Gensou Suikoden

That pig scene got me. No other way to say it. Luca crawling that woman through the mud and then laughing at the end of it is the most unsettling thing I have watched this year

watching Luca smile while Tsai stares at the smoke from Ryube is the whole episode right there. Pure dread and the man barely even moves

Luca standing over Pilika in that collapsing building is going to stick with me. That's how you introduce a villain. No backstory dump just pure menace and you understand exactly why these kids need those runes

Jowy getting captured so Ririu could run broke me. He just got the Black Sword Rune and immediately used it to buy time. Kid deserved better than being left in that camp

The moment Jowy snapped at Anabelle in the hallway about the lives lost. That fist clench said everything. This is a kid watching politics fail people in real time

I couldn't stop thinking about Nanami handing over those charms and telling them to run if things go bad. She knows she can't stop them and she's smiling through it anyway. That goodbye stayed with me the whole rest of the episode

Gorudo sitting there blaming Muse for getting invaded and still refusing to send a single soldier is exactly the kind of politician that makes you want to throw something at the screen. Anabelle begging them while they shrug is the whole tragedy of the episode in one room

That Mist Shade theme kicked in and I just sat there grinning like an idiot. The fight animation looked rough in spots but the music did so much work in that scene

The Mist Shade boss theme kicking in during that fight made my whole night. The animation got a little rough there but I didn't care once that track started playing

I was NOT ready for Pilika going back into the fire for her wooden bear. My stomach just dropped when I realized what was happening

That pig scene with Luca. I knew it was coming from the game and it still turned my stomach watching him make that woman crawl through the mud before cutting her down. Longtime fans were right that softening him would've ruined everything

not a fan of Luca's laugh here. in the game he was cold and that stillness was what made him scary. this version feels like a cartoon villain cackling at his own evil plan

you can tell this was cut across studios. some dialogue shots looked rough but the rune stuff and the leap looked expensive. direction carried it

an hour and they already burned Kyaro and shipped the trio to the fort. felt like i skipped a whole arc. being branded traitors in your own hometown should sting more than that

That waterfall jump is the whole reason I'm still here next week. The lighting on the water as they went over the edge was worth the ticket alone

i was not ready for Riou to actually talk. hearing him snap at Viktor instead of being a blank slate threw me off for a second but it works. finally the guy gets to be a person

First thirty minutes really do play like someone hit fast forward on the game. The betrayal lands but you never get a second to sit in it before the next thing happens

Yashiro's voice work on Luca is doing so much heavy lifting here. That scene where he cuts his hand and drips blood on the seal had me genuinely uneasy for a kids' anime premiere

That dream with Luca laughing over the bodies under the red moon is the thing I can't shake. Somehow a single shot of him did more than the whole massacre did

I cant believe they went there with Annabelle. Her last words to Riou and Nanami hit me harder than anything I expected from this show. And the white flag getting ignored just made the whole thing worse