2005/Action/Adventure/Swordplay Titles

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Action: (Genre) Lots of shooting, explosions, and the like. Contains subcategories of more specific types such as "Gun-Action", "Martial Arts", and "Swordplay"; see also: "Fighting".

Adventure: (Genre) Titles where the characters are involved in an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.

Swordplay: (Story/Location) A subcategory of "Action". This is about the art or skill of wielding a sword, esp. in fencing. Entries in this category should contain the use of swords to a large extent in scenes.

Title Rating Synopsis
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Cluster Edge
Watch A bright young student named Agate Fluorite transfers to the elite and prestigious high school called Cluster E.A. Enroute to the school, he becomes entangled with the military’s attempt to shoot down a private airplane and risks being branded a traitor by the government. But behind Agate’s simple smiles and amazing mechanical abilities, he is hiding secret that will soon set the country a blaze with change.
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Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe
Watch In the year 1935 of some alternate reality, on a large island off the coast of France, there lies the (Germanic) country called Kuchen. The five elite Strahl (= parliament of Kuchen) candidates of the Rosenstolz Academy are certain to make an impact in a time of pending war and turmoil.

Gun Sword
Rent Armed with a metal sash that straightens into a sword, lanky swordsman Van is traveling through the desert, searching for the mysterious clawed man who killed his bride. Along the way he picks up a fellow traveler: Wendy, a young girl whose town he saves from bandits by summoning a mecha with his sword. Wendy is searching for her missing older brother, whose engraved gun she carries on her back. In their mutual quest they run afoul of more bandits and villains, a mysterious woman named Carmen99, and more mecha battles a la Wild West.
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IZUMO - Takeki Ken no Senki
Having lost his parents at a young age, Yagi Takeru, lives alone with his kendo sensi, and they are both looked after by two of his fellow classmates from Izumo Academy, Shiratori Kotono and her sister, Asuka. Along with his best friend and greatest kendo rival, Yamato Takeshi, they are enjoying a happy school experience, at least until Takeshi and Takeru begin sharing the same dream of a priestess calling to them. In a strange confrontation in the schoolyard, Takeru and four girls are shrouded in a strange light that covers Takeshi, and then everything goes black. When they wake up, they find themselves separated from one another in a high school cracking and broken with age and covered in trees and vines. An attack by giant hostile insects, then a confrontation with strange floating creatures, with a sudden rescue by a troop of sword-carrying soldiers on horseback is proof that they are now in a very different world.
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Meine Liebe Watch See Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe
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Samurai Champloo
Rent

Fuu-chan is working as a waitress in a tea shop in the era of the samurai in Japan. She meets Mugen, a strange samurai warrior who looks like he's break dancing when he fights. For 100 dumplings, he agrees to help her when some local thugs, who work for the magistrate's sone, try to cut off her finger.

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Wandering Revelations Meine Liebe Watch See Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe
クラスターエッジ Watch See Cluster Edge
吟遊黙示録 マイネリーベ Watch See Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe
Genre
Comedy(2) Drama(2) Romance(1) Steampunk(1)
Setting
Fantasy(1) Historical(1) Sci-Fi(2)
Demographic
Seinen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1)
Keywords
Bishounen(1) College(1) Fan Service(1) Fighting(1)
Friendship(1) Gun-action(2) Martial Arts(1) Mecha(1)
Ninja(1) Samurai(1) Supernatural(1) Video-game inspired(2)
Violent(1) War(1)
Type
TV(5)
Release Year
2004(2)

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