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This anime is both visually stunning and has some excellent period music. The mood and tempo are serious and well paced as a Historical Drama. Some of the action sequences were very well done, others stayed in more of a story-board format and I am not sure if that was due to budgetary or time restraints. The parts of the story and plot that are told are well done.

What this anime is lacking most ...is an ending (I can only guess you need the manga for the complete story). There are many parts of this story that require thinking and close attention by the ... viewer to interpret, and I enjoy that. What I do NOT enjoy is when an anime "Summary" and First Episode describe an epic battle which the anime then never shows nor provides an outcome for. Similarly, the anime and summary characterize a party in said "Epic battle" as a "one-armed samurai" but then fail to show how that condition came to be.

Regarding it's Rating of R+ ; As other reviews have stated, the gore in many areas is rather disturbing, mostly due to it's rather accurate anatomical representation. There is some nudity and mature situations in many of the episodes but not to the point of overbearing the story plot IMHO

As is the case with countless anime, had the anime gotten a Second Season, wherein the story could have been finished, I would likely have given Shigurui a review of 8-9. But even with an incomplete story, I still gave it a 7 overall.