Blade of the Immortal

Episode 1

Meeting

23 mins

The Edo period. Daughter of a martial arts dojo, Rin embarks on a journey to take revenge for her slain parents. For her bodyguard on the journey, she has chosen the immortal man Manji, nicknamed the Slayer of Hundreds. Her target is the head of the Ittou-ryu, Kagehisa Anotsu, the man she hates. The adventure of the man who never dies and the girl who's sworn to live for revenge unfolds.

Episode 2

Founding

23 mins

Rin announces that she will go meet her father's friend Souri, the painter, in her journey for revenge. Souri cannot lend her a hand, but instead gives her funds. Rin, now with a full wallet and no leads, finds her father's sword at the blacksmith's from which it was supposedly stolen. However, its wielder is a swordsman of the Ittou-ryu, 'Taito Magatsu.'

Episode 3

Dream Pangs

Manji, while waiting for Rin, receives a prostitute and Manji suspects that she belongs to the Ittou-Ryu. They fight and he spares his life, but then Makie the prostitute shows up with new eyes and hair.

Episode 4

Rin at Odds

Rin receives fighting training from Majin but when she finds his enemy Kagehisa Anotsu in a forest, she sees that she can't do anything yet to take revenge.

Episode 5

Song of the Bugs

Rin and Manji the immortal guard find a Buddhist monk of the Ittou-Ryu who fights with Manji and is mortally wounded but resurrects being also immortal.

Episode 6

Wing Roots

Rin meets Renzou, a boy son of the mask shopkeeper. Looking at his father, Rin recognizes the evil instigator of his parents' crime.

Episode 7

Evil's Shadow

Ittou-Ryu swordsmen meet to see who is an instructor, but at the same time someone is killing them.

Episode 8

Mugai-ryu

23 mins

Manji and Rin involve the four known as Mugai-ryu, who hold information on Kagehisa, in order to assassinate him. Lying in wait on the road that leads out of Edo, based on information only known to Rin, she and Shira close in on Kagehisa as he tries to flee from the others.

Episode 9

Gathering

23 mins

Rin was told of Kagehisa's whereabouts by Giichi, and now her and Manji are suspected of indiscriminate murder. Suspected criminals cannot pass the checkpoint. But thanks to a maid who was acquaintance of Rin's, she has a countermeasure. She heads alone to a village that can help her slip through the checkpoint.

Episode 10

Animal

23 mins

Manji wants to go after Rin, but he has no pass. That's when Souri and Magatsu appear before him. Souri tells Manji that he can acquire as many passes as Manji likes, but there's a condition. Meanwhile, a gray-haired, one-armed Shira appears before Hyakurin and Shinriji as they re-work their plan for assassinating Kagehisa.

Episode 11

Fall Frost

Having become travel partners for the sake of their goals, Manji and Magatsu are mugged by a group of bald men. Manji, groaning in pain, is tackled from behind by Shira, who then cuts off Manji's arm.

Episode 12

Blood of Finality

Rin wanders around and finds her parents' murderer, Kagehisa, who is being hunted to death by the Shingoto-ryu.

Episode 13

Twilight

23 mins

The Ittou-ryu had its members slaughtered by the shogunate. Kagehisa gathers the remaining members of Ittou-ryu in secrecy, and plots revenge against the shogunate. Manji is invited to the Mugai-ryu by Giichi, but he refuses, and they clash swords. Giichi's weapon breaks, so a truce is called. Maji decides to go meet the head of the Mugai-ryu, Habaki.

Episode 14

Ammendments

24 mins

Habaki's scheme gets Manji trapped in a dungeon. Habaki uses a doctor, Burando Ayame, to try and solve the mystery of immortality. For the sake of the advancement of medicine, Burando sinks a scalpel into Manji's body. Meanwhile, while waiting for Manji's return, Rin is caught up in a strange cohabitation with Doua and Isaku, who have been searching for a place to stay.

Episode 15

Acquisition of Guts

Burando succeeds I'm transplanting Manji's left arm onto the test body of Dewanosuke. From that starting point, more tests succeed. But Habaki puts pressure on Burando, and demands results. Habaki's blade closes in on the imperfectly immortalized Dewanosuke. Rin meets with Doua and Isaku in the street as she searches for Manji. That's when the official that Doua knocked over approaches them.

Episode 16

Altered Limb

Ever since the Dewanosuke incident, Burando kept making blunders. He is finally thrown in solitary confinement by Habaki, and goes insane. But as a result of his madness, Burando grasps something important about immortality experiments.

Episode 17

Ceremonial Bond

Manji and Rin finally reunite. But the formidable foe made by Habaki in the dungeon blocks their escape. Then Doua and the presumed dead Isaku arrive as backup. The dungeon begins to cave in.

Episode 18

Banshee's Cries

24 mins

After his failure at Edo Castle, Habaki is dismissed as head clerk. But still, in order to annihilate Ittou-ryu, he heads up the Rokki-dan in hopes of subjugation.

Episode 19

Massacre

The Ittou-ryu are pursued by the Rokki-dan, lead by Habaki. Upon hearing this, Rin and Manji decide to pursue as well.

Episode 20

Unending

Rin and Manji chase after Kagehisa, but Shira attacks them and Rin is taken away. Manji goes to rescue her, and meets not only Shira, but Renzou as well. Manji fights Shira in order to rescue Rin.

Episode 21

Trap

23 mins

Manji is wounded from his duel with Shira. Renzou picks up a sword and tries to kill Manji, but Rin and the others talk him down. Meanwhile, Habaki is livid upon learning of the attack on Edo Castle. Habaki wants to pursue Itto-Ryu, even in absence of its leader. As a result, one of the Ittou-ryu enters a mountain village. Habaki's daughter, Ryou, tries to subdue him to be of use to her father.

Episode 22

Ten Final Pushes

23 mins

Arashino, Hasshuu, and Murasaki of the Rokki-dan act as the vanguard in the clash with the Ittou-ryu. The crucial Abayama manages to escape with the help of his followers. But then he has to confront Giichi and Hyakurin, who pursued Abayama to assist Habaki.

Episode 23

100 Spectacular Dances

Episode 24

Blade of the Immortal

23 mins

The lives of those gathered fizzle out one after another. Those remaining are battered and bruised. Yet still they take up their swords, and slam their convictions against one another. The last one standing... And the revenge that was fulfilled... The curtain now closes on the tale of the man with an eternal life, and of those people whose finite lives were a blaze of passion.