
Revenger
Taste attributes: animationaction & adventureadventurefastfresh & originalwholesomelightimaginarylinearglossybig & varied
Boxlist takeAccessible and heightened: a polished animated series, fast rather than slow-burning. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Taste details
Pace: very fast · Originality: fresh · Tone: wholesome · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: very glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
6.9 /10
TMDB · 30 votes
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Season
Season 1
· 2023 · 12 episodesBetrayed, forsaken with nowhere left to turn, Raizo joins a group of four unique assassins who exact revenge on behalf of the powerless.
Episodes (12)
1Once Upon a Time in Nagasaki5 Jan 2023
Kurima Raizo, a samurai loyal to his daimyo, reflects on what he's done after finishing an unwanted quest, while talking to a complete stranger who seems to sympathize with his pain.
2Gold Opens Any Door12 Jan 2023
After exacting his revenge, Kurima Raizo finds himself aimless, but Usui Yuen has a proposition.
3Fortune is Fickle and Blind19 Jan 2023
Raizo ends up staying in Nagasaki and Yuen decides to find a place for him to stay, but someone doesn't like that idea at all.
4Ask, and You Shall Receive26 Jan 2023
After settling in Soji's room for good, Raizo doesn't seem to leave the room and the reason is quite simple: lack of money.
5Love Never Dies2 Feb 2023
Some children living in the mountains have started mysteriously disappearing, but unfortunately Yuen has no idea who is doing it.
6Adversary Advent9 Feb 2023
After presenting their drawings and a potential source of income, Raizo and Soji are attacked on their way back.
7Rosy Pitfall16 Feb 2023
Raizo still has not come to terms with the matter of Matsumine and his homeland. Meanwhile, there are other opium-related problems.
8Two of a Trade Never Agree23 Feb 2023
Yuen guides Raizo to the shelter where he began his activities to allow him to explore this path more fully, but the ronin shows signs of insecurity, though he is flattered. Is the life of an artist really for him? Faced with this difficult choice, he dwells on the past.
9Mutual Understanding2 Mar 2023
Due to the appearance of the third group, Raizo and the others will have to save Liu's life. And therefore they will know why the Chinese sought opium.
10Nowhere to Run9 Mar 2023
After Liu's death, Soji and everyone else are in danger due to a mysterious threat. Meanwhile, Yuen begins to have many doubts.
11The Die is Cast16 Mar 2023
Raizo and the others remain under Shishido's behest of a group of revengers from another region as they try to uncover more details about Satsuma's opium.
12The Sun Always Rises23 Mar 2023
The Nagasaki revengers decide to settle the opium case with Shishido once and for all and make a risky move.
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What lines up
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
- Pace: Fast, where this profile leans slow
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Synopsis
As master assassin Usui Yuen looks into a series of assassinations made on the grand samurai clan, the Satsuma, he encounters Kurima Raizo, member and survivor of one of the attacks. Together, they discover the true nature of these murders is bigger than over stolen resources. As they get closer to the truth, will they come out alive to exact revenge?
Synopsis: TMDB
Characteristics
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Details
- Genre
- Animation
- Year
- 2023
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Status
- Ended
- Studio
- Shochiku
- Taste scores
- How we score
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