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brother crab's winter 2024 parting thoughts: ishura s1
tl;dr was originally meh on this for reasons that really aren't fair, ultimately wound up enjoying it well enough to pick up s2, but wouldn't necessarily recommend (especially if you'll be bothered by the fact that it's Very slow)
full review:
you know what i think for the first half of the season i really didn't give this show a fair shake. based on a skim of its summary and the fact that it had the battle royale tag, i went in thinking it would be structurally similar to shuumatsu no valkyrie (which i'd recently binged and enjoyed immensely)
and that sort of battle royale, a tournament between a roster of op heroes, does seem to be coming up. but unlike snv, ishura doesn't dump us straight into the tournament. there's a whole lot of buildup to it, in fact...
the whole first season is buildup for the tournament to choose a hero, which isn't necessarily a bad thing! just isn't what i expected, so i was a bit on the fence for a while
ultimately though i think i did enjoy this series. it's heavy on the action (and gore) but most of the fight scenes are pretty banging, and the cast is full of fairly interesting characters (many of whom are not long-lived lmao)
some of the characters are so cool, in fact, that it feels like a shame to not get more time with them. the pacing didn't feel bad or anything, but it's a very, for lack of a better word, scattered series. not in a negative way, though, because the relatively huge cast provides a wider look at the world. it's just a lot of build-up and so far not much payoff (but clearly it's the start of a longer thing, so i guess to me that's fine)
the worldbuilding to me is by far the strongest point of the series, even stronger than the action sequences. there are some elements of it that i really love, like the naming conventions ("taren the guarded" "dakai the magpie" "alus the star runner" and so on, instead of family surnames) and the word arts magic
the (fairly early) reveal that not only humans and wyverns but even these... constructs? that seemed like mechanical golems? could use this word arts magic was fantastic to me, and i hope we get to see more interesting things of that nature as we continue
ishura has had a second season announced and even though i was a bit lukewarm on it for half this season, i do think i'll continue. if only because the cast is absurdly stacked and i go where my favorite voice actors go lol
i would still say it isn't exactly exceptional as a fantasy action series, but does do some interesting things with worldbuilding that i don't think i've seen much of before (but i also haven't watched fantasy extensively yet, so don't have too much to compare)
dakai my beloved freak i miss u already umu it was such a trip hearing hoshi souichirou voice a character like dakai though lol i mean i'm sure he's done many before but i more associate him with darling momo revale (and more recently saiyuki swk) so this was. new. and a treat
#crab watches#winter 2024#parting thoughts#ishura#GOD i'm going to miss taren and dakai#i fucking loved them like. i know. lame to fixate on two humans when there are SO many more interesting character deisngs#but they are SO my thing#woman in uniform who's declared herself the new demon king#and her funky little barefoot boytoy sidearm#could watch a whole series with them tbh#another worldbuilding aspect i'm really fascinated by is like... not just the fact that there are ''visitors'' from other worlds#but i guess how they're regarded?#because like soujirou might end up the mc#as much as this series can have an mc (it's very ensemble cast for now)#but dakai is already out#and they're the two we've met who have been isekai'd into this world#and so far they're not... REALLY the focal point?#i'm rambling now but i guess what i'm trying to say is it's interesting and refreshing that there are like#isekai elements in this series but isekai ISN'T the main factor#and the people who were isekai'd aren't necessarily the main players#(well soujirou certainly is but anyway)#it's just kind of neat how isekai is used more as like flavoring instead of the main ingredient here#really enjoy that
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