Hah. I finished Seirei no Moribito. It’s really great to add another great anime to my awesome-list, but on the other hand it’s quite sad that it’s finished. Well, it really did finish nicely. I probably won’t rewatch it, because it’s one long story and I know everything that happens already, so watching it again doesn’t make much sense to me.

It was a nice watch. Probably because I finally found the time to continue watching Seirei no Moribito and I rushed and enjoyed the episodes very much. The OST is very nice. The music is soothing when necessary, cruel when it’s needed and so on. I shouldn’t forget about the sound-effects. They were very well, especially in the fights. Steel to steel never sounded that realistic to me. Guess I’ve watched too few action anime. I had to get used to the opening from l’arc~en~ciel called shine, but it really fits well. As for the ending… Sachi Tainaka fits with historical anime, as the soothing song at the end reminded me of the fact that she also sang the ending of Saiunkoku Monogatari. For the animation: it was nice. The  backgrounds were nice and almost everywhere and the escaping scenes with Chagum and Balsa were very nice, most likely due to the combination of the music plus the animation. The only thing that kind of bothered me were the very quick fighting scenes with Jiguro. Those seemed extraordinary quick so that you couldn’t really see what they exactly were doing. Well, that would be my only complained. Nayug looked very heaven-ish, but fitting instead of the standard creepy spirit worlds.

As for the story… I was really afraid that I wouldn’t get much information about Balsa, but fortunately there was some information, only a bit late. The past from Balsa and why she’s a bodyguard, it’s all explained. As for Chagum: we don’t really get to know about him before he met Balsa, except for the scene that his brother was remniscing (really, how do you spell that word?) of Chagum. I’m glad that Sagum died, actually. I didn’t like him and he seemed too much of a wuss. Go Chagum. I really started to like him in the last few episodes. Ha, he even gave birth! Okay, that was just weird, but the idea was funny. You can see that he grew when he was Balsa, but the same goes for Balsa. She’s actually a woman too, a fact which would almost be forgotten if Tanda and Torogai weren’t there. I feel kind of sorry for Tanda, as he ended up waiting for Balsa’s return. Who knows when that’s going to be. Probably when there’s a new season, though I think that they won’t be able to surpass Seirei no Moribito.

You might like Kemono no Souja Erin as well as I do, as both of the anime are based on Nahoko-sensei’s novels.