Samurai Shodown

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Summary: Anime search
Review: I've read the comic and it has great animation. The story is original japaneze.The drawings are cool, sharp, new, and the monster demons are unreally cool! It's a story with a samurai who wants to find his ultimate match in a fight. He is soon joined by a priestess who is out to stop this monstrous war. Other characters are added, and an intricate plot with tons of adventure and battling invotes you to read on. So I recomend it for any anime comic reader who is searching for more intruiging manga. Get it if your interested.

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Summary: Not worthy of the Samurai Shodown name...
Review: If you're looking for a manga at the quality level of Blade of the Immortal, you'll be sorely disappointed by this one. The dialogue, which I believe was translated from Japanese, is choppy and makes little sense. A lot of the time, it's as if the translators just said, "Well, I don't know. Let's just throw something in to fill the word bubble." The plot is predictable and boring, mostly consisting of introducing new characters once per chapter. Main characters are still being introduced in the last chapter, for crying out loud! The artwork is decent as long as characters are just standing around talking, but when the action starts, you really can't tell what's going on. You can kind of see the character's head, and the rest of the page is filled up by a big, white "swoosh." The characters yell out the name of the attack they're doing, but even though I'm a fan of the video game series the manga is based on, I still couldn't really recognize any of the attacks they were doing. I would say that this book is only for the hardcore Samurai Shodown fan, but since most of the major characters (the ones who progress the thin plot anyway) are not in any of the games (and aren't very interesting at all), I can't even really say that. Since this book ignores most of the Samurai Shodown games, ignores the history that the games are based on (Hattori Hanzo and Amakusa Shiro Tokisada were real people, you know), has terrible artwork during the parts that are supposed to be interesting, and doesn't have a real plot to speak of, I can't really recommend it to anyone. I gave it the star rating of two instead of one because the artwork is decent when they are jut standing around talking, and Haohmaru always looks good posing with his sword.

Rating:
Summary: Not worthy of the Samurai Shodown name...
Review: If you're looking for a manga at the quality level of Blade of the Immortal, you'll be sorely disappointed by this one. The dialogue, which I believe was translated from Japanese, is choppy and makes little sense. A lot of the time, it's as if the translators just said, "Well, I don't know. Let's just throw something in to fill the word bubble." The plot is predictable and boring, mostly consisting of introducing new characters once per chapter. Main characters are still being introduced in the last chapter, for crying out loud! The artwork is decent as long as characters are just standing around talking, but when the action starts, you really can't tell what's going on. You can kind of see the character's head, and the rest of the page is filled up by a big, white "swoosh." The characters yell out the name of the attack they're doing, but even though I'm a fan of the video game series the manga is based on, I still couldn't really recognize any of the attacks they were doing. I would say that this book is only for the hardcore Samurai Shodown fan, but since most of the major characters (the ones who progress the thin plot anyway) are not in any of the games (and aren't very interesting at all), I can't even really say that. Since this book ignores most of the Samurai Shodown games, ignores the history that the games are based on (Hattori Hanzo and Amakusa Shiro Tokisada were real people, you know), has terrible artwork during the parts that are supposed to be interesting, and doesn't have a real plot to speak of, I can't really recommend it to anyone. I gave it the star rating of two instead of one because the artwork is decent when they are jut standing around talking, and Haohmaru always looks good posing with his sword.