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Alt title: Inu-ou
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Dororo (2019)
- TV (24 eps)
- 2019
In Japan's Warring States period, Lord Daigo Kagemitsu makes a pact with 12 demons, exchanging his unborn son for the prosperity of his lands. The child is born malformed and is set adrift in a river, while Kagemitsu's lands thrive as promised. Years later, young thief Dororo encounters the mysterious "Hyakkimaru", a boy whose arms are blades and whose visionless eyes seem able to see monsters.
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In both of these stories, the main character is a young man who seeks to overcome a deformed/cursed body. Both are set in the tumultuous Muromachi period of Japanese history, and carry similar themes of friendship and forging one's own destiny.
Shinshuu Sudama Hen
- OVA (4 eps)
- 1988 - 1989
In medieval Japan's Genroku era, the young warrior Yoshiyasu Yanasawa approaches Takakaru, the leader of the Hazuki clan in search of the power of the Golden Dragon, unaware that the power of the dragon flows within the very bloodstream of the maiden Orie.
Utakoi
- TV (13 eps)
- 2012
Utakoi is a historical romance story based on Ogura Hyakunin Isshu's interpretation of a collection of 100 romance poems that are used in traditional Japanese karuta card/memory game Utakoi takes life based of the very liberal interpretation of the Hyakunin Isshu anthology of poems featuring 100 romantic poems from 100 different poets such as The Tale of Genji's Murasaki Shikibu. However this romantic – both in story and artistic design – series starts its focus with some twists and turns centered around the love between Fujiwara and her romantic interest Ariwara…
Utakoi Special
- DVD Special (1 ep)
- 2013
Kangetsu Ittou: Akuryou Kiri
- OVA (2 eps)
- 1989
The Hakkenden: Shin Shou
- OVA (7 eps)
- 1993 - 1995
Continuation of The Legend Of The Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden.
The Hakkenden Digest
- DVD Special (1 ep)
- 1993
A recap episode of the first series; The Legend Of The Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden.
The Elusive Samurai
- TV
- 2024
In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is betrayed from within. Now the lone survivor of his family and a fugitive, Tokiyuki is the rightful heir to the throne, but to take it back, he’ll have to do what he does best—run away!
The Legend of the Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden
- OVA (6 eps)
- 1990 - 1991
The Awa clan is facing its extinction. The princess (Fuse) is wed to the family dog (Yatsufasa) when a promise is made for whoever kills the leader of the opposing clan will marry the princess. Yatsufasa is who accomplishes this. However, Yatsufasa and Fuse are killed, leaving the eight unborn pups to be reincarnated as the eight Dog Warriors: The Hakkenden.
Kijin Gentoushou
- TV
- 2024
In the Edo period, there was a shrine maiden called "Itsukihime" in the mountain village of Kadono. Jinta, a young man who acts as the shrine maiden's guardian despite being a stranger, encounters a mysterious demon who speaks of the far future in the forest where he went to defeat it. From Edo to the Heisei era, this is a fantasy series about a demon man who travels through time while continuously questioning the meaning of wielding a sword.