Underplayed Gems

Blade of the Immortal (2019)

Blade of the Immortal poster
Original title
無限の住人-IMMORTAL-
Genre
animation, drama, action & adventure, sci-fi & fantasy
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 24 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 115 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In Japan's Tokugawa era, an immortal samurai named Manji is cursed to kill a thousand evil men to lift his immortality. He becomes the protector of a young girl seeking revenge against a rogue swordsman school.

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What happens

Blade of the Immortal (Japanese: 無限の住人-IMMORTAL-, Hepburn: Mugen no Jūnin: Immortal) is an anime television series based on the manga series of the same name created by Hiroaki Samura. The series is set in Japan during the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period and follows the cursed samurai Manji, who has to kill 1000 evil men in order to regain his mortality. The series is animated by Liden Films and directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, with Makoto Fukami handling series composition, Shingo Ogiso designing the characters, and Eiko Ishibashi composing the music. It premiered on October 10, 2019, on Amazon Prime Video. On October 15, 2020, it was announced that Sentai Filmworks had licensed the anime for home video release in winter 2021. The anime was released on Blu-ray on January 19, 2021. The opening theme is "Survive of Vision" is Kiyoharu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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