Ousama Ranking

[MFauli]

Episode 22:

A nice happy episode for once, I enjoyed that. My past criticism remains, though: Nothing so far has justified Miranjo's and Bosse's actions and seeing her being forgiven so easily and quickly feels a bit weird. Miranjo isn't even the worst here, it's Bosse. Stole his son's power to become the strongest, only to realizethat, duh, winning against strong opponents is actually worthless when you haven't earned the victory yourself. Then went on to steal his 2nd son's body, watch his first wife be murdered, and even would have let his 2nd wife get murdered had things gone less than perfectly well.

I wished there was a scene where Hiling, Daida, Boji and everyone really gave Bosse a stern talk, telling him off how awful he was. Instead he gets off scottfree, flying off into the afterlife.

Anyway, I can look past that and when I do, this really has been a perfect anime, enjoyable from start to finish. Has anyone heard whether there will be a 2nd season? The happenings with Desha seem to set up a new story arc revolving around the actual title-giving ranking of kinds. I'd love to see more. :>

[DarthEnderX]

I can buy being willing to forgive, but Daida wanting to marry Miranjo doesn't make ANY sense.

Then went on to steal his 2nd son's body, watch his first wife be murdered, and even would have let his 2nd wife get murdered had things gone less than perfectly well.

I got the impression that Miranjo did all that without Bosse's consent. His last words made it pretty clear he didn't want Daida sacrificed. Getting rid of first wife seemed like all Miranjo's doing as well.

[MFauli]

I can buy being willing to forgive, but Daida wanting to marry Miranjo doesn't make ANY sense.

Don't forget that Miranjo was with Daida for all his life in form of the mirror. As he says, she helped him grow into a strong prince. I actually celebrated when he asked her to marry him Although you have to ignore the creepy situation, considering it would be considered grooming by her lol.

Bosse still would have let Healing get killed, so screw him.

[shinta|hikari]

OMFG this is so disgusting..!!

Like wtfuck....

Such a PEDO this miranJO!!!!

How dare dis bitch fuck KIDS! FFS??

Like ewwww.....

[DarthEnderX]

It's kind of a cycle of weirdness. Miranjo seemed to be in love with Bosse, and he knew her since she was a small child. And now Daida loves Miranjo, and she's known him his whole life.

[shinta|hikari]

Except Daida and Miranjo are gonna get married and have sexual intercourse.

[DarthEnderX]

So...how did Bosse fuck Hilling?

[shinta|hikari]

Jizz all over her.

[MFauli]

Jizz all over her.

I must LOL, because that's what I thought about, too. Literally "fullbody-bukkake", because there's NO way they'd have actual intercourse.

Ok, let's go back to other topics

[DarthEnderX]

23

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Megahappy ending! No wait, adventure arc!

[MFauli]

Great ending. But there's not season 2 announced, is there? I'd love to see how Boji and Kage build their own kingdom. Ideally they'd start by looking for other shadow clan-members, because it'll always be depressing for Kage if he's the only one of his kind.

That said, I have to say that I still don't understand how easy Miranjo and Bosse are forgiven by the writing. I try to rationalize the queen that got murdered by Miranjo happily waving at her and Daida with "well, she's dead, so she's probably long over it and enjoying heaven or whatever". But it's still difficult. And no bad word about Bosse. So many people were murdered by or had to suffer because of Bosse and Miranjo, and yet that just isn't ever adressed in the way I'd need it to. That's why my MAL-rating is only 8/10, without this issue I'd give a 9/10.

That older king solving the Ouken issue just like that was super cool, though Just like that, and in a way that's believable.

Boji just giving up on being a king has me split, but I can accept if because of his even bigger plans of founding his very own kingdom. Way cooler than just taking over what's already there.

IF we get a season 2, things I'd like to see:

- in-depth story feat. the shadow clan. That ongoing racism must stop. Just heartbreaking how Kage was treated again after leaving Boji's side
- freeing Ouken of the curse
- the Kings Ranking, ofc! After a great adventure story in this season, give us a nice battle arc where all the kings participate
- Boji meeting the "gods", unless it's implied that Bosse killed all of them
- fighting the kingdom that betrayed and killed all the shadow clan members. That record must be set straight

Well, that's already a lot, so I'll leave it at that.

Really great anime, we don't get these often.

[neflight86]

The last three episodes were scattershot for me.

The Bojii v Boss fight was too abstract for me to enjoy; with no choreography, this was just a bunch of wasted animation for my taste, sadly. Then, the demon and his extremely nebulous mechanics felt very ham-fisted and contrived much beyond any previous story beats. I felt that could have been handled much better and made for a more satisfying ending for Boss and Miranjo's plot.

...then Daida's Stockholm syndrome kicked in and he proposed to Miranjo- oh my. To be fair, the mirror did spend alot of time with him growing up, but to so quickly shift from trust/admiration to romantic/life partner interest seemed like we missed an arc or two's worth of development.

Assuming this episode was the last, it wrapped things up well enough and didn't dwell on the weaker elements like Daida's marrage plan and getting characters up to speed with Boji's ascention to the throne. Thankfully they didn't see fit to leave the season/series on Kage's boneheaded assumption that Boji doesn't need his life saving friend around anymore and reunited them past that little forced drama.

My favorite part of the episode was easily Kingbo getting his revenge on Ouken like a true madlad. Such disrespect. No word on underworld king's fate, though, sadly.

A good, approachable series that started out great; not many can maintain that kind of energy for an entire two cour run, so good job trying, Ousama.

[Munsu]

Just watched this series and loved it, don't have anything to add to what was already expressed. That said when Bojji finished his training, Reigen's (Mob Psycho) ancestor said that on top of his pin point accuracy to hit pressure points, he had another trump card power wise, but that never manufactured into anything... that was a bit disappointing. Unless I missed something.

Also I would've hoped that we would've seen more drama centered on the anime's namesake, we barely got anything to do with king rankings themselves.

Anyways, from what I've seen we are getting more animation next year. Looking forward to it. I also hope Kage becomes more than merely a cheerleader.

[DarthEnderX]

he had another trump card power wise, but that never manufactured into anything... that was a bit disappointing. Unless I missed something.

It's the friends we made along the way. Obviously.

[neflight86]

I think that was supposed to be his atomic-precision blow that can physically shatter materials.

[Munsu]

I think that was supposed to be his atomic-precision blow that can physically shatter materials.

Hmm, could be. I figured it was an extension of what he was already doing, but I guess you're correct since they made it a point to show the split boulder and also we got the diamond flashback.

[Munsu]

Just watched the first episode of the new series, and honestly not going to care for it. Seems like it'll be a collection of side stories... was hoping for a sequel. Though even then, I think it'll be tough to match the first series.

[MFauli]

unfortunately, same. Not sure I'll even watch episode 2. I didn't know that this isn't a proper season 2, so my disappointment was immense.

[DarthEnderX]

Gaiden Anthology.