Reikenzan: Hoshikuzu-tachi no Utage

Let's be honest, this story will be confusing for a good amount of people who are not familiar with Chinese culture. Originally this is an anime that was a collaboration between japan and china, making the Japanese voice over harder to understand because of all the chinese idioms. This review is more of a comparison than a review of how good it was. This is because it really does depend on whether or not you can understand or relate to chinese culture. Story: This anime will be very different for those who love anime. The plot pace will be different and more chinese paced where the wholeback story is presented before the main problem of the story appears. To make it more simple the story is about the efforts and life of a character who is growing up as they face many different life choices (like a saga or biography), instead of the (mostly seen) japanese action battles packed episodes that make a character grow as they continue to peruse the problem of the story. -The comedy will also be different and so will the behaviors of the characters. - The plot will span over many years (so # year later will show up a lot) -There is more scheming and mental process within this anime -And characters will be overbearingly powerful (aka too perfect) Also this anime, whether they deiced to make another season or not, will depict the main character training to become stronger. So their will be no awesome plot problem until the very end of the last episode. Why you should watch: If you'd like to try watching something different and away from all the usual product anime, you might as well give this anime a go. Japanese and Chinese culture are very different and may just interest you just by how different they are. To be fair chinese manhua/ china in general never get this type of attention, getting their own anime with a full 22-24mins long ep (most are reduced to online airing of short 5-15 mins). My opinion of this anime maybe be slightly biased for being good. But i'll be truthful that it's not the best story i've come across, but its one of the better ones.

The anime was really great with lovable, mastermind, intelligent, cool, calm, normal looking Main Character. The plot was really great but some part of it is sort of abrupt I think. Story: The character development was great with a smooth flow, great plots. Can't really explain, but it is really satisfying, with funny moments to get pass the serious moments or the sad moments. Art: The art is really modern with beautiful drawn characters. It is not necessarily the best but it is really cool. Sound: The voice actors are really fitting to their characters, I can't really complain much about sound.Character: Great character development that are funny and not pathetic. All of them are strong and none of them are really weak or too different from people. Overall:10 Do give it a try and don't be put off by that...perverted woman on the cover, she is just a goddess. This anime has great action scenes, well not based entirely on action, just sort of slice-of-life of an apprentice to a goddess(sort of) character. Ga, so hard to explain. But do give it a try, you will like it !(i hope)

Let me start with: If you like comedy, read further on, if you don't like comedy, just search for another anime. Story: 6. Storywise, this anime isn't that great. It has the typical storyline of a main 'hero' who is special in some way and quite OP and who shows everyone else that he's not just a loser. The story is quite clichéd but I do give the show some credits for keeping the difficult explanations of everything at a fast and understandable pace without getting too much into detail but in a way you can still kind of understand everything. Art: 9. Here I have tostart with the art of the OP and ED which I somehow really noticed and really liked. Afterwards let's talk about the art in the anime itself...I think it was great. Normal scenes had nice and clean drawings but what really made me love the art (and in fact the whole anime) was how it switched from a normal perspective to the funny chibi scenes and other comedic stuff. I guess like 60 percent of the anime are held in the comedic style or has comedy scenes which makes the whole anime a really funny one and gives the clichéd story a fresh note. Sound: 8. The OP and ED were quite nice, although I think that the ED gave a whole different feel (maybe it was the art and less the song) to the anime or it was as if the ED was for a different anime...still I liked it very much. Character: 10. This is probably the one reason why I watched it til the end. Some of the characters may be clichéd and nothing new but with all these characters mixed together it's just a comedy party and there will be moments when you cannot stop laughing. Also I think it is quite amazing that they managed to give me a feeling of "I know this character pretty well" even if you don't really know anything about some of the characters. I think that is an amazing thing to achieve. Enjoyment: 8. Like I said very funny, although there were some scenes where I wished they would have done something differently or highlighted something more. Overall: Great for some fun time and I'm very curious for the 2nd season. Also, I have never ever seen an anime with THAT many time skips...(in a good way, not in a bad way)

Man, I really wonder how this anime has such a high score. I mean, okay, it's pretty decent. That is, if we set the bar at a low level. It was written as if a fan, upon watching a lot of shounen anime, suddenly had an idea about a story and then went off on a writing spree. Of course he'll include an overpowered MC - an intelligent one with great physical ability on the side. And then a sexy woman who acts as if she's a good-for-nothing but is actually really strong and would be the MC's master. Ah, and then another woman who isalso very strong but in another sense, it would be good if there are two masters. "Not sure what that other sense would be, but I'll probably have an idea of her background later on." And then a whole bunch of other cliched characters that would serve to make the MC look stronger. As for the story, he had this one concrete idea for the start, until a little of what's after. And then, he suddenly got lost later on because there's literally nothing going on aside from the training. He got no more idea on how to push the MC to become stronger, most likely because he hadn't established anything beforehand as to what kind of major conflict (e.g. villain) would there be just like in other shounen anime. "Ah, I messed up." So he started to consult fellow fans for ideas and also watched other anime for references. In one way or another, he managed to sew up all sorts of ideas until the anime ended. (And there's even a sequel ugh but that's for another rant--- I mean, review). It really was a pretty decent watch at the start - it helped that I didn't have any expectations. I was willing to forgive the lack of a concrete story framework and dismiss it as a new writer's fiction. My curiosity got the best of me and I wondered how the MC would master the technique he's studying, how it would be when he meets up again with his long-distance friend who seems to also grow stronger and stronger, and how he would use his techniques on a real battle. But no, I didn't get anything. Somehow, other characters really were just written to make the MC look stronger and then they got forgotten for the next scenes. Potential rivalry and camaraderie were abandoned, and no characterization was established. Even the MC and his masters are inconsistent. Obu (the good-for-nothing but strong master) would be the most consistent of them all, but I lost interest when she got into a fight and then there's no battle choreography at all, even special techniques to show that okay, she's powerful. Somehow, she was also granted the "OP spell" at this point. Moreover, the last episodes really just looked like a tangle of external ideas that didn't go well with each other. The characters are at their most incoherent at this point and there are sudden developments between characters at the last episode which I really wouldn't call as such since there are no build-up or hints beforehand. It looked as if the editor just noticed that the anime's going nowhere, so they suddenly put together something, whatever it is. Heck, I watched some episodes of the sequel and it differed a lot from this first series, and that is a major proof of the anime's inconsistence. So there. Nothing went on, and if you're ever gonna watch it, best expect it to be just a time-killer. It's a good past time if you don't bother yourself with the details. But well, I don't really recommend it. The only merit I probably got in this anime is the great opening song by Soraru and Mafumafu. The animation was also pretty at the start, until it suddenly got lousy at the middle.