This week we have a battle in which guys with rifles, bows and arrows fight beside mecha, which is patently ridiculous on its face, even if you accept that mecha exist in feudal Japan. Furthermore, [...]
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First Impressions: What an odd collection of past (Burning people at the stake, swords and bows), future (Ships, mecha and tech) with character names like King Anther and Leonardo Da Vinci! Add in [...]
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In this day and age, the word “epic” is exceptionally overused (there’s even a nondenominational Epic Church in our neighborhood), and we’re just as guilty as the rest of society, but in the case of [...]
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The genre-spanning, pseudo-historical action anime that is Nobunaga the Fool promises to be one of the more interesting anime this season. This anime is an amalgamation of several genres: [...]
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The more I think about it, the more I realize that now isn’t the time for me to be doing my first test run of a battlemage character in Skyrim. I appear to have things like school, ad writing a [...]
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Nobunaga the Fool Nobunaga is back from the great beyond! And he’s as foolish as ever. Naru: …Unsuccessful joke aside, this was the first time that I’ve tried out an anime with historical figure [...]
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I have no clue what I saw, but whatever it was it was quite crazy. We have this whole clashing of two separate worlds,...
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Are you ready fools!? The second mecha anime of the winter is finally out and damn I really excited for this one because I can kind of tell that Buddy Complex was not well received which leaves me to [...]
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Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi: prominent warriors of Japan’s Sengoku period. Jeanne d’Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Ferdinand Magellan: all prominent European figures. The ambitious [...]
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It was around the point that Leonardo Da Vinci took Joan of Arc onto Magellan’s spaceship where the two of them served King Arthur and eventually crash-landed in front of Oda Nobunaga that my brain [...]
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There are numerous anime series and films which take the historical past and twist it around certain ideas and concepts, adding steampunk aesthetics, robots, and even swapping the gender of important, [...]
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The fascination never ends.Nobunagun – 01 It's no exaggeration to say that Oda Nobunaga is one of the handful of most important and legendary figures in Japanese history. [...]
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「星」 (Hoshi)
"The Star"
The sacrifice. The king. The brains. One to lead, one to plan, and one to inspire it all. When east meets west, who will triumph in the end?
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Now, in theory Nobunaga the Fool seems like a show that I would like. As a concept, I like how the setting is this sort of futuristic re-imagining of history, with Eastern and Western cultures being [...]
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I think the only shows I’ve finished that have had characters named Oda Nobunaga have all been female versions of that character. I mean, all you really have to do these days to get that character [...]
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If only the rest of the episode was as disco. Impressions: They’re throwing all their eggs into the high fantasy/science fiction basket here, and by that, I mean there’s a buttload of info dumps, [...]
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