Name: Bamboo Blade
Released: 2007-10-02T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ryô Hirohashi, Megumi Toyoguchi, Houko Kuwashima

TV Show · Anime · Animation

High school kendo instructor Toraji Ishida must train a team of five girls for a match against another school to win a bet with the other team's instructor.

2007 · 24m

Starring Ryô Hirohashi, Megumi Toyoguchi, Houko Kuwashima

Director Hisashi Saito

EPISODE 1

A Bamboo Broom & a Champion of Justice

Kojiro, coach of Muroe High's kendo club, makes a bet with another coach on a match between their teams, but the fighters must be five girls.
EPISODE 2

The Blade Bravers and Boxed Lunch

Tamaki's relationships with other club members develop when they start having lunch together and sharing their boxed lunches.
EPISODE 3

Black and Blue

Toraj nicknames Sayako Kuwahara as the team's Blue; the club members go shopping for protective gear; a painful encounter with Miyako's Black.
EPISODE 4

Pink and Blue

Miyako learns that the girl she had thrown in the lake was actually her senpai in the club; Sayako is convinced to rejoin the team.
EPISODE 5

Muroe High & Machido High

The day of the match arrives, but the Machido High Kendo Club is awfully delayed; Toraji tries to think of a strategy, but he is distracted.
EPISODE 6

Tamaki Kawazoe and the Tardy Bureiba

After the club wins the kendo tournament, Tamaki is challenged by Ishibashi; Toraji's thoughts of sushi tempt him to taint his match.