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Format
TV
Episodes
26
Episode Duration
24 min per ep
Status
Finished Airing
Premiered
Summer 2002
Aired
2002-07-02 to 2002-12-24
Source
Manga
Rating
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Genres
Adventure
Comedy
Historical
Samurai
Shounen
Supernatural
Studios
Studio Deen
Producers
Starchild Records
Licensors
Media Blasters
NYAV Post
Samurai Deeper Kyou (SAMURAI DEEPER KYO)
In the year 1600, at the fog-covered battlefield of Sekigahara, a fierce battle was waged by two exemplary swordsmen. One was Kyoushirou Mibu, a skilled and noble warrior in possession of the unique powers of the Mibu Clan. The other was the thousand-man slayer, with eyes and hair the color of blood, "Demon Eyes" Kyou. Their legendary clash was cut short when a meteor from the heavens fell down upon that battlefield, leaving both to vanish in its wake. Samurai Deeper Kyou begins four years after that battle, when a gun-wielding bounty hunter by the name of Yuya Shiina hunts down Kyoushirou—now a perverted, traveling medicine-man who has built up a large debt. On her way to claim his bounty, they are attacked by an inhuman monster that seeks to devour Kyoushirou. This encounter awakens "Demon Eyes" Kyou, whose mind has been trapped inside of Kyoushirou's body ever since that fateful battle. Thus begins a grand tale of legendary two swordsmen and the discovery of their secrets.