The first season of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit in its live-action form started appearing on the AsianCrush site proper last year but only with the first episode or two. They’ve now finally wrapped up that first season with all four episodes now available – which is better than their distribution on Amazon Prime which looks to have just the one episode and listed almost like a movie. A second and third season were commissioned early on as well with both of those seasons, landing in 2017 and 2018, for nine episodes each.
Plot Concept: Balsa (Haruka Ayase) is 30-year old itinerant bodyguard from Kanbal. When she saves Imperial Prince Chagum after falling to a raging river, her life abruptly changes when she is hired to protect Chagum. She is forced to fend off hired assassins seeking to kill Chagum, who has become the host of the egg of the water spirit, which must be returned to its source in the sea.
