Samurai 7

The Nobuseri - bandits who transferred their consciousness and souls into machines - make a living out of stealing the rice from the peasants. The Kanna village decides to find and hire Samurai to fight off those bandits. There starts the tale of Kirara, the Water Priestess, accompanied by her little sister Komachi and Rikichi, a man particularly scared of the Nobuseri. They manage to gather seven Samurai, and their story stretches far beyond defeating all the bandits, while they discover the rules of a system with them at the bottom of the ladder.

Samurai 7 is not the typical japanime. The story is serious, complex, full of surprises and extremely well made. There is no complaining about the quality of the art, especially the Nobuseri, which seem to have been modelled and rendered in 3d. Samurai 7 is one of the best - if not the best - anime around.