Alright, I was turned onto this by my a guy in anime club. This anime is available for free on Funimation’s website here, because Funimation is run by real men who don’t believe in letting pirates take part of their market share.
Unfortunately though, I didn’t find this episode very interesting. It starts out showing a post apocalyptic Tokyo, complete with the ruins of Tokyo tower, with some guy standing on it. (That thing gets destroyed as often as the Statue of Liberty) Then we go back to today, where we see a whole bunch of people being summoned to Tokyo, including some guy in some Buddhist Srhine, some chick who looks exactly like Ayoyama Motoko from Love Hina, a lady wearing some nice lingerie, and some other people. Furthermore, all of these people wind up seeing some symbol of an eye for some reason.
Meanwhile, we go back to that guy from the opening that was on Tokyo tower, who is apparanlty named Kamui. Kamui is at some Budhist shrine, demanding that the guy running the place hand him “the sword of destiny” for some reason. The guy running the shrine resists, and a moderately interesting fight breaks out. Frankly the fights aren’t nearly as interesting as the last show I did, Cutie Honey but enough to stave off boredom.
After this, Kamui winds up fighting a bunch of Agent Smiths (no really, they call them spell servants, but they look just like Agent Smith) Fortunately he kills them off because he’s the one or something. Anyway, after this we cut to a high school for some reason where a girl is having a dream about Kamui returning to her school because they were childhood friends or something. As fate would have it, Kamui DID transfer back to that school, but unlike the sweet boy she once knew, he’s turned into an antisocial jerk.
Overall, this was a pretty weaksauce first episode. There were details, but not the details I was interested in. There were fight scenes, but I didn’t care about who was fighting or what they were fighting over. They introduce a lot of characters, but tell us nothing about them that makes us care. My friend sincerely vouches that this show gets good, but I’m having trouble getting through this shows astounding mediocrity
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