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“My Buddha” is one of the episodes The elusive samurai It was made with such overwhelming passion and skill for the art of animation that there was no feasible way I could have ended up falling in love with it. Even with half the active power generation, the whole thing could have been like they were waiting in line at the DMV for twenty straight minutes, I would still Professionally obliged to award it an official rating of “All-Star”. Readers, if you came here to have any nitpicks about the occasional eye-catching CGI insert or something, you won’t find any of that here today, because this review is going to be a one-way ticket The elusive samurai Hype Express. You’re in luck, too, because we won’t even make you pay extra for those little Coke cans and cookie bags our competitors always cheat you out of.
Where do I start? From the very beginning of the episode, for fifteen uninterrupted minutes, “My Buddha” delivers a series of brilliantly animated and well-choreographed animations that you would normally only expect to see in a theatrical performance. This isn’t even the first time the show has performed such an amazing line, but I bet “My Buddha” is probably the biggest variation of the magic the show has performed to date. First, now that we’ve spent some time with the characters, their struggles and triumphs have more emotional weight than they did in previous episodes. Furthermore, this tense, multi-pronged, multi-episode affair is an action animation tradition that only works once you’ve established a meaningful threat for our heroes. Shokan and his goons aren’t exactly final boss material, but they’re an improvement over the more overtly clown-like recurring villains the kids have fought so far, which makes seeing our heroes absolutely brutally brutal It makes more sense to treat them cruelly.
Speaking of, The elusive samurai Still the kind of anime that makes you stop and realize that there are some spectacles that can only really be seen in this particular industry. Of course, “Hit the Girl” kick ass The movie made some waves in the West back in the day, but the show’s mix of gleeful violence with the inherently dark nature of the setting made it more disturbing than anything Mark Miller It’s okay to dream. It’s not just because of how gory the episode is, either. The Three Squires’ fight with Shiro shows that the entire trio has to work together to have a chance, and they still take a lot of hits. Fubaki’s battle Furans More one-sided in favor of the boy, but Fubaki’s vicious disregard for slicing FuransThe throat itself was terrifying – and this was after Fubaki had humiliated the boxer with his utter disdain, then shattered his testicles with a swift kick.
And then there’s the meat of the episode, with Tokiyuki dodging under Shokan’s flailing limbs and never-ending spurts of blood. The young lord kept smiling happily. The smooth, expressionistic animation goes above and beyond the call of duty, ensuring that we feel the boy’s ecstatic exultation in every frame of the battle. It’s no wonder that Shao Kahn, the sole survivor of this absolute carnage, will be forever changed by what happened to him. The elusive samurai. He thought he lived in a world without gods and demons, but his faith seemed to be restored after encountering Tokoyuki’s inhuman joy in the face of so much death and blood. Regardless of whether the young master is a god or a demon, but…well, if I saw Tokiyuki playing with his prey up close, I would be scared out of my mind.
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The elusive samurai Currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
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