Sousei No Onmyouji Episode 1 Review
The first episode of the series is slightly different than what it was shown in the first chapter of Manga, wait that doesn’t mean the studio screwed up the entire story right from the start. Well i did said that its slightly different from Manga but that doesn’t affect the overall story and in fact the slight modifications done in the episode are better! In my review i will compare the episode with the first chapter of Manga so you will know what’s different in the Anime.
The first episode starts with showing us the glimpse of the tragedy that happened with the Main character Rokuro when he was just a 12 year old kid, then it moved introduction of Adashino Benio who is getting ready to move to Tokyo from her dormitory (home) at Kyoto. Her caretaker tells her that she would be moving to the exorcists dormitory in Tokyo but there are only 3rd grade exorcists living in that dormitory except a certain person who she suspects that he is even more powerful than Benio.
After that the scene moves towards Rokuro, who got rejected by a girl once again and this time the reason for rejection was he is too childish and there is nothing good about him, Rokuro ran away, at that time he meets Mayura on the way, Mayura is his childhood friend and he asks her “is there anything good about him?” Then she says, “You can eat anything and term it as delicious, you know difference between right and left etc..”
After that Rokuro runs away where he meets Benio who is falling from the sky, but the reason for “Why she was falling from the sky?” is because she was fighting some Kegare (Impurity) in Magano whom she met at train station at Yokohama. After meeting Benio, Benio asks him the address of the place she wants to go but Rokuro himself get lost, but not soon after that they meet a Impurity and Rokuro finds out that the girl he met just now is in fact an exorcist. After defeating a couple of impurities in the world of Magano, Benio encounters an impurity which is way out of her league. Rokuro who is forced use his powers of exorcist as he sworn he would never fight a Kegare. Although Benio found his powers as something amazing, Rokuro says his powers are nothing but a curse.
Opinion
Even though first episode is slightly different than first chapter of Manga but in fact its better, the reason why i said this because – The first chapter of Manga doesn’t focus on the introduction of Adashino Benio, Like she is from Kyoto and she was summoned to Tokyo to live in different dormitory. The reason for “why she was falling from the sky?” was also not showed. Benio’s fight with Impurity at Yokohama train station was also not showed in the first chapter.
You can say the first chapter of the Manga majorly focuses on the introduction of the Main character Rokuro because originally Impurity which occurs at Yokohama, actually appears at persons house and possess a child, It was Rokuro’s grandfather and his brother who exorcise the impurity (this was showed at the start of the chapter 1) the scene where Mayura console Rokuro after his rejection was actually a scene where Rokuro comes home and his brother says those words which Mayura says to Rokuro after the rejection. Also Benio didn’t said any attack name in Manga but in Anime they gave fancy names to her attack.
So as you can see the above two paragraphs tells the difference between Anime episode and Manga chapter but other than that there is no modification. And to be honest this slight difference doesn’t affect the episode and the overall story i.e only 10% from the original chapter is modified the remaining 90% of the chapter is same. In other words the episode showed the introduction of both the Main characters which showed their different life styles and the sense of justice.
Since i have read the Manga two days ago, i can say clearly that i liked the Anime and Manga both, i assume this slight modification will continue in future episodes too and if that does happen, i hope they won’t modify the complete story like they did with Akame Ga Kill, i want the studio to keep the modification limited just as they did with first episode because of this slight modification you get the feeling that you are completely watching a new series even though you have read the Manga
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