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Shadow Hunters

"Sudden Death Comes in Threes!"

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.

Top Cast

  • Yūjirō Ishihara

    Yūjirō Ishihara

    Muroto Jubei

  • Ruriko Asaoka

    Ruriko Asaoka

    Chitose

  • Ryōhei Uchida

    Ryōhei Uchida

    Sunlight

  • Mikio Narita

    Mikio Narita

    Moonlight

  • Tetsuro Tamba

    Tetsuro Tamba

  • Shinjirō Ehara

    Shinjirō Ehara

  • Shōki Fukae

    Shōki Fukae

  • Kimiji Harada

    Kimiji Harada

  • Yūzō Harumi

    Yūzō Harumi

Overview

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.

Rating

7.2 / 10
5 Reviews
1 Popular

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