Bamboo Blade Review

Yea, this review is way, way overdue, but as I had promised, so I shall deliver my promises...

Bamboo Blade tells of a high school kendo club advisor, Kojiro, who made a bet with his senpai. If Kojiro's girls team can defeat his senpai's he will earn 1 year's worth of free sushi. Did I mention that Kojiro is damn broke? So of course he took the challenge..

Here comes the troubles, Kojiro's kendo consists of 4 members, 2 guys, 2 girls. Kirino is the captain, and Sayako is her best friend. The former is totally devoted to Kendo, and is the only one seen attending the club at the beginning of the series. The latter is a totally random girl who upon failing to write a novel, decided to be a guitarist.

Face with such a problem, Kojiro begins looking around for new members. Joining the team are Danjirou and Yuji. Both boys. Dan-kun, as they call him, is a very short, very round boy. Kojiro gets the idea to get their girlfriends to join. To their surprise, Dan-kun brings his gf Miyako Miyazaki, a pretty girl with a foul temper. She smokes in the manga...

One of Kojiro's first target is Kamizoe Tamaki, a cute 1st year, who is a kendo expert. Though she lacked interest at first, circumstances involving "Justice" brought her into the club. As she said, she joined the club "to protect the weak from the evil"...probably some Blade Braver (her favourite anime) quote... Somehow or rather, they got back Sayako and the team heads out for the match...

WAIT!!! a normal kendo team consists of 5 persons, the Vanguard, the Second Vanguard, the Center, the second-in-command, and the General. so obviously they cant play, however, Kojiro's ingenius plan helped the team through and they won the match..

the series continues from here, adding the 5th person, Azuma and joining the regionals and nationals...I think...not sure whether it was regionals or nationals.

the series is fun, cute and lovable...a 5 star rating and a must see...too bad it's finish...maybe they'll make a second season?? who knows...