SNKの対戦型格闘ゲーム「サムライスピリッツ」シリーズの人気キャラクター・ナコルルを主役にしたOVA。初代『サムライスピリッツ』から『真サムライスピリッツ』を舞台背景に、戦いを終えてカムイコタンに帰ってきたナコルルの生活を描いた作品。自然を守るために戦うアイヌの巫女・ナコルルはさまざまな戦いを切り抜けて故郷に戻ってきた。傷ついて帰り着いた故郷で彼女を待ち受けていたものは……。声の出演は生駒治美、川澄綾子、子安武人、神谷けいこ、氷上恭子ほか。監督は「無人島物語Ｘ」シリーズや『きゃんきゃんバニー エクストラ』『遺作』『一騎当千』など、一般向けから美少女アニメまで手広く手がける金澤勝眞が担当している。
前編が2012年秋に、後編が2013年に発売予定
In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-length format, filling up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends: Volume 5 DVD set. Also worth noting is that here, a new theme song was added that was written by J.R. Johnston and Neil Panton. The theme was sung by J.R. Johnston. This theme song was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVDs (although Garfield's quotations are kept intact). This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 5-7 and a few from the first two seasons, as well as Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. The episodes stopped using a few seconds of the theme playing in the episode title cards after season seven's fourth episode; music from the episodes were used in the title cards until the show ended, even though season six used music from some of their episodes.
