English Dub Review: Orient “A Vow”

Overview:

Musashi has unlocked a portion of the Obsidian Goddess’ power. But even if he manages to defeat the Kishin-powered Yataro, will he be able to save Michiru from her father’s machinations?

Our Take:

This is going to be a tough episode to review. On one hand, I know that subjectively this was a decent episode and set things up really well if we ever get a second season. But unfortunately, for me, it committed one of the greatest sins I have seen in anime since I watched Gurren Lagann. I know that not everything or everyone is going to get a happy ending and what this has going for it over the previous show I mentioned is that this isn’t the end of the whole thing. But that scene with Michiru gave me some PTSD and I got really sad at how this ended.

Ultimately, it was a good fun episode. The main fight was over a little too soon but I suppose that’s what happens when you go Super Saiyan. After that, we got a lot of setup for things but I have no clue if we will ever get to see those things come to fruition. What I do know is that this show was an amazingly pleasant surprise that I didn’t think I would enjoy and I look forward to going over it in the season review.