The protagonists are painfully annoying (one actively and the other by not having a personality at all) and most of the antagonists are animated blobs of existential angst waiting to be slaughtered brutally. While many shows try and fail to achieve that goal, this show seems to deliberately ignore it from the very start. Ironically, if it had adhered more to tried and tested methods of modern storytelling then I would have an awful lot more to recommend about it.įirst of all, modern storytelling dictates that a show should have characters that we can empathise with and enjoy (or something along those lines).
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There are reasons why stories and TV shows are the way they are and Katanagatari seems to prove that by showing us how to do it wrong. The problem is, though, that special and different don't always mean better. It's strange but the strangest thing is while the series isn't bad, if I try to look objectively (as far as it's possible), I have to say that I absolutely hate it.Įverything about this series screams at you that it wasn't going to just be your normal series and it certainly is not in many ways. Normally I would say it was average but that doesn't fit the bill at all. I'm not sure if I can say it was bad either. normally I would say 'what can I say about this series?' but Katanagatari is the complete opposite. At a request from the female general Togame, Shichika and Togame set out on a journey across Edo-era Japan to collect the twelve Deviant Blades. The son of an exiled war hero, Yasuri Shichika is the seventh head of the Kyotoryuu school of fighting and lives on isolated Fushou Island with his sister.
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Katanagatari is the story of Yasuri Shichika, a swordsman that fights without a sword, and Togame, an ambitious strategist that seeks to collect twelve legendary swords for the shogunate. This series was broadcast once a month over the space of a year, representing both a month of real time and a month of series time. Notes: Based on the light novel series by Nisio Isin ( Monogatari series).
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Length: Television series, 12 episodes, 50 minutes minutes eachĭistributor: R1 DVD from Nippon Ichi Software AmericaĬontent Rating: 17+ (violence, cruelty, being plain miserable)Īlso Recommended: Any dark samurai/ninja tale would do Blade of the Immortal, Shigurui or Basilisk are the shows that come particularly to mind.