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Elder Lee Hung
Yes. I would give Hango an 8/10. I would say it is superior to KokuYou Hills and maybe Gian. I really enjoyed Shibashou even if I was hoping for more, I thought he was beautifully written as a character and I think he is super cool. I want to learn more about him and where exactly he came from.
Elder Lee Hung
Ousen’s defeat is one of my favorite Kingdom moments. Not because I wanted him to lose, but because I love that Hara still has the balls to body a fan favorite like this. Ousen is a more interesting character to me now, if he was like Saint Shanks and just never lost, I would hate him. So Hara had to body him to save his character for me.
Elder Lee Hung
On the one hand, I am disappointed Ouhon, Shin, Yotanwa, and some of the other side characters got very little focus. On the one hand, I love that their expectations were subverted this hard, and I think the final Zhao wars will now carry much more weight to them because they will remember Hango where they were defeated on day one without understanding what was even happening.
Elder Lee Hung
My big disappointment with Hango was the lack of big hype moments, and Shiryu’s survival. Otherwise to me Hango is peak Kingdom. I think the lack of big hype moments makes sense when you realize the emotional tone of the arc is supposed to be this horrific, shell shocking, barely comprehensible defeat of Ousen and the deaths of his major commanders.