/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

>>16833

Kenshin Tsuioku hen is best thing since sliced bread but I don't like rap, hiphop, rnb and all that so samurai champloo is automatically a shit.

>>16838

>Not liking Nujabes

>Not at least giving the anime a shot for its great action, characters and story

You are automatically shit.

I know Majikoi is called that but it doesn't feel right to call it a series about samurai, although I haven't seen the anime series so I don't know if they've changed it up. I think the last one I saw that I could call one was Sword of the Stranger, which I thought was quite good.

>>16866

It has nothing to do with samurai except maybe one or two girls with the whole "Nihon spirit" thing as their quirk. That name change is the kind of stupidity I'd expect to see from shitty video game localization companies when they do retarded things like add subtitles to the names of games that were just called Game Name (fill in number if sequel).

onihei

I find it interesting that samurai anime is pretty rare when compared to the countless D&D medieval myth anime that saturates the market.

>>17053

I think it's just a matter of people generally being interested in the histories and cultures of other peoples and nations because you're so used to your own nation's history and know enough about it. Medieval settings probably also make for more interesting scenes action-wise since battles between samurai are all about timing and reflexes rather than brute force which was the case with duels between Europeans who wore heavy armor.

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thoughts on dororo?

>>17076

Watch Seven Samurai if you haven't already. Samurai Rebellion is also good. Really any samurai movie with Mifune is a must watch.

>>17108

>Watch Seven Samurai if you haven't already. Samurai Rebellion is also good

I already knew about them of course due to their fame but haven't had the time to sit through them just yet.

>Really any samurai movie with Mifune is a must watch

Meh, I didn't really like Yojimbo and Sanjuro much because of the goofy comedy and dialogue though the latter was still watchable, it was only Yojimbo that I thought was outright bad. It seems that most Japanese live-action films have very awkward character interactions, almost as if you were watching an anime with real people which is not a good thing. I also don't like the action scenes much, aside from the fact that they lacked them in my opinion, they're also very short and are not very intense with the main character often immediately defeating his opponent by cutting once. Before this I used to think samurai films had intense, drawn out duel scenes and this was the thing that the films mainly focused on but I guess that assumption was incorrect as they seem to be dealt with almost as some sort of afterthought.

I highly enjoyed Harakiri though, it felt less like a popcorn entertainment kind of movie unlike the ones I previously mentioned.

>>17130

That show has to be one of the biggest disappointments I have ever seen, the concept of a show set in an independent trade city is interesting but the female MC being an annoying moralfag among other things ruined it.

>>17054

Yeah, but now the European medieval style stories have gotten so overdone. I would like to see more proper samurai anime.

No Samurai X aka Ruroni Kenshin?

The live-action movie is better cos it's cuts out all the fluff

>>17244

Same here. Isekai is the biggest offender and there's a saturation of it.