Samurai Deeper Kyou

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

Okay I originally started out by reading for the manga for this and i was like wow this is fantastic I would love to see an anime for this. Little did I know they had one and i was really excited if it followed the manga it would make for a fantastic anime so I go and start to watch it and this is the a compassion of disappoint by now most people have watched or heard about dragon ball evolution well that's how this show was for me I went in expecting that they'd do it good and came out with an angered ... and confused face why goku did you jump after using kamehameha wave why. Now taking the work as it's own separate piece not relating to the manga then it's actually pretty decent but after seeing the manga then this it made me so disappointed.

I read the manga first. The manga is wonderful. The anime just sucks compares to the manga. The anime skips tons of fights, tons of characters are missing. The story line is changed at the end.

If you want to enjoy this show then watch it before you read the manga. If you do watch this show plz read the manga.

Samurai kyo was one of the first dozen anime i watched and i really couldn't decide how i felt about it. The concept seemed very simple but then they introduced the demon lord nobunaga which kinda came at me from nowhere.

When i first read the little synopsis about samurai deeper kyo i thought it would focus more on his dual personality's over a arch villain type story structure. I pictured it as more a focus on character development and less about defeating the super evil that's being revived. I am not entirely disappointed in what they did with it but it just wasn't what i ... had hoped for.

The show has relativity small character development and the art is not all so grand. The sound and even the voice actors were not so great, not bad just ok more or less. The best part of this show was the fighting of course, the samurai battles using all sorts of strange magic and such.

I give this show a six and that's a little generous more like a 5.5, it was pretty mindless and didn't have much of a plot or strong characters but it has the basic framing of most anime that made it work out for the minimalist expectations.

Pros:
- decent OP & ED theme song
- catchy battle & story music
- a wide variety of characters
- bad ass main character
- fun characters, nice outfits, lovely weapons

Cons:
- very lazy animation (some of the fighting scenes are pretty much "still images")
- basic facial expressions
... - repetitive parts
- annoying mid-episode breaks
- awkward story progression
- limited techniques (battle-wise)

This is an anime I've watched again and again throughout the years, and now I just can't stand to watch it anymore.

If it wasn't for the music, I probably would have fallen asleep a couple of times.

There are parts where some of the side characters talk an itty bitty too much, with very little action (which made me doze off and think of something else while watching).

Luckily, the music does what it's meant to do (i.e. getting the viewer's attention, creating a certain atmosphere and maintaining it throughout the anime), which helped me keep focused at times.

And even though I've heard more sophisticated tracks before, the sound is good enough and some of the tunes are very catchy!

As for the story, it starts out pretty well, but gets painful to watch due to repetitive story-telling and "empty" battle scenes due to "lazy" animation (it's a joke, really - it unintentionally got me to giggle at times).

Quite a shame, because the characters are fun to watch & easy to remember (thanks to their distinctive outfits & the neatly executed voice acting).

Alas... no juicy battle scenes or amazing techniques :(. I really missed that.

All in all, the story was okay, and the concept in itself was good, but lacked balance due to the addition of a totally superfluous character which was introduced midway, all the way thru the end (and felt really out of place & unnatural to me).

But o well. I'd suggest to give it a try anyhow :).

At least this show left me with a favourite character ;).