Eight Clouds Rising
八雲立つ
“Stranded theater student uncovers eerie village festival and bonds with priest's son during rare ritual.”
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Synopsis
Stranded theater student uncovers eerie village festival and bonds with priest's son during rare ritual.
When Takeo Nanachi and a few of his friends visit a rural village in search of inspiration for a theater production, they find the village holding a strange, somber festival that they only practice every few decades. Takeo hopes to use this chance to purify his grandfather's antique sword, but the festival's proceedings leave no opportunity for outsiders to participate. However, after an untimely car failure makes it impossible for Takeo to return home, he finds himself drawn into the villagers' dark and mesmerising practices and forming a bond with Kuraki Fuzuchi, the son of the head priest.
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What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.7/10
What 3
viewers
settled on.
100% recommend
Score distribution
Agreement
TightStrong agreement
σ 0.47 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
0.67Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 67%
Long · 33%
Snap verdicts · shortest highly-rated reviews
- 6/10 “This was a solid OVA, though it felt like the beginning to something better. It had a solid enough cast and premise. The main character, Takeo, has a sword that his father wanted him to purify....”
- 6/10 “Eight Clouds Rising is a fascinating, insular little 90s OVA that is in some ways similar and in other ways distinct from the massive catalog of short anime projects released at the time. If...”
- 5/10 “No review at all for this? That seems slightly undeserved - it is not that bad after all. Eight Clouds Rising or Yakumo Tatsu is a short 2 episode OVA which is based on a manga of Natsumi Itsuki...”
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A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Eight Clouds Rising begins and ends here.
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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-0932
- Format
- 2 × 29′
- eps × min
- Total runtime
- 0h 58m
- all episodes
- Aired
- Oct 1997 – Nov 1997
- Fall 1997
- Source
- Ova
- media type
- Rated
- PG
- 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref.
- BS-0932
- catalog