Swordplay/2005 Titles

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Swordplay: (Story/Location) A subcategory of "Action". This is about the art or skill of wielding a sword, esp. in fencing. Entries in this category should contain the use of swords to a large extent in scenes.

Title Rating Synopsis
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Air TV
Buy

Kunisaki Yukito is a traveler, ever seeking the 'girl in the sky' from a legend passed down in his family. His journey takes him to a small seaside town, where he meets Misuzu, a girl who seems eager to become his friend. A story spanning a thousand years begins to unfold against the background of their peculiar relationship.

Akazukin (OVA) See Otogi Jushi Akazukin (OVA)
B

Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou
Buy The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has finally been dissolved. Ten ninja from each clan must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun. The surviving clan will rule for the next thousand years.
Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls Buy See Basilisk - Kouga Ninpou Chou

Bleach
Buy

Kurosaki Ichigo is not your ordinary 15 year old, because he has always had the ability to see and interact with those spirits and ghosts that remained behind and are hidden to ordinary people. And one fateful day, a female Shinigami (soul reaper) named Kuchiki Rukia appears before him as she is hunting for an evil spirit. During the confrontation with the daemon, both Ichigo and Rukia are seriously injured, and Rukia has to transfer her powers to Ichigo to assist him in defeating the evil Hollow. But in doing so, she loses all of her power and she now expects Ichigo to continue in her task of fighting and defeating those fallen spirits whom she calls Hollows, who exist only to devour other innocent souls.

C

Cluster Edge
Watch A bright young student named Agate Fluorite transfers to the elite and prestigious high school called Cluster E.A. Enroute to the school, he becomes entangled with the military’s attempt to shoot down a private airplane and risks being branded a traitor by the government. But behind Agate’s simple smiles and amazing mechanical abilities, he is hiding secret that will soon set the country a blaze with change.
Crow Buy See Karas
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Densetsu Sanada Juu Yuushi Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu See Sanada10
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Fairy Musketeer Akazukin (OVA) See Otogi Jushi Akazukin (OVA)
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Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe
Watch In the year 1935 of some alternate reality, on a large island off the coast of France, there lies the (Germanic) country called Kuchen. The five elite Strahl (= parliament of Kuchen) candidates of the Rosenstolz Academy are certain to make an impact in a time of pending war and turmoil.

Gun Sword
Rent Armed with a metal sash that straightens into a sword, lanky swordsman Van is traveling through the desert, searching for the mysterious clawed man who killed his bride. Along the way he picks up a fellow traveler: Wendy, a young girl whose town he saves from bandits by summoning a mecha with his sword. Wendy is searching for her missing older brother, whose engraved gun she carries on her back. In their mutual quest they run afoul of more bandits and villains, a mysterious woman named Carmen99, and more mecha battles a la Wild West.
Gun x Sword Rent See Gun Sword
GXS Rent See Gun Sword
I

IZUMO - Takeki Ken no Senki
Having lost his parents at a young age, Yagi Takeru, lives alone with his kendo sensi, and they are both looked after by two of his fellow classmates from Izumo Academy, Shiratori Kotono and her sister, Asuka. Along with his best friend and greatest kendo rival, Yamato Takeshi, they are enjoying a happy school experience, at least until Takeshi and Takeru begin sharing the same dream of a priestess calling to them. In a strange confrontation in the schoolyard, Takeru and four girls are shrouded in a strange light that covers Takeshi, and then everything goes black. When they wake up, they find themselves separated from one another in a high school cracking and broken with age and covered in trees and vines. An attack by giant hostile insects, then a confrontation with strange floating creatures, with a sudden rescue by a troop of sword-carrying soldiers on horseback is proof that they are now in a very different world.
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Karas
Buy At a future time in the city of Shijuku, a series of strange murders befuddle the police. The victims were attacked in a public place and their bodies were drained of their fluids and are badly desiccated. But just out of sight of everyone, a strange battle goes on. The previous Karas has gone renegade and begins to take revenge on those he used to protect. A new Karas, the guardian of the town, has been chosen and the battle between them has begun.
Genre
Action(11) Action Comedy(1) Comedy(2) Drama(8)
Romance(1) Steampunk(1) Tragedy(1)
Setting
Fantasy(5) Historical(3) Modern(2) Sci-Fi(4)
Demographic
All Ages(1) Seinen(1)
Style
Acquired Taste(1) Creepy(1) Surreal(1)
Keywords
Adventure(6) Animals(1) Artificial Girls(1) Bishounen(1)
College(1) Dark(1) Dating Sim Spinoff(1) Depression(1)
Elementary School(1) Epic(1) Fan Service(2) Fighting(5)
Friendship(1) Gun-action(2) High School(2) Magic(3)
Mahou Shoujo(1) Martial Arts(2) Mecha(2) Middle School(1)
Ninja(3) Occult(1) Samurai(4) Sequel(1)
Shinigami(1) Spiritual(1) Supernatural(4) Video-game inspired(2)
Violent(4) War(2)
Type
OVA(3) TV(9)
Release Year
2004(3)
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