Swordplay/Fantasy/Samurai/Fighting Titles

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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.

Fantasy: (Setting) Titles that deal in might and magic will fall into this category.

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.

Fighting: (Story/Location) Series whose primary focus is fighting would fit into this segment. (More precise) Subgenres include "Gun-Action", "Martial Arts" and "Swordplay".

Title Rating Synopsis
K
Kyo Rent See Samurai Deeper Kyo
R
Real Bout High School Rent See Samurai Girl Real Bout High School
S

Samurai Deeper Kyo
Rent It is 1604, four years after the Battle of Sekigahara, perhaps Japan's greatest civil war. The people try to recover from its aftermath and enjoy the newly attained peace. Amid such times Yuya Shiina, a roughneck girl who earns money by capturing outlaws, mistakes a roaming and peace-loving medicine seller Mibu Kyoshiro for the legendary wanted man "Onime-no-Kyo." But she soon realizes that she is wrong when she sees that Kyoshiro is just a weakling. Nevertheless, she ends up capturing Kyoshiro anyway - he is wanted for running off without paying for a meal. As they travel together Kyoshiro tries to help Yuya catch another wanted criminal. In the process Kyoshiro is cornered. Then he mumbles, "Here he comes," and the color of his eyes turn a deep red. He pulls out his sword which he had never touched before and suddenly, Onime-no-Kyo, the legendary assassin said to have killed one thousand men with this sword, is standing there. Kyoshiro and Kyo: Two spirits in one body. Yuya is looking for a "man with a wound on his back" who killed her older brother. The two head to Edo together. One after another, samurai come after Onime-no-Kyo. Why do Kyoshiro and Kyo share the same body? Historical figures, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, emerge in the story and the mystery of the two souls is gradually resolved.

Samurai Girl Real Bout High School
Rent The Samurai Girl, Ryoko Mitsurugi, attends high-school which sponsors student fight events called “K Fights”. Problems between students can be settled in the combat arena, but as the present K-Fight champion, Ryoko is considered to be fair game by any student club wishing to gain status and prestige by defeating her. Then one day, Ryoko finds a strange blue-gem pendant, which (with a strange sparkle of light) transports her to a world called ‘Solvania’, where her fighting skills are put to the test in defeating a monstrous dragon creature. There she finds herself called the ‘Ogre of Yenen’, and becomes involved in a battle that transcends time and space, and even appears to threaten the world and friends that Ryoko holds so dear.
SDK Rent See Samurai Deeper Kyo
Stranger -Mukou Hadan- Rent See Sutorenja Mukoh Hadan

Sutorenja Mukoh Hadan
Rent The Mings (Chinese) come to a remote part of Sengoku-era feudal Japan with money to buy the cooperation of the locals, and fierce warriors to subdue those they can't buy. One of the things they need for their secret plan is the young boy, Kotaro, who goes into hiding in the countryside with his dog Tobimaru. Cornered in their hiding place by the Mings, they are saved by a wandering samurai who calls himself "Nanashi" ("nameless") who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past. The three of them are forced to discover the Ming's dreadful purpose in a conflict that pits the best swordsmen of Japan and China against each other.
Sword of the Stranger Rent See Sutorenja Mukoh Hadan
ストレンヂア -無皇刃譚- Rent See Sutorenja Mukoh Hadan
Genre
Action(3) Romance(1)
Setting
Demographic
Style
Keywords
Adventure(1) Fan Service(1) High School(1) Pantsu(1)
Type
Movie(1) TV(2)
Release Year
2007(1) 2002(1) 2001(1)

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