Well, it’s that time of year… or it would be, but I’m going to do things slightly differently. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the first installment of Miko May! Yeah, when I said back in my review of Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister that I wanted to see more shows that put miko characters in the spotlight, there was an extent to which that was foreshadowing. At the very least I knew I was going to be taking on the arguable antecedent of the Magical Girl this year, rather than Magical Girls themselves.
As to Shrine of the Morning Mist itself (Asagiri no Miko in untranslated title, which is a little different), I suppose I’d better introduce it in its own right. What we have here is what seems like a very classical 2002 action-romcom, one of the pre-Shana examples of the urban fantasy lineage. The differences? This one has half-length episodes (Similar to Neo Ranga, which is from a somewhat similar era come to think of it) and five girls training as shrine maidens to be our action heroes.
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