Inuyashiki is the unexpected anime of the season that nobody waited for but instead grow highly into viewers heart and become quite popular!
Inuyashiki is an action-adventure Sci-Fi with a lot of drama elements. Also you can say it's a psychological 11 episodes anime that aired at October 13 by studio Mappa. Some of the anime studio Mappa is known for is Garo, Shingeki no Bahamut and Ushio to Tora.
The story set is ( guess where) in japan and our protagonist is Inuyashiki Ichirou a 58 years old man that looks way older than this, having a boring office job and a family that don't care at all about him and his opinion. The old man seems kind and hardworking trying to provide the best he had afford to his family while as i mentioned they threat him like his not existing.
feeling sad yet? wait it has more
Above all that Inuyashiki is diagnosed with cancer and he has little time to live. After some touching moments alone an ufo hits him all of sudden. when he wakes up he realize he is not the same anymore. Basically, he turned into robot with everything inside him to be robotic except his outside appearance. He cured from the cancer and he is trying to find out about what his powers do and how he can help other people while keeping it a secret out of everyone.
a hero that don't care about fame
You can't have a human turns into a robot and leave it just like that. There is another ordinary human that got the exact same powers but he is using them just for his own selfish reasons without caring for people that don't know. (i will explain below what genius the creator of this manga-anime is). Now the old man has to find out who the other robot is and deal with him!
hmm where to start the reasons are so many but let's begin!!
1) the protagonist is a 58 man. I have watched a lot of anime and i repeat and lot and i don't recall a protagonist of that age instead if you just click at random anime you will see the same teen,kids and school boys/girls as protagonists. Probably you may see quite a few protagonists with age over 80+ but they will be ''trapped'' inside a teen's body or they will never age etc etc
2) The 58 years old man turns into a Robot. While we have witnessed everything watching anime, from animals to talk, people transforming into monsters, vampires and strange powers have we really seen any old guy turning into robot and keeping his outside appearance?
3) The art and the graphs are amazing. It happens to have watched other anime of Mappa studio so i can tell they are pretty good at this. the graph style is amazing and even when there are moments of CGI (something which i hate in every anime), i don't know how but they manage to balance it and the overall results looks great.
4) The feelings. I never believed that an anime with that few episodes will make me feel something. It's the only sort anime that have done this to me and from what i read to many others too. Only in the first episode you get to witness the reality of an everyday life and how sad and stressful it may be. Moreover the cancer is the tip of the hill as it shows like in reality that bad things happen to good people. On the other hand the villain that doesn't care about people who he doesn't know reminds of many people nowadays and their saying '' well if you give me a million dollars and 5 random people that i don't know die, i am in'' meaning that the empathy in our days is gone!!!
5) Fight scenes. The fight scenes are amazing, you don't expect that kind of kills and with this kind of ways, note this down ( the episode with the yakuza and then come back to tell me :P )
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