Clan lord yadda6/16/2023 ![]() Soji, the self-indulgent gambler who prizes money, alcohol, and women above all else, but is surprisingly compassionate when dealing with people he likes. His method of assassination involves using kite strings covered in tiny glass shards. Nio, the small, androgynous boy whose angelic face hides a cruel and calculating mind. He creates and maintains a secret stash of weapons for Ribenjiya, and his massive frame allows him to use heavier weaponry than most people cannot use. Teppa Murakami, a former pirate and current doctor who treats patients from all walks of life, regardless of money on hand. His preferred method of killing is slapping a sheet of gold lacquer over the target's face until they suffocate, with the large tattoo of the Virgin Mary covering his back, signifying his faith and his work for an underground Christian group, serving the priest Gerald Kano, whom also gives spiritual guidance and funding to the members of Ribenjiya. He is also the owner of Ribenjiya, a gairaigo corruption of the word "revenge," to help settle the debts of those who normally cannot afford to hire a hitman through the bitten koban coin. Yuen Usui, the soft-spoken handyman whose day job is as a maki-e lacquerware artist. ![]() ![]() Raizo Kurima, the master swordsman whose loyalty to his clan was used to manipulate him into murdering his own fiancée's father. Over there, he is joined by coworkers that include a physician with destructive impulses, a beautiful and androgynous young man who is both cruel and innocent, a gambler who loves money and alcohol, and an intelligent lacquer craftsman. He soon kills the man who arranged the plot, and with nowhere to go after his fiancée kills herself in despair, joins the Ribenjiya crew who helped him. This is especially important for the main protagonist: Kurima Raizo, the master swordsman whose loyalty to his Satsuma clan was used to manipulate him into murdering his own fiancée's father. ![]() The deeper the groove and sink, the stronger the vendetta for revenge, and consider the matter done. All they need to do is one simple job: acquire a koban coin, bite onto it as hard as they can, and hand it over to anyone in the Revengers group. Revenger tells the story of hitmen: ordinary people that can come from anywhere, joining the Ribenji-ya / Revengers organization that takes revenge on behalf for people who have no power or control. Even legends do fall, and Gen Urobuchi has been nothing but repeatedly wrong after more wrongs, to the point that it's not shocking anymore that apart from the violence and gore that we've come to expect, he has become lazy in his writing calibre overall. Everything from Madoka Magica to Psycho-Pass, to the more recent failures with RWBY: Ice Queendom, Bubble and this show: Revenger, which unmistakably bears the hallmarks of the once iconic "Butcher" moniker that Gen Urobuchi lives by. for shows to be slapped with the famed Nitroplus writer's name. And it was definitely an interesting, but scathing article to read through of what it means I was going through the Internet like usual to prepare for this review, only to stumble upon a very recent discussion article on ANN a.k.a Anime News Network that popped up on its feeds just the week before, citing that "Does Gen Urobuchi's Name Mean Anything Anymore?". Fool me thrice (with Revenger).I don't know what to think of anymore. Fool me twice (with RWBY: Ice Queendom), shame on me. Fool me once (with Bubble), shame on you. Gen "the Butcher" Urobuchi, you're no more worth the iconic "Butcher" nickname anymore.
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