Tougen Anki - Episode 24 discussion

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Cried during Mikado and Shiki scene.

Mudano tattoo are a reminder of those who died. Shiki promising him he'll get strong so no wiill die and his tattoo will be incomplete 😭😭😭😭

Season 2 in production announcement at the end!!!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Gakuto does his voice of new character

Biggest take away from this finale is that Shiki’s as smooth as a baby’s bottom down there lol. But all joking aside, it’s nice to see him and Mikado make up even if it did take a serious ass whoopin to make it happen. It seems Shiki really can’t be going full berserk mode anymore if he wants to live past his teens.

This was pretty fun overall. Looking forward to the next arc.

- [Mikado finally gets it!](https://i.imgur.com/ZfjZLjk.png)

- [He’s not wrong.](https://i.imgur.com/PI15Nfs.png) [](#indexsmugshrug)

- [Oh ye of little faith…](https://i.imgur.com/dYjKtfK.png) [](#rinkek)

- [lol alright then.](https://i.imgur.com/HLA8NGT.png) [](#azusalaugh)

- [Bleh…](https://i.imgur.com/go2UDCr.png) [](#sagiri)

- [Mm, yeah…](https://i.imgur.com/DpUH0Xe.png)

- [Oh, that’s… not good.](https://i.imgur.com/tJhY1PV.png) [](#emiliaohdear)

- [lmaoooooo he’s freaking out about *that* now?](https://i.imgur.com/lmmKT1w.png) [](#trololol)

- [Okay this is too far.](https://i.imgur.com/BRxjb2N.png) [](#peasants)

- [Glad Mikado *did* apologize to Shiki in the end.](https://i.imgur.com/DxOFFYx.png) [](#kannathumbs)

- [Huh, I guess that is *kinda* weird?](https://i.imgur.com/EyE18jN.png) [](#animatedthink)

- [Wonder whose grave he’s at, then…](https://i.imgur.com/M0KvCR8.png)

- [Oh damn.](https://i.imgur.com/yJiJapO.png) [](#whatdidijustread)

- [Spoken like a true battle shounen MC.](https://i.imgur.com/pZ3I9FH.png) [](#kukuku)

I know people have already decided that this is a very generic shounen anime, but I've been having lots of fun with it. So much so that I've actually picked up the manga at the start of the Nerima Arc, which is why I haven't posted much here.

I'm glad that Season 2 has already been announced! The Nikko Kegon Falls Arc has been fun so far, and I'm excited to see it animated.

The teaser for new character and arc ….Asta/Shinra seiyuu 😍

Recon captain guy still sucks, wish Shiki just killed him instead of blowing off his leg.

And you know despite my griping that Shiki and Mikado barely know each other, they're still the only characters with even an iota of chemistry between them, seeing Shiki's class reminded me of that, with how annoying they are.

And they're really trying to make Mudano into the Kakashi of this show, but like Kakashi was cool and actually had a personality.

I'm glad we got the Shiki and Mikado reconciliation today and they didn't push it off until much later.

Weird amount of…let's call them body hair jokes today.

This ended up being pretty good in my book, which I would not have expected after the much more lackluster first cour. Looking forward to S2.

The fact not even Jin could resist firing pubeless shots LOL

Gotta admit something about Shiki calling out to Mikado like the beef never happened got to me, and I ended up enjoying this more than I probably should've.

And that's a wrap. The fight could have put more focus on the actual hits rather than just show the building exploding, but I really liked the aftermath, with the gang getting together and Shiki learning about Mudano's tattoos.

And don't worry, Shiki, it grows out eventually! Also, the whole thing about dying young.

Overall, I quite liked this adaptation! I was certainly expecting it to be just promotion for the manga but the quality was pretty good, good VA's, and my personal best openings. I'm glad that it will get a second season!

I started watching this series for the MAL badge but ended up enjoying it. The mangaka's taste in women is A+ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

This Was sadly just a Bad overall anime a 3/10 maybe

The characters seem to be the only strength and that's saying something since it's only some of them that seem written with any effort others feel very one dimensional

The conflict doesn't work for the world there in. Many human would be siding with the Oni considering how often and how little the Momotaros seem to care about human casualties. Both major villains in both arc so fair either causally didn't care about to actively attempted to create human casualties. It's even implied this is normal for the momos. A throw away line in an early episode about Momo using oni blood for human medicine does not carry enough weight to justify ALL the human siding with the Momos. The fix for this is have both side actively trying to prevent the humans from find out for fear they'd just kill off both sides.

The power system been spotty, inconsistent, and seemingly just mad libs go at times yet somehow lacking imagination for many of the characters. In a show where it's random powers clashing but each person powers supposed to fit a theme that's not good. It makes it seem like the writer is just making it up as he goes along with no real plan for anyone's path. On top of that this 11th hour rewrite of Oni's going out of control does a lot more damage than the writer seems to understand. Marvel comic Mutants change the "live and let live" argument if casual use of your powers makes you suddenly and without warning or recourse become a nuke. Before the implication was berserk mode was solely a fight or flight response which just means the momo need to stop hunting them for peace. This new bit that at anytime it can happen again drastically changes things.

The fights the core of a show like this have been amazingly hit and miss some of them really good some of them like the 1st arc boss battle utterly terrible. I'd even say the end of the battle in ep 23 was terrible sorry a space ray gun? Your power been guns real ones. Twice now you've explained this is powerful because you'd have to understand the gun inside and out to make them work from the different power sets, and such mental work is almost unheard of. Fictional gun don't have any of that that so now your outright ignoring your own power system and it's rules to quickly end a fight. That's bad writing

Then there the arcs themselves the plot villains have been over the top evil to the point of causal death and Cruelty. Yet we're now trying to set up "honorable people" inside the organization. Yet 3 of our so called "Good" I guess there the suivors implying anyone that gets away from our sensei character does so with his blessing. One was a big titty girl who enjoyed crushing children and people with her box powers, Two battle manics that seemingly don't care about anything but killing Oni. Then we get to the 4th that's lead to this conflict who seems to be an unreasonable psychopath. Refusing to listen to our lead refusing to engage casually killing oni till now Only after getting his ass kick is he suddenly like OK maybe I was wrong? Then the biggest whopper after all that unreasonable his excuse for why he now believe the mc was innocent is "there'd of been more damage". No there wouldn't be if Our lead was a mass murder with gun power normal mobsters wouldn't of been a threat and he'd still of used a minimal amount of power.



TLDR it's not a generic show it's sadly a bad show that has insane promise but a seemingly very inexperienced writer who seems to not be thinking ahead with there story at all. A large amount of "because i said so" in the plot make the world feel unnatural and fake the character and power system seem to be written out as the story happens leading to off theme and something just wacky uses.

That scout leader clearly adores the MC. It’s a fun dynamic when the writers make a smiley psycho that clearly cares but won’t show it.

so why this feels like naruto?

The show needs to find its own identity, and it will be fine.  Almost everything is forced to resemble common tropes, and it fails terribly. However I still watch it because of the blood works and power system potential. 

Recon captain guy still sucks, wish Shiki just killed him instead of blowing off his leg.

And you know despite my griping that Shiki and Mikado barely know each other, they're still the only characters with even an iota of chemistry between them, seeing Shiki's class reminded me of that, with how annoying they are.

And they're really trying to make Mudano into the Kakashi of this show, but like Kakashi was cool and actually had a personality, Mudano is just monotone

My ship is still afloat, really enjoyed Mudano as sensei, and this did end up being surprisingly fun. Looked pretty good too. I like how irreverent this is, and the stupid humor hit for me. I didn’t have to exercise any braincells for this one, and I appreciate that in a shonen series. Would watch another season.

I think that was pretty fun.
Certainly not great, but absolutely decent.

If one accepts that this is just a bit on the generic, edgy and...shallow side, I think it's a fun watch.

The world is also pretty interesting overall, the Momotaro power explanation is fun and while these elemental powers feel a bit off and don't mesh well with the setting, I can accept this.

I wonder when we'll get a second child of Kishin, I would assumed they could be the cliffhanger, but apparently not (be it a new character or a known character showing signs of an awakening)

I do like the Oni powers aside from that, though...not really a big fan of guns personally, but it's alright.
I love the umbrella and the random power was neat as well, plus, I will always appreciate when a series shows how vital healing, recon and other support abilities are.
I know it's simple, but it's still important and weirdly enough, many better series do not manage that (e.g. one of my favourite things about Black Clover is precisely that: The support powers, especially during the better parts of the manga, contribute meaningdfully to solving the problems posed by the plot)

Tbh decent anime and I'll keep watching it.

Some moments when talks/story is really dragging on and they could have simply cut corners but it was fun overall.

Somehow managed to get back into from episode 19 to end today. And overall the ending had bad execution. If the anime spent less time from episodes 17 to 19 on the surveillance guy's ability plot and Momotaro sitting in their office for 3 episodes straight, the studio might've had more episodes to work with for the final battles. I guess it's because I'm used to seeing more dramatic and impactful battles, but even seeing the position of Shiki's various "powerups" to Berserker mode was severely lacking.

Well at least I'm caught up in case season 2 rolls around. The music was banger though.