#shigurui anime

[buruhaato]

藤木源之助 Fujiki Gennosuke

[nils-jcb]

"La boca es la fuente del desastre" Norio Nanjo (Shigurui/manga)

[mangandworld]

Obras atemporales (parte 34): Shigurui - Espadas, sangre y brutalidad 💀👊

¡Acabamos de publicar nuestra reseña sobre Shigurui y no podemos estar más emocionados! 💥👀 ¿Quién más se anima a leerla? #Shigurui #Manga #Anime 💀🔪🗡️

[explainslowly]

Semi-random manga rec based on looking at what I rated 10/9/8 on myanimelist like a decade ago

For your benefit I am going to eschew the stuff I see discussed on tumblr all the time. Like by this point no one needs me to tell them that like, Junji Ito is good, right? Right.

The water is just fine:

Hikaru no Go - now this one used to be pretty big in fandom spaces but it was like fifteen years ago so I don't feel bad bringing it up. It's a sports shonen about a boy falling in love with Go and growing up through finding his passion in it. A classic bildungsroman type of shonen narrative but executed with finesse. Also illustrated by the same guy who drew Death Note if that sweetens the pot.

Kekkaishi - do you guys like a fun little shonen about creatures and youth with magic powers and shit? This one is simply a pleasure to read as well as well paced. I especially appreciate a somewhat strict magical/power system. Maybe it's nothing insanely special but I do feel it has been somewhat overlooked so I put it on this list.

Hourou Musuko - this one got an anime fairly recently (*checks notes* uhhh. In 2011. Nvm, kill me) so people might know it. But hey, you guys want a sweet little manga story about a teen trans girl and her gaggle of friends? Of course you do. This managaka generally writes a lot of stories about queer ppl, so feel free to check out all her work.

Ashita no Ousama - bildungsroman, but for the girlssss. It's a story about a young girl moving to the city and falling in love with theater and writing. I am simply a sucker for stories about people finding their passion and working at it.

Getting deeper:

Blame! - again, a recommendation that would sound sooooo silly like twenty years ago but Tsutomu Nihei is simply not in the public eye the way he used to be. The pleasure of this manga is to a large extent visual. But you guys do want to see a trek through a crazy technological landscape, don't you?

Bokurano - Mangaka is a known sicko and this fucked up little story about feeding children to the war machine is a good entry point. What if Evangelion was even more evil? Now you can find out.

Monster - the Naoki Urasawa story that really put him on the map. I think people say that 20th century boys is superior but why not start at the source? Psychological/mystery story especially suited for people who can set aside their reservation when the psychology gets a little dubious with it (if that's a line you don't cross, do go on and check out 20th century boys instead)

Now we are getting somewhere:

Shigurui - Anyone here looking for an awe-inspiring visual orgy of violence? Anyone?

Dainippon Tengutou Ekotoba - I am outrigh obsessed with this mangaka's visual style. The thick, bold brush lines make me craaaazy. This is as good as any entry into their work, I think - a urban fantasy story about Tengus living in the modern world.

National quiz - looking for a zany distopian sci-fi with great visuals? Look no more!! I don't remember the details of what happens in this one but I remember it being strange and interesting, so do check it out.

Soil - what if Twin Peaks was a manga? Well, it's not one to one, but this too is a story about a small town and fucked up bizarre shit happening in it. Also incredible art, in my opinion.

Shintaro Kago - making an exception here and mentioning a guy instead of a specific work. The thing about Kago is that he shines in writing bizarre short stories, so ultimately you really could start anywhere with him.

[piduai]

Thanks for answering my ask before. If you don't mind me asking (again), can I ask, what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series)? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before......

they're all fictional stories but i perceive ones that come with a visual element (manga/moving picture) and ones that lack it (books) in very different ways so i cannot really mix them since they fulfill different roles

top 10 anime/manga

golden kamuy (manga), there's nothing else like it and it excels in both story and character writing, with good and polished visuals. it took tremendous effort to create and it paid off... one in a million work

fullmetal alchemist, it's been around since forever there's not much i can say at this point. the golden standard really

saraiya goyou, phenomenal ost, pleasant story, unique visuals, overall a favorite work of mine due to its production and atmosphere. very slept on but it's ok... watching it is like chewing kinoko mochi

shouwa genroku rakugo shinjuu, has its faults but it's undeniably a masterpiece. great story, good visuals, good character writing, good ost

berserk (up to golden age arc only), again it's ancient so i don't really have much to say. it's a classic for a reason

hoozuki no reitetsu, it's everything a comedy needs to be. funny and enjoyable but has its own twist on what it's trying to present, and the setting is rather uncommon. very pleasant visually, fun character designs. also slept on but ig it's a west issue bc it was popular in jp at its peak

shigurui, very edgy and #problematic but i enjoyed it a lot. it's very atmospherically heavy but i love the kind of drama it engages and i love the pacing & the kabuki-esque mood

trigun (og anime), a childhood favorite of mine i don't have much to say i just love it a lot because it made me sad

michiko to hatchin, it's a good story and very enjoyable. setting unusual for an anime. feels like watching an action movie...

dorohedoro, it's just very fun and pleasant it's a good watch. very likeable characters

books

ningen shikkaku by dazai osamu, i don't have much to say it's been obscenely popular with emo losers since forever. i read it at 16 for the first time and was like wow this is really the i'm a creep i'm a weirdo manifesto #relatable #letsjumptherope

of human bondage by somerset maugham, it's a long boring book and i read it in my teens too but i just love it... the journey of going through mc's life since childhood into late adulthood is just so charming i like this kind of stuff

all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque, i like war stories and it's a sad read

i forgor the rest 😭 there's a lot of books i read and many i liked but they usually don't really stay with me at all it's more of a 👍👎 thing

for movies i only like park chan-wook's vengeance trilogy + the handmaiden i don't really go there. and i don't watch tv shows

[marabarl-and-marlbara]

hi mara!! i hope im asking this OK. i’ve been reading through your posts and i noticed you like a lot of vintage/early 2000s anime, so I was wondering if you watch newer stuff at all? i’m curious to hear your preferences!

hi anonymous; i feel like i:m mostly only ever posting about new anime on my twitter -- although even on here i advertise the 2019 boogiepop series; but lately i caught up on under ninja (really like this, reminds me of a sleepier kokkoku x a sleepier akiba maid war), i watched all of the 100 zombie something show (forget the name of it but it went on hiatus and never resumed, was alright, hated the first episode though); finished blue eye samurai a few days ago (before the hospital trip, i think? really loved it, though i:m not sure if it really counts as anime -- but this one was a sleeper good show for me because of how generic it looked/sounded, but it was sort-of like death frenzy/shigurui crossed with kill bill, but using a disney/pixar plot structure); mentioned akiba maid war, that one is a favorite, probably one of the most satisfying conclusions of anything i:ve watched; i was posting about mahou shoujo magical destroyers pretty often, and i liked it, but it:s also not a good show what-so-ever and i:d never recommend anyone watch it (but the OP/ED is great; the problem it has is it:s sort-of like "insane ambition but zero capability to actualize it"; you can watch the first 2 episodes, then skip to the last 2/3 episodes and miss nothing, and it:d probably be a better experience for it); really liked wonder egg priority; watched a few episodes of the anxiety band show but dropped it, entirely just due to how often i:d see posts about it; really like all of the new baki seasons; liked the cyberpunk anime a-bunch; dropped summertime rendering but liked what i watched, just bored; dropped spy family, liked it but dropped it cause i was bored; dropped chainsaw man, liked it but was bored; lycoris, watched, liked, dropped, bored; heavenly delusion, watched, liked, dropped, bored; etc, etc;

been wanting to watch the new rurouni kenshin series but sort-of maybe more interested in just re-watching the old one for nostalgia; generally how i find stuff to watch is every few weeks i look at /a/ and if i see a thread where some anonymous sounds really passionate about some show, i:ll watch it, cause i like reading about someone elses passion and feeling some of their excitement second-hand (maid war, boy:s abyss, magical destroyers, wonder egg, & kenshin omega/ashura were this for me -- the airing/releasing threads for these shows just were so much fun) -- or like infinite ryvius, a person i followed on twitter just was gushing about it and it made me so interested;

out of everything listed akiba maid war is the only one i:d press people to watch because i think it:s really special but got overlooked by the anxiety band show (admittedly i think akiba maid war "is best experienced" watching on a week-to-week release basis because it:s sort-of episodic in the center, but the high points are just so high);

anyways take care, anonymous; got this card while farming in RO and liked the art

[wibbleburger]

You need to read Yamaguchi's manga, they're the nucleus that Full Metal Daemon Muramasa emerged from. The blow-by-blow descriptions of sword combat, the Kamen Rider and mecha anime references, the intense violence and psycho-sexual horror, the fascism, Kageaki himself, they all feel like they were shaped by Kakugo no Susume and Shigurui.

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[cacaitos]

sorry the shigurui anime was offensive to look at everything was dark as fuck and not even a rich black bc the file is 720p but like an ashy black that fades into the rest of indistinguishable beiges of the rest of the color palette

[theseventhoffrostfall]

Have you seen Shigurui? It's the only anime I can think of that seems like it might align with your tastes.

hmm. seems weirdly gimmicky, but I’ll give it an episode at some point

[fninetynine]

Gennosuke Fujiki

Anime: Shigurui

[buruhaato]

月光 (Moonlight, ep. 11)

[c-a-t-h-a-r-s-i-s]

“Shigurui” manga aesthetics~

[ichibanerd]

The Signs as Samurai Anime

Aries: Drifters 

Taurus: Sword of the Stranger

Gemini: Samurai Champloo 

Cancer: Saraiya Goyou

Leo: Hakuouki

Virgo: Gintama

Libra: Rurouni Kenshin

Scorpio: Shigurui

Sagittarius: Donten ni Warau

Capricorn: Afro Samurai

Aquarius: Dororo

Pisces: Sengoku Basara 

[hanhssi]

[ REVIEW ] : SHIGURUI CUỒNG TỬ

Thông tin chung: Shigurui Thể loại: Hành động, Chính kịch, Lịch sử, Võ thuật, Tâm lý, Samurai  Số tập: 12 Studio: MADHOUSE Tóm tắt: Vào thời Edo trong giai đoạn lịch sử của dòng tộc tướng quân Tokugawa tồn tại một tên lãnh chúa độc tài Tokugawa Tadanaga. Thiên hạ kể lại rằng hắn là một kẻ tàn nhẫn đã ra tay giết hại những tùy tùng phục vụ dưới trướng mình, cùng vô vàn tội lỗi tàn bạo khác.…

[piduai]

Also, I’m guessing the book you mentioned was Guin Saga.

maybe! i don't even remember where or when i read that he was inspired by some novel just that the couple there are star-crossed lovers that transform into animals or something. unrelated but when i was watching shigurui i was like man wtf the main dynamic here is literally heterosexual griffguts this is such a rip off? but then it turns out that the manga was based on a novel that came out in the 60s. so who ripped off whom 🤨

[anime-of-the-day]

Anime of the day: Shigurui: Death Frenzy

Alt Title: Shigurui

Released: 2007

Here, at the beginning of the Edo period, begins a battle. One-armed Fujiki and the blind Irako will fight each other in this battle for dominance. Both are disciples of the greatest swordsman, Iwamoto. Each are determined to prove themselves to be the successor of Iwamoto's dojo.

This anime was a strangely interesting one to watch. I was especially entertained by the comment section under each episode. Because this anime requires the viewer to pay attention and know some historical background, it can be easy to miss little details that impact the story's flow. However, some of the comments were savage. Someone was like “man this anime is lame and hard to follow,” and a person replied back “maybe you should stick to more simple minded anime like Naruto.” I giggled so much. I mean Naruto has depth to it. But also, do you realize how much people talk to me about Naruto. Like when someone knows I watch anime the first thing they do is channel the “Mine” birds from Finding Nemo and “Naruto, Naruto, Naruto.” And it’s not even like depth in Naruto. Plus MHA is starting to get “Mine”ed like Naruto and it’s such a bummer. I love anime, and talking about anime, but I don’t like talking about the same anime everyday. Nor do I want to talk about the same handful of anime on Netflix everyday. This pandemic anime boom is nice, but like get out from behind the mainstream and easy to reach.  As a person who watched way, way, way too much anime, I know how much trash anime is out there, but anime dumpster diving is so much more satisfying when you find a gem. Or you could just find an anime review person like me and ask them questions.