Sword of the Stranger
MOVIE FINISHED FALL 2007 1 eps 79%
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What qualifies a man as good or evil? Is it the amount of political power one attains, the quality of his swordsmanship, or how well he serves his lord? With the fall of the second shogunate Japan has sunk into a state of disarray historians now call the Sengoku period, or the era of Warring States. Civil wars rage on throughout the many feudal holdings, where a man may raise his station in life simply by killing his superior.
Whilst wandering this war-torn countryside a nameless ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotarou, his dog, and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Seeing something of his own past within the child, the nameless swordsman chooses to act as his bodyguard, but can he truly keep Kotarou from the clutches of the Ming and their bloodthirsty blonde mercenary, Luo-Lang?
(Source: Bandai Entertainment)
Whilst wandering this war-torn countryside a nameless ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotarou, his dog, and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Seeing something of his own past within the child, the nameless swordsman chooses to act as his bodyguard, but can he truly keep Kotarou from the clutches of the Ming and their bloodthirsty blonde mercenary, Luo-Lang?
(Source: Bandai Entertainment)
Studios:
bones
Characters
Nanashi
MAIN
VA: Tomoya Nagase
Kotarou
MAIN
VA: Yuri Chinen
Luo-Lang
MAIN
VA: Kouichi Yamadera
Tobimaru
MAIN
Jurota Inui
SUPPORTING
VA: Mamoru Miyano
Feng-wu
SUPPORTING
VA: Hirofumi Nojima
Shougen Itadori
SUPPORTING
VA: Akio Ootsuka
Mu-Mao
SUPPORTING
VA: Fumie Mizusawa
Shouan
SUPPORTING
VA: Naoto Takenaka
Mu-You
SUPPORTING
VA: Junko Minagawa
Zekkai
SUPPORTING
VA: Jun Hazumi
Staff
Masahiro Andou
Director
Tsunenori Saitou
Character Design
Ungai Hara
Title Logo Design
Toshiaki Uesugi
Title Logo Design
Shigehiro Kurita
Assistance
Yoshimitsu Nebayashi
Assistance
Shuuichi Kaneko
Design Assistance
Atsushi Morikawa
Art Director
Shiho Takeuchi
Art Design
Shihoko Nakayama
Color Design
Youhei Miyahara
Director of Photography
Hiroaki Itabe
Editing
Reviews
AdmiralNyan
Rating: 45 (50 votes)
A Brilliant Exploration of the Duality of Death
TheAnimeBingeWatcher
Rating: 31 (35 votes)
Pure entertainment. A smorgasboard of the best swordfights ever put to animation.
R2R
Rating: 27 (29 votes)
An underlying theme of "Strength" told with brilliant fights
RuneAgeMage
Rating: 12 (24 votes)
Awesome sword fights! Mediocre story.
azulet5000
Rating: 1 (3 votes)
Dazzling action but not much substance
Stats
Average Score
79
Mean Score
79
Popularity
71,215
Favourites
1,304
Status Distribution
CURRENT: 1142
PLANNING: 29875
COMPLETED: 39574
DROPPED: 139
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Score Distribution
10: 81
20: 41
30: 119
40: 244
50: 770
60: 1811
70: 5358
80: 9998
90: 7982
100: 3284
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