Shikabane Hime

[Munsu]

Time jump would have it good sides, mainly to make Oori a more seriously priest, but it would lose all the fresh, delicious interaction between Makina and Oori, unless the last episode of this season sufficiently deals with that. So, unlike you, I do have expectations for the last episode. It will determine how Oori and Makina's new fates will work. I would like some spice and heat there.

That's true, in the character interaction to deal with the aftermath of what just occured this should be a fine episode. But I can't help but to imagine that it'll have a heavy dosage of Oori crying about shit, so not going to get my expectations up.

And yeah, we might miss out on the interaction beteen Makina and Oori. But they could also do that through flashbacks. Another thing is that they could make the time jump not that long, so that Oori gets semi-capable during battle (but not strong enough), so there would still be the sort of friction that would've been there as if he had just begun training. Something like the start of a new school term might suffice, with him having training through Summer, etc.

[Kraco]

The last corpse standing:

Episode 13 Final - Teki

Edit:
Kuro Episode 1 - Tomodachi

Shinabane-Hime Kuro discussion will also happen in this thread, not in a separate thread.

[Munsu]

Not much to talk about in episode 13... it was more of the usual summary episodes that happen during the middle episodes of a series. If the intention was to have a summary episode, then I liked the way they handled it. They added some different perspectives to the things we already knew, plus added more information of the infrastructure of the Kougon. Last scene with Oori showed some promise.

Downloading the next episode at the moment.

[animus]

How was this series? I only watched the first episode and kinda lost interest. It having a second season kinda wants me to revisit the first season.

[Kraco]

Considering I watched through the first season and then the first ep of the second, it can't be all bad. In fact I think it's even better if you can watch it through back to back, without waiting for a week for each ep. It's a pretty good series, the only downside being the relative uselessness of the main character but that will probably be fixed in the second season.


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I was really expecting to see some Oori-Makina interaction in the last ep, but with Makina sealed away, naturally that hope was in vain. With things like that it was more or less all the same it ended up being nothing but a recap with marginally new content.

At least Kuro ep 1 revealed Oori is seriously trying to become a contracted priest. Though it seems like the cult has many factions, some perfectly happy to slay Makina and make an enemy out of Oori. Not a bad start. Let's hope Oori gets much stronger and determined.

[Munsu]

How was this series? I only watched the first episode and kinda lost interest. It having a second season kinda wants me to revisit the first season.

If you tolerate some of its flaws, like the main character not being badass (and a piece of shit VA), some bad dialogue here and there, I think you will find the series to be quite good. Like Kraco said, it's a series that if watched back to back many of its flaws aren't as annoying, especially the weakness of the main character so far. The atmosphere is great and the plot gets stronger and stronger as the series goes on... and characters dying here and there are always a good sign in my opinion. It also has some instances of comedy that are welcomed.

[animus]

Though I do dislike lame main characters (and I do recall the shitty VA) it sounds pretty decent. Guess I'll give it a shot, I love strong plots.

[Kraco]

Different perspectives:

Kuro Episode 2 - Tomodachi



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Edit: I guess it just doesn't happen: That after a sucky first season would appear a good second season. This episode was so laughable.

[Munsu]

Too many random information and explanations given in this episode that I need to relisten to because they came out of their asses. And random powers that came out of nowhere. Nice action here and there. Oori was useless. I thought the flashback for Kensei was well done. This series would've really benefited from better VAs and better dialogue (I cinge with some of the lines). Oori's determination isn't worth much at the moment. Oori's instructor is a cool character in my opinion, hopefully we'll keep seeing more of him.

[animus]

All caught up now. I thought it was a decent first season. Ouri's VA never stops getting annoying though. And I do see the thing with watching them in succession since they're very fragmented and episodes end at weird times. Ouri's instructor is pretty awesome, though in the back of everyone's mind they're still dead chicks.

Poor Minai, though.

[Kraco]

It's a small miracle how the organization (cult) still exists considering how they seem to spend more energy into internal politics and internal fighting than fighting the corpses. This even shows in how they hesitated to attack in this episode for so long that the centipede arms corpse could deliver a long speech before they all escaped. It's as if the cult members had even no interest in fighting them. What the heck do they exist for? Oh, I answered that already: Internal politics. They have become so institutionalized that they forgot their original purpose.

[animus]

Episode 3 400p - Animebreaker

[digitalrurouni]

Thanks for the link animus...no 720p this time around eh?

[Munsu]

Here's episode 3 by TMD:
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=49247

There's also episode 4 out by AnimeBreaker, but since I'm not watching that version you guys can hunt the links down yourselves.

[digitalrurouni]

Here's Animebreaker's release of Kuro episode 5 for those who are interested:
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=49679

Oh and I forgot to post the link to episode 4:
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=48604

[Shadow Skill]

Wow... perhaps best anime this year, Shikabane Hime: Kuro.

[Kraco]

Wow... perhaps best anime this year, Shikabane Hime: Kuro.

That's a bit heavy sarcasm there, don't you think?

Well, I'm sure there were some worse series around this past season, but I can't immediately remember any names. Oh, Asu no Yoichi might have been even worse, but that's about it.

[shinta|hikari]

Nope. This still takes the cake.

Not worth watching, and the ending sucks.