Busou Renkin
2008-12-01 15:49:31

An amazing anime, based on a manga by Watsuki Nobuhiro (creator of Rurouni Kenshin), begins when high school student Mutou Kazuki dies in the defense-of and trying to save his sister and a mysterious woman from a giant man-eating snake. He is miraculously revived by Tsumura Tokiko, the mysterious woman, through means of alchemy by inserting a “kakugane medal” in place of his heart. She also explains that the monster that he had saved her from was a homunculus, and that she belongs to a group of alchemists dedicated to destroying them. The kakugane, Tokiko explains, is an alchemical device that when activated can gives the wielder the power to fight the homunculus monster. Using this, Kazuki creates his own buso renkin, the alchemic weapon formed by the kakugane, in the form of a huge lance. Along with Tokiko and her own buso renkin, Kazuki joins the fight against the homunculus and their master.

Overview

This is an awesome anime with almost non-stop action and heart pounding cliffhangers, although, it gets weird in some places but that’s mostly true of all great animes. This anime could be considered on par w/ great alchemic-based series such as FMA all for except on thing... the series is TO SHORT!
The twenty-six episodes that create the anime, are awesome but the last episode wraps up everything so cleanly it is almost saying that the creator went “AGGGHHH NO MORE!!!!” and stopped the series. So if they could somehow unravel the almost to perfect ending or create new threads to go off of for the series it would truly be an amazing anime. If you haven’t see this anime I would really recommend watching. -----TAMA------

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