Review of Blade & Soul

In this series, developed from a Korea computer game, the protagonist is Aruka, also known as Alka. She is an assassin, a member of the Clan of the Sword and she has sworn to get revenge on the person who killed her master. She is also being hunted herself and the bounty on her has attracted the attention of Hazuki; a bounty hunter determined to get the reward. Over the course of the series there are many fights as people try to kill Alka and inevitably fail.

I rather enjoyed this series despite the number of clichés it serves up: just about all the leading fighters are women, the men are either idiots or soon killed and all the adult women have breasts the size of their heads and not much covering them; this is especially true of Hazuki who wears a tiny bikini style top! The story was enjoyable to watch and managed to get quite dark at time; especially towards the end. Talking of the end; the real finale to the story is the penultimate episode; the finale is just a comedy episode with plenty of fan service. The character designs were impressive and quite distinctive and the backgrounds looked good too. Overall this was a good series and I'd certainly recommend it to fans of the genre.

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.