Gun Sword – To Many Awesome Cliches Wrapped Into One Series

If you crossed Vash the Satmpede with Kill Bill mix in some popular anime cliches like space cowboys and giant mechs your get Gun Sword, and as Martha would say, “it’s a good thing”

Straight out the gates this anime is one that any fanboy is going to like. Its hard to describe this 2005 anime series currently streaming on netflix, but I’ll make an attempt.

It centers around this wandering dude named Van, who has an Armor (A space mech) named Dan of Thursday and is looking for a man with a claw that murdered his soon to be wife. One day Dan meets Wendy, a girl that is looking for her brother, and thats where Gun Sword begins.

Gun Sword is 26 episodes long and it gets pretty deep when it comes to plot and character development. Turns out Van’s Armor, Dan of Thursday is one of 7 Armors that look over this world. Apparently this world was a prisoner planet a long time ago, so long in fact that the people of this planet have forgotten their own history. To keep the planets population in check, Dan of Thursday  and 6 other Armors circle the planet in their own space station satelliete where they power up and rest until called upon by their pilot. Once summoned, the Armors land on the  surface and the pilot assumes control.

Needless to say there are serious religious and world domination themes going on, all with clean animation, good voice acting on the English end, and some humor that actually works in an anime.

The best part about Gun Sword is that you don’t have to be an anime head to get into it. This is not to say that the hardcore anime freak-a-zoid will not dig this series, in fact they are going to love it.

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