#Samurai 7

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Last year I watched Samurai 7 for the first time. I had been wanting to watch it for years and it really was worth it when I finally got to it. It's full of great character designs but my absolute favorite are the city guards. I decided to build a cosplay for them and continue my trend of cosplaying obscure characters. :)

Coincidentally, the series is 20 years old this year, what great timing!

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did a hexafusion of guys I'm normal about

Jet + Heihachi (Senna Gianelli): Quiet, serious, low-key machinist with some level of combat training. Alarmingly okay with the notion of replacing body parts (both her own and others') with machinery, despite her inexperience as a surgeon. Successfully built herself prosthetic/robotic feet after they were removed following a loss in battle.

Zero + Jet (Fuze): Fiercely independent wanderer who always seems to be restlessly looking for the next fight. Crackshot with his weapon and capable of flight but also doesn't consider himself above brawling. An experiment in bio-technic advancements that just wandered off one day, avoids human settlements as much as possible to stave off recapture.

Heihachi + Zero (Saltpetre): A friendly and quiet mechanic, who mostly keeps to himself- disguising the fact that he's shockingly willing to commit violence to achieve his goals. Very "end justifies the means" type outlook to things, but at least generally acts mostly moral.

Jet + Heihachi + Zero (208): An easygoing and confident battle cyborg who always sets his sights on the future to avoid thinking about the past. Has a bit of a messiah complex, but disguises it most of the time by acting almost cartoonishly self-centered and aloof- deep down he feels that his continued existence has to be continually justified by acts of virtue, but that if someone were to find out their feelings of pity would prevent him from being as effective. Highly skilled, but has equally heavy emphasis on the "glass" part of his being a glass cannon.

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I revisited an old fav and all the feels came back... 😭😭 Now I'm even sadder at the size of the fandom with each passing year.

Oh, and hottake (?): I prefer the dub. 😋

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people on tumblr really is sleeping on those great anime

wolf rain

Blue gender

Monster

Now and Then, Here and There

Big O

s-CRY-ed

Witch Hunter Robin

Paranoia Agent

Samurai 7

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

Trinity Blood

Blood+

Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit

Ristorante Paradiso

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UNLIMITED (TV-size) - Nanase Aikawa

Anime: Samurai 7

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Hibernation🌿

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Original title: サムライセブン.

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Class doodles

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Do You Know This Anime?

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warm-up of kambei from samurai 7

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This one's been a long time coming, Sweetie & I picking up the anime remake over dinner recently seems like a good time to do it. If we're going to talk about Wano as an homage to classic samurai cinema we can't ignore Akira Kurosawa's epic many would consider his magnum opus. I'd argue Rashomon deserves that honor but I like weird shit, today we're talking Seven Samurai.

Now, as always Wano is not one samurai movie reference. It's a massive pastiche. Seven Samurai's influence is a lot more structural. Big epic split between a segment of rounding up the gang, one where we spend time on preparations, then a big battle. The 1954 film is credited with like, pioneering this basic film structure of getting the band together for a mission then executing it. The mission is very different, the Raid being a little more like 47 Ronin instead of the titular Seven defending a village from bandits, but the way the story is arranged very much shows that influence. Even the seemingly detached sidestory at the start to introduce one of the gang fits the mold, luckily Kiku got to go all Oyuki on someone else's topknot over cutting her own hair like Kanbei.

You know the drill by now, as always she's the one who really shines when you look at this side of things. Samurai 7, that's a straight retelling. More futuristic setting but it's functionally the same gang. The only one with a name that really obviously resonates with the Akazaya Nine is Kiku, thanks to the two versions of the guy we have here. Kikuchiyo. Originally played by Kurosawa mainstay Toshiro Mifune. There are some elements that track. Good with kids, can be a bit of a wild card. Very different aesthetic though obviously.

Where it really shines is being the odd one out. The "heart" of the group. Not to mention one who'll break off and do their own thing. And that's consistent in both versions. Kikuchiyo is not actually a samurai, he's the son of a farmer. The bridge between the villagers and the men they hire. Our sweet, wonderful Okiku does sorta have that going for her, but with a different coat of paint. Digging back into where she starts in Oda's journey as a writer.

Probably said this at least somewhere, but on top of the whole Kamatari connection to Oda's time as a Rurouni Kenshin assistant Kiku also kinda gives you this Misao vibe. And I specifically mean how Misao related to the Oniwabanshu. Kid that idolized them but was left behind for her own good. Our sweet flower sure felt like that at the start. Nice blend of the two that ends up being it's own wonderful thing.

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