What a movie. Scarlet Bond is a semicanon sidestory that takes place after season 2 and has new lore a cool princess named Towa and focuses on a new character Hiirohttps://anilist.co/character/266042/Hiiro and hes one of the best so far. A fiery determined ogre hellbent on avenging his people yet who is reasonable and trusting in the face of genuine people. Hes a compelling character who falls into bad company later on and lets just say he has some.. sad scenes. 400https://files.catbox.moe/wrxlkd.gif After the intro scenes it only gets better. The first thing you notice then is that its a perfect recap: making the current situations easy to understand for me who hadnt touched the show in years and in a fun way too. The pacing is perfect. The characters are all reintroduced too in a concise way and no matter what character you liked youre sure to enjoy it: Veldora Milim the ogres etc all of the rest too even the most side characters stand up to TenSura character standards. And then Diablo in particular not only has a good introduction here but is a star of the movie in his own way. 400https://files.catbox.moe/6e9jbk.gif And of course Rimuru. The movie reminded me why hes an amazing character. Kind simple pragmatic wise and quickthinking: he had some really cool scenes and some heartwarming ones such as when in a hopeless situation he silently asked the Great Sage if there was any way to save one of his servants at the end. The fights were actually really cool with all sorts of abilities shown high power levels low nuclear level and the power scalings are kept intact and amazing animation. Alot of the animation in the first half though with the exception of one fight was alot simpler and everything was more storyfocused. Heres some of the earlier animation sorry its a .: https://files.catbox.moe/dn3sh5. But dont be tricked the closer it gets to the end of the movie the better the animation is and not just for the fights: 400https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbjJpMmhseWFyd3h1cTV3cDZqNWNjZWlteWYzYjBsNG16Z2YzNDBwYyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/OVlBw7bODV11BiWdR2/giphydownsizedlarge.gif 400https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYjhkcGVoMmQ3NWRqZnBscDJ1cGk2NDVwb3gwc2Jvd3RrNXhoOTh6biZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/PWQadfyYZENaE32LHd/giphydownsizedlarge.gif Anyway. Death death death so many deaths. The movie opens and ends with deaths. Death gives depth meaning and value to the characters motivations. At the end SPOILERS The nonspoiler version is that there are multiple twists and while it may seem like alot it manages to feel natural. Oh and the movie has really great music but.. the music for the Diablo vs Violet fight... 10/10 a perfect musical reminiscent of Vanitashttps://anilist.co/anime/131646/VanitasnoCarte/ music no visuals to spoil take a listen: https://youtu.be/AVBSoqajCM4 So yeah. If you are a TenSura fan then I highly highly recommend this movie.