Kure-nai

Shinkurou Kurenai is a 16-year-old student by day and a dispute mediator by night. Though kind-hearted and patient, due to his tragic past, he has trained for years to live on. Now, despite his unimposing appearance, he is a strong martial artist, who also possesses a strange power.

While taking various jobs for his employer, Benika Juuzawa, one assignment leads Shinkurou to live with Murasaki Kuhouin as her bodyguard. Murasaki is the seven-year-old daughter of a plutocratic family, who escaped her home under peculiar circumstances with Benika's help. Commoner life, in her eyes, seems bizarre. However, by interacting with her neighbors, she grows more accustomed to the daily routine, and rids herself of her snobbish behavior, gradually growing attached to Shinkurou.

Though many details of the job remain unclear, Shinkurou still strives to protect the young lady. But to make things more complicated, he also lacks a crucial fact—what is the real threat against Murasaki?

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Kuhouin, Murasaki Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Kurenai, Shinkurou Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Murakami, Ginko Main

Masu, Nozomi Japanese

Houzuki, Yuuno Main

Shintani, Ryouko Japanese

Inuzuka, Yayoi Supporting

Ookubo, Aiko Japanese

Yamie Supporting

Kimura, Haruka Japanese

Juuzawa, Benika Supporting

Ishige, Sawa Japanese

Mutou, Tamaki Supporting

Sanada, Asami Japanese

Cheng Shin, Lin Supporting

Ueda, Kana Japanese

Kuhouin, Ryuuji Supporting

Okamoto, Nobuhiko Japanese

Takatori, Masashi Producer

Ooyoshi, Makoto Producer

Ikeda, Shinichi Producer

Watanabe, Naoki Producer

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Oct 8, 2018

hexashadow13

Recommended

This anime essentially has two core storylines. The first is the one involving Shinkarou exposing Murasaki to the outside world, her experiencing many things for the first time, and slowly growing up along side it. This also involves the many side characters in the series, though they weren't developed that much. On the other hand, there was some very strong character development in Murasaki as can be expected, but there is also some noticeable development in Shinkarou as well. Watching Murasaki was the best part of the anime as she was presented in a very interesting way, where she looked through the world with a ... lot of curiosity and innocence, but had some level of wisdom and was caring and kind at heart, all of which came through very well. Strangely enough however, despite that, the relationship between the Murasaki and Shinkarou felt kind off for the entire show, especially the ending, which is related to the other story line. The other story line is related to Murasaki's family and their drama with how they want to capture her while she wants to be free, as well as the background on that related to their strange customers and Murasaki's mother. This plot line felt a lot weaker than simply watching Murasaki encounter the world. A core part of this plot line was the action, but overall the action felt quite weak, not having any depth to it, nor being flashy. Rather, I would say that it was mostly pretty dull. On top of that, while the overall plot line was somewhat interesting, it seemed to get far too melodramatic, especially towards the end. This is because while it was suggested that there may be more to the story, the anime still ends at a place that feels like a complete ending to the story, and that ending feels incredibly unsatisfying in that it separates the two, and not just not resolving key issues, but rather even acknowledging how key issues weren't resolved. Hence, I felt the story line related to the background arc was quite weak.

The art and animation were pretty good and fit well but they were kind of dreary. The OP/ED had good songs. The visuals on first for the most part I got used to and liked, but the ED visuals felt weak all the way through. There was also a random different ED song for no real reason at 8 as far as I can tell.

An anime that is quite good in half of what its about, but that is rather weak in the other half.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 15, 2017

Nealiam

Mixed Feelings

Story is between okay and good in the first half, but become literal crap in the later portion of the show. The battle system is broken. You could not tell who is stronger than who. Someone can suddenly become weaker or stronger for the convenience of the plot. Also, it can really cause some frustration with the "I don't want to use my full power"-stereotype.

The art is really unique for a light novel adaption and is pleasant to look at. It is similar to many late-90s anime with its toned down color scheme.

There is not much to say about the music. It gives the ... show an unique vibe, but can be underwhelming during emotionally intense scene.

The heroine deserved a better a story to be in. She is lovable and realistic up until the last 2 episodes where she became an uninteresting typical tragedy princess trapped in a castle talking things not fitting of her age. The protagonist is good-looking but with annoying personality. Other characters are just generic.

I enjoyed the show up until episode 7 with little complaint. After that, the show progress into its "climatic" final arc where characters' intention make no senses.


The protagonist:
"I promise I will help you no matter what" -> "Someone is taking her away, but I don't want use my full power" -> "Nah, it is just a job given by my boss. I learnt valuable lesson from it. I will not make the same mistake again" -> "She need my help, let's go help her"

Benika:
The most annoying character in the show.
"I trust him even though he fucked up every time and there is a 98.9125% chance that he will still fucked up"

Yayoi:
"I don't want to use my full power even though the lives of my boss, a boy and myself is at stake " -> "Nah, let's me use my full power"

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 8, 2021

AlexFernandez03

Not Recommended

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Plot: This show is horrible. One of the major complaints I have is what decisions the characters make. In the second half on the show, The main character's hiding place becomes compromised and he STILL decides to go back there even after knowing that it is a huge risk. Not only does it result in his friend being kidnapped, but him and his friend both become depressed as a result of this. My other major complain is that a fucking 7 year old girl kisses a high school boy on the lips. This is just absolutely repulsive and I have never cringed or been more disgusted at a screen in my entire life. If you enjoyed this scene, I think it is safe to say you are a peodphile.

Now on to my minor complaints. The animation. The animation just isn't good. It's not terrible, but it isn't winning any awards. The characters look very weird during long dialogue scenes, like they are almost unnatural. The fight scenes are so bland, almost to the point it feels like you're watching some sort of fan animation on youtube that someone made on microsoft paint. Another minor complaint I have is about the person who kidnapped the main character's friend. This was the largest ass pull since Lana Rhodes pulled her fist out of Riley Reid. He was never mentioned throughout the entire first 9 episodes of the series, and didn't even appear on screen, but there he was. The main character is some sort of yakuza eliminating badass with a bone blade, but the show throws in this villain that can just shit on everyone and everything the main character can try to do. This was the worst attempt at introducing a new villain I have ever seen. The last complaint I have about the show is that int he first episode, the MC is mentioned to have won a 15 inch TV. That thing is definetely atleast 25 inches, that wasn't even close to 15 inches by far.

In conclusion, this show was an absolute waste of time and I regret having watched it because I am now less of a man than I was before pressing play on episode 1 a few hours ago.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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