English Dub Review: The Heike Story “Leaving the Capital”

Overview:

Having been kicked out of her home, Biwa sets off on a journey for clues about her mother. The Heike’s military challenges continue.

Our Take:

I know this is titled The Heike Story but I don’t know who to “root” for. The characters that are portrayed as villains don’t seem as bad as the titular Heike family. Maybe that will change in time I’m not sure because I am finding it difficult to cheer them on, especially after what they did to Biwa.

Biwa seems to be in an interesting predicament at the end of this episode and I do look forward to seeing what happens with her but we actually got some action scenes this episode. Science SARU has experience with making action scenes and that showed here. The motion in the scenes was animated really well and it was well done there was no jaggedness to it or anything. I kind of hope we get more battle scenes in future episodes.

I feel really bad for Biwa but it seems she might have fallen in with some good people that will care for her. If not I might lose it with this show. Biwa is a lovely cinnamon roll and needs to be protected at all costs.