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 |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
 Air TV |
Buy |
Kunisaki Yukito is a traveler, ever seeking the 'girl in the sky' from a legend passed down in his family. His journey takes him to a small seaside town, where he meets Misuzu, a girl who seems eager to become his friend. A story spanning a thousand years begins to unfold against the background of their peculiar relationship. |
| Ashita no Yoichi! | Rent | See Asu no Yoichi! |
 Asu no Yoichi! |
Rent |
Having been raised and trained for the past sixteen years as a traditional samurai 'bushi', Yoichi was surprised when his father suddenly announces that there nothing more that he could teach his son, but he arranges for Yoichi to continue training at a dojo owned by one of their relatives. So now Yoichi must leave the tranquility of his remote rural mountain life and move to the city to live with his uncle's family to continue his studies. And if learning how to cope with city life were not hard enough, he finds himself living with 4 beautiful sisters and having to endure a ‘training’ regiment more severe than he could ever image..... |
| B | ||
 Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto |
Watch |
The End of the Edo Era was also the end of the Age of the Samurai. The arrival of the Westerners with their new ways and weapons was generating turmoil and chaos throughout Japan. The members of the Kakunojou Yuuyama Theater Troupe have spent ten years seeking to revenge the death of their Master. At the same time, a ronin named Youriro Akidzuki is searching for the Hasha no Kubi, (or the Head of Conqueror.) – a dangerous mystical treasure that is rumored to assure victory in combat. Their paths cross in the year 1853 in the city of Yokohama, at a time when shadow armies are locked in a struggle for power, control and the future of the country. |
| Basilisk | Buy | See Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou |
 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 |
| Blade of the Immortal | Buy | See Mugen no Juunin |
| C | ||
| Carried By The Wind | Rent | See Tsukikage Ran |
| Crazy for Death | See Shigurui | |
| I | ||
| Irohanihoheto | Watch | See Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto |
| K | ||
| Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran | Rent | See Tsukikage Ran |
| Kotsure Ookami | See Lone Wolf and Cub | |
| Kozure Okami | See Lone Wolf and Cub | |
 Kurozuka |
Watch | A story of obsessive love and constant pursuit told over a 1000 year period. Escaping from a brother who had just ascended the throne, Yoshitsune, along with his servant, comes across a house in the middle of a desolate mountain. Oddly enough, only a young woman lives there, who seems to possess a very dark and ominous past. |
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