Rokka No Yuusha (English Title: Rokka: Braves Of The Six
Flowers) is a 12 episode anime series produced by Pony Canyon. It was originally a light novel series written by Ishio Yamagata then a manga and now it has been adapted for anime. The series
despite its fantasy and magic setting is best described as a mystery.
PLOT
When the Majin
awakes from the depths of darkness, the deity of fate selects six heroes and
bequeaths them with the power to save the world. Adlet, a boy who proclaims
himself the strongest man in the world, has been selected among "The
Heroes of the Six Flowers". However, as the heroes gather, they soon begin
to suspect that someone amongst them is an imposter.
WHY I WATCHED
You don’t get
many anime series that revolve around mysteries, I’ve watched a few Hyouka is an interesting one that I
thoroughly recommend. I chose this as something to break up the usual parade of
mecha, fantasy and fighting anime.
WHAT I THOUGHT
I am writing this
review up after the first 9 episodes of the show but I think given the mystery
premise that’s fine. This anime is pretty much a run of the mill whodunit where
instead of a remote hotel or a dinner party caught off by a flood you have a
group of warriors stuck inside a barrier with the equivalent of a locked room
mystery to deal with.
The mystery is at
the core but this is about a group of warriors so we do see amazing fights with
a range of interesting fighting styles and the interpersonal relationships and
how each warrior reacts to one another is interesting to say the least. The
warriors are very different from different social classes we have everything
from princesses to commoners.
There isn’t much
more I can reveal that doesn’t get into major spoiler territory so I will just
say that trying to figure the mystery out is a great little brain teaser and
makes me eager to see how things work out. I don’t know whether this is just a
first season or if this was just meant to be a one off, I tend to think it
could be the former subject to ratings.
If you like
things like Sherlock or mystery books than you could do much worse than this
anime which is just the kind of whodunit fix you need.
