Blade of the Immortal

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English: Blade of the Immortal

Synonyms: Mugen no Juunin

Japanese: 無限の住人

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 14, 2008 to Dec 29, 2008

Premiered: Summer 2008

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Production I.G, Kodansha

Licensors: Media Blasters

Studios: Bee Train

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Adventure, Historical, Samurai, Supernatural

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 6.83¹ (scored by 19,701 users)

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Ranked: #4237²

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Popularity: #1971

Members: 51,638

Favorites: 133

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Summer 2008TVBee Train

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Synopsis

Manji is an amoral swordsman, who has been cursed with eternal life. He has grown tired of living with all the death he has created. He has no skills other then those of killing, thus he forms a plan to regain his mortality: he shall kill one hundred evil men for each good one he has killed. The old witch who afflicted Manji with immortality agrees to Manji's proposition and Manji is set on his path to kill one thousand evil men. On his journey he meets a young girl, Rin, who has her own vengeance to seek against the sword school whose members slaughtered Rin's family. Rin and Manji journey together, each hoping to find some kind of peace. In their way are many varied enemies. Rin and Manji are almost constantly under attack and must learn to live their lives, avoiding being consumed by revenge.

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Adaptation:	Blade of the Immortal
Other:	Mugen no Juunin: Immortal

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Characters & Voice Actors

Manji

Main

Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Otono-Tachibana, Makie

Main

Noto, Mamiko
Japanese

Anotsu, Kagehisa

Main

Nojima, Hirofumi
Japanese

Asano, Rin

Main

Satou, Rina
Japanese

Magatsu, Taito

Main

Nakai, Kazuya
Japanese

Hyakurin

Main

Toyoguchi, Megumi
Japanese

Kawakami, Araya

Main

Namikawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Salesman, Pinwheel

Main

Samura, Hiroaki
Japanese

Shira

Supporting

Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

Giichi

Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki
Japanese

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Morishita, Katsuji

Producer

Mashimo, Kouichi

Director, Storyboard

Kurokawa, Tomoyuki

Episode Director, Storyboard

Sawai, Kouji

Episode Director, Storyboard

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"Akai Usagi" by Makura no Soushi

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"Wants" by GRAPEVINE

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Mar 31, 2009

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

Ravenroth (All reviews)

181 people found this review helpful

I will start by saying that, having read the manga, I was very excited when I heard that there was going to be an anime adaptation, and I had high hopes/expectations for it. It is possible that my review will be biased in that regard. That being said, I'll begin my review.

Art: The art was, in my opinion, not bad. The character designs were true to the manga, I didn't notice any particularly huge problems with inappropriate scenery or just general sloppiness. However, this anime was based on a very violent, sword-fight laden manga, but there were few fights scenes read more

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Aug 23, 2009

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

mokunica22 (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

Stroy:

About anime:

Violence!
Violent is not definite for the kids, but for an older audience.
Nicely developed historical drama, but the theme unfortunately I have to say that I saw in anime called Samurai Champloo. This anime is quite cold, and similarities with the Samurai Champloo (revenge) again has no similarity in the drawing, the main characters and the coarse of this anime.

The main character is a serious violator who is not good, even do some people may call it good because helped one girl and she seeks revenge.
For this young girl, he shows little of its goodness that is left in him.
But what is read more

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May 3, 2013

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

khunter (All reviews)

6 people found this review helpful

Blade of the immortal is a short 13 episode anime about an immortal samurai who because of past evil deeds must kill 100 evil men to free himself of this curse. So he meets this girl, and the two form a sort of friendship/partnership as he helps kill these evil men for her. The art is pretty decent though it feels right for the anime. You get a whole kind of classic feel from it. It takes place during samurai times japan so i suppose anywhere before 1868. The story really is simple, but it has elements of good and evil and a story that read more

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Oct 31, 2015

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

MonroeAnime (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

Story, 3/10: The story suffers from poor pacing, there are times when the show will cut to a random event or random people and never explain what's going on.
on top of that the story takes a long time in the beginning to get moving, only to rush to a disappointing end. A character out for revenge joins with another that's immortal because of a curse/spell, nothing new there.

Art, 5/10: The art, for me at least, was average. The main characters and villains were the most notable nothing else really caught my eye, my biggest gripe would be battle scenes....apparently they've decided to not read more

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