Alternative title:
Hakkenden: Il branco dei guerrieri leggendari (Italian)
Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors
THE 八犬伝 (Japanese)
Хаккэндэн: Легенда о Псах-Воинах (Russian)
Objectionable content:
Significant
Plot Summary:
Adapted from the famous samurai masterpiece, Hakkenden tells the tale of eight samurai brothers. Reincarnated and bound to defend the Awa clan, these eight souls must find one another and unite to stop a powerful demonic force. However, the demons that oppose them are determined to keep them seperate and even place them in mortal combat against one another. It is up to Shino, the bearer of the Murasame, to find his wayward brothers and convince them to fight as allies.
User Ratings:
160 ratings have been given [details]
Masterpiece: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
Excellent: 9 votes (sub:5, dub:2, raw:1, ?:1)
Very good: 33 votes (sub:23, dub:5, raw:2, ?:1, others:21 German subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
Good: 40 votes (sub:25, dub:10, raw:1, others:41 German subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Russian subtitled
1 German dubbed
)
Decent: 22 votes (dub:11, sub:8, others:31 Russian edited dub
1 German dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
So-so: 18 votes (sub:16, dub:1, others:11 German dubbed
)
Not really good: 8 votes (sub:5, ?:1, dub:1, others:11 Portuguese subtitled
)
Weak: 13 votes (sub:7, dub:4, raw:1, others:11 Portuguese subtitled
)
Bad: 7 votes (dub:4, sub:2, ?:1)
Awful: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:1, others:11 Spanish dubbed
)
Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 359 users, rank: #1860 (of 5563)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.162 (Decent), std. dev.: 2.1561, rank: #3856 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 6.145 (Decent), rank: #3853 (of 5553) (seen all: 6.51 / seen some: 5.27 / won't finish: 3.70)
Bayesian estimate: 6.235 (Decent+), rank: #3342 (of 4226)
Running time:
24 minutes per episode
Number of episodes:
13
Vintage:
1990-10-25 to 1991-03-25 (part 1)
1993-11-25 to 1995-03-25 (part 2—"Shinsho")
Comment:
The original was 6 episodes long. Then some time later, a sequel of 7 episodes was produced, but was under the same name and so is considered a 'continuation' (i.e. the first episode of the sequel is episode 7, not episode 1 of a new series).
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Key Animation: Akihiro Yuki (eps 9-10)Chikae Kuwahara (ep 11)Emiko Momose (ep 12)Fumihide Sai (ep 13)Hideaki Yokoi (ep 10)Hideki Shibuya (ep 12)Hiroko Yoshizawa (ep 8)Hironobu Saito (ep 11)Hiroshi Okubo (ep 12)Hiroyoshi Ohkawa (ep 13)Hiroyuki Horiuchi (ep 13)Hiroyuki Morita (ep 10)Hiroyuki Nishimura (ep 10)Hiroyuki Okuno (ep 8)Hiroyuki Uchida (eps 7-8, 12)Hisatoshi Motoki (ep 12)Hitoshi Haga (ep 11)Ichiroo Hattori (ep 7)Imazaki (ep 7)Jiro Kanai (ep 9)Jun Takizawa (ep 11)Kanta Kamei (eps 8-9)Katsuichi Nakayama (ep 11)Kazuchika Kise (ep 4)Kazuhiko Miyake (ep 7)Keiko Shimizu (ep 9)Koji Watanabe (eps 7-9, 11, 13)Kou Yoshinari (eps 12-13)Kouichi Arai (ep 10)Kouji Yanagisawa (ep 8)Kunihiko Abe (ep 13)Kunihiko Sakurai (ep 7)Manabu Ono (ep 12)Mariko Aoki (ep 10)Masaharu Tada (ep 10)Masahiko Itojima (ep 11)Masahiko Kubo (eps 11-13)Masahiro Sekine (ep 13)Masahito Yamashita (ep 8)Masashi Ishihama (eps 8, 11-13)Masashi Kaneko (eps 9, 11, 13)Masatsugu Arakawa (ep 10)Masayuki Yoshihara (ep 12)Matsuri Okuda (eps 8, 13)Michiyo Suzuki (eps 9, 12)Mitsuo Iso (ep 1)Naomi Kimura (ep 12)Naoyuki Konno (eps 11-13)Nobutoshi Ogura (eps 8, 11)Nobuyuki Kitajima (ep 11)Norimoto Tokura (ep 10)Norio Matsumoto (ep 1)Osamu Tanabe (eps 10, 13)Sadayuki Iwai (ep 7)Sanae Chikanaga (ep 8)Satonobu Kikuchi (eps 8-9)Satoru Utsunomiya (ep 9)Sawako Yamamoto (ep 13)Shigenori Awai (ep 7)Shingo Suzuki (eps 12-13)Shinji Hashimoto (ep 10)Shinji Tanaka (ep 7)Shinsuke Terasawa (eps 9, 11)Shinya Ohira (eps 1, 9-10)Shinya Takahashi (eps 11, 13)Shizuo Kawai (ep 13)Tadao Yoshikawa (ep 7)Takaaki Yamashita (ep 10)Takahiro Kishida (ep 12)Takahiro Komori (ep 11)Takao Maki (ep 12)Takashi Hashimoto (ep 1)Takashi Nakamura (ep 4)Takayuki Hamana (ep 10)Takeshi Honda (ep 5)Takeshi Oosaka (ep 12)Takeshi Yamazaki (ep 10)Tatsuya Tomaru (eps 8, 13)Tatsuyuki Tanaka (ep 9)Tetsuya Nishio (eps 9, 12-13)Tomo Ikeuchi (ep 7)Toshimitsu Kobayashi (ep 9)Yasushi Muraki (ep 11)Yoshiaki Tsubata (ep 10)Yoshiharu Shimizu (eps 8, 11, 13)Yoshihiro Kitano (eps 10, 13)Yukinori Umezu (ep 7)Yuzo Sato (ep 13) | | |
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