Meiji Gekken: 1874

[Stark700]

Original anime Meiji Gekken: 1874 announced, airing in Winter 2024

[Frontier]

Feels well-timed with the Rurouni Kenshin remake focusing on the Meiji era .

[AntonKutovoi]

Pretty good start. But yeah, it does sometimes feel like MC is going to bump into Kenshin and friends
P.S. for anyone wondering, show is set 4 years before RK start.

[SeijiSensei]

Just thought I'd mention that, if the NHK taiga drama Yae no Sakura is accurate, Aizu had its own weapons developers. The titular character and historical personage Niijima Yae improves long guns and maybe also cannon. (It's been a while since I watched it.)

Not a bad start. It avoided the supernatural and has a cast of adults.

(Amazon had a license to stream certain NHK shows like Yae no Sakura and the first season of the live-action Moribito. It's since dropped them all. Season three of Moribito is worth a look. Adolescent Chagum tries to build alliances with neighboring kingdoms to defend against a attack on New Yogo by the Karsh Empire to its south.)

[SeijiSensei]

Wow this episode was brutal, but I bet the underlying story has a lot of truth to it. There were a lot of guys after 1868 who knew how to use a sword and little else. After years of war some of them likely became murderous villains.

The arrival of the cavalry was a bit much.

[AntonKutovoi]

Oh, look, Aku Soku Zan man is here. And still a heavy smoker.

[SeijiSensei]

This still seems like such a strange choice for Crunchy's first venture into self-production. Leaving aside the problems with coherence in the story (this week is better on that front), the historical period is unusual with lots of references to the Boshin War and Meiji Restoration. Who is this show intended for? People who have watched Rurouni Kenshin? Is it being telecast in Japan? It seems unlikely to draw a large audience in the West, as the scarcity of comments in this thread demonstrates.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

This still seems like such a strange choice for Crunchy's first venture into self-production. Leaving aside the problems with coherence in the story (this week is better on that front), the historical period is unusual with lots of references to the Boshin War and Meiji Restoration. Who is this show intended for? People who have watched Rurouni Kenshin? Is it being telecast in Japan? It seems unlikely to draw a large audience in the West, as the scarcity of comments in this thread demonstrates.

It's being broadcast here, sure. CR is in the production committee but it's still a Japanese production. Of course I don't think it's a particularly big hit here either, and it's hard to see what specifically about this project drew CR's interest.

[Guardian Enzo]

Man, this thing is a hilarious kitchen sink of a show. Henry Schnell now?

[Frontier]

I feel like this show is worth it for waifu Koto Nakazawa .

[Guardian Enzo]

This show is like someone ate a history of the Meiji revolution, washed it down with all 28 volumes of Rurouni Kenshin, then brought it all back up and turned the results into an anime.

[AntonKutovoi]

In the end show was very rushed and rather silly. Sorry, but I couldn't help but laugh at Shuragami's death by the hand of the Evil Weeb.

[Dop]

There was definitely a sense that they'd just written every idea that popped into their head onto a board and then threw darts at it to write the episodes. Maybe they wrote a 24 episode show and were told "no, you're getting 10".