Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari

[Archangel]

Kenshi Masaki is the half brother of Tenchi Masaki and used to live in Japan, that is until he was summoned to the land of Geminar. The Land of Geminar has been witness to an endless amount of wars that have been fought using Seikijin, bio-mechanical weapons controlled by a capable warrior called a Seikishi using magic power called Ahou. It is revealed that Kenshi is an amazing Seikishi and it seems someone has a reason for Kenshi to be in Geminar, but who and why are not known.

Genres: action, comedy, fantasy, romance
Themes: Harem, mecha, school

You guys are tools, why wasn't there a thread on this one yet?

The term awesome protagonist doesn't make Kenshi justice, he's in a league of his own and is possibly one of my favorite characters of all times ( even if the VA is awful )

As for the harem aspect... I'd say he went even beyond Touma ( Toaru Majutsu no Index, has an army of 10000 clones in his harem ) for Keichi not only has quantity and quality but also variety

The mecha battles... i haven't seen blood baths this fluid and gruesome ever since EVA, they're lacking until the second part of the anime but when they do come they do anything but disappoint

The plot is not mind blowing but it isn't cliché either and it will do a good job of keeping you interested through all 13 episodes

My only regret is that there might have been aspects of it i may have missed seeing as it's in the same universe and contains references relating to Tenchi Muyo!, a series I'm not familiar with

In conclusion, go watch this. Do it now. Here's the first episode:

[Wasurenai-Himitsu] - Episode 01

Why are you still reading this? I told you to go watch it, do it faggot.

[Ryllharu]

Well, I finished this a while ago (recommended it to Arch a few days ago) and I'll add a few thoughts about the conclusion.

spoilers within


To get it out of the way, Aura, Doll, and Wahanly are probably my three favorites out of the harem. Aura for her awesome body, competitive personality and physical skills to nearly match Kenshi, and hilarious "weakness". She gets the most embarrassed, but thankfully isn't a tsundere. Wan for her brains, clothespin hairclips, and personality in general. Wan gets bonus points for being openly critical of characters outside her social class, and being a competent fighter without being showy. Doll, because, she's Doll. Everything about her is great. Her character design especially.

That said, I'm also a big fan of Emera, Dagmeyer's handmaiden. She is for the most part a very loyal and just person. Her early conflicts with Chiaia are amusing, but the really stand out part is right at the end of the series. I had forgotten she was even a seikishi, because she really only gets on a seikijin a single time. Red, Blue, Green and Yellow (Wreda, Bwoole, Yeliss, and Gryino. Yes, those really are their official names) are fun too. Heck, most of the side characters in this series are great, even Lashara's two handmaidens usually seen piloting the Swan.

Flora...so evil. She really doesn't get enough screentime to be insane, enraged, and vicious in combat (the reason Maria and Lashara fear her) but those few moments when her eyes harden and grow cold...priceless.


Concerning Doll, while you never see what happens the first time through, it is a lot more obvious a second time through. I highly recommend rewatching this series at some point later on with that knowledge in mind. The whole premise is really well thought out. As mentioned, I really like her character design. I also like that she isn't truly evil, she's just lost complete hope about her situation. She simply didn't entertain thoughts of regaining her freedom until very late in the series. She cares for her loved ones and Kenshi, she just resigned herself to being a doll, puppeted around.

I'm choosing to take the ancient saying that the white seikijin will save the world and the black seikijin will destroy it to mean Kenshi in both forms. Doll herself isn't really evil, she's rather kind hearted when she is allowed to act on her own. She just coincidentally happens to have a black seikijin. Kenshi on the other hand, when corrupted with Ahou, is far more of a monster than Doll ever was. His black seikijin is a true beast, and as the characters said, if he didn't choose to destroy himself, he surely would have done enormous damage to the world.

Lastly, I greatly enjoyed the setting of the world. The often confusing interaction between Ena and Ahou, the way the fall of one civilization set the founding of another, the largely matriarchal society as a result of more female seikishi than male ones, that normal folk (Ran and her gang, Emera, the dark elves, Wan never riding hers) can be as deadly outside the cockpits as the seikishi are within one.

The part that really struck me was the Ena/Ahou connection. The world and travel through it are shaped by the Draft of the Ena sea. Ships and seikijin can only operate below a certain level of elevation where the Draft exists. Thus the world is filled with huge canyons and tactics must be taken into account in regards to terrain and location. Havoniwa could defend itself with only one fortress because airship and seikijin access is so limited. Going along with that, a generator of sufficient size and draw (the Meteor Fall's, The Swan's forward engine, various others) can render a seikijin much weaker or even useless by absorbing most of the Draft nearby, creating a vacuum. Also the operating time being the Ahou energy resistance limit of the seikishi as they are slowly poisoned by the Draft being converted to Ahou.


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In short, great series, even better the second time through, and it is a nice change that the series never holds your hand telling you about everything. The audience is largely left to figure it out on their own as they go. You are put into Kenshi's shoes, learning about the strange world he finds himself in at the same time he does.

[animus]

That reminds me, I watched 12 subbed eps a while back but there wasn't one for 13.

I should probably get on that.

[Marik]

Looks interesting. I'll check it out. I'm downloading these currently..

[Wasurenai-Himitsu] Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari 01-05 Batch [BD H264 1280x720].mkv

[Wasurenai-Himitsu] Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari 06-09 Batch [BD H264 1280x720].mkv

[Wasurenai] Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari - 10 [BD H264 OGG 720p] [21AF365C].mkv

[Dark Dragon]

I finished this awhile go too. I neglected to make a thread about this because the release was infrequent and 3 months between post leaves for a rather dry discussion.

Ahou and the Koro are presented in Photon so i wonder if Kajishima-sensei intended for the two worlds to have a connection.

I'll upload the entire series over megaupload sometimes in the next week for the people that can't/won't use torrents.

[Ryllharu]

Ahou and the Koro are presented in Photon so i wonder if Kajishima-sensei intended for the two worlds to have a connection.

Photon (which I'm watching now), heavily influences the names and terms in Seikishi Monogatari, but I'd find it hard to believe they're related directly the same way the Tenchi Muyo OVAs are.

Ahou is used differently there (humans using it directly instead of being poisoned by it), the Koro are not spaceships (or I certainly hope not!). Seikishi Monogatari takes place in a parallel dimension to the Earth where Tenchi Muyo takes place. If you look at some of the planetary maps in Photon, they're Earth after some environmental apocalypse or another (described as 30% land, mostly desert, Japan clearly showing on the map).

Kenshi himself seems far more like a cross between Photon and Tenchi. Kenshi and Photon have a lot of similarities in personality. The other references beside the Koros are Lashara's first and family names (Earth), and the Nanadans (Maria and Flora) sharing a name as well.

So I don't think they're quite as connected.

[Dark Dragon]

Here is the entire series on MU for the people who needs/want it.

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@Arch When you get the chance, could you edit the first post with these links?

[David75]

Seems like there's an OVA for that show.
I guess we might see a full batch when it's fully subbed?

[Dark Dragon]

This entire series was in OVA format. The show is completed, but it does leave some room for a sequel.

[Ryllharu]

This entire series was in OVA format. The show is completed, but it does leave some room for a sequel.

Indeed. Just like the continuum that it comes from. The universe Kenshi comes from is the Tenchi OVA series (Ryo-Ohki), not the Tenchi TV series (Universe). Kenshi is born just after the end of the 3rd OVA set if I am not mistaken.

[Dark Dragon]

Indeed. Just like the continuum that it comes from. The universe Kenshi comes from is the Tenchi OVA series (Ryo-Ohki), not the Tenchi TV series (Universe). Kenshi is born just after the end of the 3rd OVA set if I am not mistaken.

Nobuyuki remarried in the last episode of OVA 3 so kenshi is definitely born sometime after that. I really hope there's a sequel to this series to tie up some loose ends because there are so many questions left unanswered.