Wind Breaker Episode 7 Review: This season, we get another new delinquent anime, which is turning out to be an entertaining watch. Now, let us see if episode 7 of Wind Breaker was great or not.
Wind Breaker Episode 7 Overview
Wind Breaker is a popular manga series from Japan that was written and illustrated by Satoru Nii. The series was first published on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket manga website in January 2021, and it has since been collected into sixteen tankōbon volumes, as of March 2024.
The anime TV series adaptation of Wind Breaker is scheduled to debut in April 2024 and is being produced by CloverWorks. The director of the anime is Akai Toshifumi, who has previously worked on popular anime series such as Fate/Grand Order: Shuukyoku Tokuiten – Kani Jikan Shinden Solomon and Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia. Fukushima Yuuichi is producing the series.
The opening song of Wind Breaker is titled “Zettai Reido (絶対零度)” and will be performed by Natori (なとり). The ending theme is “Muteki (無敵)” and will be performed by Young Kee.
I have tried my best to keep the review as spoiler-free as possible, but there are certain elements that I had to mention to give proper feedback.
– Wind Breaker Episode 7 Review Contains Minor Spoilers –
Wind Breaker Episode 7 Review and Recap – Jo Vs Sakura
Today’s fight was the one all of us were waiting for, and it should have been one of the most satisfactory ever. And, it was no doubt great in the beginning, but suddenly, we get a back story in the middle, and the overall flow of the story falls apart. This episode in the beginning was pretty promising as without wasting any time, we jump right into the fight between Jo and Sakura.
They do not hold back, and both go all out with their powers. Jo, who usually is as slow as a snail, quickly changes his pace and becomes so fast that even Sakura struggles to match his speed. Not only that, Jo even reveals that he can be faster than this, which he proves shortly after. Sakura, who from the very beginning, is shown to be the strongest character, gets wrecked at the beginning of the fight. It was so bad, that some even thought that things would end sooner than expected.
However, Sakura manages to hold his own against Jo and fight back. It started to become intense, but just when things seemed to be going well, they suddenly inserted a backstory that took up more space than needed. Here, we see how different Shishitoren used to be, before being corrupted by Choji. We also witness that Jo does not actually agree with how Choji does things, but he still goes on with his whims, because otherwise, he can be abandoned at any moment.
This part was a bit dragged, and we did not reach any conclusion regarding the fight. This will most likely go on in the next episode, and the fight between Choji and Umemiya will start further down the line. Other than this, the animation of this episode was really nice, as the fight sequences were crisp and clean.
Verdict
Today’s episode was definitely entertaining and good, but it could have been better. I would have loved a continuous fight without any interruptions or long flashbacks. But again, this anime is very dramatic, so we would have gotten a back story anyway, it’s just that it could have been shorter. All in all, it was a nice watch and I still have very high expectations from this show.
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