Alternative Titles
English: Blade of the Immortal
Japanese: 無限の住人-IMMORTAL-
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Type:
ONA
Episodes:
24
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Oct 10, 2019 to Mar 26, 2020
Licensors:
Sentai Filmworks
Studios:
LIDENFILMS
Source:
Manga
Duration:
23 min. per ep.
Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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Popularity:
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Members:
55,746
Favorites:
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- I’m flattered. - Who said it was a praise? Stop me if you’ve heard any of these before. A daughter of a samurai hell-bent on avenging her father’s death. A ronin with unparalleled sword skills, but no attachments to the world. He agrees to be her yojimbo because she reminds him of his dead sister. A colorful villain of the week demands to hear the protagonist’s name before they can cross swords with him. Mugen no Juunin is every chanbara cliche possible thrown together into a blender and made into a read more
Blade of the Immortal is one of the most illustrious manga titles to date on the back of its artwork alone. No critic worth their salt has ever paraded Blade of the Immortal on the quality of its writing, characterization, storytelling—none of it. It’s all on the art. And rightfully so, so when I see it getting adapted by LIDENFILMS, a studio whose prettiest production to date, Hanebado!, had to rely on the trusty ol’ rotoscope to stay standing for even a single cour, the last thing I expected was an anime which read more
Story: The story is about a immortal samurai and a girl whos family was killed by a different dojo. The girl goes looking for the immortal samurai so she can ask for his help to kill the people that killed her family, I thought this was an interesting concept but the show just disappointed me. Art: The art is trash, once I started watching more and more episodes, I started to hate the art more and more, if you like good animation, then this show read more
There’s a strange sense of serenity to Blade of the Immortal 2019. For all of the vile horrors it presents as rape and death are littered across the show’s 24 episode run, there’s a read more
Hamasaki’s direction of this show is absolutely crucial to its success. He brings such an overwhelmingly nihilistic tone to everything that he works on, and Blade of the Immortal is no exception. The often washed out colour palette, the great shot composition, and the incredible action choreography, all of Hamasaki’s hallmarks are present in this show. The manga is read more
With the source material being this graphic and revolting, the use of effects like static, rapid frame changes and outlandish imagery drives these moments home and makes them more memorable overall. This also includes the fight, while mostly stylized in direction, they don't compromise on animation quality and good read more
Story - 3/10 The pacing is the worst aspect, it's so fucking rushed you can barely understand what's going on most of the time. The story itself is nothing special, a pretty straightforward revenge story, with lots of convenient chance encounters for the sake of the plot read more
I love anime set in the samurai era, unfortunately this one was a mess. I can't tell if it's because the source material is awful or the adaption was awful because the live action which was extremely trimmed down was pretty enjoyable, but the anime which had far more content (that was still rushed), was far less enjoyable, and frankly sucked. Here's why. The fundamental story of BoTI is solid and very fitting. The arcs and the villains however are pathetically executed. First the arcs. read more
Don't get me wrong some of the episodes where enjoyable (shira vs magatsu)and had my interest but then they announced they were making it into a 24 ep adaptation. And then said they read more
Story- Good 7: For a while it does have a very good story plot when it involves a girl who was the daughter of a certain samurai master that was killed by them Itto Ryu antagonists. But, that just as good as it get, cu'z as one gets to the middle of the series it becomes a disappointment. Art- Good 7: It does have read more
Aight hear me out. I originally gave this a 9 but after the show went on I fell off the tracks and I didn't understand anything that happened and the story wasn't anything that great. Some episodes were just super boring. The start was nice and some episodes near the end but most of was just kinda boring for my liking. If anything the art and the animation were fucking good. The characters are just there I think. Lets start with Manji. He is this immortal samurai who has killed over 100 dudes. Manji now acts as read more
The story of Rin Asano's journey to eradicate the Itto-Ryu, a sword school whose members massacred her family, and perchance the story of the Immortal Manji, the Killer of 100 with his many blades of death, and aiming to kill a thousand more from affliction. read more
But... The animation is just terrible, they dont even show the fight scenes, sometimes when someone is fighting, we just see a black screen with some sword's sounds. not even in the final battles there was a fluid animation. At least the character design is beautiful. Its worth watching, if you ignore the animation.
General: (6.65 / 10) Honestly, the best phrase that comes to my mind to describe this adaptation at the moment is "Whoever embraces little presses." I mean, it is a show that can be easily entertaining for anyone who is interested in a Sumarai / Historico plot (as in my case), but nevertheless it lacks a lot of depth in the characters, most of them are very forgettable and only a few will remember their names at the end of the series. One always puts on the table the over-understanding of "cut to adapt" but at the end of the day when you want to convey read more
Voice acting overall was quite good, however I am disappointed with Sakura Ayane, I heard three different voices for the same character she gives life, Rin's "normal" voice feels natural, however at times when she projects her voice to sound more imposing that read more
Story 7: I think the overall story is really well done. The execution could've been a lot better though. The reason it wasn't that good was because of all the other elements. The story sits with you and the ending solidifies the feeling of the entire anime, the bitter-sweetness of an era in your life, in the world, coming to an end. I don't know whether I'm just slow in my head but there where a bunch of read more
HOWEVER, the pacing of this show is absolutely impossible to follow if you are an anime only like I was. Past the first 2 arcs of the story, the pacing is so fast that you will be utterly lost as to what the fuck is happening for the duration of the show. Random characters that you don't know at all will pop up read more
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