Hakuouki #01 — The Prettiest Shinsengumi

April 3rd, 2010

 

So dreamy…

Impressions:

Well, it starts out decently enough with zombies eating swords and fighting the Shinsengumi, but then it trails off into eighteen minutes of dreamy dreamy bishie talking heads. It takes them about 5 minutes to cover the premise of the show and then another 5 before they figure out that YUKIMURA! is a girl. After that, another ten minutes of talking heads finishes the episode. It wasn’t… quite what one could call a thrill a minute.

For Deen, it does look pretty good, at least when there’s anything to look at. Spending 18 minutes on talking heads is pretty cheap though, so I’m not about to give them any more praise than that. The music’s pretty nice too. The bishies are so dreamy too. So very very very dreamy. Like giant delicious slabs of man laid out on a buffet of…

*ahem*

So, yeah. After the opening sequence, it’s a bunch of pretty boys sitting in a circle talking to the helpless lonely girl… who they didn’t realize was even female despite tieing her entire body up in the usual freakish bondage knots. You can’t tell this came from some corny girly VN at all. Deen could have certainly done a worse job, but the sound work is about the only particularlly compelling facet of this one. Although… it was fun to mock and play "guess the bottom." Not that that’s enough to keep watching, but hey, it’s something.

Preview:

Yet more bishies.

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12 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Blue-kun says:

    So very dreamy.

    I just hope next episode has more sword-eating samurais. That shit was just /so/ cash.

  • mefloraine says:

    The screencaps all look more or less the same. As do the ones for the next episode preview. orz

  • sage says:

    It is delicious bishies. I must watch them. Again. Next week. Same bishie-time, same bishie-channel.

  • Ran says:

    Hurray for eye-candy! The character design for this series is indeed awesome. Now, I’m even more excited for the subbed releases.

  • DmonHiro says:

    This looks like Vampire Night, with samurai.

  • roronoa_zoro69 says:

    it’s normal that this anime is so full of bishie and dreamy cause it’s from an otome game!

    i loved that game and i will surely love the anime!

    even if i can tell that the animation sometimes got my eyes spinning but in overall i love that show!

    but there’s nothin like vampire night believe me ;)

  • Rei says:

    “So, yeah. After the opening sequence, it’s a bunch of pretty boys sitting in a circle talking to the helpless lonely girl… who they didn’t realize was even female despite tieing her entire body up in the usual freakish bondage knots.”
    ………….. That’s just fail. D:
    They all look a little similar, like VK ugh. Deen, you. But then animation does look surprisingly strong. Where was this for Seitokai? :|

  • Katya says:

    “eighteen minutes of dreamy dreamy bishie talking heads.”

    And that’s exactly why I’m watching this. So no complaints on my end.

  • Jack Damn says:

    Enough with the Shinsengumi already. Knock it off Japan.

  • kururur says:

    Your subs are fake. I fell for it to.. I wish it would be better..

  • Hinano says:

    The bishies are so dreamy too. So very very very dreamy. Like giant delicious slabs of man laid out on a buffet of…

    I knew you’d see it my way

  • Albedo says:

    I’m so very confused… am I the only person here who isn’t interesting in watching an anime for pretty boy heroes?