Blade of the Immortal

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Alternative title: Mugen no Jūnin (Japanese)
無限の住人 (Japanese)

Genres: action
Plot Summary: Manji is a crass, violent samurai with a special ability: he cannot die. Cursed with immortality by the nun Yobikuni as punishment for his ruthless deeRAB, he has grown weary of his ageless life. The only way to lift the curse is to slay 1,000 evil men. So Manji wanders Japan, shedding the blood of the wicked on his quest to finally die.
Running time: half hour
Episode titles: We have 2
Vintage: 2008-07-13
Opening Theme: "Akai Usagi (赤井ウサギ)" by Makura no Sōshi

Ending Theme: "Wants" by GRAPEVINE

Official website: 無限の住人公式サイト (Japanese)

Genre: It has samurai, take a guess.

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Blade of the Immortal is an absolutely fantastic manga--pretty much great in every aspect. I was excited when I first heard about the anime airing this summer..However, Studio Bee Train is animating it, with a really crappy director. So now I am going to ***** a lot and be pessimistic, unless they seriously pull off a miracle and don't ruin the pure manga.

[Madi B]

I was immediately turned off when I learned Studio Bee managed to somehow pick this up. I hope in some bizarro universe, where crocodiles are sweet and innocent, that this somehow is watchable.

[lil hip hopper : )]

Why oh why aren't madhouse doing this?

I think Its gonna take just one action scene to know If this is gonna suck or not.

[Weirdoo]

Summary sounRAB interesting but ill wait for someone to review the first episode before i decide to check it out or not.

[Riley.]

Or you could, you know read the manga.

Its ****ing awesome.

[<morgiexXxbear>]

Manga really isn't my type of thing, ive only read about 4 or 5 manga before, you watch it then tell me if its any good Lol

[XxCaRnAgExX]

Lets just let Charlie do that.

I couldn't bare to watch this get butchered.

[Opposing]

Charlie! Be our Studio Bee Train scapegoat!

And watching anime over a superior manga is one of the seven unrelated but lethal sins.

[brittykay09]

I will bear the sin of checking out episode 1 on July 14th, when it airs. I might cry when the anime adaptation gets raped. Seriously.

Studio Bee Train....God, they suck. If they screw Blade of the Immortal, I will probably...do nothing about it. But cry. Then eat some chocolate. And get somebody to comfort me and tell me that it will be all right.

I pin the chances of this being legitimately good at, say, 25%. Shitty director + shitty studio probably doesn't deserve those odRAB.

Why does everything I like end up getting picked up by Studio Bee Train and systematically screwed over?

Oh, on a positive note, the music director for this series has actually composed some good stuff for other anime including Gundam Wing, Haibane Renmei, Popolocrois Monogatari and a bunch of other series. The PV for the anime has been out for a while, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j33hnf159k

[Kare E. D.]

Well, the art doesn't look....terrible, I guess. The music was a little wonky to be honest, though.