I recently finished another series and this time, it was historical themed. Before watching it, I had zero expectations although I have heard of Nobunaga Concerto for years now. I briefly read one or two reviews around the internet prior and most of them says it is better than what it looks.
Nobunaga concerto was interesting right from the beginning which made me continue watching it despite its animation style. To be honest, I was surprised with the graphics and actually had mixed feeling about it. But after two episodes, I thought to myself, "this is not bad after all!" If anything, I think the animation style is the perfect one for this story.
The anime is about Saburou, who is a highschool student from the present year however he time slipped back to warring state - the Sengoku Era, and there he met Oda Nobunaga - a daimyo (ruler / head of a clan) who 100% looked like Saburou. Nobunaga asked Saburou to pretend to be him while he escapes from his daimyo responsibilities due to his sickness. Being a dumb, easy going and careless kid, Saburou agreed.
This overview description of the story triggered my curiosity as to what would happen in the 10 episodes. Prior to watching this, I did not have much knowledge of Japanese history. Though, afterwards, I have somewhat taken a grasp of what happened in Sengoku period (around 1500s in Japan), the wars occurred and took note of notable people from this era.
I did all those research while watching the anime. I literally paused the video every now and then, and switched to searching the people and what they are known for. This went on until the last episode and by then, I pretty much know the history of Japan during Sengoku era.
In saying that, don't be like me and end up thinking what happened in reality will happen on the anime. I kept waiting for the tragedy to occur but it didn't. And to this day, I don't know if I should be happy that the anime ended in quite a positive note or if I should be sad that the ending did not represent the complete truth of history. Well, after all, this is an anime. I tried telling myself that maybe the manga will do this but even the manga has only 3 volumes translated out of 12 (and still ongoing).
Nobunaga Concerto is actually funny in some aspects because of Saburou's personality. Being someone from the present year who goes back to old age, there are a lot of contrasting features between him and the people back then such as the language (Saburou uses some English terms which the others don't understand), the way they address each other (he is never formal to his people, always uses -chan, -kun, and -cchi instead of -sama or -dono) -and Saburou's reactions (he is very active and expressive - which his people are not used to as everyone acts proper). I personally think the mangaka / creator did well because the anime is about an old era but it felt like it is happening in the present, thanks to Saburou's character.
Regarding supporting characters, they also played huge part in plot development, particularly Nobunaga's sister, the generals and retainers. Special mention to Mori-dono and his family for being highly memorable! Lastly, I liked the ending music as well as it gives that badass feeling to it, like as if you are entering into a yakuza fight.
TL;DR Overall, Nobunaga Concerto is worth watching and will exceed your expectations (if you have a lower expectation because of the animation). It briefly tells a part of history of Japan and I definitely learned a lot about this era alone through this anime and some research because of my curiosity. So if you are looking for historical themed anime with humour, and want to have some knowledge in Japan's history, then this is the right one. There is only 10 episodes so it is a quick show to watch when you have nothing else to see. Happy watching!
P.S. If you happen to listen to K-Pop, Saburou looks like B.I. from iKon and he sounds like G-Dragon from Big Bang when GD talks in Japanese.
Nobunaga concerto was interesting right from the beginning which made me continue watching it despite its animation style. To be honest, I was surprised with the graphics and actually had mixed feeling about it. But after two episodes, I thought to myself, "this is not bad after all!" If anything, I think the animation style is the perfect one for this story.
The anime is about Saburou, who is a highschool student from the present year however he time slipped back to warring state - the Sengoku Era, and there he met Oda Nobunaga - a daimyo (ruler / head of a clan) who 100% looked like Saburou. Nobunaga asked Saburou to pretend to be him while he escapes from his daimyo responsibilities due to his sickness. Being a dumb, easy going and careless kid, Saburou agreed.
This overview description of the story triggered my curiosity as to what would happen in the 10 episodes. Prior to watching this, I did not have much knowledge of Japanese history. Though, afterwards, I have somewhat taken a grasp of what happened in Sengoku period (around 1500s in Japan), the wars occurred and took note of notable people from this era.
I did all those research while watching the anime. I literally paused the video every now and then, and switched to searching the people and what they are known for. This went on until the last episode and by then, I pretty much know the history of Japan during Sengoku era.
In saying that, don't be like me and end up thinking what happened in reality will happen on the anime. I kept waiting for the tragedy to occur but it didn't. And to this day, I don't know if I should be happy that the anime ended in quite a positive note or if I should be sad that the ending did not represent the complete truth of history. Well, after all, this is an anime. I tried telling myself that maybe the manga will do this but even the manga has only 3 volumes translated out of 12 (and still ongoing).
Nobunaga Concerto is actually funny in some aspects because of Saburou's personality. Being someone from the present year who goes back to old age, there are a lot of contrasting features between him and the people back then such as the language (Saburou uses some English terms which the others don't understand), the way they address each other (he is never formal to his people, always uses -chan, -kun, and -cchi instead of -sama or -dono) -and Saburou's reactions (he is very active and expressive - which his people are not used to as everyone acts proper). I personally think the mangaka / creator did well because the anime is about an old era but it felt like it is happening in the present, thanks to Saburou's character.
Regarding supporting characters, they also played huge part in plot development, particularly Nobunaga's sister, the generals and retainers. Special mention to Mori-dono and his family for being highly memorable! Lastly, I liked the ending music as well as it gives that badass feeling to it, like as if you are entering into a yakuza fight.
TL;DR Overall, Nobunaga Concerto is worth watching and will exceed your expectations (if you have a lower expectation because of the animation). It briefly tells a part of history of Japan and I definitely learned a lot about this era alone through this anime and some research because of my curiosity. So if you are looking for historical themed anime with humour, and want to have some knowledge in Japan's history, then this is the right one. There is only 10 episodes so it is a quick show to watch when you have nothing else to see. Happy watching!
P.S. If you happen to listen to K-Pop, Saburou looks like B.I. from iKon and he sounds like G-Dragon from Big Bang when GD talks in Japanese.
Personal Rating: 8 out of 10 [ very good ]
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