Final Thoughts – Bakumatsu

Look, it’s not trying, do I have to?

Bakumatsu is just so incredibly standard for a dating sim game. The only real distinction it offers is the fact that the heroine doesn’t seem to be present, but otherwise, this show is just plain oatmeal. It’s not the worst thing, but you know you could be eating something more interesting.

We have the story of two pretty samurai boys traveling to another timeline after trying to steal a mysterious pocket watch for reasons, and the two of them are of course a serious/goofball odd couple you’ve seen a thousand times. The background element of the giant tree is nice, but otherwise, the backgrounds look almost stolen from the underworld of The Morose Mononokean, and the characters are generic and unimaginative.

Basically, yeah, it just doesn’t seem like a ton of effort went into this. While it doesn’t look as bad as, say, Lord of Vermilion from last season, I’m tired of praising passable, C+ animation that does the bare minimum not to make me want to pull my eyes out.

Just skip it. 4/10.