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Swordplay/Action/Ninja/Samurai Titles

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.

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".

Ninja: (Characters) If the anime deals with ↗Ninja or ↗Shinobi, then it goes here.

Samurai: (Characters) (↗samurai = "warrior") Members of this warrior class of feudal Japan (zenith: 12th to 16th century A.D.) should play an important role in an anime of this type.

Title Rating Synopsis
B

Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou
Buy The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years.
Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls Buy See Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou
D
Densetsu Sanada Juu Yuushi Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu See Sanada10
H

Honoo no Labyrinth
Rent Galan is a strangely troubled university student who is a big samurai fan, and when a fellow student, the lady Natsu gives him an ancient Japanese short sword as a gift, he can only geek-out with joy. And when the lady Natsu invites him to visit her hometown, a traditional Japanese village located in Russia, Galan can only answer yes. But what Galan has not yet been told is that his college lady-friend is a princess in the village and her gift is a betrothal heirloom.
L
Labyrinth Of Flames Rent See Honoo no Labyrinth
N
New Legend of the Heroes of the Warring Nations - The Ten Sanada Brave Soldiers See Sanada10
S

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.


Sanada10
In Tensho Era 10 (AD. 1583), when Oda Nobunaga sent his troops to conquer Takeda territory in Shinshu, a meteor fell in Toriitoge on the border of Joshu. In a crater made by the meteor, there was a baby, and he was named Sarutobi Sasuke. His talent was appreciated by Sanada Nobushige (Sanada Yukimura), and he became a master of Ninja.
Genre
Comedy(2) Drama(3) Parody(1) Romantic Comedy(1)
Setting
Historical(3) Modern(1)
Demographic
Seinen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Silly-funny(1)
Keywords
Adventure(1) Ecchi(1) Fan Service(2) Fighting(2)
Martial Arts(2) Supernatural(1) Violent(2)
Type
OVA(2) TV(2)
Release Year
2005(3) 2004(1) 2000(1)

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