When I said it took a no holds barred approach to violence my word did I ever mean it, this show takes ultra violence to new peaks people’s faces are cut off, chins are torn off, the tops of people’s heads are sliced clean off and women’s nipples are cut off and later eaten by one of the behemoth dojo instructors. Well I’ve been writing this whilst watching portions concurrently and one of the dojo instructors just ate someone’s eyeball after murdering him in nigh on cold blood. Now whilst I say the animation is high budget, please don’t get me wrong, this is a hideous show, the character designs are realistic, yet over exaggerated giving the cast almost monsterlike appearances reflecting the despicable and depraved creatures that the vast majority consists of and the no holds barred approach taken towards gore only adds to this. Often however there can be the oddest bit of CG which can be somewhat jarring at times especially in one instance where the decision was made to have quite obviously CG spiders crawling around a woman’s naked body. This is no look at the world of the samurai through rose tinted glasses as you may have guessed already, this rather is a down and dirty view of the villainous scum the members of the samurai class could be.Īs one would hope to expect from a Studio Madhouse production the animation is of a consistently high, if not excellent standard.
IRAKO SHIGURUI MANGA SERIES
Though he may be insane for the most of the time, Kogan Iwamoto had mastered an incredibly strong and deadly sword technique and most of the series consists of our two protagonists vying to become the inheritor of both the secrets to this technique and the dojo as well.
Both originally members of the, to the best of my knowledge, fictional Kogan Dojo, a dojo of samurai led by an incontinent old man who takes up the guise of one of the living dead for the majority of the year and isn’t adverse to feeling up his own daughter. The story deals with the events that bring these two individuals to fight against each other, Fujiki missing an arm and Irako now blind. The story of Shigurui centres on the story of Fujiki Gennosuke and the Irako Seigen, who are first shown participating in a tournament being held by a local lord in 1629.
IRAKO SHIGURUI MANGA TV
Well for the first ever review on the Drunken Master Red Comet Blog I present to you dear reader something of a stylishly late to the party look at the samurai period piece Shigurui: Death Frenzy, a 12 episode TV series which was originally released back in 2009 by Manga in the UK and Funimation in the US.