Board Thread:Anime/@comment-26032509-20161001145949/@comment-26412506-20161005101638

I couldn't be more happy with this episode! I'm a TouRabu and especially Okitagumi fan since March 2015 and was hoping for an anime since then. I would have never dreamt of my favorite characters becoming the mains. (Especially Yasusada!) So I'm basically still waiting for someone to pinch me and wake me up from this beautiful dream. XD

I didn't expect any plot to be honest. I thought this anime was basically going to be a "filler" to please the fangirls and give us some genki slice-of-life to bypass the time until the "real" anime from Ufotable will come. And I'd be perfectly happy with that too. ^^" But when I saw the first scene and in general the more serious parts, fights, blood, drama... I was totally surprised and overwhelmed! I like happy stuff too, but seeing the famous Ikedaya incident in the very first episode was so much more than I could have hoped for. XD The only thing that I missed was Kashuu showing any reaction to the tiny little fact that he broke in that moment of history. I wonder why he showed absolutely no reaction there. :/

They added many parts of the game, like Namazuo throwing horse poop or Ishikirimaru always being slow. They even put in famous fandom headcanons like Yasusada having nightmares of Okita. Not to speak of the fanservice with the hair pin. I admit I did some very high pitch screaming there. In general all characters acted the way I imagined them, so I'm very happy. Again, it was a part about Kashuu which surprised me: He acted not "tsundere" at all and from the game most fans probably thought he'd be more tsun. But lets see how they make the character develop in the anime. (I don't mind it that way either.)

Apart from all the fangirling, I think the music, pace so far, input, amount of jokes / serious parts was all great in this first episode. I already watched it 5 times and I wanna watch it again. So happy to see all these wonderful characters finally animated. Can't wait for episode 2.