Hyouge Mono is a radical departure from the standard moe fare that you get these days. Instead of bishounen with super powers or high school girls acting cute, you have old balding people discussing old politics and fighting for territory. It's a very niche anime, but it does what it does well. This series is just a TREASURE TROVE of facial expressions. It is a series that relies heavily on dialogue, to help convey what they say and make the show more intresting, some of the silliest or awesomest faces have been made. I mean, who couldn't love a face like this http://www.japanator.com/elephant//ul/19207-/Clipboard14-620x.jpg or this http://www.japanator.com/elephant//ul/19207-/Clipboard19-620x.jpg What really got mewas the characters. You could feel their emotions through what they do and their actions and reactions are portrayed realistically. For example, Oda Nobunga is usually depicted as a superhuman warrior with an ominous aura around him, but here he is just a regular man with a penchant for western clothes trying to unite Japan.

If you know your Japanese history, this series is a great treat, as it follows Sasuke as he works under Oda Nobunga in his conquest and unification of Japan. You get to watch history unfold while also getting a nice story about Sasuke's love for Aesthetics.

A shame that at the time of this review only 5 episodes out of 13 released have been subbed, and there are 39 episodes.