Sengoku Collection is a trifle. There isn't anything at all deep about it. It's based on some sort of game, but I'm not sure of the details. My first thought was that it was a collectible card game, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

It's a dusty concept: the big names from the Warring States period in Japanese history are all cute girls, and they all come into the modern era. It's kind of the reverse of Sengoku Otome, where they're all girls and a modern girl gets dropped into their era. (Also, in Sengoku Otome they were older.)

So in the first episode our Girl from Mars is Nobunaga.

She falls from the sky, but doesn't splash when she hits. I guess they made 'em tough back in those days. She ends up falling on a guy riding a moped. He buys her lunch at a hamburger stand, and then leaves her to go to his job. His existence isn't very fancy; he works in a convenience store, and lives alone in a one-room apartment. He used to have a girl friend but she left him, and now he's lonely.

Nobunaga finds him at his store, and follows him home and stays with him. She gets his bed and he sleeps on the floor. And on his day off he takes her on a moped tour of the area.

She's pretty cute, after all. (Ahem) And he enjoys himself. Near the end of it they drive past a shrine, and she orders him to stop. She prays there. He asks her what she asked for. And she says that she asked to be taken back to her time-and-place, and also said that if it didn't happen she'd burn down the shrine.

Well, that got noticed, and late that night three minor kami come and visit Nobunaga in a dream.

Left to right, Usagi-miko, Kitsune-miko, and Neko-miko. They say they will do it, but it'll take a lot of power. Others from that same period have come, too. Each one has a ball of power inside, and if Nobunaga can collect them all then the three will send her home.

The series description implies that each episode is about a different girl. Next week is Tokugawa Ieyasu. Presumably after the whole cast is assembled then there will be some sort of story. I'm not so clear on whether our lonely guy from the first episode will be a continuing character, though, or whether Nobunaga will appear next week.

His voice sounded familiar. But he isn't listed in the credits on ANN, so I have no idea who he is. He sounds like the voice of Ayumu in Zombie.

There's little or no substance to this. It's light and frothy, and pretty good tempered. I'll give it another try next week.

UPDATE: NSFW tags added. I really should have done that the first time.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 08:07 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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