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India Press Store - Samurai 7: Box Set (Viridian Collection)
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List Price: $49.98
Our Price: $25.99
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Manufacturer: Funimation Prod
Starring: Bill Flynn, Inukai Junji, Zarah Little, Maria Vu, R. Bruce Elliott
Directed By: Toshifumi Takizawa
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: SAMURAI 7 BOX SET VC (DVD)
EAN: 0704400058011
Format: Box set
Label: Funimation Prod
Manufacturer: Funimation Prod
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: Funimation Prod
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-07-01
Running Time: 600
Studio: Funimation Prod
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Series
Comment: The anime genre, especially the giant robot subset
usually just bores me to tears. The typical offering presents us with a bunch of girls blessed with unnaturally small waists and exaggeratedly large chests who team up with very feminine looking teenage boys to predictably blast some one-dimensional costumed bad guy (or girl) and his/her army of gobots into oblivion.
The only depth usually added to this is that one of the gender neutral Asian boys (usually with blonde hair and blue eyes of course) is a reluctant hero who hates authority and would be kicked out of any military worth a salt... except that he is SOOO talented the fate of the world (universe, clan, race) could be decided by his personal robot driving skill. Of course one or more of the purple-haired heroines and often a costumed villain or two are madly in love with our hero leading him to a gripping (yawn) internal struggle over which one to date after, or during the utterly predictable fight.
This is not like that.
It's actually good and if you haven't seen the movie it's based off of or read the spoiler reviews it will often surprise you. In any case after every episode I found myself saying 'well.. ok just one more it's only 20 minutes'.
As a 39 year old parent I can say that my whole family was very satisfied with Samurai 7.
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Summary: A classic re-telling of a classic.
Comment: One of the greatest story tellers Akira Kurosawa is done justice with the retelling of one of his best works. 'Seven Smaurai' is the story of a villiage being enslaved by ruthless bandits forcing them to work the land in servitude. Their only hope is to venture out and find a band of Samurai. However, it is a process that will take much time because the Samurai are a dying breed not as honerable and noble as they were. Through much hardship and obstacles 7 worthy men are chosen by their pure hearts and honor and come together to wage a war on the bandits and reclaim their place in history and in the hearts of the innocent.
Enter 'Samurai 7' The story is re-told through the use of brilliant animation and set in a post apokalyptic future. The samurai have become common theives or sold their souls to become mighty steel machines to serve the imperial city. It's an incredible blend of classic Japanese story telling with a sci-fi twist. It's a specticle that makes all kind of emotions come out. It does move a little slow, but the character development as well as the story really sucks you making you wonder what will happen next.
'Samurai 7' has become a critically accalimed show by many critics and newspapers. It has become a cult classic in the anime mainstream and has even been broacsted on american television. If you are into great stories that are not always in your face action this might be for you.
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Summary: a new twist on a old story
Comment: I seen the orginial black and white 7 samurai and loved it. This is a new twist on the old story set in a sci-fi setting. If your a fan of the orginial and worried about if they change to much don't the story is just as great as the orginial, you will love it.
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Summary: Wow...Definitely does the movie justice
Comment: I checked out this series because I saw ads for it everywhere for quite some time, and it's based off of one of my favorite classic movies, The Seven Samurai. This was the first anime series I bought that I had never even watched an episode of before buying. And I am very glad that I took the chance, because this is one of the best anime series I have ever seen. The storyline is well-developed, the characters interesting, and the conclusion left me feeling fulfilled. The art is also top-notch. I can't comment about the English voice actors, but if you enjoy the Japanese seiyuu, then you'll get a treat from the voices of Romi Paku, Shinichiro Miki, Masaki Terasoma, Fumiko Orikasa, and Takehito Koyasu (just to name a few of the people on the fabulous cast).
Of course, this is the Viridian Collection, so please remember that. It's not the box set where ever disc is in an individual case, or where all of the special inserts come included. It's actually all 7 DVDs put into 5 cases in a smaller cardboard box. But if you don't mind that, then believe me, the buy is worth it.
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Summary: Mixed bag
Comment: Samurai 7 has it strengths: some interesting character choices, reasonably high production values, a slower pace that allows the story and characters to develop, and, of course, samurai fighting giant robots (sweet!). However, the series also delivers plenty of awkward and simply bad emotional exposition, several of the characters we've seen before (in every martial arts movie ever made), and the plot stretches a bit thin as the original 3 hour epic is expanded to 8 or 9 hours. Fans of anime, robots, samurai and so forth will find some good popcorn entertainment.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Viridian Collection contains all 7 volumes of the series inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Samurai 7 is set in a futuristic world that has just seen the end of a massive war, many villages are being terrorized by Nobuseri bandits. The Nobuseri are no normal bandits. They were once men, but during the war they modifed themselves with machines to become living weapons and now apprear as more machine than man. A group of villagers decide to hire samurai to protect their village. These men of valor are as skilled as they are unique.
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