Produced on a low budget, the series has been infamous for poor animation, and has attracted a cult following for this reason.
Musashi Gundoh is set in a fictional feudal era of Japan, where the Toyotomi Shogunate (instead of Tokugawa) governs the nation.
The anime tells the story of Musashi, a young practitioner of "gundoh" (GUN道, gandō), a martial art involving the use of guns.
However, due to the chronic shortage of human resources and budgets for the production, the animation issues became apparent on-screen, and soon viewers began to pay more attention to the degrading drawing quality and nonsensical settings than to the content of the plot.
For this series, both the in-betweens and key animation were ordered from overseas, mainly from China, which was agreed upon in advance by the production team, and there were no sufficient meetings with the director and other domestic staff.