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The only ongoing series I’m keeping up with is Frieren - not much to write about this one. It’s good and nicely improves on the source material.
On the other hand, I promised myself to try thin out my backlog a bit and decided to start with El Cazador de la Bruja - it’s a story about a girl with special powers traveling through Mexico with a bounty hounter.
It’s a bit rough and feels low budget at times but it’s not bad. There’s some action (with anime understanding of guns), kind of a boring villain (at least for now) and writing varying between medicore to pretty alright. There’s also plenty of funny (and fun) scenes, some nice backgrounds and an excellent soundtrack by Yuki Kaijura. Pretty decent watch so far.
I have some ideas where the story might go but I’m also still early into the show (episode 6 out of 26) so we’ll see how things go. I don’t expect my opinion change much unless there are some crazy swerves before the end honestly.
Oh, ED has a cat with a sniper rifle in it. Still waiting for it to show up in an episode - it has to, right? ED wouldn’t lie like that.
I just looked up the OP and ED for this show and you weren’t kidding. Through watching both of them there is just a really quick scene of a cat looking through the scope of a sniper rifle. No idea why, the cat doesn’t show up anywhere else, and only people are ever portrayed as handling weapons otherwise. For your sake, I hope that the ED isn’t lying, because a random sniper cat in a show that is otherwise played straight would be hilarious.
I was confused that I hadn’t heard of this show before, but then I saw it came out in 2007. I have been learning recently from discussions in these threads that the late 2000’s were a bit of a blind spot for me anime-wise. I was really busy with grad school and had just started dating my now wife at that time and I guess just didn’t really keep up with it as much.
I think it’s a mostly forgotten show in general - it’s neither an amazing hidden gem nor a complete train wreck. There are some good things about it but nothing that would make it a “must watch” so far. The only reason I found out about it was a discussion about less known anime soundtracks.
I still hope for the sniper cat though, there’s plenty of episodes left for that.