Ushio and Tora
うしおととらUshio Aotsuki is a stubborn middle school student and son of an eccentric temple priest who goes about life without care for his father's claims regarding otherworldly monsters known as youkai. However, as he is tending to the temple while his father is away on work, his chores lead him to a shocking discovery: in the basement he finds a menacing youkai impaled by the fabled Beast Spear. The beast in question is Tora, infamous for his destructive power, who tries to coerce Ushio into releasing him from his five hundred year seal. Ushio puts no trust in his words and refuses to set him free. But when a sudden youkai outbreak puts his friends and home in danger, he is left with no choice but to rely on Tora, his only insurance being the ancient spear if he gets out of hand. Ushio and Tora's meeting is only the beginning of the unlikely duo's journey into the depths of the spiritual realm. With the legendary Beast Spear in his hands, Ushio will find out just how real and threatening the world of the supernatural can be. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Reviews
dashawn78 - 2015-10-31 08:36:35
Don’t watch this show its garbage. It’s a crappy generic shonen with its biggest selling point being cashing in on the nostalgia it has as an older well-liked manga and OVA. While Ushio and Tora’s dynamic in the beginning was interesting and pretty funny, it quickly becomes stalewhich I feel is a symptom of my biggest problem with the show; its got nothing worthy of interest going on.
Immediately after the first episode it goes into a boring youkai of the week story line for literally at least HALF THE SERIES (I dropped the show after episode 12.) During this youkai of the week plot the only semblance of an actual plot that can be found is that Ushio has to find his mom because of reasons. Now all of this could maybe be forgiven if any of the characters had any depth beyond “Ushio save me,” or maybe the fight scenes were at all intriguing but frankly no. The two friends of Ushio exist just to be saved by him and to help build his ever expanding harem as the show goes on and the fight scenes follow the simple formula of; bad guy does bad thing…Ushio and Tora have to stop bad guy to save girl…bad guy kicks Ushio’s butt at first…through the sheer power of friendship and trying really, really hard Ushio and Tora win. All the while Ushio and Tora scream at each other, the other one can’t die cause they have to be the one to kill the other.
It’s literally the definition of horribly generic and it’s miserably written. I don’t understand why anyone would put up with this show longer than I did much less enjoy the series