Should you watch Sword of the Stranger?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Sword of the Stranger
Anime · 2007
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.
The sides of Sword of the Stranger
- A nameless swordsman and a runaway boy
- A dog poisoned on the road
- Foreign swordsmen hunting a child in feudal Japan
Sword of the Stranger is good for you if…
- you like sword fights drawn so fast you hold your breath.
- you like a loner slowly adopting a boy and his dog.
- you like the wars and temples of feudal Japan.
Sword of the Stranger is bad for you if…
- you can't stand blood and cut limbs in a sword fight.
- you don't watch anime.
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