Arata Kangatari

Episode 1 thoughts:
What surprised me most aside from the changes from the original manga source, is Yuu Watase's attempt to make a Reverse harem with a Shounen theme. This is almost the reverse of Fushigi Yuugi in my opinion...

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I'm still having a hard time memorizing terms used in their world, it gets complicated in the middle of the manga but you'll get used to it in the recent chapters.

The fast paced action probably hints this anime is getting a non-canon ending...
Feel free to discuss the anime/manga in this thread

Dibs for Kugura :twisted:
The character design for the anime made Arata more younger :oops:

I've read only the first volume, so I don't know what to expect later on, but so far it seems good. I don't like the blond-Arata, and judging by the ending theme, the dark-haired Arata won't be appearing much

I have low expectations for this one (both anime and manga) because friends who read the manga were ranting on how cowardly IRL Arata (err the blonde one) was... xD

But well, let's see~

Blue_Sargent wrote:I've read only the first volume, so I don't know what to expect later on, but so far it seems good. I don't like the blond-Arata, and judging by the ending theme, the dark-haired Arata won't be appearing much

Dark haired arata appears once/twice in every volume

eigengrau wrote:I have low expectations for this one (both anime and manga) because friends who read the manga were ranting on how cowardly IRL Arata (err the blonde one) was... xD

But well, let's see~

Episode 2 is out.. xD

I'd never heard of this until bumping into the anime on Crunchyroll, but I absolutely loved the couple episodes out so far and I'm really looking forward to more. It's sad the harem of beautiful mens turned out to be the bad guys though, unless it turns out they had a good reason to betray the Hime-Ou besides "we're misogynistic assholes who want to rule the country" then I don't know if I'll really be able to properly fangirl them

I really like Hinohara though personally! I'm a sucker for the lonely, quietly angsty types I guess. And I'm interested to find out what's going on with his whole track team rival guy back in the modern world.

I feel so bad that this Anime is ridiculed to be one of the lowest BD selling anime's this season. Well I can see that this type of anime does not attract much western fans because of the words used but I like this kind of direction, less talk and more action.

Loren Leah wrote:I'd never heard of this until bumping into the anime on Crunchyroll, but I absolutely loved the couple episodes out so far and I'm really looking forward to more. It's sad the harem of beautiful mens turned out to be the bad guys though, unless it turns out they had a good reason to betray the Hime-Ou besides "we're misogynistic assholes who want to rule the country" then I don't know if I'll really be able to properly fangirl them

I really like Hinohara though personally! I'm a sucker for the lonely, quietly angsty types I guess. And I'm interested to find out what's going on with his whole track team rival guy back in the modern world.

It does kinda suck that they betrayed her, but you can still look at them and I believe

Spoiler:

if what I read was correct.

And I also really like Hinohara. For once he's not the hero type to blindly trust everyone (mostly because of what happened to him back in his world) and I like that change of pace. ^_^

Skiye wrote:

Loren Leah wrote:I'd never heard of this until bumping into the anime on Crunchyroll, but I absolutely loved the couple episodes out so far and I'm really looking forward to more. It's sad the harem of beautiful mens turned out to be the bad guys though, unless it turns out they had a good reason to betray the Hime-Ou besides "we're misogynistic assholes who want to rule the country" then I don't know if I'll really be able to properly fangirl them

I really like Hinohara though personally! I'm a sucker for the lonely, quietly angsty types I guess. And I'm interested to find out what's going on with his whole track team rival guy back in the modern world.

It does kinda suck that they betrayed her, but you can still look at them and I believe

Spoiler:

if what I read was correct.

And I also really like Hinohara. For once he's not the hero type to blindly trust everyone (mostly because of what happened to him back in his world) and I like that change of pace. ^_^

Spoilers for Hime-ou's death

Spoiler:

Just started watching this anime today and have gotten through two episodes so far. I was also a bit surprised at the whole "bishie harem with no one to dote on" thing, but kudos for trying something different.

Loren Leah wrote:It's sad the harem of beautiful mens turned out to be the bad guys though, unless it turns out they had a good reason to betray the Hime-Ou besides "we're misogynistic assholes who want to rule the country" then I don't know if I'll really be able to properly fangirl them

I like my eye candy to be morally upright (although hard shell is acceptable), but they're still awfully cute. I'm interested to see how it all plays out.