[Fish Sandwich]

Now that I'm halfway through Ryukendo, it seems like a good time to talk about how awesome it is again. I sort of instinctively compared it to Carranger in my last post, but, especially seeing how it's been evolving in the extra dozen or so episodes I've now seen, I think that probably gives the wrong impression.

It's really hard to put Ryukendo in any one kind of box, because in a lot of ways it's totally unique. To the point that even that last statement is contradicted by how gleefully the show uses so many stock concepts. Hopefully by the time I finish it I'll actually be able to praise it in a way that isn't rambling and incoherent, but right now my main takeaway is that I haven't seen a show as happy to exist as Ryukendo is in a long time. It has so much fun just being itself that I can't help but respect it. It's a show so enjoyable even the clip show is legitimately entertaining, and if that ain't high praise, I don't know what is.