Fans definitely didn’t expect the anime to take this turn.
Spoilers for Episode 8 ahead!
Summary:
Ishura baits the viewers with multiple character introductions and teasing a huge tournament, but then becomes a political intrigue series.
In Episode 8, we see the first major character death — and we feel like it won’t be the last one.
One of the most interesting topics of the anime is how differently the overpowered characters perceive the world.
Ishura is one of the most unusual anime this season. It is a perfect example of an anime that has a very high entry barrier, but will reward the viewer if they stick around until the end. The first five episodes only introduce the characters, and some found them hard to watch weekly — remembering over 20 of them is not an easy task.
That said, when the plot lines finally started to converge, the story actually made perfect sense. Episode 8, in particular, explains most of the missing bits, while also shocking viewers with some of its reveals: it shows what Ishura is truly about, after all.
The beginning is intentionally misleading
In the first episodes, multiple characters have mentioned a tournament held in the capital of Aureatia — and viewers would assume that would be the series’ main event. However, it is not even close to actually happening, and the novel readers confirm it’s not going to even be in the second season if the anime gets one.
Instead, Ishura follows multiple complicated political intrigues involving a military conflict between a human empire and its breakaway state. In the midst of it, many powerful warriors — called Shura — are involved.
The anime is very brutal, as we’ve seen before — but Episode 8, in particular, shows that not even the characters who were shown to be important are safe.
No one is safe
In this episode, we see our first casualty among major characters — and many viewers feel it won’t be the last. Higuare the Pelagic, the gladiator mandrake who can wield dozens of swords and release deadly poison, has died — which was quite a shock for the viewers.
Fans felt that with his adaptability, he’d be one of the strongest characters of the series — but he knew too little about the outside world to survive.
Themes of the anime
A very important point in the episode was a dialogue between Dakai and Yuno. Yuno’s home city was destroyed because Dakai awakened the ancient golem below it — yet he doesn’t seem to be fazed by it. Yuno can’t even bring herself to kill him, showing just how powerless she is despite hating the Shura so much.
To be fair, she does have a point: they are essentially demigods who don’t even consider the feelings of normal humans. It seems like one of the main themes of the anime is actually how power warps the perception of reality, and the difference between those with it and normal humans
Fans definitely didn’t expect the anime to take this turn.
Spoilers for Episode 8 ahead!
Summary:
Ishura baits the viewers with multiple character introductions and teasing a huge tournament, but then becomes a political intrigue series.
In Episode 8, we see the first major character death — and we feel like it won’t be the last one.
One of the most interesting topics of the anime is how differently the overpowered characters perceive the world.
Ishura is one of the most unusual anime this season. It is a perfect example of an anime that has a very high entry barrier, but will reward the viewer if they stick around until the end. The first five episodes only introduce the characters, and some found them hard to watch weekly — remembering over 20 of them is not an easy task.
That said, when the plot lines finally started to converge, the story actually made perfect sense. Episode 8, in particular, explains most of the missing bits, while also shocking viewers with some of its reveals: it shows what Ishura is truly about, after all.
The beginning is intentionally misleading
In the first episodes, multiple characters have mentioned a tournament held in the capital of Aureatia — and viewers would assume that would be the series’ main event. However, it is not even close to actually happening, and the novel readers confirm it’s not going to even be in the second season if the anime gets one.
Instead, Ishura follows multiple complicated political intrigues involving a military conflict between a human empire and its breakaway state. In the midst of it, many powerful warriors — called Shura — are involved.
The anime is very brutal, as we’ve seen before — but Episode 8, in particular, shows that not even the characters who were shown to be important are safe.
No one is safe
In this episode, we see our first casualty among major characters — and many viewers feel it won’t be the last. Higuare the Pelagic, the gladiator mandrake who can wield dozens of swords and release deadly poison, has died — which was quite a shock for the viewers.
Fans felt that with his adaptability, he’d be one of the strongest characters of the series — but he knew too little about the outside world to survive.
Themes of the anime
A very important point in the episode was a dialogue between Dakai and Yuno. Yuno’s home city was destroyed because Dakai awakened the ancient golem below it — yet he doesn’t seem to be fazed by it. Yuno can’t even bring herself to kill him, showing just how powerless she is despite hating the Shura so much.
To be fair, she does have a point: they are essentially demigods who don’t even consider the feelings of normal humans. It seems like one of the main themes of the anime is actually how power warps the perception of reality, and the difference between those with it and normal humans
