>>3883738The anime is surprisingly better than I expected, but still low quality for something as big as Tourabu. I don't blame the studio for this, but the management of Tourabu as a whole. They surely have enough money from the stage plays and musicals to put more effort towards other projects, but they know that fans will eat the bare minimum slop they pump out, and fans very much encourage their laziness. Just look at what happened to Musou. I like it better than both Hanamaru and Katsugeki though, which again is a surprise because I expected to hate it. The characters are better written than in Hanamaru, where everyone is a walking trope and following popular headcanons, and in Katsugeki where their personalities were straight up massacred or are nothing at all. Character designs are better than Hanamaru as well.
With the short number of episodes, I find that the emotional impact and how the scenes are executed fall flat in comparison to the stage plays because everything is rushed, but the voice actors still do a great job. This adaptation isn't meant to be 1:1 with the stage play version though, and it does show in terms of characterization. This isn't a bad thing, as I like seeing the differences. For example, Souza is much more withdrawn when Fudou and Hasebe argue over Nobunaga, while in the stage play he punches Hasebe across the face. Fudou also hams it up in the stage play with his alcoholism and people may find him annoying with how flippant he is. In the anime, it's easier to sympathize with him because he's not shitfaced and less provocative and more focus is put on his love for Nobunaga. It's nice that the anime is somewhat of a bridge between the first stage play and the third, and gives some screentime for characters from other plays. I'm also glad there's less focus on Jijii and Manba so far, because I hate how much they're shilled together in everything.
tl;dr it's fine but could have been much more.
