Source: Crunchyroll
Well, that finished I guess. Toji no Miko (aka Katana Maidens) basically survived on the watch list by being streaming on Saturday’s when I was recovering from a personal training session[1].
Despite my snark during my midseason update, the second arc of Toji no Miko did work better than the first. I think that this was due to greater familiarity with the characters, plus some actual depth of characterisation, that allowed the charm of the show to carry a bit more weight.
But not that much more weight.
Most of the grand scale resolution is in the penultimate episode. The finale is mostly a personal resolution for the two leads plus a generic “where are they now” sequence. The ending does strongly imply a neat Bookending to the series with a call back to the first episode.
Lightweight stuff overall, I don’t regret watching it, but won’t be in a hurry to ever rewatch it.
I didn’t like the 2nd OP quite as much as the first, but it is a fun song:
[1] Speaking of which I deadlifted 60kg yesterday for five reps, and was managing 35kg on the hang squat cleans which I’m quite pleased by.
I was sorta(it was good enough) happy with the ending and the whole second half. I was super suss to start with since it seemed like a soft re-boot of the same story. But we got a more nuanced look at the aradama and how they came to be. My minor disappointment came from them not following some of the plot leads to a more grandiose (and to my mind) less shoe-horned in wrap-up. But that may be because I developed my own head-canon idea of how the show could have ended, and damn it! They went somewhere else[huff}. 🙂
Nothing I have seen since has done anything to convince me I made a mistake in dropping about six weeks in…