Gun Sword
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Gun X Sword | |
ガン × ソード (Gan Sōdo) | |
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Anime television series | |
Directed by | Gorō Taniguchi |
Produced by | Hiroyuki Birukawa Hiroyuki Saeki |
Written by | Hideyuki Kurata |
Music by | Kōtarō Nakagawa |
Studio | AIC ASTA |
Licensed by | Crunchyroll[a]
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Gun X Sword (Japanese: ガン × ソード, Hepburn: Gan Sōdo, stylized as GUN×SWORD), is a Japanese anime television series animated by AIC A.S.T.A, written by Hideyuki Kurata, and directed by Gorō Taniguchi.
Plot
The story is set on the "Planet of Endless Illusion", a place where rogues of all sorts gather. The protagonist, Van, travels the world searching for a man with a clawed right hand who killed his bride. He is joined by several other travelers along the way, each linked to the clawed man by a personal loss.
Production
Gun X Sword was first announced by JVC in May 2005 through the reveal of its official website.
As the first episode had a violent style, the next ones were instead given a more calm story, resulting in a change of villains into Baron Mayor. Kimura kept designing characters after reading the scripts. The thirteenth episode was specifically written as the midpoint of the story as the style would change and become more serious until the climax. Across the first half, the villains were written as hilarious until the introduction of the main antagonist, Claw. In order to make Claw stand out as a villain, he was given both a polite personality that contrasts his murderous intent. In the end, the staff believed Van's and Wendy's story were fully completed, making no need for a sequel. Several studios collaborated with Tangichu in the making of the anime, making it important for anime fans.[2]
Release
The series aired on
The series was licensed in June 2005 for North America by
These are a series of 13 omake episodes of Gun Sword tied in very loosely to the plot with the characters as chibi puppets. The main characters are Wendy and her turtle, Kameo, the size of a human in this series and able to talk. Michael, Van and Carmen also appear voiced by their voice actors in the mainstream episodes. All the episodes seem to center around analyzing various events in Gun X Sword and mocking the themes displayed.
Other
A novelization of the anime by Hideyuki Kurata, was published by Kadokawa Shoten on January 1, 2006.[12]
The series is included in the 2009
Reception
The official Blu-ray of Gun Sword sold 4,818 units in Japan.[14]
Notes
- ^ In North America through Crunchyroll (formerly known as Funimation) and in Australia through Crunchyroll Store Australia.
References
- ^ "Gun X Sword". Anime News Network. May 17, 2005. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ ISSN 1547-3767.
- ^ "『ガンソード』DVD VOL.1". JVCMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "『ガンソード』DVD VOL.13". JVCMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "『ガン×ソード』 Blu-ray BOX 【完全限定盤】". JVCMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "GUN×SWORD Original Soundtrack". JVCMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "GUN×SWORD Original Soundtrack 2". JVCMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "Gun X Sword Licensed?". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "Gun X Sword". Madman Entertainment. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
- ^ "Funimation Adds Rosario+Vampire Anime And More". Anime News Network. 2010-05-15.
- ^ "'Gun X Sword' Anime English Dub Gets Crunchyroll Distribution". Fandom Post. August 4, 2023.
- ^ "Gun X Sword Novelisation". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "Super Robot Wars 30 RPG's New Video Unveils More Titles in Lineup, October 28 Launch". Anime News Network. July 11, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
- ^ "Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, April 24-30". Anime News Network. May 2, 2017. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
External links
- TV Tokyo's Gun x Sword website
- Gun X Sword - The Official Anime Website from FUNimation
- GUNxSWORD (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Gun Sword at IMDb