Audience reviews
9 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
KamuiX1999
Wow, what an absolute mess this is. Imagine an exploitative chanbara film from the '70s, with multiple complex plot threads, numerous warring clans, and countless opposing characters, but for some reason only given less than 50 minutes to attempt to be told. That's what watching Sword for Truth is like. It's like if Lone Wolf and Cub tried to get its point across in the runtime allowed for a pilot television episode, setting up all sorts of storylines, introducing characters, and then just ending, with nary a resolution or any sense to be made of the proceedings. Nothing here stands out, the animation isn't even a saving grace, looking cheap and occasionally badly animated with very few frames. I don't know why the hell this was even released, as whatever its goal was was an abject failure…
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This OVA film is notorious. It's regarded as one of the worst anime ever made, like Mars of Destruction. It was released in 1990 by Production Reed. That's right, the Nuku Nuku studio. It was based off of a Narumi Takeshi novel. So, let's see why this one is so notorious.
Story:
We open with some soldiers out to hunt clandestine Christians when they find themselves being fed to the lions... I mean a tiger. The tiger is huge, being able to deflect their weapons and gulp up horses. It's only stopped by the arrival of an enigmatic swordsman named Sakaki Shuranosuke. His services are quickly secured to help rescue their princess, who was kidnapped while the soldiers were away dealing with a tiger attack.
This actually has the same fatal flaw as one of Elfen Lied's. The sexual content and…
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Sword For Truth is a oh hell do I really have to do this? Sword For Truth is such a low effort OVA that was made in the early 90s that it barely deserves me giving an introduction. This review will be fairly short and low effort, as a dreadful piece of shit such as this doesn't deserve a high-effort review put into it. There may be some mild spoilers in this review, so read at your own risk (like it matters anyway).
Story:
The story of this poo poo revolves around our main man Sakaki who's a hired swordsman trying to rescue another clan's princess. That's literally it.
Seems like a simple story when I phrase it that way right? Well you'd be deadly mistaken. Sword For Truth is ridiculously hard to follow, mainly due to how poorly structured this OVA is. We start off at a dojo where peopl…
Read at the sourceGundroog
Well, I think anyone who watched anime long enough ventured into the territory of trashy old OVAs with plain stories but lots of incredibly well animated sex and violence. At first glance Sword for Truth is just that, it starts off with a gigantic white tiger tearing through a bunch of samurai but it doesn't take long to realize that this is not gonna stand up to something like Ninja Scroll or even Demon City Shinjuku.
Sword for Truth doesn't really have anything substantial to offer if you're seen any of the above or pretty much any other short movie in the same vein. There's no story to speak of, all we get is a super strong samurai dude slashing through everyone and getting contracted to save the damsel in distress while killing yet more people on his way. There's a hint of continuati…
Read at the sourceRoarkTenjouin
Have you ever stumbled upon a movie that you swear is a rip-off, only you then find out that it actually came before the movie that you swear it's ripping off? Like for example: Despite seeming like Gordy is a Babe rip-off, Gordy actually came first. The reason I mention this is because Sword for Truth feels like a Ninja Scroll rip-off - and there is grounds to compare the 2, since Sword for Truth has the gall to label itself as having "The Best Sword-Fighting Action since Ninja Scroll!"
Story - 3/10
Basically, it's the story to Super Mario Bros. Except MUCH more violent, and much darker, with samurai and ninjas. While that might sound like it's a good thing, it's not - it's much stupider. Also, instead of having a likable samurai version of Mario, we have someone who's very hard to root…
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Overview:
Sword for Truth was widely considered by otaku during the 1990s to be one of the worst anime of all time! The infamy has died down and now it is simply unknown. It was released in the US under the title: Ninja Scroll 2. This is despite the fact that it was made before Ninja Scroll and has absolutely nothing to do with Ninja Scroll. A far more appropriate title would be: WHAT!? It is very appropriate that this was made during the 1990s, because you are going to say WHAT!? when viewing this pile of shit more often than Stone Cold Steve Austin!
Story: 1/10
This is quite easily the least coherent story in the history of anime. Not because it is trying to be artsy and is using layers on layers of symbolism. No, it is due to nonsensical scene cuts, plot points that are brought up on…
Read at the sourcevigorousjammer
Well, let me start off by saying that even though I went into this with really low expectations, this wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be. There's some pretty decent moments here & there, but for the most part, it's still just kind of poorly made.
First off, the writing is terrible and sounds like something I would have came up with if I was 13, and was into nothing but pointless violence and pointless sex. That's all that happens in this movie. There's a very generic story that they have in there as well, but it ends up being less of a full story, with scenes jumping between each other, not flowing very nicely or having any kind of a good transition between them. The whole thing is presented sloppily, and it's really more of an excuse to have a bunch of blood, gore, and naked ladie…
Read at the sourceFoolness
Contrary to animegorey's review, I actually found this to be better than Ninja Scroll but not so much because of the quality but because it's less fantasy and therefore comes much closer to the appeal of such shows as Fist of the North Star.
The biggest disappointment is that the ending disappoints when it could have been easily continued. Certainly the protagonists while not necessarily being special aren't very annoying compared to most other samurai films.
Not annoying might be underselling the characters though. The professional assassin feel of the characters carry this movie. That is, while normally the lack of character development is a detriment ...maybe because it's rare for an anime to have a combination of Golgo 13 + Lone Wolf and Cub and a more silent bad ass Rurouni Kenshin…
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Cheap ass version of Ninja Scroll. That's all I could think of as I watched this and thought about the trailer I seen for this. How dare they compare this to NInja Scroll. Dub was boring and poorly cast, story is familiar at best, action and violence is cheap and generic. Don't let the trailer fool you. However, If your a fan of cheesy dubs and the horribly over-acted OVAs, this one's for you. Weak blood sprays and cheap character design really make for a low-budget looking title. Yet, as a fan of these types, I have this dvd in my collection. It's right there with Riding Bean, Vampire Wars and M.D Geist and can easily be rewatched due to it's short runtime. If you don't expect too much, you won't be disappointed.
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