RONIN WARRIORS
(YOROIDEN SAMURAI TROOPERS)

Review by J.L.Roberts
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Ronin Warriors is the rather unfortunate dub of the show
Yoroiden Samurai Troopers.  This cool show suffered the 
same fate as Sailor Moon, for exactly the same reason:
American Television. *sighs* Of course, I guess having 
it dubbed and edited and whatnot is preferable to not
having it at all.

This is the story of five young (14/15) boys, Ryo, Sai, 
Kento, Rowen, and Sage, who wield mystical armor and 
use it to kick Interdimensional Bad Guy butt.  But 
nothing is ever this easy, especially in Anime...because 
how much control do these boys really have over their 
armors??  Is it possible that the bad guy can really 
control the armors, and therefore, our heroes??

The animation isn't anything to write home about at 
first, but as the series picked up in popularity, the 
style improved dramatically.  There were 2 TV seasons 
and 3 OVAs of this show.  Unfortunately, all of that is
rather hard to track down.  Don't look for this in your
local anime store.  You won't find it.  It was released
on American TV, so once it wasn't popular any more, it
disappeared.  I do hear it's being re-released in some
states (Michigan, for one), but other than that, this
is unfortunately hard to find.  However, it's a good 
series for anyone to watch, as you could guess, since
they put it on TV here.

VIOLENCE - 6/7 and up.