Samurai 7

サムライセブン

Catalog score

★ 7.0 / 10· Favourites: 247

Type

Episodes

26 / 26

Genres

Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Themes / tags

Swordplay, Samurai, Real Robot, Steampunk, Historical, Primarily Adult Cast, CGI, Cyborg, Heterosexual

Source

Other

Status

Finished

Release

12 June 2004 — 25 December 2004

Season

Summer 2004

Duration

26 min/ep

Studio

GONZO

In the far distant future, on a planet that might have been called "earth", there was a war between samurai who mechanized their bodies. After the long war, people enjoyed a modest peace. Facing starvation and abductions at the hands of fearsome mechanized bandits (Nobuseri), the farmers of Kanna Village make the dangerous choice to hire samurai for protection. The village's water priestess, Kirara, her younger sister, Komachi, and a heartbroken villager, Rikichi, set off to hire willing samurai with nothing to offer but rice from their meager harvests. Through dangerous encounters and a bit of luck, seven samurai of varying specialties and experience are gathered for an epic battle against the bandits and the merchants that influence them. Note: Samurai 7 is based loosely upon Kurosawa Akira's famous movie "Seven Samurai"/"Shichinin no Samurai".