Year:2010
Episodes: 12 episodes
Plot: The story starts with moments from the past , a Japanese noble house without children adopts a little boy after they get their own child the family wants to get rid of their foster child . The scene changes to latter events a ronin Akitsu Masanosuke looses his job as a bodyguard , he is a very skilled samurai but he is to kind and shy , he doesn’t look very scary or confident so he can’t find a decent job. One day Akitsu meets a strange man Yaichi , he is very impressed by the confident and careless look of this man . Yaichi asks Akitsu to join his group “ Five Leaves house “ as a bodyguard . Yaichi is a cleaver man and see that behind this shy man apparence hides a very skilled swordsman . At start Akitsu doesn’t want to enter in this dubious gang and work in different dubious affairs , mostly kidnapping ans asking ransome from rich and corrupted politicians , but in time he agrees and even befriends with Yaichi .
This anime has a less cheerful drawing style , it is more
simple and original in a way , it has a strange warm atmosphere , relaxing , like a never ending golden autumn.
Main Characters :
Akitsu Mananosuke – a melancholic samurai without a job that
get’s involved in a thief gang called “ Five Leaves “ . Because of his nature
he can’t find a job or make friends , he is lonely and poor , his looks don’t correspond
with his job description and people can’t see at first sight how truly he is .
Akitsu enters in the Five leaves gand mostly because he admires the leader
Yaichi and his free and strong personality , but also he wants to gain a friend
in this mysterious man , he is looking in Yaichi for something that he is
missing in his own personality.
Yaichi / House of Five Leaves
Yaichi - mysterious
leader of “ Five leaves” , he hides his past , even so from the flashbacks we
can figure out that in the past he was the adopted child in a rich family , he
been disposed when he became useless . Yaichi seems carefee and always confident but there is a feeling that
he sees himself in Akitsu , the child that believed in his teacher and failed .
Sometimes he can be even cruel and merciless but even so he has a soft spot
that he tries to hide as he hides his past . He is very loved by women and he is very generous with them.
Matsukichi – a rober that works for Five leaves , he once
been saved by Yaichi and feels very grateful for this . Matsukichi works as a
pipe an hair pin maker as his undercover , he spy in different rich spoiled
house for their future missions , he is clever and sneaky .
Otake - is a
beautiful women with a dark past , she
is a geisha that once been bought out by Yaichi , now she works for “Five
leaves” . She usually walks around collecting leaves for their ransome letters .
Umezou – he is the owner of a tavern and another member of
the Five leaves , he has a lovely daughter and is in love with Otake . He has a
very brute character but a big heart . He doesn’t trust much Yaichi and thinks
Akitsu is to soft hearted and naïve .
