[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I'd say it's a little of both. Blade definitely hits its stride around the halfway point (and stays there), but the early episodes are good in their own right, despite the breakneck pace.

I'm actually kind of surprised you picked up that Kenzaki has stuff going on already. I remember not really appreciating how much solid character building happens with him in those early episodes until looking back on them in retrospect. You really are in for a heck of a ride if you're already enjoying it now.

Yeah I mean they show his struggle with the death of his parents very graphically and his problems with the situations of Tachibana and the involvement in the battle against the Undead in which innocents are harmed regularly. What I like about it is that they show it early, these kinds of feelings often appear at the middle or end of a series. But I like that the protagonist deals with it early for once.

There's lots of cool development going on currently, like with the scientist lady, I haven't memorized her name yet. With what's going on with the BOARD boss and her thinking it's her dad behind it all, that's very interesting.

And Chalice too. His involvement with the family and the little girl especially is intriguing.

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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

Are you watching the Turn Up Scrubs subtitles by the way? The TVN ones are really, really bad and I honestly think it completely undermined my enjoyment of the show.

I do watch subs which are not from TVN, I assume it might be Turn Up Scrubs, I downloaded the show when I was still early into Faiz, someone posted a link to Blade subs with a great quality and it was not TVN so I got those.

And I do like what I'm seeing, the resolution is great and everything runs smoothly. Subs are good too, not that I could argue much considering I don't understand Japanese but I haven't seen any major spelling or grammar errors so far or any of the hard insults or Engrish which I hate about early TVN stuff.