Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Jormungand: The Complete First Season

Arms dealers and child soldiers can be a regular, tragic feature of the evening world news, so the idea of making an entertaining anime about the subject may seem, at the least, a matter of extremely bad taste. The makers of this superb series didn’t let a little questionable judgment stop them, though, and the result is a heck of a lot of fun. The series follows the story of Jonah, a child soldier who gets assigned to be the bodyguard for an international arms dealer named Koko. While he has a personal hatred for the profession and the people who are in it, Jonah tries to put his feelings aside and use the contacts he makes to investigate who sold the guns and who pulled the triggers that murdered his parents. Although he tries to stay aloof, Johan soon develops feelings for the woman he’s protecting, as well as the team of sharpshooters who make up her family. You will, too.

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