Orient belongs in that pile of plain and generic shonen that doesnt offer much of a good story among characters that at best remind me of Saturday morning kids cartoon heroes. There is very little to say about these 12 episodes even much less that can be positive. At the end it teases the viewers by revealing that it just the beginning of a large story. And yet I feel very little reason to keep going despite the announcement that this series will continue this coming Summer season. The first 3 episodes are easily the worst. Musashi and Kijorou want to create the best band of Oni slaying Bushi. As a result they go on fighting some of the least appealingly designed monsters Id ever seen. Its boring monster of the week episodes at the start. Finally though most seemed had dropped it by then episode 4 airs and introduces a new character that gave some life to the series with the story of her trying to resolve the trauma of her past. Tragically she has slowly become more and more irrelevant and stops having any real use to the series besides just the occasional fan service that gets shoved in the viewers faces. She has now been reduced to a background character that constantly gets scared boringly explains what is happening and embarrassingly breaks the 4th wall. She is strangely confused with how to make use of her sex appeal and tries her best to make her constant single frame presented sister proud. Afterwards the series begins to focus on the development of Musashi. Here is where the series begins to get a little better. The mystery behind his powers and what hides inside them started to make this series at least a little interesting by then. Besides the Oni new antagonists get introduced such as Shirou and his over the top facial expressions as well as his socially awkward servant Nanao. There is very little development or story to them which makes them irrelevant to me. The fights themselves arent interesting enough to make them unique or good besides sword fights that involve too much talking at times. This ruined moments that were supposed to be exciting. Other times the series decides to unnecessarily use over 2 minute recaps before the opening sequence. The character designs are nice though it only applies to the main characters who are women. Some of the minor characters are drawn so terrible that they look as if they are dead. This is a shame because of the little I saw of the manga it looked so much better. I did see the constant disappointment of the manga readers and I dont blame them. The music I dont even remember because of how bad and unmemorable it was besides that one decent slow track that gets used to death. Orients debut ruined its chance to introduce viewers to a new possibly long running series. Though it managed to pick itself up slightly towards the end there isnt much going for it to deserve the viewers continued interest and time.