Taisou Zamurai


The Gymnastics Samurai

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Synonyms: Taiso Samurai
Japanese: 体操ザムライ
English: The Gymnastics Samurai
German: N/A
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Type: TV
Episodes: 11
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 11, 2020 to Dec 20, 2020
Premiered: Fall 2020
Broadcast: Sundays at 01:30 (JST)
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: MAPPA
Source: Original
Genre: SportsSports
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.251 (scored by 2045320,453 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #30762
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2868
Members: 58,580
Favorites: 133

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Synopsis

At the pinnacle of his gymnastics career, Joutarou Aragaki—nicknamed Samurai for his signature hairstyle—suffers a shoulder injury following his wife's death. Five years later, he continues to push the limits of his body as a member of the Japanese gymnastics team. However, Joutarou's strenuous training fails to show any progress. His coach, Noriyuki Amakusa, advises that he retires.

Together with his exuberant and supportive nine-year-old daughter, Rei, Joutarou takes a trip to Ego Wonderland to break the bitter news to her. However, their excursion ends in an odd encounter with a peculiar self-proclaimed ninja named Leonardo. He follows them home and interrupts Joutarou's every attempt at telling his daughter.

Upon learning that Leonardo hopes to witness his gymnastics again, Joutarou astounds Japan with his announcement that he is not retiring. Joutarou dedicates himself to the biggest challenge of his career to prove that the gymnastics world is right where he belongs.

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"Shanghai Honey (上海ハニー)" by Joutarou Aragaki (Daisuke Namikawa), Leonardo (Kensho Ono), Tetsuo Minamino (Yuki Kaji) (eps 2-10)
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Ending Theme

1: "Shanghai Honey (上海ハニー)" by Joutarou Aragaki (Daisuke Namikawa), Leonardo (Kensho Ono), Tetsuo Minamino (Yuki Kaji) (eps 1)
2: "Yume ja Nai (夢?(ゆめじゃない))" by Hatena (はてな) (eps 2-11)




Reviews

Oct 28, 2022
I have absolutely no vested interest in gymnastics, I just watched because it was something easy to throw on my second monitor while I played video games. That being said, this was oddly compelling and just a sweet story overall. It wasn't action packed or super fast paced and I appreciated training montages to show large lengths of time passing; even in 11 episodes they managed to pack in a whole lot.

The cgi for the actual gymnastics were sometimes a little wonky, but as I was mostly in it for the story and listening rather than actively watching, it obviously didn't affect me very much. ...
May 29, 2022
Mixed Feelings
Taisou_Zamurai is the typical original sports anime that was made to commemorate the Olympics of all the sports anime that were made with this idea. I thought it had a lot of potential and deserved an 8 since its clichéd plot of the typical athlete who was at the bottom and then it sank to the bottom it had a main character that you would support until the end but the final chapters and lack of character development made this anime a waste of time
1- Main characters:
Aragaki, Joutarou: he is a character who feels that all his development to reach the Olympics is in a ...
Feb 26, 2022
Preliminary (3/11 eps)
Gave this a try because I'm always on the look out for non-ball game sports anime and gymnastics seems ripe for storytelling— we all know about the drama, the skill and the high that the sport can get, especially after the US Women's team performance at Tokyo.

But this is ridiculous. Dropped it after 2.5 episodes. I've seen other reviews that gush about this, and maybe there's something to it, but I cannot get past the annoying start. They inserted ridiculousness seemingly just for the sake of being wacky, zany, or idk ~original~ but they break immersion instead.

There's the big bird that talks which ...

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