- Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer
- Outtakes
- Textless Opening
- Textless Closing
- 6 DVD Anime Works Set!
Product Description
Studio: Media Blasters Inc. Release Date: 10/11/2005… More >>
Samurai Deeper Kyo – TV Series Perfect Collection
Product Description
Studio: Media Blasters Inc. Release Date: 10/11/2005… More >>
Samurai Deeper Kyo – TV Series Perfect Collection
This series is absolute garbage. The characters are very generic and the special attacks that they use get tiring and lame. The Kenyo monsters that are in this movie are terrible and this would have been a better series without such heinous monstrosities. This series reminded me of a combination between One Piece, Samurai X(minus the good anime), and naruto. And for as much as this costs I was P.O.ed after i took the risk of buying it. DO NOT BUY THIS SERIES OR EVEN WATCH THIS SERIES. THE INTRO SONG TO THE ANIME SUCKS AS WELL!! Rating: 1 / 5
If you like samurai-themed action, dark and mysterious characters, and a decent plot, then Samurai Deeper Kyo is an anime worth checking out. Plus, if you’re a fan of any of the 4KIDS anime, you may recognize some of the voices. Rating: 1 / 5
Samurai Deeper Kyo, based upon a comic of the same name, starts off in a way most anime does. It goes fairly quickly through an introduction of the characters, which are a bit cliche, but good enough at first to justify watching. However after the first few episodes, the series takes a turn for the worst. And even in the beginning episodes, there’s some strange stuff going on.
Apparently there was a meteor that hit the earth and caused people to turn into half demons, who could shed their human skin at will. The main character is a swordsman named Kyoshiro, who, in the anime style, has an alternate personality of another swordsman he fought before inside of him. How that other person got there, a man with godly powers known as Demon Eyes Kyo, is never explained. As Kyo awakes, he joins up with a bounty hunter girl named Yuya, who is searching for her brother’s killer, and collecting money from bounties. After a while, they rack up some more characters, including the shoganate’s son, and an ex-samurai named Yukimura.
That first 12 episodes are surprisingly good. There’s some cool fights, and a tournament. Aside from the demons, everything seems a bit more grounded in reality than the rest of the series. However past the episode 12 mark, things get crazy. A hard-to-follow plot line involving Oda Nobunaga, 12 evil guys, nurses with guns (in the samurai era?!) and a made-for-TV character searching for things to ‘unite the world back to it’s rightful place’ makes this series almost impossible to follow. The final battle is actually held in the future, and references are made to things which are never tied up.
I suppose you have to give the people who made this series some credit. The comic which this is based off of goes in so many different directions, that reading it all at once would confuse you even more than this anime does. As long as you can deal with the absurd, and like swords, this anime is okay. However the powers certain characters have, like the ability to summon fire, ice, or electricity out of their swords is really crappy and badly done. Overall, the best episodes are found in the first 8 episodes, but if you really like Samurai, I suppose you could justify buying this series. Rating: 3 / 5
I’m not an anime hater, infact I think that anime is very underestimated in America because when people think of cartoons they don’t think about and engrossing drama with well thought out characters and animation that’s artistically drawn with more time consuming details than most people would think.
I purchased Samurai Deeper Kyo hoping to be surprised by another anime, but I was let down, the animation is horrible, in every scene the picture stops and all you can see is the lips moving, or you can see one character striking a pose and thats dragged all over the scene, now that’s just plain lazyness due in part to the artist, now I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking that that’s how most things are in anime, but you won’t undestand it til you see it, it’s almost as if they just show you pictures and someone’s acting it out on the side. Another aspect that makes this series dull is that you never really care for the characters, if something happens to any of them you could care less, now I know this was a manga before and the producers had to cut the story short, but this series goes nowhere, there are too many characters and sometimes I felt forced to watch the episodes just to finish the series, this way I wouldn’t think I spent my money on trash. The story is simple, two legendary swordsman: Demon Eye Kyo and Kioshiri Mibu, fight four years ago, then a meteor hits that makes many humans into kenyou(humans that can transform into monsters)Kioshiri re-appers and is now a medicine sales man whose personality turns into Demon Eye Kyo when faced with difficulties. Like all other anime we meet the supporting characters and of course they have to go on some quest, of what I can’t tell you as to not give away plot lines but if your easily amused then this might be for you but this has nothing that’ll make you ever see it again. Rating: 2 / 5
Samurai Deeper Kyo is a well crafted story hampered by uninspired characters, boring fight scenes, and too many cheap animation tricks (recycled footage, sections where the only thing that moves is the character’s lips, etc.). The only redeeming feature is that the series is broken up into several tightly scripted lesser story arcs instead of being one long, dragging story. Rating: 2 / 5