20%

This is the strangest piece of crap I’ve seen a a while, very reminiscent of some lame Sunday morning cartoon.

The animation quality isn’t too bad, but the character designs are AWFUL. Weird flat eyes, and terrible hair and there’s a distinct lack of shading so that the bright colours looks like they’re painted on.

Also the "plot" was some laughable amalgamation of cheesy tropes.

Wimpy kid gets vhooomp to another place (while being mysteriously far from Tokyo Tower) Is drawn into a war against "oni" who are "EVIL". A unique thing is that NOTHING is explained to this jackass, luckily he doesn’t seem to care anyway.

While the story begins with all the fighting being mostly of the Feudal Japan era; i.e. swords, arrows, laughable hairstyles - that changes by the end. The Wimp finds a BFF and gets his very own googly-eyes Falcor, and proceeds to use it to traverse the land, suddenly the evil oni are actually tree-huggers in MASKS one of which is the proverbial Maiden that he rescues(?) and this is all some political fight, only not really, cause remember the whole feudal era bit, yeah, that doesn’t exist any more, now it’s the Power of Nature VS. Technology. Only there’s no tech, so it’s more like We Wanna Live in Tree VS. We Wanna Live in a Community.

The final battle is a Crazy priest on a Flaming Horse who can now control FIRE and was evil all along and The Kid who has reached enlightenment and looks like a Ghibli reject and can now control his water dragon into something fierce! Aided by Karasu-tengu cause WHY NOT. He gets a sword and no lessons, and after defeating smoky he checks on his girl and looks off into the sunset. He made it back to his time somehow, and he remembers these events as real and not some epic LSD delusion cause he took pics on his mobile.

Whut?

Lol, not bad if you’re kinda stoned and it’s 4am and you happen to like dragons though.

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