-the-princess-of-snow-and-blood-anime-video-reveals-cast-staff-story-april-6-debut/.169299"]info according to the livestream:

Bushiroad held a press conference on Tuesday, when it revealed the first promotional video, cast, staff, story details, and April 6 premiere date for its original television anime project Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood. The promotional video features the opening theme song "Exist" by RAISE A SUILEN, who also performs the ending theme song "Embrace of light."

YouTube

https://youtu.be/KdTZ-XQhFdE

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The anime is set in an alternate history Japan in 1931, with the Tokugawa shogunate never abolished and the Meiji emperor never restored to power. The anime will follow the activities of "Nue," an organization of shogunate executioners who enforce government rule. The story description contains intentional historical discrepancies: noting the year as the 64th year of the Meiji era (the Meiji era only lasted 45 years up to 1912), and mentioning Tokugawa Yoshinobu as reigning shogun (Tokugawa Yoshinobu died in 1913).



The cast includes (from left to right in the image above):

Shouta Aoi as Makoto Tsukishiro
Ayasa Itō as Asahi Nakamura
Suzuko Mimori as Sawa Yukimura
Raychell as Elena Hanakaze
Chikahiro Kobayashi as Jin Kuzuhara

Susumu Kudo (Mardock Scramble, Magic Kaito 1412, Cinderella Nine) is directing the anime at Bakken Record (Pandora to Akubi), and Rika Nezu (Saint Young Men 2013 film, live-action Kimi ni Todoke) is supervising the series scripts and writing them with Kunihiko Okada. Kano Komiyama is designing the characters, and Jun Yamaguchi is credited for production design.

Yukari Yasuda is the art director, and Misako Akama is the color key artist. Masaki Sakamoto is editing. MICHIRU is composing the music, and Yuichi Imaizumi is directing the sound at Sonilude.

[Nachtwandler]

Director is decent, staff in general nothing to write about, but PV looks pretty cool. And it is very untypical song for RaS.

[Stark700]

Crunchyroll announced for stream

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...blood-and-more

[Magin]

Well, ignoring ALL the historical discrepancies (so many reasons why not only would it not be Meiji, it's highly unlikely that there would even be nearly as much Western Influence as the PV shows), it does looks really interesting to say the least.

[Top Sergeant]

I am interested in seeing this.

[Stark700]

Crunchyroll has announced for streaming.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...1-anime-lineup

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Hulu Japan will start showing the anime one week before going out on Japanese TV, will crunchyroll do that too?

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by LG-MAX 2.o

Hulu Japan will start showing the anime one week before going out on Japanese TV, will crunchyroll do that too?

Hulu will show each new episode a week before the televised broadcast, but Crunchyroll will keep up the rhythm of showing a new episode hours after its TV premiere unless specified otherwise.

[LG-MAX 2.o]

Spoiler for Twitter image:

Remembering that tomorrow the anime will be released in Hulu Japan.

[Stark700]

Episode 1 is out on Crunchyroll

I personally like the visual style of the series as it highlights more of its time setting. We got some action and combat right off the bat along with an introduction of the main cast.

Looks like the anime has a creative usage of weapons but I'm still very curious about the story. Imo, it's hard to say what direction this anime will go but definitely has my interest. Oh and I kinda like the soundtrack too.

[Tenzen12]

It's certainly feat for eyes, but I have feelings it's trying too hard.

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

I personally enjoyed it more than Mars Red, but it's also because the characters seem more relatable, particularly the protagonist, Sawa (still wondering why she possesses eagle-themed magic powers and her but time will know) and her imouto figure whose name I forgot (the main reason I came watching in the first place), she's incredibly cute and cheery but I have a bad feeling that she'll get sidelined badly. The concept of animals being used for dark intentions as pseudo-yokai creatures used to the antagonistic ends seem promising I guess, but it'll depend on the execution. The setting is relatively much more modernized, but the characters wears what appears to be a mix of Edo, Meiji and Taisho eras despite being set in what is currently early Showa era. It certainly blends to the idea of old and grounded with westernization and onmyodo co-existing each other and I'd like to see such subjects get explored atop its small recurring cast. I'm curious to see how the direction will goes, but at the same time it I can imagine it will be a bit predictable towards the end, with Sawa starting to question the meaning of being a Nue (being affiliated with the shady government), losing her loved ones one by one and fullfilling her revenge promise through whatever methods she'll use. I'll give it more episodes to see if it will turn to be at least half-decent.