Swordplay/TV/Violent 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.

TV: (Type) All anime series done for TV should go into this slot.

Violent: (Objectionable Content) Titles that include as an important part of their content excessive displays of cruelty, blood and gore. Any of the classical 'slasher' films would qualify for this keyword. The series Black Lagoon would be a good example; as many of its chapters involve killer lolis, chainsaw mercenaries and flying body parts.

Title Rating Synopsis
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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

Berserk
Buy The story of a man tormented by hate, Fueled by anger, And bound by destiny. A young swordsman by the name of Gutts who lives as a mercenary until the fateful day he encounters the band of the hawk. An up and coming army led by their charismatic leader Griffith. After being defeated by griffith in a duel Gutts agrees to join the band of the hawk and help Griffith achieve his goal of one day ruling his own kingdom. This is the story of what turned Gutts into the hateful angry swordsman that he is and the destiny he refuses to accept.
Blood + Rent See Blood Plus
Blood Night Rent See Blood Plus

Blood Plus
Rent Saya Otonashi lives peacefully with her adoptive family in Okinawa. The man that she proudly calls dad has adopted both her, her younger brother Riku and her troublesome older brother Kai. In the past year the four of them, once strangers, have formed a close loving family, but Saya wonders why she does not have any memories older than a year. Everything changes with the appearance of a monster called a Chiropteran. At school one night, a teacher is murdered before her eyes and Saya is attacked by a murderous creature. A mysterious young man carrying a cello appears and saves her, but he hands her a strange sword and tells her to fight. Why does her dad know so much about these monsters? And who is this cello player named Haji, someone who is now following Saya around - insisting on serving her?
Blood TV Rent See Blood Plus
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Claymore
Rent Set in a mideval time, the Yoma (demons) have been feeding upon the humans. They have become so skilled that when they feed upon a person completely, they can assume the form, mannerisms, and memories of the people they kill. This allows them to blend into society where they cannot be found. Whenever these Yoma appear the Claymore follow. This is a group of young girls dressed in armor and sporting large 'Claymore' swords. Their job is to hunt down and kill all of these Yoma. Half Human and Half Yoma, these 'girls' only live to kill demons. Possessing super speed, strength, and healing abilities, they hunt down Yoma for any village that can pay the price.
Crazy for Death See Shigurui
K
Kenpuu Denki Berserk Buy See Berserk
Kraujas Plius Rent See Blood Plus
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.


Shigurui
In the sixth year of the Kan’ei era (1629), at the beginning of the Edo period, a samurai was hired to settle a grievance in the castle of Suruga. Appearing in a tournament which contraventioned all of the existing dueling laws to allow the use of real swords, the blind one-armed lame samurai starts a battle which brings together for the last time two mighty swordsmen whose bloody intertwined past is as beautiful and as gruesome as the scarred wounds that adorn their bodies and souls.
Shigurui: Death Frenzy See Shigurui

sola (TV)
Rent Sola's story revolves around Yorito Morimiya, the main protagonist, who is a young boy attending high school. He loves taking pictures of the sky at any time of day and any time of the year. One day, Yorito decides to take a picture of the sunrise overlooking the bay, but is deterred when he meets a strange girl trying to force a vending machine that stole her money to give her what she tried to buy — a can of tomato juice. Yorito helps her with forcing the machine while attempting to strike up conversation with her, despite it being four in the morning. Yorito tells her why he is here, but by the time he has forced the can out of the machine, the girl has mysteriously vanished.
Genre
Action(7) Comedy(1) Drama(5) Horror(1)
Romance(2) Tragedy(2)
Setting
Fantasy(3) Historical(3) Modern(1)
Demographic
Seinen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Surreal(1)
Keywords
Adventure(2) Dark(4) Depression(1) Fan Service(1)
Fighting(1) Magic(1) Martial Arts(2) Ninja(2)
Samurai(3) Supernatural(1) Vampires(1)
Type
Release Year
2007(3) 2006(1) 2005(2) 2004(1) 1998(1) 1997(1)
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