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“High schooler Kakeru joins a Yoroi team to fight Oni and protect shrine maiden Ouka in Shikizakura.”
Shikizakura
シキザクラ
5.86
11,437 rank · 18,417 viewers · 50 favorites
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Drama
Sci-Fi
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Synopsis
High schooler Kakeru joins a Yoroi team to fight Oni and protect shrine maiden Ouka in Shikizakura.
Shikizakura: where cherry blossoms are in full bloom while trees are colored with autumn leaves. In this special place, where the transient world meets the spirit world, a ritual to save humanity is about to begin... High school student Kakeru Miwa, by a strange turn of events, winds up being an irregular member of a power suit team tasked with battling Oni. These Oni possess humans and try to cling to the transient world. Only the power suit, Yoroi, which combines ancient secrets with the latest technology, can protect people from Oni. Kakeru decides to become a hero who will battle Oni and protect Ouka Myoujin, the shrine maiden fated with saving the world. Shikizakura season. Ouka dances as a shrine maiden in autumn leaves and cherry blossoms. Heroic action—where the past and the future, the transient world and the spirit world, thoughts and wishes, all intersect—begins here! (Source: MAL News)
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Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
6.5
/10
What 4 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 5
σ 1.50
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Dec 2021 → Nov 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “You guys ever seen Kamen Rider recently? Felt like you want to catch up on the past 3 seasons but are unable to cram more than 3 years worth of content within a 6 hour view time? Well give...”
- 8 “Shikizakura is, at heart, a kind of cheesy and overall optimistic heroic action show. It wears its genre openly and proudly, and goes ahead and takes the cliches it thinks it can use. All the same,...”
- 5 “Animation was up and down. Jumping between CGI rendering and regular. The regular was fine, not outstanding but adequate, however I'm not sure if they were using the rendered for time purposes or...”
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Long · 0%
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2021 – Dec 2021 Fall 2021
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-14480 catalog
Produced by
- Chukyo TV Broadcasting Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor