Tougen Anki Season 2 is finally getting ready to return, and honestly, this is one of those anime continuations that feels much more exciting once you know how much story it has to work with. The first season already gave us a pretty wild introduction to the conflict between the Oni and the Momotaro, but…
There are plenty of supernatural battle anime competing for attention right now, but Tougen Anki: Legend of the Cursed Blood has always felt a little different to me. It takes the familiar Momotaro legend, flips the moral sides completely, and turns it into a violent story about bloodlines, identity, revenge, and two factions that are…
There are plenty of anime sequels I get excited about, but Tougen Anki Season 2 has a different kind of appeal. The first season had that rough, aggressive energy that makes dark shonen series so easy to get hooked on. Between Shiki Ichinose’s blood-based powers, the Oni versus Momotaro conflict, and the increasingly dangerous battles,…
I’ll be honest: Tougen Anki was one of those anime I started expecting a fairly standard “angry teenager discovers hidden powers” story, and then it kept finding new ways to make the whole Oni-versus-Momotaro conflict nastier. The first season had plenty of familiar battle-shonen ingredients, but the blood-based abilities, violent confrontations and increasingly ugly moral…