Sword of the Stranger

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

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. . .

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.

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

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. . .

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..