Blade of the Immortal
About Blade of the Immortal
Manji is a crass, violent samurai with a special ability: he cannot die. Cursed with immortality by the nun Yobikuni as punishment for his ruthless deeds, he has grown weary of his ageless life.
Blade of the Immortal is an action-adventure, animation, and science fiction series made for Prime Video. Houko Kuwashima leads the cast as Makie Otono-Tachibana (voice), Ayane Sakura as Rin Asano (voice), Kenjiro Tsuda as Manji (voice), and Ako Mayama as Yaobikuni (voice).
It ran for one season of 24 episodes between October 2019 and March 2020. It is adapted from a manga.
Shelv files it under original net animation (ona), samurai, based on manga, and supernatural. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Hidive Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 117 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.
Dororo, House of Five Leaves, and One-Punch Man make useful companions to Blade of the Immortal, all filed under historical.