Hakyuu Houshin Engi is the second time the manga series Houshin Engi has received a anime adaptation. The plot involves Taikoubou taking up the Houshin Project, which task him with defeating 365 immortals living in the human world and seal them away forever.
Taikoubou was taken in by Genshitenson at a young age after his village was destroyed. Genshitenson is the headmaster of the realm of the deities and assigns him the task I mentioned before. The world has been taken over by Dakki So, a demoness who uses the power of temptation to make people do her bidding. And so Taikoubou is given a paopei, basically a weapon, his is the Dashinben that allows him to control wind. He also gains a spirit beast, flying and talking animals, Suupuushan, to ride on. And with that he is essentially sent to his doom.
Meanwhile, Shinkouhyou asks Dakki So to allow him a look at Taikoubou to see how powerful he is, for some reason he knows about him. Also, while Taikoubou and Suupuushan are discussing the first immortal on the list, Shinkouhyou, he suddenly appears! So Genshintenson isn't trustworthy as we first thought he was? The way this encounter happens is pretty funny, the show has come off as silly for the most part so far. As Shinkoukyou almost kills Taikoubou, he receives a scratch from his opponent's weapon and decides the he will be his rival from now on and leaves, Taikoubou lies on the ground and him and his spirit beast decide that to change their plan to attacking Dakki So directly. He arrives in the capital of the Yin kingdom to execute his plans, but after talking to Suupuushan, he decides to kidnap the emperor of Yin, Chuu Ou, and get him away from the control of Dakki. Thanks to a chance encounter with a man named Kou Hiko, he is given a audience with the emperor. But his plans fails since he has a terrible poker face, well, it's not as if it had much hope of succeeding anyways.
He is sentenced to be killed by a giant serpent, Dakki also decides to punish some members of the same clan as him alongside him just for what he did, to which one of them state that it's all his fault for being so naive. After a short resistance from them, they are all instantly and brutally slaughtered. This show suddenly took a very dark turn from it happy-go-lucky tone of the rest of the episode. Maybe this is what the show is actually going to be like?
After being saved by Kou Hiko in the confusion, Taikoubou realizes it's impossible for him to do this alone and the episode ends with him going to seek help.
So I thought that this was a pretty fun series, at first it seemed to be going in a very generic manner, but it actually has a lot of twists and turns. It was light-hearted towards the beginning, but I would say that it'll take itself seriously when need be. My main concern is how many seasons they intend to do of this so as to cover the whole manga--If they even intend more than one. I would recommend this series to fans of the action genre. That's it for now, please be sure to check out my look at Hakumei to Mikochi. Thank you for reading, and have yourself a wonderful day.