A swordfight story taking place in Edo era (17th - 19th century). Yasuri Shichika is the seventh head of the Kyotou school of Japanese sword martial arts and lives in Fushou Island with his sister Nanami. With the order from a female samurai general Togame, he sets out for a trip to collect the twelve treasured swords created by a legendary swordsmith Shikizaki Kiki.
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After unexpected success of Bakemonogatari, now anime studios looking to adapt another novel series penned by NisiOisin into anime which is this one. However this time, no Shaft and Shinbo. Interesting synopsis but some of my friends don't really liked the novel. Haven't read the novel so I can't give more comments on Katanagatari.

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This post has been edited by Stormy001_M1A2: Jan 4 2010, 11:46 AM

Alamak, mod sudah snipe saya! Aiyak! LOL!

Reason why I say unexpected because the competition is pretty strong with likes of Mac Frontier and moeblob K-On!, yet Bakemonogatari dominance in sales certainly surprised many people.

Hence my usage of "unexpected success".

This post has been edited by Stormy001_M1A2: Jan 4 2010, 04:24 PM

I maybe far from Malaysia in near future but my spirit is still here. Hehehehe. And I will continue to recommend good series to watch, nothing like knowing people are happy because they watch a good series thanks to me.

13 episode X 24 mins is a lot of time. Might as well spend it wisely. You can't never get back your time no matter who you are.

This post has been edited by Stormy001_M1A2: Jan 4 2010, 04:58 PM

The hero came from the school that did not use swords.

Story is like this the Shogun won the war with help of 1000 special blades forged by a famous blacksmith. He recovered 988 of them but the other 12 were lost. His ninja betrayed him when they found one of the sacred sword because it is so powerful. So is another sword saint that he sent due to same reason as his ninjas. The blades were so special and powerful that martial artists found them irresistible.

So one day, Togame, female general of Shogun assigned this quest to the siblings since they are last survivors of the dying art of no sword. Her reasoning is since they don't use sword, they will not be seduced by the sword's power like the rest so they will able to complete the quest. in fact she offered her own body as a reward if the hero completed the task.

This post has been edited by Stormy001_M1A2: Jan 4 2010, 05:08 PM

You have to wait 20 months then since they are releasing 1 episode per month in OAD/OVA format. LOL.

the story of sword

Unfortunately, this reviewer seems to hate anything that is less than happy ending. Plus he did remarked that Katanagatari might be better as anime instead of novel.

This post has been edited by Stormy001_M1A2: Jan 5 2010, 06:45 PM