Samurai Gun

Samurai Gun
First tankōbon volume cover
サムライガン
(Samurai Gan)
Genre
Manga
Written byKazuhiro Kumagai
Published byShueisha
Magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original run19972002
Volumes7
Manga
Samurai Gun Gekkō
Written byKazuhiro Kumagai
Published byShueisha
MagazineUltra Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runOctober 2000December 2003
Volumes4
Anime television series
Directed byKazuhito Kikuchi
Produced by
Written byHideki Sonoda
Music byAkifumi Tada
StudioStudio Egg
Licensed by
Original networkTV Asahi
English network
Original run October 5, 2004 December 14, 2004
Episodes13

Samurai Gun (Japanese: サムライガン, Hepburn: Samurai Gan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Kumagai. It was serialized across three Shueisha's seinen manga magazines from 1997 to 2002: Weekly Young Jump, Young Jump Zōkan Mankaku and Bessatsu Young Jump. Its chapters were collected in seven 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.