NIS America to Release Katanagatari Volume 2 on September 20th AnimeNews.biz - Anime, Manga News with video games and tech coverage for good measure AnimeNews.bizNIS America to release Katanagatari Volume 2 on September 20th, confirms hardsubs on Blu-Ray version.NIS America to Release Katanagatari Volume 2 on September 20th AnimeNews.biz - Anime, Manga News with video games and tech coverage for good measure AnimeNews.biz
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Via AOD. Cover art: link, Rightstuf: link MSRP $69.99 Release Date 9/20/11 Genre Action/Adventure, Historical, Romance Media 2 Blu-ray, 2 DVD disc set Discs/Set 4 Format English Subtitles, Original Japanese voice acting Runtime Approx. 308 min Episodes..
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Blunt The Decapitator We start with Togame and Shichika arriving at the first town to prepare for their journey. Mainly getting clothes for Shichika and training him in telling people apart. This is actually clever. Since, for example, we humans can only distinguish each other because we’ve been looking to human faces since we were [...]
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Summary: Having obtained the first sword, Shichika and Togame make their way towards the second one, getting Shichika a change of clothes along the way.
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Having obtained the Zettou Kanna blade last episode from Koumori Maniwa, this time Togame and Shichika are after the Zantou Namakura, which is currently in the possession of a rounin swordsman named Uneri Ginkaku who is holed up in a castle in desert region. Kicking off were we left off, Shichika and Togame arrive in Kyoto [...]
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Last week on Katanagatari, the show acquainted us with our main characters, Shichika and Togame.  They didn’t have long to talk though, as Koumori from the Maniwa Corps attacked.  Shichika defeated him and retrieved the first sword, Zettou Kanna.  This week, they pursue Zantou Namakuma and the ronin that wields it. The episode begins with the [...]
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After a slightly slow-burning start, Katanagatari's opening episode turned out to be a deeply pleasing affair, although admittedly perhaps not in the way you'd expect from a series promising swordsman and ninjas.If you were put off by the prevalence of dialogue over action in that opener, then you won't be any more satisfied by this second episode - Although it sees Shichika Yasuri and his "
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Okay, for those confused by the strange schedule of this series: episode 3 will air on March 8th, and I assume that the rest of the episodes will also follow on the eighth of every month, but that’s not certain yet. Anyway, about this episode: I enjoyed it a lot. There obviously was a lot [...]
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