You could easily do something taking place around and in the California Gold Rush, even just using that as a backdrop, or something like what the Antonio Banderas Zorro movie does. Even that recent Lone Ranger movie has a similar idea because the silver is all on Indian land.
Meant less at a time period (I was thinking more the great depression) but more if you can adapt Indians as an Ainu equivalent.
Middle was too drawn out and ending was holymotherfuckingshit rushed. All of that in one chapter. If they'd made an arch of it, maybe it would've been better.
Ironically enough, it does almost feel like that’s what this was all building up to.
Its apparently still being worked since around 6 months ago production material was leaked online on yahoo auction which sparked some what appears to be freelance animators who claimed to have worked on the project to say that the series is still in production and the first 2 episodes are already fully animated.
They also made it a major theme that going back in time and changing the past usually making things worse only to completely handwave it by blaming it on mikey's magical macguffin darkness power that the protagonist defeats by getting stabbed. The author really wrote himself into a corner and I get the sense that either his editors were pressuring him to wrap things up or he was just getting tired of the series and wanted to be done with it.
Doesn't this pretty much miss the point of THAT particular series?
Easily, since it's a straight-up Western. Just replace the Ainu with Indians, Hijikata can be old-ass J.E.B. Stuart who somehow survived the Civil War and he can be out to revive the Confederacy in Texas or something (maybe with old-ass James Longstreet as Nagakura) maybe with Mexican (or German?) help, Sugimoto can be a Spanish-American War veteran, Tsurumi can be a corrupt, power-hungry Army officer, etc.
There's functionally little difference, right down to a bawdy mythology you can use to make dick jokes.
I was put off by the ending line: "I guess in a way, we're all Tokyo Revengers".
Damn now I want to see it, heck it would even work as an open world game with how the characters travel along the countryside.
Me and the wife are actually longtime One Piece fans, so we went to see it this past weekend. Almost damn near shed a tear at the end. It was one of the best movie theater experiences we've had in a long time.
