Samurai Deeper Kyou

In the year 1600, at the fog-covered battlefield of Sekigahara, a fierce battle was waged by two exemplary swordsmen. One was Kyoushirou Mibu, a skilled and noble warrior in possession of the unique powers of the Mibu Clan. The other was the thousand-man slayer, with eyes and hair the color of blood, "Demon Eyes" Kyou. Their legendary clash was cut short when a meteor from the heavens fell down upon that battlefield, leaving both to vanish in its wake.

Samurai Deeper Kyou begins four years after that battle, when a gun-wielding bounty hunter by the name of Yuya Shiina hunts down Kyoushirou—now a perverted, traveling medicine-man who has built up a large debt. On her way to claim his bounty, they are attacked by an inhuman monster that seeks to devour Kyoushirou. This encounter awakens "Demon Eyes" Kyou, whose mind has been trapped inside of Kyoushirou's body ever since that fateful battle. Thus begins a grand tale of legendary two swordsmen and the discovery of their secrets.

Mibu, Kyou Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Sanada, Yukimura Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Mibu, Kyoushirou Main

Konishi, Katsuyuki Japanese

Akira Main

Hoshi, Souichirou Japanese

Shiina, Yuya Main

Horie, Yui Japanese

Tokugawa, Hidetada Main

Seki, Toshihiko Japanese

Date, Masamune Main

Sarutobi, Sasuke Main

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Migeira Main

Midorikawa, Hikaru Japanese

Izumo no, Okuni Main

Kakazu, Yumi Japanese

Urasaki, Nobumitsu Producer

Nishimura, Junji Director

Iwanami, Yoshikazu Sound Director

Shinohara, Toshiya Episode Director

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May 13, 2008

ssj4monkey

Recommended

Samurai Deeper Kyo has an unique and bizarre take on edo history, and the battles between samurai. The story has its twists, but when you think that the 'last boss' is defeated, more villians pop up. At first sight, the anime seemed like a fun hilarious anime with kyoushi junior, however when the "demon eyed kyo" takes over the anime starts in a much more serious tone, which prevails till the end.

The story centers around "demon eyed kyo", who has his soul entrapped in somebody else's body, so basically, he goes around defeating villians to get his body back. However, kyo is known as the ... man who killed a thousand men, the demon eyed kyo - reminds me of Kenshin and Battosai. I found the story a bit bizarre when Nobunaga Oda was introduced, and with all the messed up demons popping up.

Good Things:
. cool protaganist
. nice tense atmosphere
. good twists in the plot and character development
. badass looking demons and characters
. loved the opening song

Bad Things
. story is a mix mash of things which doesn't sit well with me
. fights are rather boring and repetitive, much like Kenshin using the same attack.
. kyo beats villian, moves on to anther villian, then another one, and another one and another one, until he fights the boss - very shounen, but the fights are not that amusing.

Overall: a mediocre anime, that I mostly forced myself to go through, but then again a watched 26 episodes in a day so that might affect my enjoyment of the anime. It's not bad, but not great either. Villians are very unique and have their own style and looks, very well done in the characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 8, 2012

KungSour

Mixed Feelings

I believe that this anime has a lot of potential to be great but unfortunatly it is not implemented very well, I have not read the manga but I hear good things about it, as for this anime it lacks everything that would make it as great as the current Shounen animes. The manga speaks well of it's greatness as the manga did span 38 volumes. But these key points stop it from being great, I will address them by category and then the positives and negatives.

Story - The whole edo period storylines have been done numerously in the past but just because their are ... a lot of them does not make them bad, but does leave a familiar taste in your mouth after watching it as like you've seen something similar to this before. I like how they add names from History but I've seen it too much before and it would be nice if all the names were original, but overall the story does not have enough enticement to keep you watching and it gets a bit boring toward the end with typical fight scenes and a ending to be expected from what you've seen throughout the anime.

Art - Art is good for the time of release, but nothing too special.

Sound - The soundtrack is fine, a lot of music I've heard before, but there's nothing wrong with that and the Opening fits the anime well.

Characters - There is a lot of character development which isn't a bad thing but if you do too much it does become tedious, I like Demon Eyes Kyo but I wish he kept the same attitude throughout the anime and did not turn into a typical Bad Guy turning to Good Guy scenario, I've seen that too much before and I wish he stayed a bad guy, it would have made the story much more interesting.

Enjoyment - I did not enjoy this anime much, did not have enough content to keep me going even though I got through the anime. Wish the characters fights were a bit more interesting and had better fighting styles and weapons.

Overall - This anime was fine but I'm judging the anime not the manga, but I'm afraid those who watch this might be put off by the anime not to read the manga, like I was. I will proberly read the manga eventually, but not anytime soon.

Positives - I like the characters

Negitives - The Story and fights could of been better.

Thanks for reading - AkatsukiBuzai - Kuroagi

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 27, 2007

Huntsman

Not Recommended

Samurai Deeper Kyo is based of the still running manga series by the same name.

In the year 1600, during the battle of Sekigahara, warriors Kyoshiro Mibu and "Demon Eyes" Kyo - the legendary slayer of a thousand men - engaged in fierce combat. Both men disappeared when a meteor crashed in the battlegrounds. Four years later, Kyoshiro is spotted on a rural highway, acting as a traveling medicine salesman. He is captured by the female bounty hunter Yuya Shiina when she discovers that deep inside him is the dormant personality of "Demon Eyes" Kyo himself.

Now on to all the problems I had with ... the show. First there's the story stated above, which is just a jumble together of stories from the manga. Then there's the so called animation done by Studio Deen. Were they trying to make a crappy American cartoon, I don't get it. The music was also terrible it didn't add anything to the show. Finally the characters which had one or two moments of enjoyment, but overall were terrible. One more thing don't watch this show in the dub version, you'll hate it even more.

Overall was this a terrible anime series...no, but it pales in comparison to the manga series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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