I chose to watch this anime as I've started going through a huge phase of loving the history of the bakumatsu period of Japan. First glance, the show looks colourful, the boys look pretty, and the plot line doesn't sound so bad. But that's where it gets you. You can see all my comments on kissanime and how much shade I give it every episode, eventually my comments saying "Me watching this show is now a running gag I have with myself." And that's exactly what this show was; a joke. Playing with the element of time in any show has to be done well. Itcan't be done in a way where the protaginists stumble upon an obsticle, overcome it, only for it to be restarted with the villain going back in time and replacing that obsticle once again MULTIPLE times. There's no advancement to the plot, the episode feels like a complete waste, and there is no tension built. Not once did this show leave me feeling jittery in anticipation of what was to happen next. All predictable and nothing left to the imagination of the viewer.

All throughout the episodes there are many things that don't make a sliver of sense in the way of logic. You could probably define it as ridiculously OP plot armour, or laziness on the writers' part. It frustrated me the amount of times the makers believed they can get away with not addressing some problem, or even how a resolution came to be, by literally putting it on the backburner and moving on to the next tihng without question. Even characters' intentions were blurry and hard to understand 70% of the time, or why even certain characters existed when they literally did nothing the entire series.

Overall, a waste of time. If you're looking for good story, action, tension and all the good parts that entices an avid anime lover to fall into the trap of "just one more episode" at 2:30am, you won't find it here. I literally only watched this for the ability to write my first negative review, and I have to say watching 12 terrible episodes over 12 weeks while it was airing, albeit leaving me in a laughing fit in disbelief of how terrible this show is, it wasn't worth it. Don't do it to yourself.