Title: Well, it's not the Seven Samurai
Product review: Oh boy -- it's not just samurai vs. mecha -- it's samurai vs. GIANT mecha. From space (apparently). As you might guess, samurai whupping spaceships and other assorted targets with swords is a little over the top. Bad isn't quite the right word, since the animation's cool -- but the storytelling is often really cheesy, verging into the preposterous (look, a rice farmer might attack an ordinary bandit with a sickle; he probably wouldn't attack one of three 50-foot-tall mecha bandits standing in his field, who kills him with a GIANT SWORD instead of a gun [the robot might, admittedly, "not want to waste the powder"]). While a series like Avatar: the Last Airbender is pitched at age 13 or so but can reach much higher, Samurai 7 pretty much targets a fairly unsophisticated bracket.
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