This revew will only be about this one season because I have only had contact with the anime formart of it.
This revew will be divided in 6 parts: Sinopse full of spoillers; character interaction and likeness; animation and the art style; music; critiques and an overall opinion over the anime.
SinopseOusama ranking its a wholesome manga created by Sousuke Touka the genious behind this comfy story, it got an adaptation to anime in 2021 of its first season. On this first season of an (I would want to believe) multiseasoned anime tell us a story about a small giant Boshi who is both deaf and mute, not just that but he is also the weekest person you will ever meet not beeing even able to hold a sowrd in this medieval world where stregth is the most inportant thing. In this world there are Ousama Ranking a sistem where they are able to list the current kings in a raking of theyre stregth. Boshi our protagonist is the oldest son of the number 1 ranked king Bosse, beiing for that reason the candidate for the throne. Becouse of his condition people underestimate speaking badly about him on his presence.
Boshi ends up meeting Kage our main support character who at first uses him for his ritches stealing his expencive clothes and jewllries, but with the time beeing he starts simpatizing with boshi and they end up creating an indestructible bond.
This simple life stops beeing like this with the death of his father and the start of an enourmous malicious plan orchestrated by the king itself and his lover/right arm Miranjo who identity stays a secret for some episodes.
Theyre plan starts gojng as planned as they take Boshi´s brother Daida´s body with the help of a demon so Bosse can come back to life and once more rule the kingdome.
Boshi who was suppose to be the next king gets betraied not being voted to be the king by the four stroggesta and his stepmom (Hilda). Daida now the new king makes Boshi go on a distant adventur to seek Hildas parents on wich getting betraied once more and sidetracked meets his now mentour that finaly teaches him with succes how to hold a weapon making him the stronggest being of the world.
Going back home to this maddness Boshi has no other choise than to be the hero of them all and beat his one father and putting a stop to his and Miranjo's plan.
After that Daida gets finaly back access to his stolen body giving the throne to his brother ending this season with him once again giving it back to Daida wanting to build his whone kiongdom nextside to Kage.
Character InteractionThe realationship betwen Kage and Boshi its the one that got teh sporlight beeing full of wholesome and inocent moments. The interactions betwen this new best friends fill our hearts with this warming sensation that we mostly feel in romance genre animes and movies but this time its in an inocent friendly way insted of a romantic intent.
U can easly get that boshi and kage are still children that really easly get attached to others, like Gigan a green giant that they breathly meet but fastly becomes theyre friend after a little fight ended by a single blow.
On the other side the relationship betwen Bosse and Miranjo its also filled with its wholesome moments has we learn theyre story but mostly this sensation is canceled by the weirdness of this relationship and the meaning of it for the final plot.
Animation/Art StyleWe can get tow polar oposites from the art sryle and the animation chosen one (the south) the inocent simple and pretty style chosen for the moments where Boshi meats someone new and (North) where fights and dramatic/tense scenes take part. Both of the animation styles really gets the job done being the first one just warming and good to look at and the second one aways suprising us with unusual camera angles and framerates. Per exemple in the last fight betwen Boshi and Daida(Bosse) We firstly get to see the depiction of Boss fighting against Boshi this ending with the now weekend Daida crawling his way to miranjo at a suprisingly low framerate showing us at teh start the raw stregth and power of Bosse and then the now helplessness state that he finds himself in.
MusicThe music mostly shines at the 2 openings and ending of this series being both opening suitable for the arc we find ourselfs in at teh moment they are present the first one being more calm and relaxing and the second one more fast passed becouse of the continuous conflicts that we find ourselfs in at the second half of the anime.
CritiquesOusama Ranking leave us some questions to be asked mostly because this is just the first season of the searies but some of them i feel could have be4en explained to us more earlier.
What and what is the porpouse of the ousama rankings? Thats one of the mostly asked questions by me. At the surface the ouasma rankigns just have the objective to list the kings from the weeker one to the stronghest one, but we all know there is a more important meaning that I feel we should already have a hint to.
Another one of this question would be the story behind the demons race being only showed to us one member of this probably huge race. This question i feel will probably be answerd in next seasons so i cant actually be mad about it.
Overall vewOusama Ranking is a short and great anime taht i would recomend to anyone to watch either alone or with someone like myself did, The animation its perfectly chosen and the music can keep up with it at the moments it is called for. The characters are easly likeble and the story is easly understandable making this anime an overall good anime. I would give it an 75 as a final score because it doesnt completly fill my taste in anime. Anyways I will be waiting for a next season where my questions will be answerd I hope and Im also waiting to see your opinion in my first revew so let me know how I could write it better so I can inprove as arevew writer.
Anyways thanks you all for reading this and thanks you for being the weebs that get this thing I love to be possible!!
