Sword of the Stranger

[digitalrurouni]

Yes I watched the Thora 1080p version as well and was floored at the awesomeness.

[glyphes]

Not to give anything away, but well, you see him in all the pictures and he's described in animenewsnetwork as "a fiercesome Western fighter" . . . I'd love to know why there's a blond white guy working for the Chinese . . . I guess that's not important. . .

[Buffalobiian]

Who knows. According to the kid, there's plenty of foreigners in China at that time. A skilled swordsman like him who wants to do nothing but fight would find an offer from the Emperor to "fight the strongest enemies" very tempting.

[Pandadice]

oh dude, this is gonna air in like 360+ theaters in the States for 1 day in February. I wish a theater near me was playing it.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...er-in-february

[glyphes]

This is a little late (as that the movie showing was last Thurs), but did anyone go see Sword of the Stranger in theaters? I did! It was pretty cool! Um, except the chinese was waaay more noticeably horrendous on the big screen with the huge speakers. . .I kept giggling at inappropriate moments. . .

I have to say that the picture wasn't as sharp on the big screen however I think some of the detail is lost as it's projected onto such a big screen. They had Bandai previews of some anime like Haruhi and what was it, Eureka Seven I think. ..something with huge robots and I have to say, the huge robots were *very* impressive on the big screen - more than samurai because of the space and epic-ness.

On the other hand, the "featurette"? Bah, almost a pure waste of time - showed the director and other people talking, some background paintings which were beautiful, but no animation whatsoever, which is what I wanted to see. Then they had twice the time with the American voice actors and. . .well, the english VA for the blond bad guy had to be on something - it was mildly entertaining watching him ramble.

Overall, just worth the $12.50 "event" price . . . though they never checked our tickets. Ah, if only I wasn't such a sucker for well animated violence. . .

[Pandadice]

awman, sweet! if there had been a showing in a theater closer than a 2:30 hour drive, i definitely would have gotten tickets. i wanted to get it for the theater 2:30 hours away, but it was gonna be super hard to get there, so i couldn't really..