The fight choreography here is lean and brutal in ways that actually respect the source game's weapon-based combat. Six warriors hunting the man who sold them to a god a century ago gives you a revenge structure that doesn't waste time on setup. It stumbles when adapting the game's branching story into linear episodes, but when the blade work starts, nothing else matters.

One hundred years after they were killed, six legendary holy warriors are reborn. They died because a former comrade betrayed them to an evil god, and now they want justice against him. Charlotte, Wan Fu, Nakoruru, Galford and Tamtam travel through the feudal province of Edo searching for Haohmaru, their lost companion, and for their sworn enemy, Shirou Amakusa. The two-episode action fantasy OVA, based on a hugely popular video game, is a tale of reincarnation and revenge that pits followers of the divine light against the forces of darkness, with large-scale battles along the way.