Gun Sword
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Gun X Sword part one DVD cover
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ガン × ソード (Gun x Sword) |
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| Genre | Mecha, Space Western |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Gorō Taniguchi |
| Produced by |
Hiroyuki Orukawa Hiroyuki Saeki |
| Written by | Hideyuki Kurata |
| Music by | Kōtarō Nakagawa |
| Studio | AIC ASTA |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo, Animax |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 4, 2005 – December 26, 2005 |
| Episodes | 26 |
Gun Sword (ガン × ソード GUN×SWORD?), is a Japanese animated television series produced by AIC A.S.T.A. The series is directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Hideyuki Kurata.
The story is set on the "Planet of Endless Illusion", a place where rogues of all sorts gather. The protagonist, Van, travels the world searching for a man with a clawed right hand who killed his bride. He is joined by several other travelers along the way, each linked to the clawed man by a personal loss.
The series aired on TV Tokyo from July 4, 2005 to December 26 of the same year, totaling 26 episodes. Gun Sword aired, in English, on Animax Asia in March 2007. The series is licensed for North America by Geneon Entertainment, who produced a new English dub overseen by New Generation Pictures which its English-language version is also available in Australia from Madman Entertainment and in the United Kingdom by MVM Films. At Anime Central 2010, North American anime distributor Funimation Entertainment announced that they have rescued Gun Sword and re-released the series in late 2010.
These are a series of 13 omake episodes of Gun Sword tied in very loosely to the plot with the characters as chibi puppets. The main characters are Wendy and her turtle, Kameo, the size of a human in this series and able to talk. Michael, Van and Carmen also appear voiced by their voice actors in the mainstream episodes. All the episodes seem to center around analysing various events in Gun Sword and mocking the themes displayed.
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