There are alot of anime out there that alot of people talk about but sadly for all of those popular anime there are several more that despite being really good shows just aren't talked about as much as they really should be. With the episode that i'm going to be talking about today being one such a case as this anime is even talked about by even the most ardent of anime fans let alone the mainstream audience that shows like Attack On Titan on Pokemon have broken through to and so then join me as I review the review the first episode that is more fun then what it really had any right to be with the episode in question being called simply just ""O Ye Winds Of Heaven" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is young shrine maiden Saya Kisaragi is tasked with protecting her small village town from monsters but something bigger and more threatening lurks within the village. Now then interms of what Impersonally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it does a good job of setting up the threat of the episode but at the same time it's also not that good either as the plot of this episode is also on really rather weak as well with it being incredibly difficult to work what the actual plot of this episode is even meant to be at the best of times but this episode really does have some really good pacing it it as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Alexis Tipton as Saya Kisaragi , Lindsay Seidel as Nene and Nono Motoe and Robert McCollum as Fumito Nanahara. Also starring in this episode is Bill Jenkins as Tadayoshi Kisaragi Lydia Mackay as Kanako Tsutsutori , Todd Haberkorn as Dog Martha Harms as Yuka Amino , Chris Burnett as Itsuki Tomofusa , Scott Freeman as Shinichiro Tokizane and Fairy Tail star Tia Ballard as Hitomi.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which really isn't all that surprising given that alot of this episodes cast is made up a bunch of really good voice actors all of whom know how to turn in a good performance and all of whom do turn in a really rather solid performance in this episode but at the same time tho the acting in this episode isn't as good as it really should have been which is understandable as the cast are still trying to find there characters with the script for this episode not really helping the acting out at all as the script for this episode is just so bad as it gives none of the episodes cast much to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personality is even meant to he in the first place which really does hurt the overall quality of the acting in this episode.
Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Production I.G. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad which is to be expected from an early 2010's TV series anime but at the same time given that this is Production I.G the animation in this episode should have been alot better as while the animation in this episode isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination but with this animation studio you expect great animation in every single project that they do just because of there name alone and yet to see one of their projects that doesn't have that good of an animation does feel like it's a bit of a let down.
This episode is a good example of how to a strong female character as Saya Kisaragi is a strong female character. As she's a character that has alot of flaws like the fact that she's bit of a goof ball and is very clumsy both of which are things that get her into trouble and while they don't get her into that much trouble they are still things that she has to overcome with her character not being presented as someone who is perfect at everything like alot of modern Hollywood versions of "strong female characters" are as Saya is an interesting character who has to learn and to grow from the mistakes that she not only makes in this episode but also in future episodes of this show as well as when things do get worse alot of our her faults like her overly trusting nature do come into play and knowing how the rest of the show goes that is also a massive flaw as she just believes everything that she's told and is willing to trust anyone just because they seem like a good person.
While there are alot of good things to be found in this episode there are some issues to be found in this episode. Like the fact that not alot of the episodes get alot of screen time and thus can't start to form much of a personality which does make sense given that this is a TV series but given that this is short TV series it is something that should have been fixed and the other major issue is the fact that the show and films main villain also isn't set up either with alot of the episode being dedicated to Saya Kisaragi just going about her day to day life which does make sense as she is the main hero of the show but at the same time given that the show is only twelve episodes long there really should have been some of the episodes running time really being dedicated to setting up the villain and setting up the mystery of who the villain is both of which would go along way into making the villain alot more memorable character.
To be fair to this show alot of this shows side characters are just memorable if not more memorable then the main characters. As just from this episode alone we get to see alot of really funny and sometimes even borderline cute moments all of which feature the shows side characters and it shows us that the show isn't afraid to be funny as that is something that would make us the audience truly care for the characters and make us want to see more of them as they do seem like a bunch of really likable characters with the best example of this being Nene and Nono as they really do get alot of the episodes best and most funniest lines and while we don't get much of a personality from either of them in this episode that does make sense given that there not the main character what screen time we do get from them is surfed in making us like them as characters.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know that for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly twenty four minuets. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for alot of TV anime series to have to have and while this episode doesn't really take full advantage of this running time as there are alot of stuff that's not included that would have helped the episode like the fact that we don't get to see Saya training to ultimately kill the monster nor do we see her taking the time to catch her breath after the fight which would show us that this was a tough fight for her this episode does have more then enough plot to really cover that amount of running time and while the episode would have been better if the episode had a longer running time as it would have allowed more of the side characters some time to shine and fix some of the episodes issues it also would have stretched this episodes plot even thinner then what it already is but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As we do get to see some really good action in this episode with the episodes action doing a good job of showing us just how good of a fighter that Saya Kisaragi is instead of just telling us that she's a shockingly really good fighter and not telling us all of that which is a good form of storytelling and while we do really get only the one action scene in this episode it's a solid action given that the creature that she's fighting is really made of stone thus can't really do all that much in the first place it is still a really rather solid action scene in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really solid episode to a really solid anime with this episode does a good job of not only being a fun watch but also giving us a really likable main character that we want to really see alot more of in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Blood-C fandom wiki page , Amazon . Co . UK and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.