Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Seikichi is a teenage fireworks maker with a dream. He wants to create the greatest fireworks Japan has ever known, even if he has to do it in [...]
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During the Edo period In alternate-history Japan, all luxuries are banned and the residents of the Furai Row House aren't going to take it anymore. When a stranger asks the fireworks master, Seikichi, to build a firework that can go to the moon, he has no choice but to accept and get the whole row house involved.
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We’ve recently had a flood of titles to cover, and there’s really no hope to write individual reviews of each. Case in point: anime series. When one volume of 13 episodes comes close to watching roughly 3 films…there’s really no time for anything else. To help us cover the flood, here are some first impressions [...]
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The main male protagonist, given some man-love by the best character in this anime. The random anime picked out for a review from my very large queue that spanned 2 terabytes worth of hard disk space is a 26-episode 2007 anime titled Oh! Edo Rocket. Naturally, this anime then will have the right to challenge [...] Related posts:Review: Rocket Girls (ロケットガール) Review: Monochrome Factor (モノクローム・ファクター) Review: Needless (ニードレス) Review: Speed Grapher (スピードグラファー) Review: Asura Cryin’ S1 and S2 (アスラクライン & アスラクライン2) Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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There are many interesting things to say about Oh! Edo Rocket, which is a wonderfully charming comedy series that deserves more recognition. What’s particularly intriguing is its unique background art that reminds one of eastern traditional Ink and Wash paintings. Its forms are free, defined by more intuitive contour lines in varying thickness and rendered [...]
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It’s Day 6 of Funimation’s 10 day New Show A-Go-Go announcement spree, and we get our second brand new show announcement in Oh! Edo Rocket. Oh! Edo Rocket is a 26 episode series which aired in 2007.  ANN’s description of the series is this: In Edo during the mid-1800’s, fireworks maker Seikichi Tamaya and his friends struggle [...]
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Tamaya Seikichi is a fireworks maker who dreams of making fireworks that the world has never seen- the only problem is that he lives in 1840s Edo, where such luxuries have been banned. Nonetheless, Seikichi is determined to pursue his dream, and he is only given more reason to persevere when a mysterious girl named [...]
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Ooedo Rocket (also known as Oh! Edo Rocket, it seems) is one of the more neglected series of the past spring-season. I have no idea why, as it’s been directed by the director of Full Metal Alchemist. You’d think the fans would want to see his next work. I’m glad I checked this series out [...]
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I first wrote an entire entry about this episode and about how I loved it, but as I finished it, I decided that this episode doesn’t need an impression. This really is one of those episode you need to see for yourself and don’t want to get spoiled about. TAMAYA!!!
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Torii definitely redeemed himself in this episode! I often saw him as the most boring member of the cast, but the scene with him and Ginjiro, wrecking up the missile we saw in the previous episode was hilarious, especially when combined with the huge production-values of their fight! And I must say, the past few episodes [...]
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Interesting, it’s quite possible that out of all the shows that will be ending in a few weeks, Ooedo Rocket will have the most unpredictable ending when it comes with a few nice twists this episode. While the final two episodes for both Bokura no, El Cazador and Toward the Terra are promising to be [...]
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While the previous episode was the big climax for Shunpei and Onui, this episode was all about Ginjiro and O-Ise. It started out serious, so I began to worry whether this episode would deliver or not, though these worries weren’t necessary at all. The more it progressed, the better this episode became. :) Ginjiro indeed has [...]
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Now THAT was an awesome episode! I thought that the previous episode could very hardly be toped, but I think the creators actually did it! It’s almost like everything about this episode is perfect: both Genzo and Tetsuju get a minute to be as hilarious as usual, Sora and Seikichi weren’t the focus of the [...]
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Before I start with the usual episode, I’d like to share the following: Ooedo rocket - 19 Ooedo rocket - 20 Ooedo rocket - 21 For some reason, no new raws have appeared at all on Tokyo Toshokan, so Kallen requested these. It would be great if someone would host these on a torrent and submit to Tokyo Toshokan, [...]
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Aha! After Toward the Terra and Claymore Ooedo Rocket will also start its final arc with the next episode. That’s when Seikichi really is going to have to prove himself to take Sora to the moon. His problems with the police will be over now, people don’t have any more secrets for each other, the [...]
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Ah, a bullet-proof vest. That explains. In any case, the plot has been skyrocketing forward in the past few episodes. Already in the first five minutes of this one, Akai’s cover is blown, and he’s unmasked as a traitor. Hiraga Gennai gives the explanation as to how he managed to survive for more than a [...]
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While the previous episode was all about the characters, this episode is all about the story, and its beauty lied in the different plot twists that we saw in it. While the episode was less touching than the previous ones, the plot twists were both wacky and shocking enough to make this episode worthwhile. In [...]
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An excellent aftermath to the already excellent previous episode. Not only does Sora get captured and put in jail, Ginjiro’s identity also gets revealed. Nearly every scene in this episode was memorable somehow, and I’m looking forward to seeing this anime go towards its finish. It seems like Seikichi and the Townsfolk do see Sora [...]
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Haha! This episode is not to be missed, as it’s excellent in both the comedy as the drama-department. It has been a long time since I laughed this long and hard when Kinshiro ruined Akai’s attempt to arrest Seikichi., using modern photo-cameras and a strange version of a computer. The rest of the episode, though, [...]
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