Tanmoku

Why did this have to end? Are we going to get a third season? There is one major advantage of this show running at a slightly different time to Japanese seasonal anime. The season final occurred when most other anime are in a mid-season slump or still getting their momentum, so a final right now … Continue reading Spiritpact – Bond of the Underworld Episode 12: A True Pact

Time for final revelations and the show-down. Things are coming to a fairly exciting conclusion. On the one hand, I kind of get where Shouken's brother is coming from. The Tanmoku family did keep his brother's body and bind his soul and really that's kind of wrong and distasteful. On the other hand, Shouken was … Continue reading Spiritpact – Bond of the Underworld Episode 11: Confrontation

Finishing Shouken's memory walk and it seems things are about to get very intense in the present. This show continues to get better and better. I really appreciate that this anime managed to show us Tanmoku's past from his perspective with Keika looking in, and then showed us nearly the same sequence from Shouken's perspective … Continue reading Spiritpact – Bond of the Underworld Episode 10: Clarity

Another flashback episode for this anime, this time showing us Shouken's perspective on past events. This whole second season, the shadow of Shouken has been looming over everything. Three episodes we followed Keika as he wandered through Tanmoku's memories of his former bodyguard and now, at last, we've found Shouken himself and entered his memories. … Continue reading Spiritpact – Bond of the Underworld Episode 9: Shouken’s Reasons

Tanmoku Ki holds the ceremony but between his emotional and physical turmoil things aren't going to be easy. And yet, worse awaits these characters as the anime seems to be getting ready to go into its final episodes. Keika has definitely had a run of being very cool this season. Which given he was such … Continue reading Spiritpact – Bond of the Underworld Episode 8: The Spirit, The Ceremony, and the Looming Disaster

Finally we get to the end of the flash back and now we know what happened with Shouken. Where to now? Three episodes of Keika wandering around in Tanmoku's dreams and we finally see how Shouken met his 'end' and the impact this had on Tanmoku. These episodes have done an excellent job of humanising … Continue reading Spiritpact – Bond of the Underworld Episode 7: Cutting the String

I really could start this review the same way as the previous episode, as in this episode Keika continues to float around in Tanmoku's memory, though this time we see that perhaps he had some small influence over events back then leading to Shinryu actually being able to save Tanmoku. While some anime that spend … Continue reading Spiritpact – Bond of the Underworld Episode 6: Bound to the Past