Blade of the Immortal

Season

2008

6.7

In medieval Japan, a witch curses a master swordsman with immortality. After many years he grows tired of it and asks her to make him mortal again if he atones for his sins by killing a 1000 evil men. A girl seeking revenge helps him.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Tsumibito

Manji visits a priest to confess his sins of killing his lord and one hundred of his retainers.

S1 • E2

Seifuku

The woman praying at the grave is Rin Asano who is seeking revenge for her father's murder.

S1 • E3

Koiuta

Rin encounters Sabato Kuroi at a riverbank, who declares his love for her and voices that love is eternal through death in the same way that he killed her mother.

S1 • E4

Tensai

Manji and Rin visit the famous swordsman and artist Master Sori to enlist his aid for revenge on the Itto-ryu.

S1 • E5

To hito (Jujin)

Taito Magatsu, a member of the Itto-ryu, decides to leave and lead a normal life.

S1 • E6

Mushi no uta

Kusano Kene, a secondary military officer of the Itto-ryu encounters a beautiful geisha being harassed by her husband in the street.

S1 • E7

San to

Rin gives Manji some pills to neutralize the poison in his body and although he initially rejects the idea, he eventually takes them.

S1 • E8

Tsume Dan

Manji and Rin wander in the city of Fukagawa in search of Anotsu.

S1 • E9

Yumebiki

When Anotsu was a child, Makie saved him from a wild dog, but his grandfather Saburo berated him for cowardice.

S1 • E10

Kawarimen

At a festival, Rin has frustrating encounters outside a tokoroten vendor and at a mochi food stand where an adolescent male named Renzo Kawakami tests her patience.