Alternative TitlesJapanese: サムライガン
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 4, 2004 to Dec 21, 2004
Duration:
24 min. per episode Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
L represents licensing company
StatisticsScore: 6.261 (scored by 1081 users)
Ranked: #47112
Popularity: #2256
Members: 2,751
Favorites: 4 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisIt is the beginning of the industrial revolution, and feudal Japan is in turmoil. The ruling Shogun are wielding their abusive powers to instill fear and dominance over their oppressed subjects. Beatings, imprisonment, rape and even murder are the adopted tactics chosen to maintain their reign. The bloodshed must end. A group of Samurai have banded together, and, with the development of new weapons and new technology, they have both the will and the hardware to stand up and fight. Ichimatsu is one of these fighters. By day, he works incognito at a local tavern, in the evenings he frequents the brothels, and by the dark of night, he doles out some big-time, gun-barrel justice. He is here to help. He is Samurai Gun.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: Samurai Gun
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Reviews
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Xenzio
10 of 18 people found this review helpful
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13 of 13 episodes seen
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| Overall |
5 |
| Story |
3 |
| Animation |
5 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
4 |
Guns were used in that era, so the idea isn't that original, since it's the same, just using more modern guns.
There's a story going on in the background, namely; The family of the main character got killed and he's out for revenge, sort of, he doesn't want to kill, yet, he want's to kill the guy who did it. Besides that, story's go from episode to episode, which are all just as unintresting as a shaved armpit.
The art's good, there's some major quality loss in good animated scene's, or just scenes which are done too quick (I presume). The sound's good, at first, you can hear the voice-actors struggle a lot to do a good job, but after the first 2 episode's they got used to it. The animation's nothing special, a lot of looping and slow/bad animation, while some scene's have incredible animation (for that time), but in those scene's the artstyle changed or got bad.
There are some intresting characters, which we know nothing about, we get some unnecessary flashbacks and quote's, relations that don't matter etc. They don't have deep backgrounds, the only thing intresting about them is probably your very own thought about them, and the way they look.
There's not much enjoyment, unless you don't care about a story or good quality. It's just an anime if you need a quick fix, or if your really into samurai series with a small twist too it.
And that brings the total score to exact: 5 read more
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ParadiseLost
8 of 20 people found this review helpful
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13 of 13 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
Samurai Gun is a great anime for a shoot'em up good time. It puts a spin on the whole samurai genre by the main characters using pistols instead of katana's. Don't expect too much of a deep story line and take it for what it is. The art sort of reminds me of Ninja Scroll and the characters are pretty unique. I find their costumes a bit funny in all those different colors. Nonetheless I really enjoyed it and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good samurai fictional title.
Recommendations
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Both of the series have lots of action in it.
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Opening Theme"SAMURAI CREW" by ZZ
Ending Theme#01: "Ienai Kotoba" by Aiko Kayo (eps 1-11) #02: "Zutto... Issho" by Minori Chihara (ep 12)
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