There are some interesting stylistic choices here. It looks very different from what you usually see – it has very strong line strokes, a lot of close-ups, some use of rotoscoping as well (not sure, but some scenes look like that), and lots of changing camera angles. I think it works, and I kinda like it. It’s quite original, that’s for sure. The voice acting is good, and the whole thing is quite fast-paced, but that might be just because this feels like an introduction to a proper story that was supposed to give us the background of the MC and the political theatre. It mixes some serious stuff with very ridiculous situations and characters, so right now I’m not sure where it’s going, and I’m not sure if this actually works in favor of the show. It’s certainly one of the more interesting concepts I’ve seen this season, and it could end up being great in the long run, but that depends on how they play this out

This is really something

The artstyle is unique, with sort of rough, sketchy lineart done in very bold strokes. I think it might just work very well, since that’s sort of the way the story’s playing out too. The characters are a bit stylized and the situations are sort of just quickly introduced - like you’re dropped right in the middle of little bits and pieces of this necessarily huge and sprawling story - but it very definitely doesn’t pull its emotional punches.

I’m kind of curious to see what they’re going to do. They’re drawing parallels to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but is that just the coincidence that we have a highly skilled and educated tactician who’s set out to reunify three kingdoms, or is he actually going to be a Liu Bei expy? I guess we’ll find out next episode, when we see if he meets a Guan Yu and a Zhang Fei.

In any event, it definitely has my attention.

Anyone watched? Art looks kewl.