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Directed by
  
Gorō Taniguchi

Music by
  
Kōtarō Nakagawa

First episode date
  
4 July 2005

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Genre
  
Mecha, Space Western

Written by
  
Hideyuki Kurata

Studio
  
AIC ASTA

Final episode date
  
26 December 2005

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Produced by
  
Hiroyuki Orukawa Hiroyuki Saeki

Cast
  
Houko Kuwashima, Takanori Hoshino, Kikuko Inoue

Characters
  
Fasalina, Carmen 99, The Claw, Ray Lundgren, Woo

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.

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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.

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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.

Music

Opening theme
"GUNXSWORD" by Kōtarō Nakagawa
Insert songs
  • "Niji no Kanata" by Satsuki Yukino (episode 3)
  • "La Speranza" by Hitomi (episodes 16, 25)
    • Ending themes
  • "A Rising Tide" by Shuntarō Okino (episodes 1 to 8, 10, 12 to 16, 18 to 21, 23, 25)
  • "Paradiso" by Hitomi (episodes 9 and 11)
  • "S.O.S" by Kikuko Inoue, Houko Kuwashima, Satsuki Yukino & Saeko Chiba (episode 17)
  • "A Rising Tide" (acoustic version) by Shuntaro Okino (episode 22)
  • "Calling You" by Shuntaro Okino (episode 24)
  • "GUNXSWORD" (starting again) by Kotaro Nakagawa and Ondekoza (episode 26)

    • Gun X Sword San

    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.

    In the DVD volumes of Gun Sword there are 2 episode tied in to each volume in the extras with episode 13 on its own in the final one.

    Game Appearances

    The series is included in the 2009 Super Robot Wars game, Super Robot Wars K, for the Nintendo DS.

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    References

    Gun Sword Wikipedia
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