(CR) Hikari no Ou (The Fire Hunter)

[grecefar]

kanata remember his old home, too bad is abandoned but at least they made it to the capital and in the next chapter touko and koushi will met.

[Kanon]

Well, that guy couldn't have made it clearer the nice old man is actually the most evil bastard on Earth. It was so heavy-handed I'm actually wondering if the twist is going to be that he's actually a good guy. Did Koushi even say a single word while the fire hunter was ranting about his benefactor? You'd think he would have asked him some questions.

[SeijiSensei]

I was surprised they didn't immediately search for water to drink. They'd been out to sea for a few days, right? Not one of them mentioned being hungry or dehydrated after they reached shore.

I'm assuming Koushi's master is neither as well-intentioned as we were first lead to believe nor as evil as the fire hunter describes him here.

I think Koushi might have asked the hunter more questions, but they turned their attention to the hunt and everything exploded.

[frubam]

Seems the big benefactor guy was[obv] was bad news. Roroku putting doubts in Koushi's head about who he's working for will hopefully start to open his eyes a bit. But I do get that Okita(whatever his name is) technically is holding Koushi's sister as a open hostage.

Any idea why the two girls were crying in that one scene?

I'm surprised no one in the capital were raising a hand at the spider boy. Sure, he's just a boy, but I thought they were considered bad news by the populous.

BTW, that boy sure does look like Tenchi light hawk wings . Given how cheap the animation is, I wouldn't be surprised if it was found that they straight ripped the design off in some way.

[grecefar]

And they met.

We got to know the relationship between father and son, not surprising if he was a roaming hunter. Maybe he was never there and since he died and didn't come back he thought he just left them. Koushi knows the true now.

[Alchemist007]

The art is fine when there's not much or just a smidge of action. Flashbang against the spooky ghost spy ok, not so much a dragon attacks the caravan.

[grecefar]

a lot of info in this chapter, treefolk are human experiment, we met a god and the flickering flame is a satellite?

touko got the sickle but had to left kanata, it was sad. I really thought koushi would leave kanate with her when he let her have the sickle.

[Alchemist007]

I'm wondering if all the religious god talk isn't just technology/chemical weapons and other science misused.

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Alchemist007

I'm wondering if all the religious god talk isn't just technology/chemical weapons and other science misused.

I think this episode pretty much confirmed it, with the reveal the entire spontaneous combustion thing is the result of a man-made virus, the Treefolk being the result of experiments, etc...

It's a "science so advanced it looks like magic" setting.

[Blaat]

Originally Posted by Kanon

I think this episode pretty much confirmed it, with the reveal the entire spontaneous combustion thing is the result of a man-made virus, the Treefolk being the result of experiments, etc...

It's a "science so advanced it looks like magic" setting.

Yup another anime with a comparable "science so advanced it looks like magic" setting is Shin Sekai Yori.

[SeijiSensei]

Does anyone know how long this season is supposed to run? Everywhere I look says nine episodes, but that's also the number of completed installments. Episode nine didn't seem conclusive in any way, so I can't seems unlikely the season has come to a close. The story is just now geting underway. Seems like at least two cours to me; hope WOWOW agrees.

I've grown more involved with this story once it moved to the capital. I didn't understand the second cannon shot. Did it destroy that industrial structure? Was it abandoned?

[Kanon]

Didn't see an episode count anywhere. If it's two cours I'll be tuning out at the end of the season. Too many interesting anime in Spring to keep wasting my time on something like this.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by SeijiSensei

Does anyone know how long this season is supposed to run? Everywhere I look says nine episodes, but that's also the number of completed installments. Episode nine didn't seem conclusive in any way, so I can't seems unlikely the season has come to a close. The story is just now geting underway. Seems like at least two cours to me; hope WOWOW agrees.

Reliably extrapolated from Oshii's comments to be "about 20" episodes.

[grecefar]

Well, at least it was showed why touko could kill that monster before the capital.

this was 6/10 for me, maybe I will watch the second season if it comes out soon and I still remember.

[Alchemist007]

Interesting art, but the narrative was leaving something to be desired, though we only have half the story so far.

6/10

[Kanon]

Pretty much everything about this show sucked. The animation, the story, the characters... its only saving grace was that its setting was interesting. Nowhere near enough for me to come back for S2 though.

[Dop]

Well, I'll be back for season 2. I want to see where this story is going because despite the show's shortcomings I prefer something like this to 'yet another generic isekai show'.

[Last Sinner]

And finally the rumours I heard were confirmed.

Their pace adaption was 5 episodes per book. I heard the books were 800 pages...

That is absurd...that makes even Seiji Kishi super-compressions look tame in comparison...

Hopefully it makes people buy the books, because this compromised far too much in anime form...

Last time I give any interest to anything Oshii is involved in. Had it. Lost it...

[Eater of All]

Holy cow, I haven't seen animation and pacing this comically bad in a long time.