Blade of the Immortal (2008)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Rina Sato
Rin Asano (voice)
Keith Silverstein
Maji
Tomokazu Seki
Manji (voice)
Daisuke Namikawa
Araya Kawakami (voice)
Karen Strassman
Actress
Hirofumi Nojima
Kagehisa Anotsu (voice)
Mela Lee
Rin Asano
Katsuyuki Konishi
Eiku Shizuma (voice)
Kazuya Nakai
Taito Magatsu (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Makie Otono-Tachibana (voice)
Laura Bailey
Renzo Kawakami
Masashi Ebara
Sabato Kuroi (voice)
Megumi Toyoguchi
Hyakurin (voice)
Shin-ichiro Miki
Shira (voice)
Cristina Valenzuela
Machi
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Giichi (voice)
Jason Wishnov
Makoto
Yuuya Uchida
Shinriji (voice)
Liam O'Brien
Araya Kawakami
Daisaku Shinohara
Takayuki Asano (voice)
Hisako Kyoda
Yaobikuni (voice)
Melissa Fahn
Ohatsu
Keiko Nemoto
Kagehisa Anotsu (child) (voice)
Kousei Yagi
Takahide Asano (voice)
Maaya Sakamoto
Machi (voice)
Saeko Chiba
Ren (voice)
Takashi Kondo
Tatsumasa Saitou (voice)
Takaya Kuroda
Nisaburou Tsuchimochi (voice)
Takayuki Sugo
Kagimura Habaki (voice)
Tokuyoshi Kawashima
Takayoshi Asano (voice)
Toru Okawa
Saburou Anotsu (voice)
Wataru Hatano
Makoto (voice)
Yuka Komatsu
Toki Asano (voice)
Michiru Ishikawa
Executive Producer
Noboru Yamada
Producer
Yoshimi Umino
Art Direction
Hitoshi Saito
Director of Photography
Tetsuya Kinoshita
Producer
Kow Otani
Original Music Composer
Manamu Amasaki
Animation Director
Katsuji Morishita
Producer
Takuya Matsushita
Producer
Yoshimitsu Yamashita
Character Designer / Animation Director / Character Designer / Animation Director
Toru Nakano
Sound Director
Yoshiaki Tsubata
Animation Director
Shinichi Igarashi
Director of Photography
Shinji Sekizawa
Executive Producer
Masayuki Haryu
Executive Producer
Kouichi Mashimo
Series Director / Storyboard Artist
Kouji Sawai
Storyboard Artist / Director
Tomoyuki Kurokawa
Director / Storyboard
Hiroshi Morioka
Director / Storyboard
Yuuki Arie
Director / Storyboard
Mutsumi Sasaki
Animation Director
Hiroyuki Kawasaki
Screenplay
Kenichi Kanemaki
Screenplay
Emi Shinohara
Ohatsu (voice)
Hiroaki Samura
Original Story / Pinwheel Seller (voice)
Kaho Kouda
Haya (voice)
Kan Tanaka
Kuzuya (voice)
Kana Asumi
Teahouse Girl (voice)
Kaya Miyake
Boy (voice)
Keiichi Sonobe
Customer (voice)
Kentaro Ito
Hishiyasu Shido (voice)
Kohei Kiyasu
Johnnie Gyobutsu (voice)
Kouichi Sakaguchi
Nagasakiya (voice)
Kouzou Douzaka
Street Vendor (voice)
Motoko Kumai
Renzo Kawakami (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Tatsu (voice)
Saori Goto
Little Girl (voice)
Seiko Tomoe
Fake Yaobikuni (voice)
Shogo Matsui
Customer (voice)
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 14, 2008
Original Name無限の住人
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes13
Running Time24m
Genres
Wiki.
Blade of the Immortal (Japanese: 無限の住人, Hepburn: Mugen no Jūnin, lit. "The Inhabitant of Infinity") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from June 1993 to December 2012, with its chapters collected in 30 tankōbon volumes. The series is set in Japan during the mid-Tokugawa Shogunate period and follows the cursed samurai Manji, who has to kill 1,000 evil men in order to regain his mortality.
A 2008 anime television series adaptation was produced by Bee Train. Also in 2008, the novel Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon was released by Kodansha. A live action film adaptation of the same name was released in April 2017. A second anime adaptation by Liden Films was broadcast from October 2019 to March 2020. In North America, the manga has been published by Dark Horse Comics. The first anime series was licensed by Media Blasters. The second anime series is licensed by Amazon Prime Video.
By May 2019, the manga had over 7.5 million copies in circulation. In 1997, Blade of the Immortal received the Excellence Award at the first Japan Media Arts Festival.