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What did you think of it? Best anime movie in a long time imo. :) The sword fights, the pacing everything was just right.

i really enjoyed it too. the fights were great, and damn, nanashi is cool. 9/10 from me as well. :]

I agree that action scenes were extremely good - bloody and splendidly animated. I wish there was moar. music was also great, as well as the likeable characters. the only flaw was a bit generic story in my opinion, but it wasn't bad nonetheless. 8/10.

Did you watched a Raw File or did you watch it with subs? And if yes, which sub did you use? o.O

I got the soft subs from here. :)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10730374&postcount=1079

If you don't know how to use soft subs or have a problem send me a message ill help you out.

A good movie
8/10 from me

9/10 from me. Generic story but the treatment of visuals and sound...best in many years.

The last fight was the best sword fight I've seen in anime period.

Story reminded me of Serei no Moribito somehow, and well yes, not so original. But everytime the music started to play, shivers ran down my spine.



Definitely. Well-animated, great perspectives and fighting moves I've never seen before. I'll give it a 9 out of 10.

Wow. I loved this. It's one of the best films I've seen in quite some time. Excellent animation, awesome sword fighting scenes and I loved the music. I can always count on Bones.

Wow, I'm going to be the unpopular guy here who thinks it was "okay."

Pros:
-Best sword fight ever probably, but just a bit unrealistic.
-Excellent ending, and I mean the final scene.
-Several key events are not predictable.
-Good character interaction, especially with the dog.

Cons:
-Story...bad. The middle was too predictable and confusing, more than it should be.
-The storyline is too cliché...random expert fighter meets young, helpless boy, who is somehow the key ingredient to something magical.
-Too many people die. When you try to be unique, you don't have to go to the other extreme.
-Music was inconsistent. For the first 2/3 of the movie, there was literally no background music. For the second 1/3, it played the same melody over and over again--a good melody, but the only melody.
-Too many deus ex machina. Two people are having a fight then someone gets shot, okay. At the end, I don't like the "let's have a fair fight" thing; it kills the climax. There are many ways to initiate a good sword fight, and killing your own comrade isn't one of them.
-Poor coordination. There were what, one sword fight? The plot makes Nanashi unable to draw his sword until the very end, but except from the beginning fight against the guy with the whip, every other fight is uneventful. The story was too drawn out without equal development of the characters, especially the people leading the attempted charge. Most of the story was focused on these people in red but did not develop them. They're obviously powerful, but aside from the different weapons they use, they're the same people.

So basically, it is a story with several good moments and memorable moments, most of them with the dog, but the plot is disconnected and the story makes little sense. It was still somewhat enjoyable and the ending makes up for it. 6/10, "Good."

10/10

Movie was perfect.

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Just finished watching it. A solid 9/10 without a doubt. Some of the best sword fighting scenes I have ever seen animated. Also i would like to counter those who say the plot was to "common" please point out another anime that has something to do with immortality IN combination with the blood of an individual. I rest my point.

I feel that it should be pointed out that the emperor (or whoever drank it) probably would not have gained immortality. They did this kind of stuff all the time back in imperial china, india, egypt, etc. where someones blood, or some animals blood, or something would grant you omnipotence/immortality/omniscience etc. etc.

Finally had time to watch this. Not a bad movie. I liked some of the fights and the music. I found myself bored a few times though. Gets a 6 from me.

Not quite sure why this is so highly overrated, very strange. Nothing notably remarkable except a few action scenes. This film could have been so much more with a better story and better characters.

it was a really good movie in my opinion
the movie was slightly boring at parts but
the animation was pretty sexy XP, the action scenes left me in awe and it was interesting to see the chinese interpretation in this (the chinese that they spoke was pretty good)

so all in all: two thumbs up XP

I could tell right off the bat that the musical director had to be the same guy in charge of of E7's sound track. Simply beautiful.

The story itself is fairly generic, but the animation, fight choreography, sound track, and characters blended together wonderfully and I never found myself bored. 9/10 for now, might drop to an 8 when the rush has worn off.