Set in the Edo period, Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran is about a wandering female samurai (ronin; kazemakase can be translated to mean 'carried by the wind' or 'going where the wind blows' which is essentially the same thing) named Tsukikage Ran, and her companion, Myao. It's a 13 episode anime series which showed on the cable channel WOWOW in Japan starting in January 2000. It doesn't seem to have been based on a previously published manga; instead it's a parody of an earlier samurai show called Su-ronin Tsukikage Hyoga. After watching a bit, I would have to say that the Xena-ish feeling we'd been speculating about before is definitely there.

Name: Tsukikage Ran
Age: ??
Gender: Female
Occupation: ronin (wandering samurai)
Seiyuu: Yasuhara Reiko
Notes: As good with a sword as she is fond of sake ^_^;;

Name: Myao
Age: ??
Gender: Female
Occupation: Martial Artist (and sidekick)
Seiyuu: Okamura Akemi
Notes: Her movements are like a cat; she tends to get overexcited easily

No organized gallery as yet, but they're being gathered here for now.

Warning! These are all from the raw Japanese DVDs, and while I understand enough Japanese to (most of the time) get a very general gist of things (think maybe one step above what's just presented by the visual), please take the summaries with a grain of salt.

1 - Onna datera ni kyokatta | Powerful, unlike a woman (v2.1)
2 - Sake ni namida ga shimite ita (v1.0)
3 - Ikinari haha ni natteita
4 - Shiranai aida ni ?? wareta
5 - Datsui dara kekko sugo katta
6 - Hokuro no ichi ga chigatteta
7 - Ereki de biribiri shibireteta
8 - Kono sei nya shinnadoi nakatta
9 - Tote ni shitetara teki datta
10 - Nanban musume wa dekakatta
11 - ?? ga teki (kataki) ni natte ita
12 -
13 -

Rather than having digital extras, the DVDs so far have each had an insert which describes the characters from that episode, including their names, seiyuu and a few sketches.

Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran CD Cinema : VICL-60545 : 5/24/00

Front Cover :: Back Cover :: Inside
Track List Coming Soon

Anime OST : VICL-60535 : 2/23/00

Front Cover :: Back Cover :: Inside
Track List Coming Soon

Single : VIDL-30473 : 2/2/00

Cover
Tracks:
1. Opening Theme :: 2. Scat Version (Ending Theme)
3. Opening Theme (karaoke) :: 4. Ending Theme (karaoke)

DVD V1 : BCBA-468 : 5/25/00

Contains Episode 1 :: 25 Minutes :: Region 2
Front Cover :: Spine :: Back Cover

DVD V2 : BCBA-469 : 7/25/00

Contains Episodes 2-4 :: 71 Minutes :: Region 2
Front Cover :: Spine :: Back Cover

DVD V3 : BCBA-470 : 8/25/00

Contains Episodes 5-7.

DVD V4 : BCBA-471 : 9/25/00

Contains Episodes 8-10

DVD V5 : BCBA-472 : 10/25/00

Contains Episodes 11-13 (end)

VHS V1 : BES-2531 : 5/25/00

(Since we have a DVD player, it's kind of redundant to get VHS too. As far as I can tell, the VHS releases are about the same as the DVDs)

VHS V2 : BES-2532 : 7/25/00

See DVD V2

VHS V3 : BES-2533 : 8/25/00

See DVD V3

VHS V4 : BES-2534 : 9/25/00

See DVD V4

VHS V5 : BES-2535 : 10/25/00

See DVD V5

Items marked with 'JPN' are in Japanese or mostly Japanese.