In the year 1600, at the fog-covered battlefield of Sekigahara, a fierce battle was waged by two exemplary swordsmen. One was Kyoushirou Mibu, a skilled and noble warrior in possession of the unique powers of the Mibu Clan. The other was the thousand-man slayer, with eyes and hair the color of blood, "Demon Eyes" Kyou. Their legendary clash was cut short when a meteor from the heavens fell down upon that battlefield, leaving both to vanish in its wake.
Samurai Deeper Kyou begins four years after that battle, when a gun-wielding bounty hunter by the name of Yuya Shiina hunts down Kyoushirou—now a perverted, traveling medicine-man who has built up a large debt. On her way to claim his bounty, they are attacked by an inhuman monster that seeks to devour Kyoushirou. This encounter awakens "Demon Eyes" Kyou, whose mind has been trapped inside of Kyoushirou's body ever since that fateful battle. Thus begins a grand tale of legendary two swordsmen and the discovery of their secrets.
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ssj4monkey
Samurai Deeper Kyo has an unique and bizarre take on edo history, and the battles between samurai. The story has its twists, but when you think that the 'last boss' is defeated, more villians pop up. At first sight, the anime seemed like a fun hilarious anime with kyoushi junior, however when the "demon eyed kyo" takes over the anime starts in a much more serious tone, which prevails till the end. The story centers around "demon eyed kyo", who has his soul entrapped in somebody else's body, so basically, he goes around defeating villians to get his body back. However, kyo is known as theman who killed a thousand men, the demon eyed kyo - reminds me of Kenshin and Battosai. I found the story a bit bizarre when Nobunaga Oda was introduced, and with all the messed up demons popping up.
Good Things:
. cool protaganist
. nice tense atmosphere
. good twists in the plot and character development
. badass looking demons and characters
. loved the opening song
Bad Things
. story is a mix mash of things which doesn't sit well with me
. fights are rather boring and repetitive, much like Kenshin using the same attack.
. kyo beats villian, moves on to anther villian, then another one, and another one and another one, until he fights the boss - very shounen, but the fights are not that amusing.
Overall: a mediocre anime, that I mostly forced myself to go through, but then again a watched 26 episodes in a day so that might affect my enjoyment of the anime. It's not bad, but not great either. Villians are very unique and have their own style and looks, very well done in the characters.
Huntsman
Samurai Deeper Kyo is based of the still running manga series by the same name. In the year 1600, during the battle of Sekigahara, warriors Kyoshiro Mibu and "Demon Eyes" Kyo - the legendary slayer of a thousand men - engaged in fierce combat. Both men disappeared when a meteor crashed in the battlegrounds. Four years later, Kyoshiro is spotted on a rural highway, acting as a traveling medicine salesman. He is captured by the female bounty hunter Yuya Shiina when she discovers that deep inside him is the dormant personality of "Demon Eyes" Kyo himself. Now on to all the problems I had withthe show. First there's the story stated above, which is just a jumble together of stories from the manga. Then there's the so called animation done by Studio Deen. Were they trying to make a crappy American cartoon, I don't get it. The music was also terrible it didn't add anything to the show. Finally the characters which had one or two moments of enjoyment, but overall were terrible. One more thing don't watch this show in the dub version, you'll hate it even more.
Overall was this a terrible anime series...no, but it pales in comparison to the manga series.
ml07spn
The first review here is way too harsh. This anime is well worth a watch if your into historical/samurai stuff, it's not as dark and brooding as it sets out to be and the plot can feel a little convaluted at times but the characters are quite endearing and if you can get your head round all the different threads it's very easy to get wrapped up in the story. I really enjoyed it and found myself watching one episode after another once I'd got past the first few, but I haven't read the manga so if you have you may be in for a bitof a disappointment.
LoveLikeBlood
Samurai Deeper Kyo is a rather obscure (thank God) shounen anime from Studio Deen based on a long running manga which is apparently a lot better but I have not read it. Now that we have that out of the way, what did I think of it? It SUCKED! I really forced myself through it and actually considered dropping it. Why did I dislike this anime? Well, that's the purpose of this review. The story for this anime starts off rather solid albeit a bit cliched. With it's fugitive goofball setup it felt reminiscent of Kenshin and Trigun. I was actually rather enjoying watching the humorouscharacter interactions and fun setup. Then about halfway through, something happened. The show decided to stop being fun and started being repetitive. And when I say repetitive, I mean REPETITIVE.
I mean seriously, when the lead character is about to reach his objective after fighting through several of the antagonist's lackeys, the writer slaps the viewer in the face and makes the antagonist move the objective to another destination, causing the lead character to have to go through the same bloody process as before. This happens roughly 3 times throughout the entire 26 episode show. It's just our protagonist fighting off supernatural henchmen to reach his goal over and over again. And when he battles against a powerful enemy he just uses his plot armor, I mean, special attack to defeat them in one blow after all else fails. We also see the same bloody stock footage for said attack used every time it happens. Fortunately this is accompanied by a badass guitar riff which I rather liked. Then after the show stops being repetitive it decides to get downright frustrating by throwing in all this exposition at you at once to the point where it becomes information overload. And don't get me started on the ending. I'm not going to spoil anything, but I'm just going to say it is possibly the most ridiculous conclusion to any anime I have witnessed.
As for the characters, they were all pretty bland. They were often just archetypes prevalent in the shounen genre. We do get the backgrounds of some of the characters but little to no development.
Finally I shall say something good about this show. The artwork was pretty impressive. However the same cannot be said about the animation. It is very limited and amusingly quaint. Watching a long distance shot of a character running is one of the most unintentionally amusing things I have ever seen.
As for the soundtrack it was actually very good. The aforementioned badass guitar riffs really stand out and the opening is actually amazing. Seriously, go look it up.
The best analogy I can come up with for my enjoyment of the show is that it's a tire rolling downhill. Starts off pretty high but gets lower and lower until it reaches the bottom.
SamildanachEmrys
Samurai Deeper Kyo was one of the first anime I saw (after The Guyver and Perfect Blue – an interesting selection). It is the tale of the ‘strongest samurai alive’, a bloodthirsty monster called Demon Eyes Kyo, also known as the Slayer of 1000 Men, and his search for the only thing in the world that is important to him. For the first few episodes, Samurai Deeper Kyo seems quite formulaic. Kyo establishes himself as a badass who can crush all opposition while sneering disdainfully, and combat consists largely of exchanges of flashy-looking quasi-magic power attacks. So far, so shounen. There are some un-shounen elementseven at this early stage, though – if you’re paying attention. I didn’t notice until maybe my third or fourth viewing just how short the battles tend to be. This could easily be seen as a bad thing – one or two explosive techniques from each combatant and it’s all over. But having sat through (and enjoyed, mostly) every episode of Bleach to date, I’d contend that this brevity of conflict could also be seen as efficiency. There are no episode-long power-up sequences here, or even episode-long fights. Even the best shounen tends to have unrealistic bursts of dialogue in the middle of combat and foes who wait patiently while the hero recites the name of his attack, and that’s certainly true of Samurai Deeper Kyo, but unlike so many other series the fights here get to the point. Sadly, they’re also somewhat more stationary than people raised on Bleach or Samurai Champloo might be accustomed to; there is an over-reliance on speed lines, and a lot of the bog-standard non-superpowered sword swings look clumsy and artificial.
Like many other shounen series, Samurai Deeper Kyo leans towards being an ensemble piece, with an ever-expanding core group of characters who trail after the hero, or cross his path repeatedly in a variety of ways. Unlike some series, though, most of these characters are quite distinct and likeable as people. Few of them are particularly nuanced (with the notable exception of Yukimura Sanada, at least to this viewer), but they rarely blend together as some characters in this genre can tend to. As you might expect, most of the central characters have something to hide, or something to discover, or an unclear agenda – and while I doubt any of the revelations will make you gasp in abject shock, they’re not always easy to foresee.
One of the strongest points of the series, for me, is the fluid nature of alliances and good/evil – something I have a fondness for in other series too, such as Gilgamesh. While shounen as a genre frequently has enemies becoming friends and the like, lamentably few actually keep you wondering just who is really the enemy. Like the proverbial onion, Samurai Deeper Kyo sheds layers of intrigue, each time shaking an assumption you thought was concrete. Similarly, the series employs the well-established technique of 'threatening the badass' – that is, if Kyo seems to be an unstoppable killing machine in the early episodes, it’s only to impress upon us the seriousness of later travails that actually challenge him.
On the music front, Samurai Deeper Kyo really surprises me with its quality, though I didn’t notice at first. Some of the recurring themes really jump out at the viewer, such as ‘Awakening’ (the music that usually accompanies Kyo’s trademark Mizuchi technique), but many are quite subtle and atmospheric. I thought for a while that Kyo’s music was indelicate, almost garish, consisting of just one or two brash tunes, but when I listened to the soundtrack album I realised to my surprise that I recognised every one of the thirty tracks, and most of them were incidental themes, accompanying flashbacks or moments of tension. Curiously, much of the music, when listened to away from the visuals of the series, puts me in mind of console RPGs; some make me think Final Fantasy, others Zelda, and one even reminds me of an old NES game called Battle of Olympus. That’s not to say that the sound quality is shrill or the composition is lacking, simply that some of the tracks are more soaring or more grand than I would have expected. A particular highlight for me is ‘Begin’, an upbeat, airy, faux-string composition used for some action scenes.
Overall, then, I’d recommend Samurai Deeper Kyo to anime fans who enjoy action/fighting series wherein the plot isn’t exclusively a vehicle for the fights, the characters are simple but likeable, and there are enough surprises to keep things from getting boring. If you can overlook the sometimes stilted combat animation and are willing to be patient with the monster-of-the-week nature of the first few episodes, you might find Samurai Deeper Kyo a more rewarding watch than you expect.
nightdragon386
I have to say, when I started this anime, I expected a lot more from it. The storyline had a lot of potential that was never brought to fruition. The animation was definitely not the best I have seen and by the end of the series I was so bored and disappointed that I was questioning why I bought the series in the first place. Samurai Deeper Kyo is one of those animes that you continue to watch, hoping that it will get better. Unfortunately, it never does. I would not recommend this series to anyone who is looking for meaningful dialog or a compellingstory to follow. Throughout all 26 episodes I just couldn't get myself to identify or sympathize with any of the characters. For those interested in an anime based around Samurai, I would recommend staying clear of Samurai Deeper Kyo and going for a series such as Rurouni Kenshin. Trust me, don't waste your time or energy on this one, it is just big disappoinment in the end.
KungSour
I believe that this anime has a lot of potential to be great but unfortunatly it is not implemented very well, I have not read the manga but I hear good things about it, as for this anime it lacks everything that would make it as great as the current Shounen animes. The manga speaks well of it's greatness as the manga did span 38 volumes. But these key points stop it from being great, I will address them by category and then the positives and negatives. Story - The whole edo period storylines have been done numerously in the past but just because their area lot of them does not make them bad, but does leave a familiar taste in your mouth after watching it as like you've seen something similar to this before. I like how they add names from History but I've seen it too much before and it would be nice if all the names were original, but overall the story does not have enough enticement to keep you watching and it gets a bit boring toward the end with typical fight scenes and a ending to be expected from what you've seen throughout the anime.
Art - Art is good for the time of release, but nothing too special.
Sound - The soundtrack is fine, a lot of music I've heard before, but there's nothing wrong with that and the Opening fits the anime well.
Characters - There is a lot of character development which isn't a bad thing but if you do too much it does become tedious, I like Demon Eyes Kyo but I wish he kept the same attitude throughout the anime and did not turn into a typical Bad Guy turning to Good Guy scenario, I've seen that too much before and I wish he stayed a bad guy, it would have made the story much more interesting.
Enjoyment - I did not enjoy this anime much, did not have enough content to keep me going even though I got through the anime. Wish the characters fights were a bit more interesting and had better fighting styles and weapons.
Overall - This anime was fine but I'm judging the anime not the manga, but I'm afraid those who watch this might be put off by the anime not to read the manga, like I was. I will proberly read the manga eventually, but not anytime soon.
Positives - I like the characters
Negitives - The Story and fights could of been better.
Thanks for reading - AkatsukiBuzai - Kuroagi
Lost-and-Scared
This Anime byfar has one of the best story line characters and plot to it overall rating out of ten out of ten it would be a 8
exundervice
Okay I originally started out by reading for the manga for this and i was like wow this is fantastic I would love to see an anime for this. Little did I know they had one and i was really excited if it followed the manga it would make for a fantastic anime so I go and start to watch it and this is the a compassion of disappoint by now most people have watched or heard about dragon ball evolution well that's how this show was for me I went in expecting that they'd do it good and came out with an angeredand confused face why goku did you jump after using kamehameha wave why. Now taking the work as it's own separate piece not relating to the manga then it's actually pretty decent but after seeing the manga then this it made me so disappointed.
barcaman101
what a crappy anime this is.the plot is incoherent with no kind of flow or smooth transition between scenes,the characters are at one location and suddenly end up elsewhere .There is an endless introduction of characters with little or any background explanation.the characters are also either lame are just too weird to enjoy.but surely being a samurai anime the action has to be good right ? wrong,i didnt think you could have bad fights scene in samurai anime but man the action is so lame,firstly it took me until episode 5 to see any blood,the fights are mostly staged,you only see a black screen thenslashes then the bad guys die,or the main character kyo says some lame line then the bad guys die.There is no kind of passion in the fights,no great technique or interesting villain.In the end i actually found enjoyment from mocking how bad it was.
Lord_Odous
When we are talking about action anime, one of the biggest factors that we must consider would be how entertaining the fights would be. For the most part, a good action anime would have engaging battle scenes that would keep its viewers hooked. Which is where Samurai Deeper Kyou failed miserably, for the most part, the "animation" is totally absent. I would go as far as state that this show is merely a colored picture slide show of the manga. Often times, battles would be settled through a series of panned and zoomed images, or reused animations, most evidently when Kyou unleashes his ultimate attack almostevery time to secure his victory.
The next thing we need to factor in would be the abilities the characters have to make a good action anime. Samurai Deeper Kyou has more magical elements than swordfights, with both sides battling it out more like wizards than samurais. Ice magic, fire magic, wind magic, mind-controlling magic, you name it, most likely Samurai Deeper Kyou has it.
However, this myriad of powerful abilities, sad to say, are mostly exclusive to the villains. Most of the time, we would witness our poorly ensembled cast of supporting characters totally outfought by the enemy, this trend becoming more and more apparent as the plot progresses. Heck, even Kyou is often outmatched and hardly being able to keep up with his opponents during the latter half.
Which brings me to my next point. At the beginning, we are introduced to Demon Eyes Kyou, the thousand-man slayer. However, none of his actions in the show did much justice to hold up to his name. His personality is inconsistent, his merciless intent to murder is only showed when he's slaying minions, and when facing his comrades, he would become a softie and as merciful as Buddha himself. Perhaps I've been expecting too much from him, but sometimes witnessing his merciful actions really got into me, as I felt like they didn't fit his character, at all.
Next, we elaborate on the supporting characters which I briefly went through earlier, introducing them as being incompetent and often outfought by the enemy. This is truly frustrating to see that most of the time you would see them standing on the sidelines and leaving Kyou to do most of the fighting. Even after receiving their respective power upgrades, they are still pretty much useless in a fight (I am looking at you, Benitora). The only character that can be excluded from falling into this dreadful category would be Yukimura, at least he served more purpose to the story, and held himself rather well.
The antagonists, my goodness, they expand faster than a mitochondrion could multiply itself. We keep getting new and sadly, irrelevant opponents which are often removed from the picture in around 2-20 minutes of their screen time. Some of them are even forcibly written to somehow be connected with our main characters, which are mostly asspulls and a desperate attempt to make said villain more "memorable", which at most times, totally forgettable. The formula for them would be: 1) make first appearance, 2) reveal themselves to know somebody from far back, 3) some flashback scenes occur to prove that this is the truth, 4) they would fight against "somebody" due to some grudge mentioned in the flashback, 5) obviously, the good guy wins, or the bad guy wins but spares the good guy so they can live to fight another day.
The big boss himself? Well there are several of them, more like "big boss 1", "big boss 2", "big boss 3" and so on. Their motives totally cliched to most shounen plots - to destroy the world, to cover the world with Sword Demons, to change history, etc etc. Hardly interesting.
The background arts are fine, although we do not have much opportunity to marvel in their beauty as their time are pretty much very brief on screen. The character designs are mostly poor, with a number of good ones such as Kyou's original body and Migeira. Then we have very questionable designs, such as one of the latter female minions who awkwardly shares a very similar design to Pokemon's Nurse Joy. This is set in the 17th century, come on.
Finally, some genuine praise for this anime - the soundtrack. Most of them are awesome guitar riffs which play very appropriately in battles. As for the more slower tracks for the emotional scenes, this show has them covered. Voice acting is pretty much so-so, I still can't find myself swallowing that sissy voice of Yukimura, though.
All in all, Samurai Deeper Kyou is a very poor excuse to consider itself an action anime, heck, its story and characters are not even good enough to keep me interested, as I dragged myself through the show agonizingly.
asim
Samurai Deeper Kyo! is A somewhat romentic action comedy anime which is fun to watch from the first scene to the last scene as its creates did a great job on making the story line based on japans history but in a very fictional and amazing way` the story is about a demon warrior`and his quest and as the story goes on new new fights gonna make u love this anime and the love triangle woh and a great story based anime my suggestion is that u watch this anime RegarEds`Asim
Shaja
Samurai kyo was one of the first dozen anime i watched and i really couldn't decide how i felt about it. The concept seemed very simple but then they introduced the demon lord nobunaga which kinda came at me from nowhere. When i first read the little synopsis about samurai deeper kyo i thought it would focus more on his dual personality's over a arch villain type story structure. I pictured it as more a focus on character development and less about defeating the super evil that's being revived. I am not entirely disappointed in what they did with it but it just wasn't what ihad hoped for.
The show has relativity small character development and the art is not all so grand. The sound and even the voice actors were not so great, not bad just ok more or less. The best part of this show was the fighting of course, the samurai battles using all sorts of strange magic and such.
I give this show a six and that's a little generous more like a 5.5, it was pretty mindless and didn't have much of a plot or strong characters but it has the basic framing of most anime that made it work out for the minimalist expectations.
Silver_Vixen
I read the manga first. The manga is wonderful. The anime just sucks compares to the manga. The anime skips tons of fights, tons of characters are missing. The story line is changed at the end. If you want to enjoy this show then watch it before you read the manga. If you do watch this show plz read the manga.
katlee8225
story-8 i really liked this story! great plot and i started to like it right away! it was a very different type of show for me to watch at the time, but i liked it so much more then i thought i would. art-8 great art but i have seen a bit better :) sound-8 really good character-8 i liked all the characters but they all had 1 think i didnt like that much. enjoyment-8 even though that it was not my kind of show at the time i watched it, i really liked it!overall-8
just great!!
lostkitten_7
To be honest, the plot of this anime has never really stuck with me. It was okay, though not super fleshed out. I didn't hate it but I also didn't love it. I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities and that the main character's story arc had so much more potential. It started out a lot like Kenshin and I couldn't get past that for the first couple episodes. Once I did, I had some fun with it.. but then the story became unbelievable angsty and took a real unexpected turn. After that, I had to force myself to finish it justto see what happened/because I am a completionist.
If you like historical anime then I would definitely give this anime a shot. It has good music, and the characters are good.
My rating would have been lower honestly, but what makes this anime absolutely AMAZING is the outtakes.. Holy cr@p the outtakes are absolutely HILARIOUS and definitely worth watching.
Eblis01
Loved it one of many that I have watch MULTIPLE times. I understand that it may not be liked by everyone the story is Great may be hard to follow each fight tells part of the story. and ultimately has a message in the end I gave 10 because I think that many people have under rated it. I even have the complete manga set. I would recommend watching it to the end and keep in mind that yes it somewhat repeats it self. But in all fairness so doe the Walking Dead and alot of people love that as well. Like with manyanime I have watched it was a shame to see it come to an end.
anjel
The storyline was really good but the anime execution was not what it could have been. It felt very (for lack of a better word) choppy. Kind of like cut here and paste there. It was a pleasant to watch though
