BLACK TORCH. Oh man, this could've been amazing. There are so many missed opportunities to make the story great. What I like about this anime is that it looks stunning. Fluid animation was also great on some episodes. Episode 1 was definitely in the top 10 of the summer season because it had all makings of a good shounen. Freaking bait and switch because that's when a balanced episode of action, comedy & surprisingly good world building. After that, it just goes bad. What the writer likes doing is glaze up Jiro & Rango through the villains, and they just get chummy. Episode 5, if I'm not mistaken, is when we see a momonoke that threatens the lives of Jiro and his team. Of course, they get their asses whooped, but they get chummy & friendly all of a sudden. The really strong characters get introduced at around episode 7, or 8, but the writer doesn't use them for some reason. They're there to humble Jiro because they are strong and have seen many momonoke than him. The writer pushes them aside so that every meaningful battle is fought by only Jiro and the rest of BLACK TORCH. Speaking of BLACK TORCH, this team was pretty useless, but the fault falls onto the writer. I'm still thinking, why didn't Reiji defeat his brother, considering that it is a huge part of his story? I ask this because his brother served nothing to the story, except for being a big motive for Reiji's search for strength & being a momonoke hunter or whatever it's called. Now, I didn't dislike the build-up to the final battle, but man, it could've been better. Amagi is a huge threat in this world, and his motives are somewhat valid, but the final battle sucked. One would think that the animation would be awesome given the fact that episodes 1 & 5 had stellar fluid animation, but it just sucked. Felt like I was watching a filler fight in DBZ. Amagi gets defeated and glazes the heck out of Jiro. 🙄. All in all, this is my opinion and I would recommend the show to someone who hasn't seen it because it looks mainstream and both op & ed are wonderful. Grooooovy by I Don’t Like Mondays is an amazing song. It has a good original soundtrack & the animation and visuals were amazing. This could've been a good anime because it had all the makings of a good, standard shounen. I mean, the power system is easy to follow & Momonoke vs. humans is an intriguing topic to bring to shounen.