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mamuzzy
Touken Ranbu was my previous almost 5 years long fixation before I returned back to Star Wars, and I'm definitely feeling that I don't have the same enthusiam as before (i haven't updated the game for... who knows. I can't even keep track of the new swords anymore). It didn't help that my favorite characters are not the popular ones among the audience so they barely released official merches for them. In any case, I always welcome a new addition to the franchise!
Touken Ranbu Kai is an anime series that came out in 2024. I watched the first episode last year around this time when it came out, but I didn't have proper subtitles back then that wasn't made with google translate (Sozo left character :D) so I never continued. Finally now I can watch it properly!
Each adaptation took a different approach in which aspect of the game to grab. But they sadly share the same tendency to water down the characters who could be potentially problematic. Souza Samonji and Kousetsu Samonji for instance who are one of the very few swords who don't simp over you being their masters. Or the most obvious changing is with Yamatonokami Yasusada who basically snapped after his journey, but I guess Hanamaru couldn't actually afford to have yandere characters where everything and everyone behaved cute.
What I really enjoyed in the game that everyone had a distinctive personality, different motivations, different fears, different approach to their current and previous masters, and with it, very intricate interpersonal relationships too.
I probably have great expectations for this one.
