Imo first arc is really underrated. I see everyone talking about the badass characters like Ouki, Houken, Kanki, Renpa, etc. Or badass duels like Ouki vs Houken, Moubu vs Kanmei. Or legendary arc like Coalition arc or moments of Kanki's savagery.
But it's rare to see people discussing about the first arc when Ei Sei was kicked from the palace by his younger brother.
But the first arc is what made me interested so much to the story. The atmosphere was intense:
- Shin and Ei Sei running away in a underground cave, and suddenly there is blood dripping from the ceiling from the corpses above.
- Shin and Ei Sei and Karyo Ten were hiding in a shack in the middle of the jungle, and they were being tracked by an assasin from the palace. The assasin who killed a tiger with poison needle.
- Shin, Ei Sei and their little army's journey to the mountain to seek for Mountain Tribe's assistance. But they were suddenly ambushed and captured by the tribes, and held in a cell overnight while Ei Sei alone was sent into Mountain King.
- Mountain King's glorious debut, sitting in the throne with some savage looking wolfes sitting below the throne.
- Fast forward to retake the palace part, the match between Bajio, Tajifu and Shin vs Rankai.
- Ouki casually appeared, 1 shotted a big shot, then left again. Mountain King and Shobunkun were suddenly in guard by Ouki's presence.
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And that 1 moment when Shin helping an injured Mountain Tribe man walking, only to be told by Karyo Ten some minutes later, that the injured man is already dead...