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Name: Samurai 7
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Year: 2004
Rating: Recommended

Based on the famed movie “Seven Samurai” this series tells the story of a village and its struggle against the brute power that rule their world. In the future many samurai have augmented their bodies with machines and after a long period of war peace is finally achieved. Though the war has ended and merchants have set up a society where people may live in peace there is a clear sense of unfairness and oppression. Every year during the harvest a group of bandits (Nobuseri) would come and steal what the rice village Kanna has worked for. Like other villages there is little they can do against the bandits that periodically steal women from their families and take the food that they need to prosper. There is one last hope, the elder of the Kanna village has decided to fend off the bandits by hiring samurai. Kirara, her younger sister Komachi and Rikichi are given the task to find their saviors however their task will no doubt prove challenging as they have nothing but rice to pay for the samurai’s services.

I’m quite a fan of these types of animes, similar to Utawarerumono the plot is about a group of villagers who stand up against the ones in power. The incorporation of mecha with the samurai theme was quite well done in this series unlike in some others. You will find with this series that the action sequences are quite consistent, you are given quite a considerable amount of bumps and slashes along with some fireworks. I was quite surprised that the action quality was sustained throughout the series, with many other action themed anime I’ve seen I found that the first episode or two is loaded with awesome kicks and flips but it soon dies out. This is quite a good series that can be enjoyed by those out there who wants to see some action. It’s one of the better samurai animes out there so If you’ve seen Kenshin and want more this is a great addition.