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| Nice haircut chump. How much gel is in that thing? |
Plot reminder: Some backwater village high-school student medieval equivalent and his sister set sail to the main city to go and try to bring cash back home, only to be ambushed by a noble family that likes killing and torturing the poor for some reason.
Sis dies in the périple but the main character is miraculously saved by a band of insurgents called "Night Raid" which kind of makes it easy to confuse them with regular burglars. Later on the anime they get surprised that they're being targeted by propaganda.
Anyway, after the ploy is revealed and he finds out that the local politicians are as crook as they come, he decides to join the cause. Of course, this motley crew has no clue of how exactly to overthrow the government so they just randomly kill nobles hoping that eventually, that'll destabilize the dominating power or something. A very complex, solid, and fool-proof plan, as you can see.
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| Maybe they are just common burglars? |
Like many of these kinds of anime, all characters have different powers that come from something that works like a magical relic, stuff like a sword that kills by just grazing people, a small dog that turns into a really big dog, or an armor that's impossible to penetrate.
There are certain balance issues with the power of those relics, here you have these very unwieldy pair of scissors that can cut anything if you manage to get close enough, and there you have the demon extract that allows you to freeze anything including time itself, but's supposedly compensated by low-survival rates at more powerful relics.
At that point, we got good fights, cool powers, and a very clichè dystopian setting but functional to the story. It's a four, maybe a five, nothing too special- but the ending (as anticipated by the hint) gives the show an emotional boost. Since the characters were more-or-less developed, mainly through flashbacks, it hits the viewer when they die and are not defended by the usual plot armor that the main characters have. Worthy of an 8/10
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