Samurai 7: Search for the Seven v.1

Great action and drama while remaining faithful to the original!
I have to admit, when I first heard of this series, my expectations were set really low. I'm generally against remakes that make drastic changes to the setting (usually in an attempt to "modernize"), because most of the time they end up changing the situation so drastically that it has almost nothing in common with the original. The phrase "Sci-Fi Action remake of Akira Kurosowa'a action masterpiece" instantly reminded me of the universally panned Seven Samurai 20XX video game, where the only similarity between the remake and the original was that there were seven people with swords.

I got a demo disc from the Funimation booth at Otakon (for the uninformed, an anime convention) that had the first two episodes, and watched them to see exactly how bad it would be. What I saw compelled me to immediately go buy the first disc.

The story is extremely faithful to the original. So far, the only alterations to the story are the addition of a few characters, that I'll...

Must own anime
This is a great anime series loosely based on Akira Kurosawa's epic film Seven Samurai, with some sci-fi elements added to it.

The limited edition comes within the regular DVD plus 4 story books, one for each episode. All are secured within a big cardboard case. Note that the case is not an art box designed to hold the series. You will get a separate case for the limited edition of each volume.

The Seven Samurai are back.
Samurai 7 is a anime based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) based in a futuristic world. The villages and cities are recovering from a massive war. The Samurai are now jobless and many have become bandits. But not just normal bandits. They have become Nobuseri bandits, machines who use to be men, Samurai who had their living cells replaced by iron and steel. And now they raid the towns for rice and, sometimes, women.

One of these villages have sent for Samurai, hungry warriors, willing to fight off for a meal of cooked rice each day. Titled Akira Kurosawa's Samurai 7, this anime does honor to one of the best Japanese movies of the 20th Century, if not one of the best movies of all time. The only flaw was the fact that the DVD held only four episodes. But the episodes were GREAT, each linked to the next, like one big story. Which it IS. None of the episodes are in a vaccum, they are all a chain of cause and effect. Not much in the way of extras, besides...

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