Kijin Gentoushou

After Jinta and Suzune ran away from their home as children, they were taken in by Motoharu—the virtuous sentinel of Kadono Village—and his daughter, Shirayuki. The settlement was ruled by its shrine maiden, Itsukihime, whom only a select few were allowed to interact with. When Itsukihime ed away, Shirayuki was appointed in her place. Wishing to stay in with her, Jinta worked diligently for years and was finally selected as the next sentinel.

As the protector of the village, Jinta's duty is to eliminate any threats. One day, he encounters a demon in a nearby forest. At the end of the battle, the demon makes a proclamation about the destined ruler of all demonkind. He attaches his severed arm to Jinta, turning him into an unaging demon man. By the time Jinta comes to, Kadono is on fire. Suzune has transformed into the demon from the divination, and due to a series of misunderstandings, she murders Shirayuki and flees.

Devastated, Jinta cannot forgive Suzune for her actions; he departs on a journey to find her. As Jinta travels around Japan across the eras, he endeavors to protect as many people as possible from aggressive demons. In his quiet moments, he contemplates what he should do when he once again faces his childhood friend.

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Jinta Main

Yashiro, Taku Japanese

Suzune Main

Ueda, Reina Japanese

Shirayuki ing

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Ofuu ing

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Kiyomasa ing

Kumagai, Kentarou Japanese

Clairvoyant Demon ing

Kondou, Yui Japanese

Mosuke ing

Kameyama, Yuuji Japanese

Natsu ing

Aizawa, Saya Japanese

Kihee Owner ing

Ueda, Youji Japanese

Yuunagi ing

Fujita, Yoko Japanese

Aoi, Hiroyuki Producer

Kaneko, Hirotaka Producer

Asai, Tomomi Producer

Ogasawara, Yuki Producer

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Jun 8, 2025

Yaguchi_Yatora1

Recommended

Preliminary (10/? eps)

Fun fact: It was written before Demon slayer.

It is a very beautiful anime and the thing I found the most interesting was the storytelling. Side characters are interesting and are displayed repeatedly and developed really well. The way they showed the timeskip and still fill the empty holes of past was really interesting. I would recommend watching it as a third person and linking things as that would be really interesting and u will begin to know more about author's perspective of different human values and don't give it a first person perspective as I know many ppl who quit the anime at the first ... episode just because it didn't match their edgy mc perspective.
Another thing I found interesting is that the episode gets you thinking and linking the plot points which makes the story even better. Not to say that the opening and ending songs are really good and I love them.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 13, 2025

EK8246

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (10/? eps)

Episode 1 is terrible but the rest is pretty good. So just skip EP1 and watch from EP2.

Episode 1 is bad because it is a badly forced tragedy. Normally for a tragedy to happen there is a bad guy to cause it, but that is not the case here. Everyone is normal, which makes the main character and the childhood friend look braindead. Thus the tragedy feels very forced by the author, like everything could have been avoided if the MC and childhood friend had functioning brains. It feels like a badly written soap drama plot where bad things only happen because the characters ... are unbelieveably stupid.

Good thing is the rest of the episodes have almost nothing to do with EP1, as it is more like a backstory than a start. So please just start watching from EP2 where it is made up of short stories and actually gets good.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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Jun 3, 2025

ku4eto

Not Recommended

Preliminary (10/? eps)

GOD DAMN, the subtitles for this anime are terrible, from both HiDive and Amazon. Bilibili has slightly better.
Absolute brain-rot localization, as if you are watching a british show from the 90's.
If you have even a slight understanding of japanese, you will find it hard to listen to the dialogue and then to read the hellish tarnation the subtitles are.

Enough for the platforms, now for the anime.

Starts well with Episode 1, but then time skips some years and goes on episodic with the story. 10 episodes in, you get another 150 years of time skip for no reason. It gets really boring, since nothing of importance ... seems to happen and our MC just "lives his life", contemplating... nothing seemingly. He barely talks, his thoughts are not really shown. His motivation goes "poof" with the first time skip. He probably lives, just because he is breathing.
Side characters are bit more interesting, but after the 150 skip into the future, they become less relevant.

It seems to be mostly telling the life of the MC.
But you do not see what keeps him on going. I do not see any struggle, be it emotional or physical.

There is also sudden drop in animation quality at around episode 4. The best quality is in episode 1 which is expected, since its a pilot episode with movie length.

I think i will forget everything about this anime in few weeks. It is just quite unremarkable.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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