Arslan Senki (TV): Fuujin Ranbu

Continuing on his quest to retake Ecbatana, Prince Arslan and his company march toward the city. But upon receiving news that the neighboring Kingdom of Turan is launching an assault on the Parsian stronghold at Peshawar Citadel, the prince is forced to turn back in order to defend the fortress. Amid holding off the invading forces, the Parsian army is met by an unexpected visitor.

As Arslan returns to Peshawar, Prince Hermes takes a slight detour from his clash against his cousin to search for the legendary sword Rukhnabad, which would grant him the right to rule and take back what he believes is rightfully his. However, after unearthing the lost artifact, the blade is stolen by the Temple Knights of Lusitania, prompting the masked warrior to give chase. Meanwhile in Ecbatana, the captive King Andragoras III finds an opportunity to strike and begins to make his move.

As the separate sides of the Parsian royal conflict clash, Arslan's right to the throne falls under attack. But no matter the obstacles in their way, the young prince and his loyal band of warriors charge forward to restore Pars to its former glory.

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Arslan

Main

Kobayashi, Yuusuke
Japanese

Daryun

Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Narsus

Main

Namikawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Gieve

Main

KENN
Japanese

Falangies

Main

Sakamoto, Maaya
Japanese

Silver Mask

Main

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Elam

Main

Hanae, Natsuki
Japanese

Etoile

Supporting

Uchiyama, Yumi
Japanese

Andragoras III

Supporting

Sugou, Takayuki
Japanese

Alfreed

Supporting

Numakura, Manami
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

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Maeda, Toshihiro

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Satomi, Tetsurou

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Wakabayashi, Yumi

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"Tsubasa (翼)" by Eir Aoi

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"blaze" by Kalafina

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Mar 12, 2021

hexashadow13

Recommended

tl;dr: A sequel season that preserves good action and tactics while broadening it’s scope but fails in regards to being overtly rushed and ending at a terrible point.

This is a direct sequel to the first season but it is tremendously different. It does manage to keep the exciting action and strategies from the first season, but beyond that it felt like it was going in a completely different direction. Firstly, while the first season was the story of Arslan’s growth in finding his convictions, that isn’t even a theme in this season. Rather, this season things get a lot more complicated and it feels like ... the focus has shifted to being about more than just Arslan to being about the entire conflict and everyone involved in it. It’s clear that the protagonist is still Arslan, but this is no longer the story about his growth, or rather anyone’s growth, but rather just the tale of a large conflict and Arslan’s place in it. At the end of the first season, it looked like there were two factions in play essentially, with some infighting. This season, there are at least four distinct factions all vying for power, with various other players possibly having an effect as well. Things get much more complicated really quickly. Still, I would say this is a very welcome change. The core of Arslan’s growth felt like it was over so putting less of a focus on it and more so on other players definitely keeps things interesting. I especially appreciated the larger focus on Hilmes, on whom we get a lot more background and who performs actions beyond him simply being vengeance obsessed.

The first big issue with that though is that all of this is tremendously rushed. The first season was 25 episodes. This season is 8 episodes. Though it’s doing a lot less, it still felt incredibly rushed where things changed too much too fast without properly developing these changes. It also felt strangely badly written at times, with moments such as Arslan randomly charging into an enemy camp alone and no one really objecting to that or the secret villain clearly showing that he’s the villain to the main cast but it being portrayed that this was only picked up on by the tactician due to his intelligence. Also, due to there being a lot more changing in perspectives, it felt like it got weird as the timelines don’t really match up how things were actually shown. The second big issue is that the ending isn’t really satisfying at all. The first season ended with what felt like the end of Arslan’s growth in a sense as well as a major victory, so it felt pretty satisfying. The ending to this season doesn’t feel like its the end of anything really, rather it ends right before a major battle. So while the first season ended at a point that while not the complete ending, it felt like it finished one of the main things it wanted to do and stopped at a point where it felt like an arc break. I should note that this is an anime based on an ongoing manga based on a novel series that began a long time ago that’s based on ancient Persian epic. This anime is most immediately based on the manga, but it differs from it quite a bit, and I think it actually passed it when this came out. So I feel like relying on the manga as the continuation and not caring as much about how the anime ends doesn’t really work as well as it does in most cases, and thus the ending of the anime being such a non-ending I feel has much more of an impact unfortunately. This season felt like it shook things up and left everything uncertain and then just abruptly stopped at a point where it isn’t clear at all what’ll happen next which isn’t satisfying at all.

The art, design, and animation are similar to the previous season, mostly good but bad use of CG during big battles. The OP and ED are both pretty great, though I feel the OP makes the heel turn of a villain overtly obvious, which makes me question whether they intended for it to be a twist at all. Soundtrack is still pretty good and especially good at sounding heroic.

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Nov 29, 2021

ICenturyI

Mixed Feelings

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“Arslan Senki” is a historical fantasy that is able to accomplish pretty well what it is supposed to but not much more. Is a manga adaptation animated by SANZIGEN and LIDENFILMS studios and licensed by Funimation.

As a show, “Arslan Senki” is just what you might expect from the genre, in terms of animation it has its highlights, but it also has some not so well achieved moments. The characters and background art-style and design are good, which is an essential in these kinds of ...

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May 29, 2020

DenseMC

Not Recommended

The great continuation of our freeloader prince Arslan and his demigod friends who are able to bend the plot at their will. I’ll keep this review short and will include some minor spoilers.

The second season of Arslan was a relief, mainly due to the fact that they shortened down the runtime of the show to a measly 8 episodes. The reason why I continued with Arslan Senki and decided to watch the second season was to get a sense of completion and a sense of fulfillment, knowing that this train wreck of a series has finally come to an end. I was wrong as Arslan ... Senki: Fuujin Ranbu did not have any sort of resolution.

The second season of Arslan Senki is below average as it has too many shifts in the narrative that make it hard to watch. In one episode we see the prince get exiled, and in the very next we see the prince being a human rights activist. Moreover, this season was so baffling, it had the audacity to manipulate its viewers into believing that anything interesting would happen in the 8 episodes. Nothing particularly interesting happened.

The fundamental issue with Arslan Senki: Fuujin Ranbu lies within the structure of the show. Its runtime was reduced by 2/3rds and they tried to jump over their heads with the amount of content put into the show. Some parts that can be considered great setups are immediately ruined in the next episode, removing any sort of tension that this setup could have. For instance, at one point in the series, the king of Pars – tyrant Andragoras the third – returns to the remains of his kingdom, only to exile the prince. In of itself, this was a very interesting turning point as it could have explored themes such as banishment, starting everything from scratch and so forth. This great setup was almost immediately ruined in the next episode, where our demigod cast of superheroes can’t leave the prince behind and decide to escape the tyrant Andragoras the third’s regime – they’re loyal to the prince after all.

The tonal shifts of this show are something out of this world and may lead someone to the brink of insanity. As mentioned before, these tonal shifts or shifts in the narrative completely direct the story in a different path which creates a feeling of inconsistency and a fragmented narrative. We have a subplot about some old artifact that can be used as a credential, we get to see the antagonist’s past and his love story, we can see the king returning from being imprisoned in Lusitania and we also see the prince being a human rights activist fighting against pirates; all of this somehow fit in 8 episodes. A better solution in my opinion would be to focus on one story and tell it from start to end. The first season wasn’t the best but season two could have concluded the story in better fashion.

The characters are all the same, with the exception of some new and equally stupid characters being introduced. One such example is Narsus’ friend, Shagard – whom Narsus has been a friend with for a long time. Shagard is said to be a clever character and someone who has the same intellectual capacity as Narsus but unfortunately we never get to witness any of that. Shogard is just a greedy person who has made a business on slavery – which our protagonists do not agree with – because all people are equal and slaves are bad! Horrendous writing, that’s all I can say.

As for the other characters, they’re the same. Arslan is still the same lenient and naïve child but they’ve decided to give him some philosophical inner monologues at times which honestly come off as pretentious. The other characters are exactly the same, and no one has changed in the slightest manner.

Hilmes is an interesting character but he barely gets any screen time.

The technical aspects of the show haven’t changed much, the animation is slightly worse except for the fights. The fights are honestly what give this show any merit of being watchable. They keep replaying the same medieval.mp3 soundtrack every time a fight happens, very lackluster and uncreative in my opinion. Some characters are off-model but who cares at this point?

In general, it was good that Arslan Senki: Fuujin Ranbu was only 8 episodes. It was at least more entertaining than the first season despite being 2/3rds shorter. I hope they don’t continue with this train wreck of a series. It could have been good but was ultimately ruined by poor direction and plot armor among other things.

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