Introduction
Manji is an infamous swordsman in feudal Japan who is known as the "Hundred Man Killer," as he has killed one hundred innocent men. However, there is something far more frightening than his ominous reputation: the fact that he is immortal. This is the handiwork of eight-hundred-year-old nun Yaobikuni, who placed bloodworms capable of healing almost any wound in Manji's body.
To atone for his crimes, Manji resolves to kill one thousand evil men. Yaobikuni agrees to this proposal, saying that if he succeeds, she will undo his curse of immortality. Soon after this promise, Manji meets Rin Asano, a 16-year-old girl who requests Manji's assistance in killing those who slaughtered her parents.
Initially reluctant, Manji refuses Rin's desperate plea. However, owing to her evident lack of strength, Manji changes his mind and agrees to protect Rin for four years. With this partnership set in stone, the two embark on a perilous journey of bloodshed, vengeance, and redemption, each to fulfill their own life's cause.
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Audience reviews
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"Unlike Manji yours is not doubt, its perplexity. You lost the way you should go and your heart is simply in vain disorder and what divides doubt and perplexity is a firm strength. Having strength is what first allows you to live strong."
Mugen no Jūnin (Blade of the Immortal) represented the fragile balance between masculinity and femininity in a way that feels raw and untouchable. Throughout the episodes, I get to see how both men and women are treated which sometimes as worthless and sometimes as invaluable. Brutal? yes. Sad? yes. Yet it is still undeniably reflective of reality.
Rin, the main female character, stood out to me the most (well duh she is the main character) Her heart feels conflicted, yet still deeply human when she continues to carry vengeance as her goal but at the sa…
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If you like Samurai Champloo you'll like this show. The story, action and animation is not as good but its a decent/good show. Basically a Walmart Samurai Champloo with a cool immortality concept. The colors are very dull, barley any contrast in the animation at all, so you got to watch with your brightness turned up to the max or else you don't know wtf is going on. The story is pretty predictable but that's fine if the concept is good which it was.
Animation: 7
Action: 6
OSTs: 5
vibrancy: 0
Story: 6
Concept: 8
Plot: 7
Characters: 7 Overall: 7
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Mugen no Juunin (Blade of the Immortal Anime Adaptation, 2008) – An Exercise in Patience
I'll start by saying that finishing 13 episodes in two years isn't just an accomplishment; it's a test of sheer survival. If you ever want to measure mental resilience, forget psychological tests — just sit someone down with this anime and watch the results.
The story is so generic it feels like it was churned out by an automatic samurai plot generator. You've got the feudal Japan setting, a protagonist with godlike abilities who knows no weaknesses (except, perhaps, testing the limits of our patience), and a plot that seems to think it's taking us somewhere... but the GPS clearly broke halfway through.
The so-called moral message at the end, where the characters reflect on life and mortality, is th…
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Here’s another adaptation that missed the mark. Animation and sound are pretty standard with nothing particularly interesting to remember them for. This kills everything the manga was going for, meaning the rough pen artwork is gone and so is most of the gore. Turning that to a typical anime artstyle just kills the artistry. It’s like taking the Watchmen and changing them into Super Friends.
Beyond that, this series is not even good as a standard action series. The main character is immortal and can never die no matter how many times he gets stabbed, clubbed or thrown into a huge blender. It doesn’t really matter how strong his opponent is or what technique he is using. The protagonist just stands still and gets hit without caring and waits for the adversary to leave an opening so he can…
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Blade Of The Immortal, this anime althought short is interesting, gory, action packed, but sad in a way, as a samuarai has had to live for such a long time as he was cursed with immportality. But, eventually he finds a glimmer of hope in a young girl, determined to help her with her revenge, in turn making his own wish come true that he truly desires, in which he would be free of his this torturous fate he suffers from, that is "endless time". This man bares deep scars that won't heal, as a reminder of endless battles from his past and in his future as well, he both fights and encourages the young girl he's helping to both move forward with her revenge and continue on with her family's legacy. I don't think this anime ends like this, the last episode seems to be the beginning of something…
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I'll start this by saying: I have not read the manga for this series. I'm sure that's fleshed out more than this show but going off the show itself? I don't think it's for me.
The art was fine for the most part, good animation with most of the fights, decent dub, but the fact the show ends before the story is completed really kinda made me throw up my hands. The pacing felt really slow at times and with the lack of a real conclusion, I'm left thinking I wasted what time I sunk into the show (while also grateful it wasn't longer).
Even after looking up more info on it and seeing a more complete adaptation was going to be made, I still think I'll pass on it unless it's highly recommended to me. I remember seeing this series was considered a great samurai series so that's why I watched it.…
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Focusing on Manji and Rin's quest to slay members of a group of master swordsmen called the Itto-ryu out of atonement and revenge respectively, Blade of the Immortal attempts to explore the moral ramifications faced with killing and the ramifications of not being able to die, the latter being the case for Manji as his body is infested with a plague of bloodworms that grant him immortality. However for 13 episodes, the scope of this title's story is a bit too grand for only 13 episodes.
To make things short and sweet, Blade of the Immortal's manga source material offers up a good deal of fleshing out with the various members of the Itto-ryu that Manji and Rin cross paths with to explore what purpose they have for their lives and the anime only covers much of the first arc to said series wh…
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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 really show them.
Sound, 4/10: The music wasn't anything special either, there is pretty much only one song that use throughout the show regardless of tone, and it gets annoying.
Character, 2/10: There…
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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 is entertaining enough to keep your interest. It's pretty dark and serious, bloody and gory it's the perfect anime for a guy. All it needs is boobs and i think i would give it a 8. But alas, i think it is a 7/10. Still good, and i think its worth checking ou…
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The anime is good but we only get to see 13 episodes of this anime from a massive manga series that is around 30 volumes. It is essentially just the prologue of the story and doesn't get into the story, it just sets the premise for it. I don't recommend this series because from what I hear the Manga is amazing (And it does look amazing!) but the anime is only the first 6 volumes and the 7th volume is where an awesome villain is introduced and where the story really picks up. For me, I buy manga, not read it online and if I'm new to a series I want to read it from the start and I thought "Hey, I'll watch the anime then collect the manga" but the first 6 volumes (the anime) weren't really that exciting and I don't want to buy them just to get into the story. If you're thinking of really gett…
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Overall this is a pretty sad series. I don't mean sad emotionally, I mean it's pathetic. There isn't any real saving grace about it, it's not even an average action series because the actions scenes were pretty lame. It won't thrill you, but it won't kill you either. The story offers no real resolution, you're just cut off in the middle wondering what should have happened next. The music can be grating at times and ruin moments while you're watching, so that's a killer. The animation and art style is simply generic, it's typical of this type of series. If there were more action scenes this could have been a decent hack 'em up, but this was just an introduction to the actual story and progression of the manga. So there really isn't much to go on. I'd say skip it, go read the manga or do som…
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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 the goodness for a one person if he slay so much people that he don't remember the number.
The main character, you will surely love.
But it certainly is not a good person. I say, b…
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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 to get overly excited about. The fight scenes that were shown were brief and unsatisfying. For example, if Manji is fighting someone, the beginning of the fight will be shown, then they'll either switch to another character who…
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