Samurai 7

[Kenshin17]

I have seen two episodes of this show and already I can see that this one is gonna rock. The animation is awesome the story is good (based on the old Seven Samurai movie) and the Preistess is cute...opps did I say that

Anyway this is an awesome series. So anyone agree?

[Locke]

I read the review and i am planing on buying the dvd sometime soon.

Anyone else suckered into buying it because of the 13+ rating?

[aule1701]

*** this is an amazing show gonzo did such a great job on it the fights are awsome i can;t wait for the next disc and episode 3 and 4 are great highly recommend it

[Kenshin17]

Its Gonzo...well no wonder

[Kaligraphic]

I've seen the whole thing, and it is pretty cool. I think we had a thread or two about it somewhere around here. You might dig around and see if you can find them if you're interested in the series.

[teen4truth]

what show is this? I've never heard of it before.

Anyone else suckered into buying it because of the 13+ rating?

Actually, no, that makes me not wanna watch it.

[Shao Feng-Li]

OOO. Will have to look into it. Someone write a review.

[Kaligraphic]

Okay, broad plot overgeneralization mode is ACTIVE: essentially, you take the Akira Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai), cut just before the very end, and stuff in another season of action.

Set in a world with a blend of high technology and historical lifestyles, Samurai Seven mixes robotic warriors with flesh-and-blood peasants, and contrasts a poor but peaceful farming village with a thriving mercantile capitol. The plot centers around that of the movie (i.e. village hires samurai to defeat bandits) and deviates from that surprisingly little - for the first half. After that, it delves into some imperial entanglements that feel a bit slower and perhaps less well-written. (not that they're bad, but most (not all, but most) of the really good moments in the first half are lifted straight from the movie. You gotta love the "thirteen-year-old samurai" bit.)

For the local categories, let's see, there's a fair bit of violence, because it's a samurai series - most of it is human on machine, though. I recall the language being relatively "clean", a little bit of sexual content (mostly in terms of avoiding temptation, so it would be ranked low on this site's scale; also I recall one somewhat forced kiss, but that was about it for the entire series) no nudity that I can think of, and very little religion mentioned at all. There's a little bit that equates the samurai's "smell of the battlefield" with a taint of sin, but that rather makes sense, given that it comes from killing other people. A stone on a pendant is incidentally used as a divining stone, but this usage is minor.

To take a quick guess at how it would be rated on this site, I suppose that it would get somewhere around a 5 or 7 for violence, from 2 to 4 on the language depending on the version (I don't have the dub yet), maybe a 1 or 2 for sexual content, 0 nudity (unless you object to your navel) and maybe a 1 or so on "bad religion".

If you want to take that as a review, go ahead. If not, then don't.

[Locke]

thanks dude, Im buying this for sure now.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Awsome.

[Ichigo_89]

*adds to "must-buy" list as well* Yah, I saw this in Bestbuy the otherday, but the price was kinda...steep and there was other stuff there I wanted. XP

Hey, does anyone have the Special Edition of Vol.1? Is it worth it for all that extra stuff?

[Kenshin17]

[quote="Kaligraphic"]Okay, broad plot overgeneralization mode is ACTIVE: essentially, you take the Akira Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai), cut just before the very end, and stuff in another season of action.

Set in a world with a blend of high technology and historical lifestyles, Samurai Seven mixes robotic warriors with flesh-and-blood peasants, and contrasts a poor but peaceful farming village with a thriving mercantile capitol. The plot centers around that of the movie (i.e. village hires samurai to defeat bandits) and deviates from that surprisingly little - for the first half. After that, it delves into some imperial entanglements that feel a bit slower and perhaps less well-written. (not that they're bad, but most (not all, but most) of the really good moments in the first half are lifted straight from the movie. You gotta love the "thirteen-year-old samurai" bit.)

For the local categories, let's see, there's a fair bit of violence, because it's a samurai series - most of it is human on machine, though. I recall the language being relatively "clean", a little bit of sexual content (mostly in terms of avoiding temptation, so it would be ranked low on this site's scale]


I agree with your assment based on what I have seen thus far, exept the religious content. You neglected to mention that the girl who goes to look for the samurai is a preistess and she uses a stone to sense the world. There is a bit of religious bantor about the stone and she says she can use the stone to devine things of the world through water. Its not big or promonent but worth mentioning I think.

[Nate]

I just finished the first episode on my preview disc, and I'm about to start the second in a bit. Awesome, awesome, awesome, all I have to say. Must buy.

[Kaligraphic]

You neglected to mention that the girl who goes to look for the samurai is a preistess and she uses a stone to sense the world. There is a bit of religious bantor about the stone and she says she can use the stone to devine things of the world through water. Its not big or promonent but worth mentioning I think.

That part had apparently slipped my mind while writing my previous post. You are correct that this would be something worth mentioning in a review for this site, and I thank you for reminding me of it; I have amended the post.

[Blitzkrieg1701]

I've only seen the first episode so far, but was profoundly impressed by it. As a fan of the original movie, I was pretty worried about how the show would turn out, but it seems to have retained the spirit of the original pretty well. Plus, it looks friggin' FANTASTIC.