Bucchigire!

Following a ruthless attack from an imperialist criminal gang known as the Masked Demons, Shinsengumi's Eighth Division—the law-enforcing squad in Kyoto that remains faithful to the shogunate—is nearly annihilated, with its sole survivor, Heisuke Toudou, critically injured. Urged to rebuild the Shinsengumi by the local feudal lord, Katamori Matsudaira, Toudou decides to offer eight convicts the chance to redeem themselves: they must abandon their old names and become substitutes for the eight Shinsengumi captains. All accept but one, who ends up immediately executed by the former assassin Sakuya.

However, Toudou has a hard time transforming the seven reformed criminals into loyal servants. Due to his lack of discipline, the impulsive and vengeful Ichibanboshi, whose family perished at the hands of the Masked Demons, threatens the success of Toudou's strategy. As Toudou pledges to protect the shogunate against imperialists and foreign invaders, other factions, such as Kogorou Katsura's group, start to put their plans in motion with only one goal in mind—to seize power at the dusk of the Edo period.

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Akira Main

Uesaka, Sumire Japanese

Sakuya Main

Toki, Shunichi Japanese

Suzuran Main

Uemura, Yuuto Japanese

Ichibanboshi Main

Satou, Gen Japanese

Toudou, Heisuke Main

Toyonaga, Toshiyuki Japanese

Bou Main

Ochiai, Fukushi Japanese

Sougen Main

Miki, Shinichiro Japanese

Gyatarou Main

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Katsura, Kogorou Supporting

Asanuma, Shintaro Japanese

Furutaka, Shuntarou Supporting

Shiraishi, Minoru Japanese

Satou, Yuuhei Producer

Kang, Yue Producer

Asanuma, Koutarou Producer

Hirakawa, Tetsuo Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition

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Aug 24, 2022

Bushogoma

Recommended

Preliminary (7/12 eps)

I was surprised to see that this anime has such a low score.
I will start with the positives: I really love the art style and the animation. Amazing work by the studio. The story is decent and relatively well told. The characters are pretty interesting, although I will say that some of the secondary protagonists are better written than the MC. The music is also a standout for me. It gave me naruto vibes, some shamisen scores made me think of mashiro no oto, sothe music is very japanese traditional, and I personally like that.
Now for the negatives: it feels shallow sometimes, a little ... too generic, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but I can see why some people might not like it. I stand by my general opinion that an anime doesn't have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to its genre. It just has to be well made, and up until now I think it gets the job done. The villain is the one that feels most generic of all and tbf, I saw the plot twist reveal from miles away. I am expecting more backstory in the future however.
A side note I wanted to make is that they straight up ripped the design of 2 characters in this show: one protagonist and one pretty unremarkable side character. The design for Sakuya looks very much like Xiao from Genshin Impact and the design for the criminal killed by Sakuya when he refused to join the group in the first episode (forgot his name, too lazy to look it up) looks waaaaay too much like Luchist from Shaman King. And I have a feeling other characters in the show look a lot like characters from other anime I'm not familiar with.
But overall, this anime is pretty good, especially as a week by week watch. I would recommend, since it's an easy watch and a decent anime overall

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Sep 23, 2022

ApocalypSnow

Mixed Feelings

Funny

Bucchigire is the kind of anime you can watch only if you’re willing to shelve your brain cells for 20+ minutes a week.

Seven criminals that look like walking crayons are recruited to fill in the suspiciously newly vacant positions in the Shinsengumi, a group tasked with protecting the shogun and maintaining peace. Like a lot of other original anime, Bucchigire initially falls into the trap of introducing a bunch of characters at the same time and expecting us to care about them. However, several of these crayon characters have compelling stories. And even if they don’t, at least they’re funny; the main character’s hair looks ... like that yakuza from Shaman King, and his name is literally Ichibanboshi. Also, I like how they modify their swords RWBY-style. The sword is also a gun, or an electric staff! And the gun is also a sword!

Flashbacks have red and cyan triangles (think of 3D glasses) as side panels, which is off-putting. It’s like weird curtains for a rakugo show. Given the samurai-era setting, it’s not a bad idea, but the color scheme doesn’t match that vibe. It’s especially weird when the flashbacks involve little kids watching violence or some other sad backstory.

Bucchigire may not be a good anime in terms of plot or writing, but it’s entertaining. And the characters may be tropes, but they have vibrant designs and fun chemistry. The girl who cross-dresses as a samurai and the guy who cross-dresses as a geisha are a cute ship. Also, props for gender equality in the Shinsengumi. ^^

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 24, 2022

CielIsAWeeb

Not Recommended

Let me save 4 hours of your life by telling you to not watch this anime. Nothing is consistent, plot is weak, barely any character development, we didn’t need that love interest at all. The last episode was by far the worst episode, the only reason I finished watching this anime was to get rid of it from both my on hold and watching.

Furthermore, I absolutely hated the flash backs, not only were they tacky and uninteresting, they were also constantly repeated and the borders of my screen looked like crappy water colors mixed together.

The main power ranger characters felt like a copy of ... the Hashira from demon slayer only if the Hashira were a bunch of weirdos. Pink hair and Blue hair were probably the only characters I felt half interested in but not interested enough to learn their names.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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	Poll: Bucchigire! Episode 12 Discussion Stark700 - Sep 23, 2022	18 replies	by MulanwithaD »» Oct 6, 2025 3:17 PM
	Poll: Bucchigire! Episode 3 Discussion Stark700 - Jul 22, 2022	14 replies	by RGreatDanton »» Jun 12, 2024 2:41 PM
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