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“Meiji-era ronin and orc assassin team up to rescue elf orphan from shared enemy.”
Bright: Samurai Soul
ブライト: サムライソウル
5.39
13,363 rank · 6,126 viewers · 5 favorites
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
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Netflix
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Synopsis
Meiji-era ronin and orc assassin team up to rescue elf orphan from shared enemy.
In the early years of Japan's Meiji Restoration, a human ronin must unite with an orc assassin to save an elf orphan from their common adversary. (Source: Netflix)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
4.9
/10
What 8 viewers settled on.
33%
recommend
Score distribution
median 5
mode 4
σ 1.76
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.76 · some divergence
The polarity gap
3.8 pts
Recommenders 7.0 · others 3.3
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No
Score over time
↓ 1.13
Running avg · Oct 2021 → Sep 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “I really do not understand the rating on this one. It's a simple good vs. bad story that starts in one end and ends in the other without many complications. There is nothing wrong with that in my...”
- 7 “Overall (6.8) - A human samurai, a spear-wielding orc, and a little orphaned elf girl travelling across early Meiji-era Japan to do nuclear magic stuff. The plotline is a little bit in a...”
- 6 “3DCG is not overal not bad. But the camera movement ruined the experience. They should recognize that making 360 degree or zoom in zoom out movement continuously didn’t make the scene better at...”
Verbosity
Short · 38%
Medium · 38%
Long · 25%
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A Ona Production
ARECT.- Format 1 × 79′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 19m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2021 – ongoing
- Source Ona media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-20833 catalog