For a history nerd like me, Amatsuki is like a sweet candy.

Amatsuki is a story of boy, Tokidoki aka Toki, who fails history class and takes supplementary classes at a high-tech museum which has built a realistic CG-village of Edo period´s Bakumatsu era (1853-1867). At the simulation village, he realises that graphic has turned into reality when demons attacks him and he loses the vision in his left eye. After he´s saved by a woman named Kuchiha, he is told that he´s in Edo period´s Japan and he can see demons that wander amongst humans.

It´s still unknown whether Toki got trapped in the virtual world or did he travel back in time or was he threw into a parallel universe. Regardless of what really happened, Amatsuki has charmed me already. Japan´s history is interesting and it´s always nice to learn new things of it in the form of detailed and fluent animation. Wonderful to have a shoujo styled series where action isn´t animated with stills. Thumbs up for Studio DEEN. Characters aren´t so original, pretty common types you can find in every school and samurai animes. There´s a care-free boy, a rebellious but smart boy and a fighter girl with harsh past. They doesn´t annoy you, but they don´t excite you either. Character designs are eye candy so I hope that future episodes will deepen their personalities.

On behalf of animation and history theme, Amatsuki is amazing but average cast doesn´t make me want to keep blogging about it. I hope this will change, because I really enjoyed the first episode. World needs more action packed history anime drawn with shoujo style.

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