Caporegime
Kurozuka.
Controversial writer/director Tetsuro Araki converted Baku Yumemakura's romance/action/supernatural/sci-fi novel into an anime, and this is the result. Does it work? I'm not convinced.
The story starts in 12th century Japan, where a young samurai called Kuro falls in love with a female vampire called Kuromitsu, and is immediately decapitated by his servant, Benkei.
Kuro survives because Kuromitsu has already given him the gift of immortality... sorta. Then he falls asleep, and wakes up in post-apocalyptic Japan several centuries later, with no memory of his former life.
From this point the narrative becomes a little blurred, as the plot hits us with flash-backs, flash-forwards, and occasionally flash... sideways?
The plot begins to coalesce somewhere around episode 6, when we finally get something resembling a linear storyline, but this lasts only as long as the next fight scene and then it's back to an LSD-inspired frenzy of random images for the next three episodes.
By the time we arrive at episode 10, the anime is ready to start talking about a possible conclusion, and everything is quickly wrapped up in a series of fights that comprise 90% of episodes 11 and 12.
All of a sudden, Kuro's story is over... OR IS IT?
This anime had one thing going for it, which was the imaginative and innovative use of Noh theatre for the intro and outro. The rest was sadly forgettable.
Controversial writer/director Tetsuro Araki converted Baku Yumemakura's romance/action/supernatural/sci-fi novel into an anime, and this is the result. Does it work? I'm not convinced.
The story starts in 12th century Japan, where a young samurai called Kuro falls in love with a female vampire called Kuromitsu, and is immediately decapitated by his servant, Benkei.
Kuro survives because Kuromitsu has already given him the gift of immortality... sorta. Then he falls asleep, and wakes up in post-apocalyptic Japan several centuries later, with no memory of his former life.
From this point the narrative becomes a little blurred, as the plot hits us with flash-backs, flash-forwards, and occasionally flash... sideways?
The plot begins to coalesce somewhere around episode 6, when we finally get something resembling a linear storyline, but this lasts only as long as the next fight scene and then it's back to an LSD-inspired frenzy of random images for the next three episodes.
By the time we arrive at episode 10, the anime is ready to start talking about a possible conclusion, and everything is quickly wrapped up in a series of fights that comprise 90% of episodes 11 and 12.
All of a sudden, Kuro's story is over... OR IS IT?
This anime had one thing going for it, which was the imaginative and innovative use of Noh theatre for the intro and outro. The rest was sadly forgettable.
will put it on my list. 
Picked up so much Your Name merchandise that I could lay my hands on as well. Could have gone mad on some of the stands, next time I go I’m making sure I have more spending money available 