The Shogun's reign runs on brutality, and these samurai answer with guns before swords have time to rust. Visually, it looks like Ninja Scroll decided to weaponize the industrial revolution instead of hide in shadows. The episodic structure means it never lingers on plot long enough to bore you, just long enough to deliver what matters: samurai shooting their way through oppression, one bloodstained scene at a time.
Industrial-age Japan groans under the Shogun's iron fist. Corruption runs deep. Beatings, imprisonment, rape and murder are tools of control over an oppressed population. A band of samurai has organized in the shadows, armed with repeating firearms and new technology. They strike from the darkness, welcomed by the citizens, while secretly working to bring down the Edo government. Ichimatsu moves between worlds. By day he works quietly at a local tavern, and in the evenings he visits the brothels. By night he becomes something else entirely, a gun-slinging avenger hunting down evil. He's not alone in this fight, but as doubts about their way of life grow, the battle against the government only gets harder. Honor meets ammunition in this action-packed sci-fi take on the end of the Edo era.
