GR Anime Review: Lunar Legend Tsukihime 

What are you guys talking about? A Tsukihime anime does exist. It's called Carnival Phantasm.

did you just review something that doesn't exist?

What are you reviewing? Tsukihime never had an anime.

This never existed. It was a mistake. We never had a Tsukihime anime.

Ufotable, Lunar Legend Tsukihime remake. GO!

Wait. I thought Tsukihime didn't have an anime... Nope, I wasn't wrong. It doesn't have one.

oh my god arkdada how do you post a blank video on youtube?

pray to Keima that Ufotable get their hands on a remake

Well, the part about "moon people" is not entirely wrong. As in, Arcueid is in fact a vampire created based on the ultimate extraterrestrial life form of the moon, she's even supposed to serve as a host for that life form (which is called TYPE-MOON) to use her body to reincarnate, after its original body got wrecked by a Magician hundreds of years ago. And the moon was actually inhabited by its own civilization besides TYPE-MOON him(?)self. The problem is, calling them moon people just sounds incredibly stupid XD

For people wondering wether there is any hope to enjoy the story of Tsukihime without the visual novel then I would recommend the manga. On a scale it all goes roughly like this: VisualNovel>>>>>Manga>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Anime And if anyone does want to read the visual novel you can find it on the website "Fuwanovel"

And I still wait for Tsukihime remake by ufotable AND Tsukihime visual novel remake and more of Carnival Phantasm + 2021 hahaha Fate Grand Carnival AND Tsukihime remake at the same time what a nice way to start a year

This anime does not exist, take my word on it, there is only the VN and Manga... (Unless Ufotable says otherwise someday in the future)

The only reason I watched this is so I would understand Carnival Phantasm (and Carnival Phantasm was better).

I watched it with sole purpose of enjoying Carnival Phantasm more xD

I saw the Tsukihimi anime a long time ago; I didn't think it was bad, just lacking compared to the VN. It was interesting enough to get me to check out the VN. If I didn't like it at all, I wouldn't have bothered.

It's finally happening

I love the show. It's romantic. Read the manga right after and it was very gratifying doing so. A rare case I know, but it worked out for the better.

I read the manga version, so I really want Ufotable to do a remake of Tsukihime

Hello past. I'm Here because Tsukihime Remake exists and I'm predicting a new Anime by Ufotable considering they live in type moon's basement! I just ordered this anime for the sake of adding it to my collection as a hardcore Nasuverse fan. So cheers boys!

He is so young here, damn it was 10 years.

I demand a Ufotable remake.

......"The moon people" lmao

I kinda liked it; I mainly watched it because 1) your reviews usually make me want to watch animes I haven't yet and 2) I needed to so as to make Carnival Phantasm make sense.

That opening line... "Moon People" XD It kills me every time!

This is very true. The more you know...

Aw man, you one of today's lucky 10,000. Kara no Kyoukai, or Garden of Sinners, is another supernatural Type-Moon story/adaptation that takes place in the same universe as Tsukihime. Please go and check it out, it's a series of anime films that are really well done, trust me It's worth your time.

Actually on 2015 I saw an official video about the remake of this by Typemoon but then there is no news about that until now．．．

Didn’t know there was a prequel to Carnival Phantasm. Wait.. what am I talking about? Nothing?

@GRArkada Everything about Type-Moon has "similar" elements, hence why they made the Nasuverse. lol

I liked it but I felt it could do more. definitely short.

THE VISUAL NOVEL IS ON RU-vid EVEN THE PLUS VERSION AND SIDE SEQUEL.

I hope that they do a remake like they're doing one for Fate/stay night (and I hope that it stays true to the story), but I don't see it coming anytime soon. ...Isn't it sad...?

You know, I so love your way of talking , I wanted to comment this on your older videos, as I want to watch from beginning the way you progressed , anyway, anime community should be happy to have someone with so much narrative talent as you have .

WTB Tsukihime reanimation remake with 24-26 EP >.> pls.. (I played the Visual Novel and really REALLY enjoyed it)

I'd try the manga, I found it way more enjoyable than the anime.

@ffdreamer7290 Both Tsukihime and Kyoukai were written by Type-Moon, however Kyoukai was a novel originally and Tsukihime was a Visual Novel. Kyoukai was released first in 1998 and Tsukihime was released 2 years later in 2000. But yes for no reason other then the author felt like it, they both have similar elements.

I was told to never watch the Tsukihime anime but GOD DAMN

Apology accepted. Please to continue to enjoy your time on the internet, I hope you stop my my videos again in the future :)

I am really glad I watched this! I saw the first three episodes of this years ago and I spent months trying to find it again without a name and a poor memory. Now I can finally finish watching it.

I will be sure too. Don't let me negative attitude affect you. Anime Reviewing is a art and you make great videos. Please continue the good work =)

Well...time to binge watch all of your reviews. I didn't need to sleep anyway.

The YT recommendations strike again. Now recommending me to watch a review of a thing that doesn't exist.

All the budget went into the music and voice actors

The visual novel is on youtube if anyone's interested in it.

I love playing the fighting games of this "series?"...

I only read the first 2 Arcueid endings and I must say that the anime while being criminally short it was a nice addition to the visual novel (almost like cutscenes in a way). I have to blame the neco arc memes for introducing me to tsukihime and to the subsequent depression afterwards. I'll be looking more into the nasuverse.

"Only her and her two maids" Very Nice ;)

I think the manga did a really good job of putting the two different story lines together. Especially with the Akiha vs. Ciel fight.

I was about to say the same thing! :p But yeah Arkada stop trolling us, you almost got me to believe Tsukihime did have an anime.

Came back after it got a remake announced

Just out of curiousity. Did they replaced the sex scenes with CGI dragons or something along the lines?

Same here. I dropped the Anime after 4 episodes though and started with the Visual Novel :D

THIS DOESNT EXIST!!!!!!!

It does, but it also features the characters from the fate series and they call it Carnival Phantasm.

its 1 am here and im currently playing ciel's route, i might stop and finish her route tomorrow..... anyway to be honest the near side of the moon doesnt really give me much of an impact (im not really interested to arc or ciel), but im currently excited to play the near side route.....

It's pretty sad when the anime is so bad that even Type-Moon themselves don't acknowledge it.

This series was good . I am comparing it to nothing because i do not read visual novels

I read a manga adaptation of this and fell in love with it. Only thing was, I had no idea what it was called; so I have to say, thank you. Now if I ever want to go back and reread it, I'll be able to find it (also watched the anime a little, DOES NOT DO THE STORYLINE JUSTICE).

This was uploaded before Twighlight, right? About series that have screwed up vampires anime or otherwise...? Oh finally somebody who agrees with me about Hellsing!

Got the full box set for 8 bucks at Sakuracon this year. I may or may not regret this decision.

Lunar Legend Tsukihime is based off of the Tsukihime visual novels, and manga. I own one of the fighting games for PS2 & am playing it as we speak. Importing is awesome.

Fun fact: The Sorceress that Shiki Tohno meets is Aoko Aozaki which is the sister and rival of Kara no Kyokai's Touko Aozaki.

Oh, I took a backtrack and I happen to stumble across this video where Tristan reviews a non-existent anime. Wow, it looked like the Tsukihime visual novel too.

It's not a spin off KnK and Tsukihime are in the same universe called Nasuverse but Nasu said there is only one MEODP user so they are maybe on an alternate universe.

This anime seriously hurt to watch. To the point where i'm in the "it doesn't exist" fan legion. Ufotable is going to animate another fate anime(probably fate/stay night) sometime soon, so we can only hope they make an anime out of Tsukihime sometime in the future, too.

for some reason I watched every review xD good job btw ^^ makes my day somehow :)

Thanks for the answer. But i still hope that they, somwhere in the future, remake this one.

the end theme is pretty awesome

5:22 very nice

I enjoyed Tsukihime, but I found it quite lacking compared to Nasu' s other two main works. The Fate series was brilliant. And Kara no Kyoukai..... that shit is GODLY. Probably because I think KnK is 10x better than the rest (and the fact it was the first Naru work I ever had the pleasure of watching/reading), I can't help but see Tohno as nothing more than a failed attempt to mash Ryougi' s power and Mikiya' s appearance together. But, enough of my little fanboy rant- great vid as always, Arkada!!

You should be proud of yourself for creating one of the best anime memes

carnival phantasm was one of the reasons i watched this, to know the characters.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to play the game. I'll be getting to it tomorrow, but I have read the manga already. The manga is really good. Arguably one of the best I've read in terms of character, plot, and originality. It doesn't fall into tropes all that much which is really nice to see and although I have a couple questions, there aren't any real plot holes (at least none that I don't expect to be answered in Kogetsu Tohya. In which case, there's only one regarding Shiki's origins.) All that said, it's fascinating to read about a character going through stuff that makes many people uncomfortable -invasive thoughts abound. His estranged sister, the world he sees as fragile, the mentor he had that changed his life (honestly I'm biased because up to that point I relate) this woman he murdered, who comes back and SOMEHOW manages to believably fall in love with him (I was honestly waiting for that explanation, but when they gave it and I gave it some thought I was like... damn, that actually makes sense. Surprised the hell outta me.) it all rounds out a unique play of a typical drama, but in such a gritty and dark way it's fascinating to read. Also, I remember watching the first few episodes of the anime a long time ago, the music is A-class. It beats most other anime ost's with ease, but Shiki isn't done justice. Shiki is not some random Gary Stu in the manga that reader live vicariously through. Excepting myself for unique circumstances, (I doubt many have an Akiha in their lives or see the world as something that can "break" at any moment) Shiki is very much his own character which is really cool considering how easily this could've turned into a harem manga like Rosario Vampire or Tenchi Muyo. Shiki loses himself to his dark side at times. He can act on dark desires we usually keep in check, but on that same token, he challenges us as readers and distances himself. While we may be able to relate to various fantasies, we can't relate to the actual actions he nearly or does commit at times. There's also just the fact of him basically being "I am become death!" at the climax (not literally and no this isn't a spoiler for those who've never read or seen the Tsukihime story.) It is BADASS. I'm glad I remembered this series from so many years ago. Oddly enough it was the opening theme The Sacred Moon that always kept it at the edge of my thoughts. Now, some six, seven (something like that) years later I completely scrap the anime for the manga and damn. I was NOT disappointed at all. I watched a short scene that would've been the anime's equivalent of the climax and to call it a pale shell or inadequate, deplorable bastardization of heartless, artless, soulless mimetics would be an understatement of such magnitude... I couldn't finish watching it. I literally just wanted to see that scene animated and... no. So indeed, anime does not exist. That said, read the manga. I don't know how it holds up to the game (I'm about to find out and I'm looking forward to Akiha and Kohaku sections) but I doubt the game has the magnificent and resonant artwork that captures a mood and the characters quite like the manga manages to so masterfully do. It's simple artwork yes, but it doesn't need to be Ayesha's Secret levels of awesome to be effective at conveying a simple story in a gripping way. The manga also never felt slow. So that's nice. I finished all the chapters in two days. I couldn't stop reading. :P TLDR? Go read the manga. The anime doesn't exist.

sorry, u may have already have had this question since this is a reupload but isnt this anime alot like Kara no Kyoukai? i mean the death vision and the names and all. if so was Kara no Kyoukai made after the game that Tsukihime was made from? or am i wrong? btw love the reviews :D

He did play the VN. He was even hyped when the F/Z anime came out. Still, we'll still be waiting for a FSN review if he has the incentive to do so. If you ask me though, while I know it's very mediocre in itself, I bought every volume that came out from it, which is enough to justify my enjoyment (though now that I'm older, it's a guilty pleasure for sure) of the anime. I still find it to be good enough as a gateway for the uninitiated.

Technically, they helped for a bit, but that was back before Ufotable came around in helping with Type-Moon. Also, Carnival Phantasm was actually more focused on its original visual novels rather than the anime adaptations (a reason why Arcueid looked more faithful from the VN in Carn. Phan. than the Tsukihime Anime.). Plus, that show was produced from a different studio.

I think it would have been better if it was longer, one half focusing on the first storyline and the second half focusing on the second storyline.

I saw this anime about a month ago and I didn't think it was that bad, probably because I never played the game it's based on so I wasn't offended by the changes people hated. A couple of things though that were odd were Shiki killing Arcuaid without much motive and the whole plot about the sister being a vampire not being given much attention.

Being someone who has played Tsukihime... This hurt to watch...broke my heart really...well here's hoping for Ufotable to remake this...this THING.

Dunno if anyone brought this up, but one interesting fact about Tsukihime: The director of this show declared that he never really played the original work and his goal is to create an original story...well we now see how it turns out. But again, what am I talking about? There is no anime adaptation for Tsukihime, right?

They're not really related, but i remember reading something about the "nasuverse" which this and the fate's are apart of or something. I'm not really sure, but looking for info about this nasuverse is probably a good place to start.

Woah bro, beautiful music at the end.

Is it just me, or do you really resemble Heath Ledger somehow? Anyhow, this anime may suck, but it got me curious and now I absolutely LOVE Melty Blood and am playing/reading the Visual Novel. So it may not be so bad after all, since it also get's people into the whole franchise :D Can't wait for Under Night In-Birth x3

That ending. XD I wasn't expecting that.

I went out of the way to get the visual novel of tsukihime, and even got a fan-patch for it. Which makes me wonder, why is there two extra tsukihime soundtracks that are unused, and have such good music.

You could say Tsukihime has many of its elements based on Kara no Kyoukai, both being written by Nasu. They're also both based in the same "world" (though parallel realities; all Type-Moon works are more or less based on Kinoko Nasu's "Nasuverse" with its brand of magic, legends, world rules and such) so the parallels aren't that surprising; "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception" are a thing of legend in that world and both Shikis have it. Also, Tsukihime has characters based on KoK characters.

Tsukihime had an Anime? Wow! I didn't know that!

Apparently I am the exception to the rule... I discovered this anime back when it first came out in 2000 via fansub. After watching this series and being both intrigued and confused by it.. I discovered Type-Moon. and then the VN. Tsukihime is still my favorite VN.. I agree that this series desperately needed more episodes.. I also agree that the story just outright makes no sense at certain points once you know the source. The music as you said is excellent.. but you also leave out the fact that the opening for this series uses symbolism that pretty much explains the story almost perfectly. I have yet to see a better or more symbolic opening.. other then maybe the Evangelion TV series. I don't dislike this anime, and I will still go back and watch it every once in a blue moon.. (haha I made a punny) Given the constraints of 13 episodes and that they mostly tried to stay true to Arcuied's True end I think they did fine. Now what I am sure everyone can agree on is when TM releases the Tsukihime VN remake.. we get an anime version that does the job fully and completely. My biggest beef with the anime... the maids!! seriously no explanation whatsoever!! literally the most important characters in the series..

you know, even after i played the VN i still liked the anime. maybe it's because it was what introduced me to the Type-Moon Universe (which i ADORE)

I loved the manga...but then again I kinda live in a "vampire free" world...I really don't care too much for them beyond Blood Lust and Dracula...this story was a nice light does of vampire lore that didn't go overboard on the love story aspect. I don't read visual novel either (sadly I have only so much time to read books, watch anime/animation in general plus other movies, and a job...

this anime is exactly why I keep saying they need to hire people to make a OVA of every series that exists right now, kick anybody that has "creativity" OUT! and hire a team that can draw very good, but managed to properly copy/paste the lines from the original game instead of adding there own crap on top of it (ruining everything) and for gods sake draw the characters in the same style as the graphic novel, they remade the characters tons of times already but everybody knows its NEVER going to look better then the original characters. I say burn this edition and get the guys who worked on Hellsing OVA to work on Tsukihime OVA, those people at least did what they had to, Animate the original series without smearing there own junk all over it, without censoring anything like spineless weaklings. Its animated versions like that that give the original series a bad name and spit on all fans of the series.

What are you talking about? The Fate/Stay Night anime mainly follows the Fate route only, it does have elements from the UBW route, but it's minor, it doesn;t mesh Heaven's Feel in there aswell, and the bit from UBW, again, was minor.

ehhhhhhhh, you can't always get the feel of the character for a lack of a better term, it's just good to see how they acted differently and such in the different shows :)

I like how he says it impossible to get the original visual novel and I found it easy when I wanted to check it out awhile ago.

Funnily enough, my main issue with this show from a logical standpoint is the writing, but the reason I absolutely loath this show is due to how they butchered the character designs😂 arcueid looks like a 40 year old mom with none of the chemistry and adorable bubbly energy of the VN version. If you want an adaptation that successfully took bits a pieces from all routes without it being utter garbage, I highly recommend the manga

Later you found out that it wasnt random.It has to do with the Shiki's past,in the VN at least.I cant remember if the anime ever tried to explain that.

Fun Fact: Touko Aozaki also makes the puppet that Shirou Emiya uses at the end of Heaven's Feel

From which timeline is this video? A tsukihime anime never exist o.o Now i believe in parallel universes.

1:50 why would you do that? Why would you cut onions man?

Wasn't the main characther from that one movie (which GR has made a review but I cannot remember) the mother of the main characther of tsukihime?