Afro Samurai Pilot - Recommendations

• Web (1 ep x 10 min)
• 2015

A dog named Matt has a serious sexual problem. He decided to visit a detective agency known that there is a most beautiful woman in a town...

• Web (1 ep)
• 2023

A promotional video to commemorate 220,000 sales of the doujinshi Mob Oshi JK no Akuyaku Reijou Isekai Tensei: Hisan.

• TV (12 eps)
• 2007

In the 6th year of the Kan'ei era, people enjoy a time of peace; skilled swordsmen are revered and respected, and their lives are their own. Amidst the tranquility, Lord Tokugawa Tadanaka decides, for his own amusement, to hold a fighting tournament in which real swords are used - though laws forbid their use. In a match to the death two highly-skilled swordsmen face off: the one-armed Fujiki Gennosuke, and the blind Iraki Seigen. As they take their respective stances, flashbacks paint a picture of the duo’s past and battle wounds; and thus, the real story begins...

• Web (1 ep)
• 2024

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whos hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't want any trouble—but it finds them anyway.

• TV (10 eps)
• 2024

It's been seven years since the start of the Meiji Era, and the Japanese government is pushing its policies to catch up with the might of the Western nations. Former Aizu retainer Shizuma Origasa has thrown away his sword and gotten rid of his topknot, is now a rickshaw driver in Tokyo, but his swordsmanship skills from the Boshin War are still alive and well. He is looking for his wife, Sumie Kanomata, who went missing during the Boshin War. Shizuma is recruited into the police force after he ends up thwarting the assassination attempt of a government official. At the same time, Kyoushirou Shuragami is a talented one-eyed swordsman who is a member of the Moriya-gumi yakuza gang that is embroiled in a turf war in Tokyo. The Moriya-gumi are working with wealthy merchants in the trafficking of opium, and the profits are being paid a mastermind plotting to overthrow the government to return Japan to a place for samurai. The destinies of Shizuma and Kyoushirou, who have opposing points of view, are fated to cross. And a sad and ironic encounter and farewell await Shizuma.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 1998

Christianity has been banned throughout the land by the Tokugawa Shogunate, but a small sect in the hills continues to practice the forbidden religion. Unbeknownst to them, a demonic force seeks to exploit their innocent faith and only one warrior who has been sent to assassinate their leader – Jubei Yagyu – can stop it. What follows is a journey of savagery and terror as Hell itself spills out its evil influence into the world.

• Web (1 ep)
• 2022

A celebratory PV for the completion of the doujinshi The Man Who Saved Me on my Isekai Trip was a Killer... .

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2007

Kotarou is a brash young orphan in war-torn Japan, on the run from mysterious pursuers with Tobimaru, his faithful canine companion. Clueless as to why anyone would want him, much less imperial warriors from mainland China, a chance encounter with a strange wandering swordsman could not be more unwelcome in Kotarou's skeptical eyes – especially when the stranger has a secret past that has caused him to seal his blade. Forced by circumstance to work together for survival, the unlikely duo forge a tenuous friendship that is threatened all too soon when Kotarou's pursuers thrust the two into a dizzying whorl of clashing ambitions between men both big and small. Will the stranger manage to overcome his past and save them both from peril with his blade?

• Web (1 ep)
• 2015

In the year 201X, Japan was faced with its greatest peril in the 21st century. Gakuto Komagane appeared on the political scene suddenly as if he was the messiah, but how did people react to his sudden ascension to power. What follows is an email newsletter by the political group, The Rising Sun, and it is a valuable primary reference that helps illustrate the political landscape at the time...

• Other (1 ep)
• 2014