So I reached my limit on the original Koihime Musou and gave up on it after 6 episodes. But there are a couple of other series in that franchise. I'm going through the BD rip of Shin Koihime Musou, and the graphic quality is a hell of a lot better:

What I'm finding interesting is the way that the characters are surprisingly similar in terms of personality to their equivalents in Ikki Tousen. Not identical, of course. Chouhi, for instance, is strong and powerful but uncultured, in both series. Koumei is a loli but also highly intelligent and responsible for strategy and planning. SKM starts out with a major battle where villagers, led by our girls, defeat a huge force of bandits, and it turns out that they were carrying out a plan that Koumei came up with.

It also turns out that Koumei is literate. Which was rare in ancient times no matter where you were, but triply so in China given how difficult the writing system is.

Meanwhile, Ryuubi Gentoku just showed up. And like in IT, she's a brainless bimbo with little or no fighting ability.

Anyway, the thing I'm wondering is whether a lot of the characterization is inherited from the original books, or alternatively whether Koihime Musou is ripped off from Ikki Tousen.

I'm still having problems with all the brain cells I'm sacrificing here, but given how nice the render looks I'm going to try to stick with it.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Cheesecake at 09:45 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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