YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master (烏は主を選ばない / Karasu wa Aruji wo Erabanai) (2024)

“Last year, there was an alternative history royal palace political drama, which took me by surprise with its characters and world building.

No it wasn’t Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, which I dropped because it seemed too semi-episodic and lighthearted to match my expectations of it, nor was Koukyuu no Karasu either, as I did not watch that one yet, and it is usually referred as the worse Kusuriya, imagine that.

It was Oooku, which although it had a not very good first episode, and relied more on its setting, plot elements and characters than an actually good story, it was overall pretty good.

This year I heard about this anime expecting something similar, and just like with Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, the tone seemed very lighthearted and made me drop the show, but on” read more