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{{Short description|Japanese manga series}}
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{{Infobox animanga/Header
| image           = Samurai Gun 1.png
| caption         = First {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volume cover
| ja_kanji        = サムライガン
| ja_romaji       = Samurai Gan
| genre           = {{ubl|[[Alternate history]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=Tasha|title=Samurai Gun|url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/anime/sfw763.html|website=[[Syfy#Syfy.com|Sci Fi Weekly]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304071148/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/anime/sfw763.html|archive-date=March 4, 2009|date=October 3, 2005}}</ref><ref name="AoD-review4"/>|[[Samurai cinema|Samurai]]<ref name="AoD-review1"/>|[[Steampunk]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Loveridge|first=Lynzee|title=6 Steampunk Anime to Whet Your Whistle - The List|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-list/2016-03-26/.100173|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|date=March 26, 2016|archive-date=February 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205171734/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-list/2016-03-26/.100173|url-status=live}}</ref>}}<!-- Note: Use and cite reliable sources to identify genre/s, not personal interpretation. Please don't include more than three genres (per [[MOS:A&M]]). -->
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{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| author          = Kazuhiro Kumagai
| publisher       = [[Shueisha]]
| demographic     = {{Transliteration|ja|[[Seinen manga|Seinen]]}}
| magazine        = {{ubl|[[Weekly Young Jump]]|Young Jump Zōkan Mankaku|Bessatsu Young Jump}}
| first           = 1997
| last            = 2002
| volumes         = 7
| volume_list     = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| title           = Samurai Gun Gekkō
| author          = Kazuhiro Kumagai
| publisher       = Shueisha
| demographic     = {{Transliteration|ja|Seinen}}
| magazine        = [[Ultra Jump]]
| first           = October 2000
| last            = December 2003
| volumes         = 4
| volume_list     = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = tv series
| director        = Kazuhito Kikuchi
| producer        = {{ubl|[[John Ledford]]|Kazuo Jibuki|Yuji Suzuki}}
| writer          = Hideki Sonoda
| music           = [[Akifumi Tada]]
| studio          = Studio Egg
| licensee        = {{English anime licensee
| AUS = [[Madman Entertainment]]
| NA = [[ADV Films]]
| UK = ADV Films
}}
| network         = [[TV Asahi]]
| network_en      = {{English anime network
| NA = [[Anime Network]]
}}
| first           = October 5, 2004
| last            = December 14, 2004
| episodes        = 13
| episode_list    = 
}}
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{{Nihongo|'''''Samurai Gun'''''|サムライガン|Samurai Gan|lead=yes}} is a Japanese [[manga]] series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Kumagai. It was serialized across three [[Shueisha]]'s [[Seinen manga|{{Transliteration|ja|seinen}} manga]] magazines from 1997 to 2002: ''[[Weekly Young Jump]]'', ''Young Jump Zōkan Mankaku'' and ''Bessatsu Young Jump''. Its chapters were collected in seven {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes. Another series, ''Samurai Gun Gekkō'', was serialized in ''[[Ultra Jump]]'' from 2000 to 2003. A 13-episode [[anime]] television series, directed by Kazuhito Kikuchi and animated by Studio Egg, was broadcast in 2004. The anime series was licensed in North America by [[ADV Films]], which co-financed the series' production.

==Plot==
It is the beginning of the [[Industrial Revolution]], and feudal Japan is in turmoil. The ruling [[Shogun]] are wielding their abusive powers to instill fear and dominance over their oppressed subjects. Beatings, imprisonment, rape, and even murder are the adopted tactics chosen to maintain their reign. A group of samurai have banded together to end the bloodshed. With the development of new weapons and new technology, this group of fighters has both the will and the equipment to fight back. Ichimatsu, one of the samurai fighters, works at a local tavern as a cover for his real job. By the dark of night he doles out some big-time, gun-barrel justice under the name "Samurai Gun".

==Characters==
;{{Incomplete list|date=July 2022}}
;Ichimatsu
:{{animevoices|[[Showtaro Morikubo]]|[[Illich Guardiola]]}}
:One of the samurai guns. 
;Daimon
:{{animevoices|[[Katsuyuki Konishi]]|Ty Mahany}}
:Another samurai gun who works many missions with Ichimatsu. His cover during the day is a teacher, and he owes a large tab to the tavern owner Ichimatsu works for.
;Kurenai
:{{animevoices|[[Kyōko Hikami]]|[[Christine Auten]]}}
;Ohana
:{{animevoices|[[Minori Chihara]]|[[Shelley Calene-Black]]}}
;Shunkai Matsuzaki
:{{animevoices|[[Kazuya Nakai]]|[[Victor Carsrud]]}}

==Media==
===Manga===
Written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Kumagai, ''Samurai Gun'' was serialized across three [[Shueisha]]'s [[Seinen manga|{{Transliteration|ja|seinen}} manga]] magazines from 1997 to 2002: ''[[Weekly Young Jump]]'', ''Young Jump Zōkan Mankaku'' and ''Bessatsu Young Jump''.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:熊谷カズヒロ|url=http://yj.shueisha.co.jp/writer/kumagai/index.html|website=Web Young Jump|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020606024104/http://yj.shueisha.co.jp/writer/kumagai/index.html|archive-date=June 6, 2002|language=ja|quote={{lang|ja|■1997年9月「サムライガン」でヤングジャンプに登場。}}}}</ref><ref name="ITmedia">{{cite web|script-title=ja:アニメ「サムライガン」アフレコ1回目に潜入！|url=https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/games/gsnews/0409/14/news08.html|website=ITmedia|publisher=Softbank Publishing|access-date=March 13, 2023|language=ja|date=September 14, 2004|archive-date=November 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130131805/https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/games/gsnews/0409/14/news08.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン［スタッフ＆キャスト］|url=http://avexmode.jp/animation/samurai/staff.html|publisher=[[Avex Mode]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051207012727/http://avexmode.jp/animation/samurai/staff.html|archive-date=December 7, 2005|language=ja}}</ref> Shueisha collected its chapters in seven {{Transliteration|ja|[[tankōbon]]}} volumes; the first six volumes were published from June 19, 1998,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン 1|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4088756657|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111134308/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4088756657|archive-date=November 11, 2004|language=ja}}</ref> to October 18, 2002,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン 6|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=408876353X|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111141147/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=408876353X|archive-date=November 11, 2004|language=ja}}</ref> and the seventh volume was released two years later on October 19, 2004.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン 7|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=408876689X|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111141550/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=408876689X|archive-date=November 11, 2004|language=ja}}</ref>

Another series, titled {{Nihongo|''Samurai Gun Gekkō''|サムライガン月光|Samurai Gan Gekkō|"Samurai Gun Moonlight"}}, was serialized in ''[[Ultra Jump]]'' from the October 2000 to the December 2003 issues.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:ウルトラジャンプ 2000年第10号|url=http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp/UJ_home46.html|website=[[Ultra Jump]]|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041029233019/http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp/UJ_home46.html|archive-date=October 29, 2004|language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:ウルトラジャンプ 2003年第12号|url=http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp/UJ_home84.html|website=[[Ultra Jump]]|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040817072554/http://ultra.shueisha.co.jp/UJ_home84.html|archive-date=August 17, 2004|language=ja}}</ref> Its chapters were collected in four {{Transliteration|ja|tankōbon}} volumes, released from July 19, 2001,<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン月光 1|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4088761898|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111141003/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4088761898|archive-date=November 11, 2004|language=ja}}</ref> to February 19, 2004.<ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン月光 4|url=http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4088765761|website=s-book.com|publisher=[[Shueisha]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111141449/http://www.s-book.com/plsql/com2_detail?isbn=4088765761|archive-date=November 11, 2004|language=ja}}</ref>

===Anime===
A 13-episode [[anime]] television series, produced by [[Avex Inc.|Avex Mode]] and [[ADV Films]], animated by Studio Egg, directed by Kazuhito Kikuchi, with series composition by Hideki Sonoda,<ref name="MAdb"/> was broadcast on [[TV Asahi]] from October 5 to December 14, 2004;<ref name="ITmedia"/><ref name="MAdb"/>{{efn|TV Asahi listed the air dates for the series on Monday at 27:12, which is effectively Tuesday at 3:12 a.m. [[Japan Standard Time|JST]].<ref name="ITmedia"/><ref>{{cite web|script-title=ja:放送局|url=http://avexmode.jp/animation/samurai/housou.html|publisher=[[Avex Mode]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040917160912/http://avexmode.jp/animation/samurai/housou.html|archive-date=September 17, 2004|language=ja}}</ref>}} the last two episodes aired as a single hour-long finale,<ref name="AoD-review4"/> and the 13th episode did not air on the network during the series' run.<ref name="Macdonald">{{cite web|last=Macdonald|first=Christopher|title=Samurai Gun Licensed|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-05-16/samurai-gun-licensed|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|date=May 16, 2005|archive-date=November 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105162238/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-05-16/samurai-gun-licensed|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="AoD-review4"/> The opening theme is "Samurai Crew" by [[ZZ (band)|ZZ]], while the first ending theme is {{Nihongo|"Ienai Kotoba"|いえないコトバ||"Unspeakable Words"}} by [[Aiko Kayō]] and the second ending theme is {{Nihongo|"Zutto... Issho"|ずっと…一緒||"Forever…Together"}} by [[Minori Chihara]].<ref name="MAdb"/>

The series was licensed in North America and the United Kingdom by ADV Films;<ref name="Macdonald"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Loo|first=Egan|title=ADV Films UK Switches from US-Run Office to UK Partner|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-01-22/adv-films-uk-switches-from-us-run-office-to-uk-partner|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|date=January 22, 2008|archive-date=December 8, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208212140/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-01-22/adv-films-uk-switches-from-us-run-office-to-uk-partner|url-status=live}}</ref> in North America, the series was released on four DVDs from August 16, 2005,<ref name="AoD-review1">{{cite web|last=Barkley|first=Brett|title=Samurai Gun Vol. #1|url=http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4280.php|website=AnimeOnDVD|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061101191229/http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4280.php|archive-date=November 1, 2006|date=August 26, 2005}}</ref> to February 14, 2006,<ref name="AoD-review4">{{cite web|last=Barkley|first=Brett|title=Samurai Gun Vol. #4|url=http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4280.php|website=AnimeOnDVD|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061101191237/http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/4885.php|archive-date=November 1, 2006|date=March 7, 2006}}</ref> while in the United Kingdom the four DVDs were released from October 16, 2006,<ref>{{cite web|title=Samurai Gun 1|url=http://www.advfilms.co.uk/acatalog/ADV_films_Samurai_Gun_Volume_One_781.html|publisher=[[ADV Films|ADV Films UK]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017030930/http://www.advfilms.co.uk/acatalog/ADV_films_Samurai_Gun_Volume_One_781.html|archive-date=October 17, 2007}}</ref> to April 16, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Samurai Gun 4|url=http://www.advfilms.co.uk/acatalog/ADV_films_Samurai_Gun_Volume_Four_293.html|publisher=[[ADV Films|ADV Films UK]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028085922/http://www.advfilms.co.uk/acatalog/ADV_films_Samurai_Gun_Volume_Four_293.html|archive-date=October 28, 2007}}</ref> A "Complete Collection" volume was released in North America on February 20, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|last=Beveridge|first=Chris|title=Samurai Gun Complete Collection (Thinpak)|url=http://www.mania.com/samurai-gun-complete-collection-thinpak_article_79063.html|website=Mania.com|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516103615/http://www.mania.com/samurai-gun-complete-collection-thinpak_article_79063.html|archive-date=May 16, 2010|date=February 19, 2007}}</ref>

In Australia and New Zealand, the series was licensed by [[Madman Entertainment]], who released the series on four DVDs from December 7, 2005, to March 29, 2006; a "Complete Collection" volume was released on May 2, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=Samurai Gun|url=http://www.madman.com.au/actions/series.do?method=home&videogramId=2912|publisher=[[Madman Entertainment]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015150252/http://www.madman.com.au/actions/series.do?method=home&videogramId=2912|archive-date=October 15, 2007}}</ref>

====Episodes====
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|- style="border-bottom: 3px solid #CCF;"
! style="width:6%;"| {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! Original English title<ref name="MAdb"/> / ADV Films title<ref>{{cite web|title=Samurai Gun|url=http://www.theanimenetwork.com/showInfo.php?show_num=247&alpha_num=5|publisher=[[Anime Network]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814134129/http://www.theanimenetwork.com/showInfo.php?show_num=247&alpha_num=5|archive-date=August 14, 2007}}</ref><br/>Original Japanese title<ref name="MAdb"/>
! style="width:25%;"| Original airdate<ref name="MAdb">{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン|url=https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10932|website=Media Arts Database|publisher=[[Agency for Cultural Affairs]]|access-date=March 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313014411/https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C10932|archive-date=March 13, 2023|language=ja|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 1
| Title               = The Man with the Gun / The Man with the Samurai Gun
| TranslitTitle       = Samurai Juu o Motsu Otoko
| NativeTitle         = 侍銃を持つ男
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|10|05}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 2
| Title               = The Steamengines / Experimental Railroad
| TranslitTitle       = Jikken Tetsudou
| NativeTitle         = 実験鉄道
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|10|12}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 3
| Title               = Still Life in Mobile Homes / The Sleeping Flower
| TranslitTitle       = Nemureru Hana
| NativeTitle         = 眠れる花
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|10|19}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 4
| Title               = Inazuma
| TranslitTitle       = Inazuma
| NativeTitle         = 稲妻
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|10|26}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 5
| Title               = Scary Monsters / Natural Enemies
| TranslitTitle       = Tenteki
| NativeTitle         = 天敵
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|11|02}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 6
| Title               = Flesh and Blood / Blood and Song
| TranslitTitle       = Chi to Uta
| NativeTitle         = 血と歌
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|11|09}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 7
| Title               = Are You Receiving Me? / Daimon at the Front Lines
| TranslitTitle       = Daimon Sensen
| NativeTitle         = 代門戦線
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|11|16}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 8
| Title               = Wild Ambitions / Valley of Ambition
| TranslitTitle       = Yabou no Tani
| NativeTitle         = 野望の谷
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|11|23}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 9
| Title               = Run Beach Run / Running on the Shoreline
| TranslitTitle       = Mizugiwa o Hashiru
| NativeTitle         = 水際を走る
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|11|30}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 10
| Title               = In Every Dreamhome Heartache / A Doll's House
| TranslitTitle       = Ningyou no Ie
| NativeTitle         = 人形の家
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|12|07}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 11
| Title               = For Your Pleasure / Blood and Amusement
| TranslitTitle       = Chi to Nagusami
| NativeTitle         = 血と慰み
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|12|14}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 12
| Title               = Substance
| TranslitTitle       = Jittai
| NativeTitle         = 実体
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2004|12|14}}
| ShortSummary        = 
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber       = 13
| Title               = Two Tribes<ref name="DVD6">{{cite web|script-title=ja:サムライガン 暗号指令 六|url=https://www.neowing.co.jp/product/AVBA-22326|website=Neowing|access-date=March 13, 2023|language=ja}}</ref> / The Inerasable Past
| TranslitTitle       = Taijisuru Ketsuzoku
| NativeTitle         = 対峙する血族
| NativeTitleLangCode = ja
| OriginalAirDate     = Unaired<ref name="Macdonald"/>
| ShortSummary        = It takes place between episodes 8 and 9.
}}
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Anime News Network|manga|7795}}

{{Weekly Young Jump - 1979–1999}}
{{Ultra Jump}}

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