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Your Learning Zone - Samurai 7: Box Set (Viridian Collection)
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List Price: $49.98
Our Price: $24.99
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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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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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Summary: Excellent Addition to the Collection
Comment: Whether you are a fan of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" or not, this is a great anime. I was really impressed with the visual style of this series, and also with the overall plot and character development. The musical score was simple yet did its job to punctuate the action and highten the emotion, especially with traditional Japanese drums.
If you are a fan of the original let me just say that the story develops in a few different ways, so dont think of this as an animated version of the first live action film. It has its own story to tell, while taking the basics from Kurosawa.
In classic anime, this series has some over the top characters (namely in the the characters of the Merchants!). It also has some pretty impressive robotic samurai, which gives a cool modern twist to its period setting.
I would definately recommend buying this particular set (the Viridian Collection) at its great price. The original boxed set artwork remains with the packaging, inside the slim cases.
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Summary: You know you're in for when there's 7 of them.
Comment: Samurai 7 set you back when the it's near the end of the samurai era. Where technologies help a man surpass himself. A few years after a massive war, the bandits, with their new "upgrades", have been terrorizing many villages. One village finally had enough of the pain and suffering, had their water priestess, with her little sister and a fellow villager, go the city in hope to hire a samurai to end the bandits terror. Witness what happens when she brings back seven, will these seven samurais succeed ? or will their individual quirks kill each other ? Can they even work together ? And what if the opponents were never really the bandits ?
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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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