Senyu

I've only watched two episodes of this show so far (all that are currently available). Normally I don't watch the abbreviated shows (Crunchyroll has several series like this), but I only had a few minutes, so I decided to give it a try. I found Senyu to be fast paced but easy to understand, with some very funny dialogue and really funny asides (directed to the production staff and the audience). Despite being short four minute segments, the plot is developing, as are the characters. I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Senyu is a series about a hero who goes on a quest to defeat the demon king Richimedes who has summoned monsters into the world and restore peace and balance like his ancestor did one thousand years ago. All while racing against the other nine hundred and ninety nine other possible descendants. After all, it can be quite tricky to trace bloodline after a millennia has passed.

The series is not a normal anime per say as it is made of five minute shorts including the intro and ending theme, which did after a couple of episodes begin to somewhat annoy me that they are about half the length as the episode itself which left many of them feeling like nothing had progressed.

The series is rather silly and clearly is not meant to be revolutionary but is basicaly designed as a quick laugh, which the first few episodes achieved, but as soon as the third party member joined about halfway through things really just went downhill as there was almost no progress in the plot until the last two episodes, which is a bad thing in a series that has an overarching plot of this nature, even if they are short episodes. Series that work best as shorts generally have little plot past a setting, such as for example a school club’s activities being a common one.

It has no ending, but outright states that season 2 will start in July, so anyone this would bother may be better off waiting. This always bugged me about Bleach and Naruto and their habit of ending series on cliff hangers that wind up being wrapped up in one episode. So anyone yet to watch them might want to bear that in mind.



The characters have almost no progression and are not particularly deep personality wise, but that’s to be expected from a comedy series with quite a few fight scenes with episodes of less than five minutes.

Hero #45 Alba is rather weak compared to the people around him and serves as the straight man to quip at the weird goings on.

Royal Guard Ros is assigned to Alba and is a sadist whom victimises Alba. He can use basic healing magic and is first to offer to help Richimedes upon realising the cause of the monsters.

Richimedes is a ten year old demon king, traveling to the human world to undo the mess she accidentally caused, can also create holes in space to travel, but only up to fifty meters.

Royal Guard Rudolf is an elderly man with the overdone trope of having a Lolita complex. He is assigned to Hero ’14, Foyfoy.

Hero #14 Foyfoy, simply wants money and renown and thus has no qualms attempting to murder another hero team to get to Richimedes

The blue haired Hero is yet to be identified by number or name, nor has what her affiliation is with ‘Hime-chan’ as she calls her. She does not seem to take things overly seriously and also seems quite willing to brutalise someone who is under control.

‘Hime’ is in fact not called Hime but that is her position. She gets flustered easily by comments such as saying that “tentacles are sexy”. She is also a tsundere and quite violent when she gets flustered and denies her affection for Foyfoy. She is also inferred to be middle school aged. Hime means princess for anyone who doesn’t know.

Michelajul Lortillia was originally a normal cat but exposure to Janua’s power transformed him into an humanoid cat, whom is also a complete masochist.

Janua Ein is insanely strong and winds up arrested for accidentally trashing a diner. He is not evil and was summoned to the human world by accident along with eleven other demons.

Februar Zwei is an evil tentacle wielding witch who is over one hundred years old and happens to look ten. As such gets referred to as a ‘loli granny’, she is another of the summoned twelve demons.

I might just be seeing things but it seems like the twelve demons names are supposed to resemble months.


All in all I’d say it’s not a bad series, but the lack of an ending, the loss of quality as the series progressed and all of the characters being superficial and two dimensional really are going to net it as a 6/10

I didn’t dislike it per say, but it’s another series I am likely to simply forget about as it didn’t make an impression on me. It got a 6 over a 5 because Ros and Richimedes were at least an entertaining duo for the most part.

Val

Watching this anime I was skeptical, I though, this is only a 5 minute per episode anime so it won't be anything special, but much to my surprise its actually really funny. The characters are great and I found them very memorable all in there own unique way, the story is fairly straight forward so there is much to surprise you there but just watching this I couldn't help but laugh, the animation in it changed randomly out of know where and makes rather weird but it really works with the moments in the show.

Overall it won't take you long to watch the 13 released episodes (under an hour) and by the time I was finished I definitely wanted more. The only problem is that it just isn't long enough.

Esta serie tiene una mezcla de humor negro, sátira y temas adultos. Al principio me emocionó mucho su humor pero enseguida me encontré conque solo dura 5 minutos de los cuales se pierde buen tiempo en la canción del ending. No se cual fué el objetivo de hacerlo asi, pero me dejó un sabor amargo en donde la historia es explotable y los personajes divertidos pero no quisieron hacerlo y al final la dejan con poca coherencia pasando a ser simplemente una mini OVA partida en pedazos.