Bakumatsu - Season 1

So now we are going to mess around with time and pit a couple of important figures from Japanese history against each other. Could this be interesting? For example, Drifters did something similar and it was quite interesting, even though they had a broader range of characters than just well-known Japanese figures, and the narrative (or rather, the beginning of it) was probably a bit more straightforward and a lot more insane than simply messing about with a chronometer watch and trying to take over the world. Drifters had interesting characters, a collection of weird psychopaths and madmen. In this show, however, the characters are not anywhere near as interesting, they are just kind of boring. Well, boredom prevailed throughout the first three episodes, where I was basically just forcing myself to watch yet another episode, waiting to see if there would be an interesting and surprising twist or a great fight scene, in other words, something to keep me engaged. There are some surprises, however, and sometimes there are fight scenes, although not enough to stop me from laying there motionless and unaffected. So neither my favorite characters from the end of the Edo period (which I loved so much when parodied in the Gintama anime series) nor even the likes of Sanada Yukimura and his ilk (it is surely just a matter of time before Oda Nobunaga shows up, in my opinion) were enough to keep me going... Dropped after the third episode and I am awarding a maximum of 3/10. (21/10/2018)