黄泉のツガイ

They really went and picked the worst way to attempt to kidnap someone. Wiping out his entire village and killing the most important person to him? Crazy.  It sounds like his parents might have left with the other twin and a girl was chosen to pose as her, but even if they're not biologically related, he has grown up seeing her as his sister. I'm curious about the history of the village and what made them leave, that birthing tradition stood out to me.  I enjoyed the episode though, I recognized the character designs and so I was pleased that this was done by Arakawa Hiromu, hopefully it'll be an interesting series to watch.  Left and Right both look cool, and Dera being able to fight against all those soldiers on his own makes me look forward to learning more about him too.  I wonder if we'll see Danji in the future as one of the few survivors of this tragedy, and how learning the truth will shape his and Yuru's reunion.

I had forgotten how many twists were in the first episode/chapter * Did you think it another show set in the some vague past? Wrong it's modern day Dera was even talking about Covid * Did you think Asa was the girl in the cage? Wrong she's the one with the eye patch. * Did you think the magic system was like Alchemy where people had the power? Wrong it's basically STANDS Also Asa being the small girl would have gone against Arakawa's usual design theory or Boom Boom and Vavoom.

- Hm… - It sounded like there was an *airplane* flying overhead there. - Yuru being fixated on stew reminds me of a gag in Fullmetal Alchemist. - That’s troubling… - So why is his sister locked up anyways? - Oh shit it actually *is* a plane?! - And helicopters too… - I was not expecting the modern military invasion… - …well he sure got gobbled alright. - Looks like Dera’s a badass. - What the hell… - That’s what I want to know too… - Ah, Yuru’s blood is the trigger. - This should be fun.

I love how in the Netflix translation, Yoru calls the contrials dragon's fart, while in the Crunchyroll subs he calls it dragon gas. I'm sticking with the Crunchyroll translation, but I did think Netflix's translation for that was funnier. 😆 The moment Yoru said that he wouldn't mind living in this village his whole life sealed his fate as a shounen protagonist destined to leave his village. Not gonna lie, I've only seen bits and pieces of the PVs about this show, and I know it's by Arakawa-sensei, so I thought this was going to be something like FMA in Feudal Japan. So I genuinely did not expect the introduction of modern tech and soldiers within the first 10 minutes. Welp, I already hate this bitch. Seeing her lean down on that kid and telling her she won't bite her with a big smile after killing the kid's parent establishes what kind of psycho we're dealing with here. Since the merchant dude is the one who only leaves the village, I'm not that surprised that he's actually working undercover. I guess he's watching over Yoru? So this girl claims she's the real Asa and Yoru's sister? Then who's that girl she killed? Was that a fake to fool Yoru? Whatever's going on here, it's pretty clear that Asa has a massive grudge against the village. I really hope Danji and his mother will get out of there alive. It kinda sucks that Yoru and the travelling merchant dude had no time to help them >_< These two are pretty damn cool. So I guess this is the power system of the show? They summon and control Daemons to fight? Not gonna lie, I kinda hate that this is only one episode. I feel like this should've been a back-to-back premiere! It's a strong start, tho! I can't wait for next week's episode!

LFG!!!! Really cool to see them adapt this! This series definetly one of my must watches of the season. Also really glad this is 24 eps!!! Ok so we got an interesting start here. At first seems we're in the past. People dress like it act like it etc like we're using a bow to hunt etc you know. Then boom barrier broken immedietly we got helicopters and people with guns coming in. Then a little kid it seems just gobbling people up oh but don't worry they don't bite kids at least ignore them killing everyone else I guess. Then "Asa" gets murked by Asa? Yeah so it seems the real Asa is here? and she's going to kill everyone but her brother I guess. Powersystem we got "pairs" ghost monsters whatever you call em but in this series we got Daemons. Gabu-chan seems to be able to use them as well. There's also Dera san who can see them. Dera not just a merchant or whatever traveler but he literally wiped out the ground team himself so he ain't no slouch.

I have been looking forward to anime-onlies' reaction to the twist in the first episode. This is one of the shows where you have to go in blind. I'm so ready for another Arakawa x Bones combo. While not as special to me as FMA:B, I really love the chracter designs in this one. Great first episode. Shoutout to Arakawa for her love for muscle mommies and daddies. Left and Right looking so good! Also, hello Gabby my bloodthirsty little gremlin!

So I went into this blind, only seeing the key art for it and some word of mouth. Was expecting another fantasy or at most steam/magic tech. Watching and it's funny the dragon tails look exactly like contrails and the roar sounds like an airplane, it is one. Then a modern military comes in and carries out a freaking genocide, and then some magic girl joins in the slaughter. The poor kid, that's how monsters are made. Then fake Asa and real Asa. Looking forward to figuring out that story. Not to certain, but the village is definitely suspicious. Not certain if it is a sanctuary, prison, or some combination. And the peddler definitely is a badass. Looking forward to his backstory. I thought winter was stacked, spring is absolutely blowing it out of the water.

Hearing the EN VA for Envy from FMA:B was such a *whoa dude* moment. I saw this on the Anime Nights so I’m experiencing it dubbed now since it premiered subbed, and I ***loved it!!!*** I was so tempted to dive into the manga, but I put it off because I want to watch this blind. Girl, I was *gagged* by this episode. The contrails already had me confused, but whatever, this is a fantasy. But then the whole flashes to that “hand”, the barrier breaking, and then fucking special ops—I was so confused because I thought we were in historical times but *nope*. Asa’s design is amazing. I’m excited for cons to see all the cosplayers because I really dig some of these character designs. Proper ups to all the animators who worked on this. Fucking phenomenal animation. And Kenichiro Suehiro did a great job for the soundtrack. I don’t understand Crunchyroll. Before EP1 dropped, CR was showing Daemons on their homepage, saying “Rewatch”, and nothing’s there outside of their cute little “Check back soon!”. What’s going on with whatever team is behind the website updates? Just bizarre. Looking forward to next week! A great, bombastic episode 1 that leaves me wondering WTF dozens of times.

First episode is ok. A little disorienting on time and place because of the disparity in technology and setting, but they get the job done telling us there’s two separate places, with one being in some kinda barrier. That would explain why no one who leaves ever comes back, except apparently our traveling merchant who seems to be the intermediary of the two places. RIP granny and fake? Asa. Looks like they did a swap or something at birth because having these important magic twins in the same day is bad for reasons. That’s my understanding so far. Daemons being varied is nice to see. We get the typical tragic send off to start our Heroes Journey, but I am interested in seeing what they do with the blend of daemons and traditional warfare.

WHOO! It feels like it's been an eternity since the manga started, so I'm glad this finally got an adaptation. I'm actually SHOCKED it's taken as long as it has considering whatever Arakawa-sensei makes notoriously sells like hotcakes. Or maybe they just wanted to wait till the manga was far along enough that if they decided to do more than one season they'd have enough material to immediately start working on the next one. Either which way, glad to finally have it.

This is a rant, so please feel free to disregard it. I just wanted to get this off my chest and leave it. I don’t feel any sympathy for the people who led that attack. They just came out of nowhere and slaughtered a bunch of defenseless people. And I wish I didn’t expect the anime to try to paint all the murderers of Episode 1 in an overly sympathetic light. “New” Asa had all the magical and tactical expertise to sneak in and visit her brother, if she wanted to talk to him. Instead she comes in, breaks the barrier, makes possible a mass slaughter, and brutally kills a defenseless woman in a cage who’s extremely important to her brother. Forget it, man. There’s no way to make that kind of murder fine. I don’t feel any better about Gabby. Murdering a bunch of defenseless civilians in a crowd is messed up. Treating it like a game is psychopathic. And murdering a little girl’s mom in front of her by biting her head off is all kinds of effed up. Following that up with biting someone else in half and splattering blood on the little girl’s face is crossing a thick red line. Gabby better not tell herself she helped the little daughter. I’m really not interested in the anime’s “but it’s okay because of this” explanation for her or Asa. If the point of this whole thing was to bring Yuru to Asa, why didn’t Asa just come in past the barrier and TALK to him? She’s clearly capable of doing that. And now that she’s responsible for the deaths of a large percentage of the people Yuru cares about, she’s made herself an enemy he hates. Saying “But I’m your sister” isn’t going to make him suddenly love her. I’ve seen a lot of animes that start with horrible scenes of bloodshed like this and paint the killers sympathetically within two or three episodes. I really don’t want that to happen here. It’s screwed up Yuru and Asa were separated at birth, but that alone doesn’t justify an onslaught. Even if the villagers knew what they were doing, we don’t know they killed any of the people Asa came with, so not even that excuse is available. What I’d like to see is Asa meaning to reunite with her brother, participating in mass slaughter, and realizing much too late her brother will hate her for the rest of her life for doing that. I’d like to see her in utter torment over that, reconciling with the fact she can’t ever undo it, and feeling distress over the fact all her bloodshed was wasted. I think it would be gratifying to see her try to redeem herself somehow, and fall flat on her face. Maybe she tries to free Yuru from either group of people, or may e she goes back and kills everyone from the mass murder in Episode 1. But then she tries to win Yuru back using it, and he says something like, “You’re still just the woman who murdered someone dear to me” and leaves her where she stands. Don’t worry. I won’t do this for any of the other episodes. No one wants to see that.