Samurai X - Trust - Vol. 1
1999
This is the first of four SAMURAI X OVA's produced, not to be confused with the television series put out by Media Blasters. Distinguished by their markedly higher production values, the OVA's offer excellent animation, and serve as something of a prequel to the TV series. Enormously popular, SAMURAI X takes place in the 19th .. Read more
| Starring | Mayo Suzukaze, Miki Fujitani, Yûji Ueda, Yûji Ueda |
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| Director | Kaeko Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Furuhashi |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema |
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Samurai X - Trust - Vol. 1
This is the first of four SAMURAI X OVA's produced, not to be confused with the television series put out by Media Blasters. Distinguished by their markedly higher production values, the OVA's offer excellent animation, and serve as something of a prequel to the TV series. Enormously popular, SAMURAI X takes place in the 19th century and is the story of a wandering swordsman, or samurai, named Kenshin. The episode begins with our hero as an eight year old boy traveling through the countryside with a group that includes his family. Most of the group is killed by a gang of bandits in a fight, but young Kenshin is spared. He is soon taken in by a master who sees something in the young boy, and decides to teach him the Mitsurugi sword technique. This begins Kenshin's life as an assassin, and he becomes the best there is. His trade leads him to cross paths with a beautiful young woman name Tomoe, a meeting that will change the course of his life.
| Starring | Mayo Suzukaze, Miki Fujitani, Yûji Ueda, Yûji Ueda, Mîna Tominaga, Mîna Tominaga, Mika Doi, Yoku Shioya, Kaori Yuasa, Noriko Namiki, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Yoshito Yasuhara, Tomo Sakurai, Akio Nojima, Yoshikazu Nagano, Tadayoshi Katô, Katsuya Shiga, Yuji Ueda |
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| Director | Kaeko Sakamoto, Kazuhiro Furuhashi |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Dubbed | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Samurai X - Trust is the first DVD in a set of four DVD's with 2 episodes on the disc. The man with the slashing sword and The lost cat. Other features include an historical background and character profiles although a fictitious story it does contain some historical facts. The story is set in nineteenth century Japan at the time of the revolution against the Tokugawa Shogunate that culminated in the Meiji Restoration and follows the story of the orphan Shinta as he is trained by master swordsman Hiko eventually Shinta now renamed Kenshin by his master decides that he must leave his masters side to lend his sword arm to the revolution and so begins his rise to infamy as a master assassin. This is a great story the animation and voice acting are of a high standard with just the right mix of character development and fight scenes, the fight scene are pretty violent and as such this is not a film for the kids, but in my opinion it?s one to watch.
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Very enjoyable but a little gory
This is the first DVD of this style of anime that I have seen. I am a huge fan of Miyazakis work - which is more family oriented - and I thought it was about time that I tried some others; this is really quite gory and not for lil kids I would say. The plot moves quite rapidly forward, I think this is because it may have been a TV series? There are only 2 x 30 minute episodes and if you enjoy them, like I did, then you are REALLY left gagging for the next episode! which I have just added to my delivery list :D
I think that the story is going to get better and better in the series; at least, I hope so :D -
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Samurai X - Trust - Vol. 1
This is the first of four SAMURAI X OVA's produced, not to be confused with the television series put out by Media Blasters. Distinguished by their markedly higher production values, the OVA's offer excellent animation, and serve as something of a prequel to the TV series. Enormously popular, ...
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