Fighting: (Story/Location) Series whose primary focus is fighting would fit into this segment. (More precise) Subgenres include "Gun-Action", "Martial Arts" and "Swordplay".
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.
TV: (Type) All anime series done for TV should go into this slot.
| 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 |
| 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 |
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