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“Assassin Alka seeks vengeance against emotionless killer Jin while struggling to abandon her deadly path.”
Blade & Soul
ブレイドアンドソウル
6.03
10,506 rank · 126,142 viewers · 140 favorites
Martial Arts
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Assassin Alka seeks vengeance against emotionless killer Jin while struggling to abandon her deadly path.
Alka is an assassin for the Clan of the Sword. She's on a journey to find the woman Jin Valel, who killed her master Hon without feeling—not unlike how Alka has learned to kill in her work as an assassin. On her journey, Alka encounters three strange women, each a great warrior in her own right and grapples with her slain master's wish that she leaves the life of an assassin behind. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 33 sampled reviews
5.6
/10
What 33 viewers settled on.
59%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 6
σ 1.92
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.92 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.5 pts
Recommenders 7.4 · others 2.9
Yes
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Score over time
↓ 0.39
Running avg · Jun 2014 → Feb 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “The anime has a good story "but I think if they used it better, the rating would have been higher." The anime has great side characters, such as the guitar playing, the nomadic kid "or as I like to...”
- 7 “So I was looking for something along the lines of "hot chicks with swords" and stumbled upon Blade & Soul. I wasn’t disappointed. The action was clever and exciting. The characters were well...”
- 7 “Blade and Soul: This series had me enthralled up to about episode 5 or 6, the story takes a weird twist and leaves you hanging in the dumps in other words at first Blade and Soul looks like it will...”
Verbosity
Short · 30%
Medium · 42%
Long · 27%
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- Format 13 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 5h 12m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 Spring 2014
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-8675 catalog
Produced by
- TBS Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor