Samurai 7
Samurai 7
A small village gets raided by bandits every harvest season. The villagers can't take it anymore, and decide to recruit samurais to defend them in exchange for rice. Will the villagers find who would defend them from the bandits?
K1t5un3 reviewedJune 6, 2025
This is one of those bargain-bin anime. It's not terrible, but I only say that because I have watched some truly terrible anime. The real downside of this anime, other than CGI, is that they completely lost the theme of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, which even The Magnificent Seven picked up on. In-case you haven't seen the original movie, or it's western adaptation, the movie's theme calls into question the life of a samurai, what purpose they have without a lord, is it merely to die protecting peasants against dishonorable bandits? It was an important theme at film's release time, because large portions of Japan's population still held onto feudalistic traditions and, because of that, Kurosawa's movie did not sit well with many Japanese people. Seven Samurai, the movie, revealed flaws in the morality of traditional samurai culture, giving it a well-earned title of being a revolutionary film. So, it's a shame that this anime merely mimics some of the events of Kurosawa's movie, making up the rest with extremely dated 2000's anime tropes, and doesn't carry on the soul. That said, it does add a nice flavor of steampunk, and who doesn't like steampunk? Again, it's not terrible, but bargain-bin at best.