Violent and Blood-Filled Trailer For The BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL Anime Series
Hiroaki Samura’s badass 1993 samurai manga Blade of the Immortal has been adapted into a new anime series that is coming to Amazon Prime. The anime comes from Linden Films, who is best known for their 2016 adaptation of Berserk.
The story follows the journey of Manji, “a samurai who is unsurprisingly cursed with the inability to die. To cure himself of his affliction, he must go on a quest to kill 1,000 evildoers. On his path to regain his mortality, he runs into a young woman named Rin. Upon agreeing to help her avenge the death of his parents, the duo crosses paths and swords with several schools of samurai and villains.”
As you’ll see, the series will be filled with brutal violence and flooded with blood. The anime adaptation definitely isn’t shying away from the insanity of the manga.
This isn’t the first time the story has been adapted. There was an anime adaptation in 2008 along with a novelization of the story. Then in 2017, director Takashi Miike’s helmed an awesome live action film telling the story.
The new Blade of the Immortal anime will premiere on October 10th.