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“…I think I forgot to turn off the oven.”

I always liked Samurai anime and manga. Feudal Japan was always a great source for good stories, and they helped to the internationalization of the media with works like Ninja Scroll, Lone Wolf and Cub,Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X) or Samurai Deeper Kyo (Funny to notice these works are also known for the high degree of violence they depict. That also shows the Americans like to see spilled guts and blood like a otaku likes his loli figurines.)

Blade of the Immortal doesn’t stray far from it, with this new anime adaptation of the manga. With a plot of a immortal samurai looking for redemption and a orphan daughter looking for revenge, this promise lots of action and battle scenes (along with the ocasional rape or two, but that’s almost like a standard in samurai works…)

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