#129.5 Evil spirits and prayer bead machine guns | Bozebeats first impressions
Added 2025-06-23 09:00:06 +0000 UTCMAL Description:
Religious monks adapted to modern technology and weaponry to combat the threat of demons. Ryuudaiji, a monk who's on a journey to locate and purge a demon spirit that is terrorizing a forest which was notorious to be a place where people commit suicides, meets a wolf boy, Tamaki Madoka, and his wolf companion. Things start to develop between the two, after an encounter with a tree demon spirit as Tamaki decides to go to the outside world to learn more about his past.
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Comments
That whole topic of "this thing is so generic because it invented a genre and everything rips it off" really resonated with me, having recently read the hobbit for the first time.
Sleepy (Thank you for the likes, kind strangers!)
2025-06-23 18:16:43 +0000 UTC
