Tenku Senki Shurato

One of those old anime that I used to watch when i was a kid and felt it should have remained that way. I had great hope for this series before i watched it but now I can see why Shurato never made it big. 

To sum it up Shurato was a wasted potential just like other many Japanese animes and it never achieve anything noteworthy other than becoming a mere Saint Seiya clone. Shurato have very good character pieces and setting that could be interesting which i see i would make a good darker version of Saint Seiya. However the series goes the opposite direction which made it lose its respect slowly. The story is dragged out too long and by the time of 2nd Arc everything went downhill in really fast pace. 

But what makes it the worst about Shurato for me is that the way Tatsunoko handled the Hinduism lore which serve as the basis of the series is just disrespectul which made impression for me that Japanese are ignorant of other country's culture . I am quite familiar with my Hinduism lore and Vishnu is definitely not a woman (even if the avatar may be) or Shiva a malevolent god and even Atlus didn't do this kind of butchering with their SMT series. Even so i wished Shurato could get the better treatment than this because the series feel really wasted. Probably this series need a reboot that it deserves and if there is ever Tatsunoko vs Capcom 2, I do wish Shurato could made it. I still wonder if Bandai will ever release an Armor plus for the series as well?