#samumenco

[deductivisms]

the line between justice and stupidity is paper thin! samurai flamenco!

[watchsamuraiflamenco]

Announcing the prompts for Samurai Flamenco Week 2024!

Feel free to create anything your heart desires for these prompts! You can even incorporate both prompts if you want, but just one is okay too! Make sure to post them on the day, tag @watchsamuraiflamenco, and tag the post as #samflamweek2024.

June 17: Post-canon / Seasons

June 18: Domestic / Role Swap

June 19: Magic / Curry Date

June 20: Fashion / Vacation

June 21: Hero / Wedding

June 22: 10 Years Later / Different Jobs

June 23: Happy Anniversary! (Free Choice)

Happy creating!

[albino-angelo]

Samurai Flamenco EP 10: Hero boyfriend appreciation

[animefeminist]

Restorative justice and community in Samurai Flamenco

Content warning: discussion of police brutality, mass shootings, and systemic violence

Spoilers for Samurai Flamenco

Samurai Flamenco is a story about the intersection of community and justice. The main character, Hazama Masayoshi, is intent on living out the ideals he learned from the hero stories that captured his imagination as a child. Their values guide his actions, so much so that he decides to become one himself, under the moniker Samurai Flamenco. As he navigates this choice, he begins to learn that heroes and villains are parts of their community, not forces outside of it. This causes him to re-evaluate what justice means to him and how he wants to practice it. This process closes the gap he sees between himself and his community, has him reject violence, and roots his sense of justice in love and empathy rather than punishment. According to the logic of the story, the world around Masayoshi is being shaped by his unspoken desires (at least until the final arc). This means a viewer can retroactively read revelations about Masayoshi as a character onto how the narrative develops. To put it lightly, at the beginning of the story, Masayoshi is a highly privileged individual. He was scouted as a model in high school and lives in a nice apartment at the top of a building, with sufficient wealth to have an extensive collection of hero paraphernalia. This distance between him and the street is a very literal barrier that serves as a metaphorical one as well. Masayoshi is well-meaning, but his wealth, fame, and isolation from his community restricts his empathy. He sees his role as a hero as distinct from being a normal person.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[pochqmqri]

Calling All Flamengers! (...Again!)

As part of its 12 Days of Christmas sale, the UK-based anime distributor Anime Limited is offering a MASSIVE discount on Collector's Editions Blu-Rays, including their Samurai Flamenco one, which is now LESS THAN £10, specifically £8.33 (~$10.50 USD). This is much less than the £25 they discounted the set to for its 10th anniversary back in October!

The entire 22-episode series is contained across 4 discs. The only noted on-disc extras are the creditless OPs and EDs. All of this is packaged in a decorative rigid slipcase.

Anime Limited does ship outside the UK, but you will need a region-free Blu-Ray player to play discs if your region is not of the B code (comprising Europe, the Middle East, and Africa).

While it doesn't specifically say when this sale ends, since it's part of the 12 Days of Christmas sale, we can assume it will last until December 12, UK time, so don't delay! This is the only official English physical release of the anime.

[obscureanimeoftheday]

Obscure Anime of The Day:

Samurai Flamenco

Aired: 2013-2014

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Martial-Art, Shounen, Superpower, Violence

[whosname]

Looks like no one needs me in this company today, so let's finish Samumenco, come with me!

----------

Gods, the second opening is fucking great. I love Spyair and everything but I like the second one more.

Holy crap! Sawada Haiji!!! talking about tone shifts. Love that they're looking into the most complicated answers.

[head in my hands] GOTOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

oh, this is fucked up

----------

IT'S THE POWER OF LOOOVE, SAMUMENCOOOOOO!!!!!!

GOTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

---------

[head in my hands crying] GOOOOOOOOOTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh the episode's name wasn't a metaphor

uh oh

UH!!!!

...aaaaah, the power of love...

----------

right, right, i think i'm gonna lie down for a second

[breadmecoshy]

Черт возьми я хочу ворваться в тамблер именно с самураем фламенко

Goto: Why am I surrounded by crazy people?

Goto girlfriend: I don't even know, dear Go🙄

[judithan-xing]

"If you told me you loved me now, I'm sure I'd respond with a 'yes'."

[futurefishy]

i know he already won but can i add to masayoshi's propaganda a minute?

he has a same-food (curry)

he's presented as having difficulty with some social cues

you could argue he has alexithymia (difficulty recognising his own emotions e.g. his feelings towards goto)

Autistic Anime Boys Side B Round 1 Match 16

Propaganda:

Masayoshi -

"Has a special interest in superheroes and has a huge collection of superhero merchandise and can recite his favorite superhero movie word for word along with all of the fight choreography. Became incredibly apathetic throughout high school after finding out superheroes aren't real. His dream to be a superhero is so strong that it literally alters the world and causes aliens to invade earth so he can be a superhero."

Zero -

"First of all! Zero's brain is outright stated to work differently from most people. His special interest is robotics and he much prefers to talk to them than actual living breathing people. He has to mentally prepare himself for long conversations with others and can't keep up with them otherwise. He is just like me for real your honor."

[rlyehtaxidermist]

if you like gays and tonal shifts and need something to watch before the next season of witch from mercury, can I suggest samurai flamenco?

[albino-angelo]

Samurai Flamenco Chapter 8: Worried boyfriend appreciation

I start to rewatch this anime again, because I had bought dvd for a long time. There is no sub... So I must use my tiny Japanese skill to understand, but it isn't my first watch anyway, so just see these two again make me happy (and sad with Manglobe's bankruptcy)

[beyblaiddyd]

[pochqmqri]

A few months ago, my copy of the "Limited Edition" Samurai Flamenco Complete Series Collection shipped from the UK, a release by Anime Limited.

As they are a UK-based anime distributor, their Blu-Ray discs are region locked to region code "B," which encompasses Europe. As such, I have a Blu-Ray player that is modified to be region-free, playing discs from anywhere in the world. I recommend buying one from this site, as you can get the best deals here.

Going over the product, despite the fact that it's labeled "Limited Edition," the release is pretty bare bones. It was also initially released back in October of 2021, and still remains available to purchase two years later.

Like most of Anime Limited's Collector's Editions, the release comes in a rigid slipcase illustrated with official artwork. The 22-episode anime is contained across 4 discs, evenly divided into two disc cases. Each case has a reversible slipcover illustrated with characters on both sides.

So let's talk about the contents of the discs. Although it doesn't say on the official website, there are three ways to watch the anime on this release: the French dub, the original Japanese with French subs, and the original Japanese with English subs (subtitles are the same as streaming, no subbed OPs/EDs/insert songs). These are a nice variety of options, but it would have been nice for a few more accessibility options for those who want it, such as the French dub having (dub-accurate) subtitles, and subtitles for those who are deaf or blind, as included with Anime Limited's release of "Looking for Magical Doremi" that I purchased earlier last year. There are a few extras on the discs, but those are just noncredit/blank versions of both opening and both ending themes.

Regarding the visuals, it should be noted that, when Samurai Flamenco aired on TV, it looked quite rough animation-wise. For the home media release in Japan, they made significant touchups here and there in each episode. From what I recall, the version that used to stream on Crunchyroll (before they removed it) was the original broadcast, while the one that streams/ed(?) on Funimation has the corrections. As there were quite a lot of corrections, I will link this post that does a in-depth look episode-by-episode of what changed between the two versions. Going back to Anime Limited's release, based on what I have seen and compared, I can safely say that this release uses the corrected footage, which I think most people can say is quite the plus.

I also want to clarify that this release does not contain any of the extras included with the Japanese home media release, such as the character drama CDs, soundtrack CDs, etc. All you're getting is a slipcase, the discs themselves, and creditless OPs and EDs. That's it.

To wrap it all up, despite the fact that this is a bare bones release, it is still a serviceable way to watch Samurai Flamenco. The anime has been taken off streaming services in the past few years, Netflix and Crunchyroll specifically, and as Manglobe went bankrupt years ago, the anime's future on streaming is bleak and uncertain. Anime Limited managed to secure a home release deal with Manglobe before they went under, so I've heard. Therefore, I definitely recommend owning a physical way to watch this underrated gem. Even so, Anime Limited has noted on their website that, as a limited edition release, they only have a limited number of stock, and once that runs out, they are not sure if they'll restock. So while it's been around for two years now, who can say for sure if it'll be around for any longer. On their website, it currently sells for £35 (approx $44.50 USD), but last year, Anime Limited held two sales that included this release, where in one sale, it went for as low as £8.33 (approx $10.50 USD). So, I also recommend you wait until their end-of-year holiday sale, I think it'll still be around then.

Anime Limited does ship internationally, but I want to warn you that there is a hefty international shipping charge attached. As I live in the US, it costs £25 (approx $32 USD), but I imagine that to more distant countries, it will cost a lot more.

[moishecampbell]

catching up with the latest "actually it's open for interpretation" incident this time with the gundam girls this is very funny. it simply never ends

[whosname]

Three episodes to finish Samumenco. I love that even the characters are like, "oh no, not again. sigh. okay?" When I finished ep. 18 I thought, but there's 4 more episodes, what the hell. Then I watched 19. Also, the tone shift? delicious, absolutely delicious. I mean not unexpected on the Goto side of things but... fuuuuck.