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HomeExploreTV ShowsAnime About Samurai From Period Drama to Wild Reinvention
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If you’re looking for anime about samurai, pick what you want the swordplay to do. Start with Samurai Champloo for an Edo-era road trip cut to hip-hop, Rurouni Kenshin for a former assassin trying to keep a promise, or The Heike Story for a warrior clan seen through the eyes of someone who can’t save it. The choices range from restless period dramas to samurai stories with spaceships or demons, with enough context to tell when history gives way to fantasy.

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Hell's Paradise (2023)

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Hell's Paradise
TV Show
8.1/10on IMDb
First aired
Pick this for the pressure placed on a swordswoman trained to carry out executions. Sagiri belongs to the Yamada Asaemon family and accompanies the condemned ninja Gabimaru to an island. The horror is invented, and her obligations still give you a way to understand who gets to decide when a blade should fall.
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Rurouni Kenshin (2023)

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Rurouni Kenshin
TV Show
7.9/10on IMDb
First aired
Rurouni Kenshin (2023 TV series) Try this newer adaptation if you want to start from the beginning of Kenshin’s story with a different rhythm and more recent animation. It returns to the Meiji-era wanderer, his reverse-blade sword, and his promise to stop killing. Compare it with the 1996 series for a different way of staging the same early encounters.
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