MAO Episode 8 Raises Questions About Its Thousand-Year Timeline
The review highlights a growing tension between MAO's ambition to use its historical backdrop meaningfully and the implausibility of its long-running character dynamics.
Reporting from 1 sources: Anime News Network.
Anime News Network's review of MAO episode 8 praises the series for engaging with its historical setting more than Rumiko Takahashi's earlier works, but flags a logical problem: characters who knew the protagonist as a human have apparently ignored him for a thousand years without crossing paths, a stretch the reviewer finds hard to accept.
Anime News Network's review of MAO episode 8 credits Rumiko Takahashi with making better use of the historical setting than she did in InuYasha, specifically noting the accurate depiction of the Asakusa Tower surviving the Great Kanto Earthquake only to be demolished afterward. But the review also flags a narrative problem: fellow disciples of MAO's master, introduced this episode, have apparently not encountered MAO in a thousand years, even though they have likely been in Japan the whole time. The reviewer calls the implausibility a significant wrinkle in an otherwise engaging story.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network MAO Episode 8