Samurai 7

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Television series
German title Samurai 7
Original title Samurai 7
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 2004
length 25 minutes
Episodes 26th
genre Adventure, fantasy
idea Akira Kurosawa
production Daisuke Ito, Kazuhiko Inomata, Shōji Murahama, Takao Kobayashi
music Eitetsu Hayashi, Kaoru Wada
First broadcast June 12, 2004 - December 25, 2004 on SKY PerfecTV!
German-language
first broadcast		 October 1, 2007 on Animax
synchronization

Samurai 7 is an anime - TV series with 26 episodes that on the film The Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa based.

action

In the distant future, a long war is being fought between mechanized samurai on a planet . When the fighting finally ends in favor of an uncertain peace, many of these samurai find themselves deprived of their livelihoods. Some therefore form groups and are Nobuseri , raiding the villages and robbing the rice harvest. The village of Kanna wants to defend itself and sends Mikumari Kirara to the capital with the support of her little sister Komachi and the farmer Rikichi. There they should hire samurai to help their village. The search is not very successful at first, as they have nothing to offer except rice. While searching, they are suddenly robbed, but luckily the samurai Katsuhiro is there to help them. As they continue their search, Kirara and her two companions meet Kambei, an excellent and helpful samurai, who joins them. In the end, seven samurai gather, including Kambei as leader, the young Katsushiro who wants to protect Kirara, Heihachi, Kyuzo, Shichiroji, Kikuichiyo and Gorobei.

Production and publications

The anime was realized by Studio GONZO , directed by Toshifumi Takizawa . The character design comes from Hideki Hashimoto and Takuhito Kusanagi, the artistic director was Hiromasa Ogura. The series was first broadcast in Japan from June 12 to December 25, 2004 on SkyPerfecTV .

The anime was broadcast in English by Animania, Animax, Independent Film Channel and Razer. Buzz Channel and Cuatro broadcast the series in Spanish, GMA Network in Tagalog, and Animax Latin America and RTP in Portuguese. In addition, the anime has been translated into French, Russian, and Italian.

In Germany, the series was released by Panini Video from November 2005 . From October 1, 2007, Animax broadcast the series in German.

synchronization

role Japanese voice actors ( seiyū ) German voice actors
Kambei Shimada Masaki Terasoma Detlef Bierstedt
Kikuchiyo Kuwata Kong Hans Bayer
Heihachi Hayashida Junji Inukai Heiko Obermöller
Katsushiro Okamoto Romi Paku Julien Haggége
Kyuzo Shin'ichirō Miki Markus Pfeiffer
Shichiroji Tōru Kusano Simon Roden
Gorobei Katayama Tetsu Inada Volker Wolf
Komachi Mikumari Khiva Saitō Katja Liebing
Kirara Mikumari Fumiko Orikasa Marie Bierstedt
Masamune Tomomichi Nishimura Matthias Haase
Ukyo Takehito Koyasu Norman Matt
Rikichi Tadahisa Saizen Stephan Schleberger

music

The music for the series comes from Eitetsu Hayashi and Kaoru Wada . The opening title Unlimited was sung by Nanase Aikawa . Rin ' produced Fuhen ( 普遍 ) for the credits .

Adaptations

To Samurai 7 a seven-volume appeared from 2005 to 2006 Light-Novel series by Atsuhiro Tomioka. On May 25, 2006 a PlayStation 2 game was released.

reception

The trade magazine MangasZene described the anime as a "successful modernized implementation of the Kurosawa classic". The motifs of the template were captured quite well and the simple character design and the environment created a harmonious atmosphere. The cyber-punk-like world is opposed to classical Japanese music. However, the animations would not live up to expectations even if the computer animations fit in well. The characters are personable and grow into their roles, and the series also contains a “good load of action”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MangasZene , No. 24, p. 18.