Nothing feels more exhilarating than watching people dressed in robes with swords hanging by their waists, ready to enter battle at any second.
The samurai are a famed genre and have appeared in many big and small anime. The ranked list lets you have your pick of samurai fun. Reminisce and dream about the feudal world with these great anime.
10Ninja Scroll
In feudal Japan, the Edo period brought a time of delicate peace brought with blood. One clan, the Hiruko Clan, doomed to live and die in darkness, protects a sacred treasure called the Dragon Stone.
Jubei Kibagami is the best man for protecting the Dragon Stone and the only one who can use it – The Light Maiden!
9Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings
In the Sengoku Period of feudal Japan, many generals fought in an endless struggle for national power and unification. One man proved too big of a threat: the “Demon King of Owari,” Oda Nobunaga.
Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura, two young warlords from different regions who become heated rivals, form an unlikely alliance with the rest of the generals to take down the “demon king.”
8Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou
At the dawn of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (the late 16th century), two rival ninja clans, the Iga Tsubagakure, and Kouga Manjidani, are engaged in a bitter blood feud that has spanned centuries.
The fighting finally ends when Hattori Hanzō the 1st succeeds in forging a cease-fire between the two clans by conscripting both into the service of tyrant Ieyasu.
7The Elusive Samurai
Set between the late Kamakura and early Muromachi periods; the story follows the tale of Hojo Tokiyuki, a boy on the run after Ashikaga Takauji overthrows his family.
With his only allies being a shady priest and his followers, the young lord must seek revenge and regain his glory with his only weapon: a superhuman ability to flee and hide.
6Blade Of The Immortal
Manji is a swordsman cursed with immortality by a witch. After getting tired of all the death he has created, Manji decides to regain his mortality. He can do so by killing a hundred evil men for each hundred good men he has died.
On his journey, he meets a Rin who seeks vengeance against the sword school whose members slaughtered Rin’s family. Rin and Manji set out on their adventure, hoping to find some kind of peace.
5Mushibugyō
A menace of huge monster-like insects is plaguing the land of Edo. Too powerful to be subdued by ordinary folks, the creatures are hunted by the Insect Magistrates—a group of warriors specializing in secret arts and combat styles.
To bolster their strength, they summon Genjuurou Tsukishima, the master swordsman from the Tsugaru Province.
4Hyouge Mono
In Japan’s Sengoku Jidai lives Furuta Sasuke, a vassal of the great warlord Oda Nobunaga. He had an obsession with the tea ceremony and material desires in pursuit of a fortunate life. Having learned from Oda and the legendary tea master Sen no Soukei, Furuta walks the way of the Hyouge Mono.
3Samurai Champloo
While saving Fuu Kasumi from a group of Samurai, Mugen and Jin destroy an entire shop and accidentally kill the local magistrate’s son. Just when they were going to be executed for their crimes, Fuu saves them by hiring them as her bodyguard.
Fuu, wishing to find an individual samurai with the smell of sunflowers, enlists them. They agreed to help, but it would be Fuu’s liability to stop Mugen and Jin from killing each other on this mission.
2Gin Tama (Gintama)
After the invasion of aliens on Earth, a prohibition on swords was established, resulting in a disregard for the Samurai of Japan.
However, Gintoki Sakata still possesses the heart of a samurai, which one might not agree with after witnessing his love for sweets and work as a yorozuya.
1Bleach
At the top of our list is Bleach, one of the most-sold series in the world. The synopsis goes like this – In Karakura Town, high school student Ichigo Kurosaki becomes a substitute Soul Reaper (Death God) when Rukia Kuchiki risks her life to protect him from a Hollow.
Although initially reluctant to accept his responsibility, he takes her place, and during this time, they discover that a few classmates are spiritually aware and have their powers:
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