Taisou Zamurai

At the pinnacle of his gymnastics career, Joutarou Aragaki—nicknamed Samurai for his signature hairstyle—suffers a shoulder injury following his wife's death. Five years later, he continues to push the limits of his body as a member of the Japanese gymnastics team. However, Joutarou's strenuous training fails to show any progress. His coach, Noriyuki Amakusa, advises that he retires.

Together with his exuberant and supportive nine-year-old daughter, Rei, Joutarou takes a trip to Ego Wonderland to break the bitter news to her. However, their excursion ends in an odd encounter with a peculiar self-proclaimed ninja named Leonardo. He follows them home and interrupts Joutarou's every attempt at telling his daughter.

Upon learning that Leonardo hopes to witness his gymnastics again, Joutarou astounds Japan with his announcement that he is not retiring. Joutarou dedicates himself to the biggest challenge of his career to prove that the gymnastics world is right where he belongs.

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Sturges, Leonardo Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Aragaki, Rei Main

Honizumi, Rina Japanese

Aragaki, Joutarou Main

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Aragaki, Bigbird Supporting

Yamaguchi, Kappei Japanese

Minamino, Tetsuo Supporting

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Ayu Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Nakanomori, Masahiko Supporting

Hirakawa, Daisuke Japanese

Takizawa, Tomoki Supporting

Yoshino, Hiroyuki Japanese

Amakusa, Noriyuki Supporting

Horiuchi, Kenyuu Japanese

Liu, Ryuushou Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Kimura, Makoto Producer

Odagiri, Narumi Producer

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Dec 19, 2020

Ghostflame2153

Recommended

Taisou Samurai has a very unrealistic start, but dont let that put you off. It never devolves into unrealistic gag antics, but ends up being a great show that never treats itself too seriously but still treats its characters with respect.

The Characters are probably the most important part of Taisou Samurai and the show very heavily centers on their struggles. Each character starts out very stereotypically but ends up growing into their own. My biggest concern was the overuse of certain characters due to trying to add extra useless gags or something, but this did not end up happening.

The Sound was good, every single ... sound felt good and like it belonged. It didnt have any insane sounds or anything but it felt like it worked brilliantly.

I enjoyed the show alot, and my only regret regarding this show was how long it took me to find it. I brushed it off when it first started airing and ended up watching it just a week before its final episode.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Dec 19, 2020

KincaidP

Mixed Feelings

For fall 2020...this was the biggest let down to be honest.

Story and characters had so much potential but the 11 ep run just caused the series to never really flesh out out what really needed to be there. This was a 24 ep character drama forced into 11 ep with the finale literally cutting into multiple character arcs without any clear resolution for 2 of the 3.

Art was solid...outside of the really mediocre 3DCG. Even if the back drop was gymnastics the CGI was bad especially for MAPPA standards. It was PS1/Cyberpunk 2077 on a ps4/xbox one levels of bad. The ... 2D art was solid though I will give.

Sound: OST and SFX nothing really to complain about here to be honest.

Overall: Ever had some tacos that you thought were ok until you got in an elevator and let one rip? That's this series to frank.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Nov 1, 2020

Owzok

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/11 eps)

Ugh ... Taisou Zamurai
When I saw the trailer for the first time, I thought the idea of ​​a sports anime about gymnastics was interesting, the trailer was not bad at all but I had my qualms about the CGI. Since it is from MAPPA, I expected decent production quality from it.

Story: 4
The premise here is not bad, a gymnast named Aragaki had an injury or something and now he can't perform as expected, so he decides to retire from gymnastics, but his destiny changed when he had a certain encounter...
Nothing new or intriguing, but definitely horribly done.

Art: 5
The art isn't bad at all, MAPPA has ... been doing a great job this year and Taisou has decent animation, but the problem is the CGI, if you're doing an anime about gymnastics, at least animate the gymnastic parts decently.

Sound: 4
Nothing good to say about the OST, the ED is good but the OP... it's so absurd that every time I watch it I really wonder if anyone really thought this show was a good idea.

Character: 2
There's nothing nice I want to say about the characters than Rei is cute af, I find them all flat. Aragaki isn't that bad, but Leo and Tetsuo ... (why tf did they think ninjas were a good idea!? Really). Ayu, Grandma and Tomoyo are just there.

Enjoyment: 1
I'm only watching this because I want to know if this ever gets better and because I don't like dropping things. Sometimes it's so bad that I actually find it amusing.

Total: 3
This show is disappointing and deplorable, it only has one genre and it's sport, maybe if it was a comedy or a parody I would understand it but I have really made several attempts to take it seriously and it is impossible. I would consider Taisou Zamurai a complete fraud and a tragedy.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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